by Rita Jamshed Kapadia (Author)

Cookbooks printed in USA are selling fast! Listed here are 12 Cookbooks available on Amazon.com for USA.

1. Mastering Parsi Cuisine

This collection represents recipes that have been tried and cooked in my family kitchen, and passed around from Grandmother to Mother to Daughter. From India to USA, by the very nature of the way my family shared their recipes, it was a fun and a bonding experience. I hope you will find the same experiences cooking and enjoying the dishes with family and friends.
Inspired by old cookbooks: Vividh Vani and several others in my collection these are unique and regular delicious mouthwatering dishes cooked in the USA. 159 pages, 143 Recipes.

2. Indian Parsi Kitchen

by Mrs Rita Jamshed Kapadia This cookbook has 194 Recipes.

3. Parsi Cuisine: Seafood

In this Seafood volume, you will find in here many traditional Parsi food recipes. Spicy, Sweet and Savory recipes of Fish Pilau, Prawn or Shrimp Curry, Fish Biryani, Khichri and the famous Parsi Patra ni Maachi. Tarapori Patio and other fish pickles are hard to make but delicious and mouth watering when made and preserved. 50 pages.

4. Desserts: Sweet and Savory Desserts, Breakfast and Snack recipes are featured in this volume. 

31 traditional recipes for Parsi desserts and sweets.

5. Pickles, Chutney, Masala and Preserves: Parsi Cuisine

This book has a large collection of recipes that have been tried and tested, passed down from one generation to another. Fully indexed, table of contents and glossary.Green Chutney, Carrot Pickle, Mango Methia Pickle, Sooka Meva Achar (Dry Fruit Lagan nu Achar), Gor KeriHyderabadi Mango Pickle. Ambakalio, Gor Keri Achar, Mango Pickle,Chundo,Pickling OnionsLagan nu AcharParsi Tomato ChutneyParsi Patra ni Maachi Chutney Bombay Duck Pickle Mango Keri No Murumbo Mango Murumbo Khato Mittho Tikho Keri no Murambo White Pumpkin Murumbo Pumpkin PreserveHot Chili Tomato SauceFruit ChutneyKachi Keri No Chundo Vegetable Stew Pickled Fish Pickle Masala Prawn Pickle Vadu Mango pickleDry Garlic Chutney Sweet and Sour Mango ChutneyPickled Cranberry Apple SauceGinger Honey Apple ChutneyRose Petal JamSchezwan Sauce Methia Keri nu Achar Amli Chutney Paste of Ginger Garlic – Essential Fresh Masalas Dhansak Masala Powder Ambosia Pani nu Achar Carrot Dry Fruit Pickle / Sooka Meva nu Achar Garam Masala Jeera no Lal MasaloSome pickles are hard to make but delicious and mouth watering when made and preserved. On the other hand the Tomato Chutney and Preserves like Murumbo is easy to make and very tasty.

* Inspired by old traditional parsi cookbooks like the “Vividh Vani”, Rita has come up with homemade recipes. Recipes of unique Parsi Pickles, Jams and Murabba are for you to try and make successfully. Rita learnt from her Mother Parin and Mother-in-Law Jaloo favorites and staples of a parsi home. Dhansak, Dhan Dar, Patio, Sali Gosht, Cutlets, Kebabs, Custard, Falooda, Ras Chawal are taught in these cookbooks. Pickles are the poor men’s vegetable. Did you know in India, many folks eat pickles for lunch with bread? This is actually very healthy and avoids all the cholesterol issues. Pickles have turmeric, fenugreek and other healthy ingredients. Spices and herbs like mint, garlic, ginger and turmeric promote good health.

This book has a large collection of 34 recipes that have been tried and tested in Rita’s Kitchen.

6. Dhanshak

This is a keepsake cookbook, many Parsi Favorites from India are included. Dhansak is a popular Parsi dish, originating among the community centuries back. This is served with caramelized brown rice, which is rice cooked in caramel water to give it a typical taste and color. The dal cooked with mutton and vegetables served with brown rice, altogether is called Dhansak.

7. Vegetarian Delights: Parsi Cuisine

131 Pages.

8. Manna of the 21st Century: Parsi Cuisine 

The cookbook “Parsi Cuisine: Manna of the 21st Century” provides a treasure trove of recipes, along with an immersive cultural experience for those seeking to understand this ancient and timeless cuisine of India. With classical and regional India’s Parsi / Parsee recipes as well as an introduction to Parsi heritage, history, and culture. The book’s full color photographs. 170 Recipes are intertwined with descriptions of ancient and modern Indian Parsi ceremonies.

This is a “must have” book for Parsi-Zoroastrians, especially those living in the West who wish to pass on their heritage to the next generation. Not only does it give recipes for almost all Parsi dishes (snacks, main dishes, sweet dishes, preserves and more …), some resurrected from classic volumes of past centuries, but also interspersed in the full-color pages, are interesting tid-bits of Parsi history, traditions, customs and ceremonies. It will go a long way to preserve and perpetuate our heritage.

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9. Celebrations: Celebrating Zoroastrian Festivals and Traditions (ParsiCuisine)

Parsi Zoroastrian Ceremonies celebrated with Indian Parsi Food Recipes. Book explains how Zoroastrians celebrate their milestones in life. One of them being the New Year and the coming of Spring on March 21st – Navroze/Nawruz. This ancient and peaceful culture of Zarathustis world-wide enjoy thetradition of sharing a gift of ‘mithu mohnu’ – a sweet dish. 20 Recipes.

10. Bead craft (How to make Toran)

Bead Garland Craft is a talent of skilled Indian Parsi Designers and Artisans in India. This book shows you how to make traditional indian bead garland (Toran). 29 Pages.

11. Parsi Embroidery: Patterns and Designs

The Gara Saree is an ancient timeless art in Parsi Embroidery. Stories and Designs of the parsi gara. 38 pages.

12. Vividh Vani.

In Gujarati Language original by Meherbai Jamshedji Nusserwanji Wadia

It gives me great pleasure to make available the RE-PRINTED “Vividh Vani” by Meherbai Jamshedji Wadia. First published in circa 1867, this mammoth cookbooks of two volumes total 1570 pages and has 2180 recipes, of traditional Parsi Indian cuisine, plus Continental Western and British Cuisines. This cookbook is an antique and many Zoroastrian Parsis hold it the dearly as an family heirloom. (including myself).

Volume 1 (792 Pages)

Volume 2 (778 Pages)

They are available worldwide, please search in your country’s domain for example UK is https://www.amazon.co.uk/