PG Kitchen: A Beginner’s Cooking Guide for Indians Living Alone

Never cooked in your life? This book is for you.

PG Kitchen is a beginner’s guide to Indian home cooking, written for people in their 20s who live alone in a rented room, hostel or PG and have never learned to cook. It doesn’t assume you have a full kitchen or any experience. It starts from zero and builds up step by step.

What’s inside

• Set up your kitchen: what to buy, how to stock a basic pantry, and how to shop for the week

• Four core skills: rice and dal, the tadka, the onion-tomato base, and rotis, which almost every Indian recipe builds on

• 15 easy recipes: egg bhurji, poha, upma, khichdi, dal tadka, jeera rice, aloo sabzi, chole, paneer butter masala, fried rice and more

• When things go wrong: quick fixes for food that’s too salty, too spicy, burnt or raw

• Real-life planning: a sample weekly plan, safe food storage, and eating well on a budget

• Extras: a kitchen glossary, conversion chart and shopping checklists

Who it’s for
Students, first-job professionals and anyone living away from home who wants to stop depending on takeaway and learn to feed themselves.