30 minute dinners have our hearts, no fuss and all the the flavour – the perfect blend of comfort and spice from Mowgli Street Food restaurants founder Nisha Katona.

This is the food Nisha cooks at home: punchy, delicious and taking you from a standing start to delicious curry in 30 minutes or less. As always with Nisha’s dishes, the focus is on big, bold flavours - achieved in these recipes with speed, simplicity and improvisation to avoid waste. It’s the way Nisha cooks every day and it’s the way her grandmother and great-grandmother cooked with their small coal-fired stoves on Varanasi verandas.

Tantalise your tastebuds in 30 minutes or less with Quick Angry Tandoori or Mowgli Coleslaw Chicken Bowl, Ten-Minute Late-Night Kebabs or Keema Toasties, Bengali Fish Curry or Indian Fish Finger Sandwich, Rice Krispie Bhel Puri or Million Dollar Dahl.

'30 Minute Mowgli is the way that I cook every day. But rather beautifully, it’s also the way that my ancestors – my grandmother and great-grandmother – cooked, with their small coal-fired stoves on their dusky Varanasi verandas. I hope, with this book, to bring you those big, instant flavours forged in the crucible of all that was humble and simple in the kitchens of my childhood.'

Nisha Katona

About the author 

Nisha Katona MBE is a star of British cookery, regularly found sharing her passion for simple, honest and delicious food on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4. Formerly a child-protection barrister, she is the founder of the Mowgli Street Food restaurants and the author, among other books, of the bestselling Mowgli Street Food.