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Mountain Berries And Desert Spice – Giveaway

March 28, 2017 by GG 53 Comments

Mountain Berries & Desert Spice

Mountain Berries & Desert Spice By Sumayya Usmani

Mountain Berries And desert Spice is Sumayya Usmani’s second book, following on from her hugely successful Summers Under The Tamarind Tree.   This book is all about desserts, a modern take on the supersweet treats you occasionally find in a good restaurant but will always find in a Pakistani home, the more elaborate the greater the occasion.

Sumayya Usmani

Sumayya Usmani Photograph by Nassima Rothacker

Sumayya Usmani lives in Scotland but was brought up travelling with her mother and ship’s Captain father, watching her mother cook in a narrow galley space and experimenting with the spices they picked up on shore leave. Mountain Berries And Desert Spice takes the reader on a journey from the borders of China and India to the shores of the Arabian Sea. From Berries and fruits to rose water and orange blossom, cardamom and cinnamon to saffron and pistachios.

Dishes From Mountain Berries & Desert Spice

Dishes From Mountain Berries & Desert Spice Photographs by Nassima Rothacker

After an introduction and key ingredients the recipes are split by region under poetic, evocative chapter headings.  Sour Morning Berries, where you’ll find Blackberry Doughnuts and Whipped Semolina Halva with pomegranate and raspberry – delightfully pink with shards of coconut and bright pomegranate seeds. Sugar Almonds And Buffalo Milk offers recipes for Badam Ki Jali- cardamom and rose water marzipan lace and luxurious Bejewelled Parsi Wedding Custard, rich and unctuous scattered with cashews, almonds, pistachios, and rose petals.

Bejewelled Parsi Wedding Custard

Bejewelled Parsi Wedding Custard                 All images in the recipe book by Nassima Rothacker

Kites, Kingdoms and Cardamom Samosas – flavours from Lahore and the Mughal Empire invites you to “feast like a king” with Dahi Ki Kheer baked saffron yogurt and brightly studded Sohan Saffron Honey Caramels with rose water, pistachio and almonds, a golden dollop of delicious caramel, perfect with a cup of coffee. Through Mulberry Valley – summer fruits in harsh winters offers Spiced Apple Samosas, the pastry nipped and fried and Mulberry And Blackberry Stew served with thick whipped cream and crushed walnuts – dark and delicious.

Khanfaroush Spiced saffron crumpets with honey

Khanfaroush Spiced saffron crumpets with honey                     All images in the recipe book by Nassima Rothacker

The final three chapters, A Saffron Blaze, Festive Spice And Roses and Chilli Mangoes And Ocean Breeze tempt you with Khanfaroush – saffron spiced crumpets, Peshwari Pistachio Ice Cream, Rose Lab-e-Shireen Pakistani trifle with lychee, mango, cardamom milk and vermicelli and my favourite, Shahi Tukra Brioche Bread Pudding with saffron, ricotta, cranberries and chopped nuts. A heady mix of condensed milk, saffron, cardamom and brioche topped with pistachios, pine nuts, almonds and cranberries. Try this – the recipe is below.

Shahi Tukra Brioche Bread Pudding

Shahi Tukra Brioche Bread Pudding            Photography by Nassima Rothacker

Whatever your cooking ability you can discover a wonderful dessert here, something different, both traditional and modern. Sumayya has adapted the recipes for a western sense of sweetness and created gems to enjoy whether you’re baking, making ice cream or just making a few tempting sweetmeats. As Felicity Cloake says, “Wonderfully evocative and ridiculously tempting.”

Recipe for Shahi Tukra Brioche Bread Pudding

Recipe from Mountain Berries & Desert Spice by Sumayya Usmani

Mountain Berries & Desert Spice by Sumayya Usmani is published by Frances Lincoln, £20.00

Photography By Nassima Rothacker

 

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.  THE LUCKY WINNER IS EM CLARK

I have one copy of Mountain Berries And desert Spice to give away. Enter via the raffle copter and blow your friends away with these original, fragrant and delicious desserts.

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Filed Under: Baking, Biscuits And Cookies, Books, Celebrations, Dessert, Giveaway, Ice Cream and Ice Lollies, Recipes, Review, Spices Tagged With: cook book, dessert, Giveaway, Mountain Berries And Desert Spice, Nassima Rothacker, Pudding, recipe, recipe book, review, Sumayya Usmani, Summers Under The Tamarind Tree, Sweetmeat

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Comments

  1. Tracy Nixon says

    March 29, 2017 at 8:27 am

    I would make a Summer berry pavlova!

    Reply
  2. Tracey Peach says

    March 29, 2017 at 9:43 am

    I would bake a apple surprise pie & no I’m not telling you what the surprise is! 🙂 x

    Reply
  3. Monica | Nourish & Fete says

    March 29, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    This book looks absolutely lovely – wish I were in the UK to enter the contest! I would love to just flip through the book and learn about all these new (to me) desserts.

    Reply
  4. Mimi says

    March 29, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    What fun! This looks like a beautiful cookbook!

    Reply
  5. Janette@CulinaryGinger.com says

    March 29, 2017 at 1:44 pm

    I love cooking with spices and using them in desserts is such a delicious idea. This is a wonderful book and will look for it the next time I’m home visiting mum.

    Reply
  6. Felesha Bell says

    March 29, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    What a gorgeous looking cookbook!! I wanna try everything!!

    Reply
  7. Gloria @ Homemade & Yummy says

    March 29, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    Wow this dessert sounds amazing. The flavour profile is very interesting. The cookbook looks fantastic, and would be a welcome to any cookbook collector for sure.

    Reply
  8. linda spiker says

    March 29, 2017 at 2:01 pm

    I would love to win this cookbook! Everything looks delicious!

    Reply
  9. laura banks says

    March 29, 2017 at 6:33 pm

    it would have to be parkin cake im getting quite good at that

    Reply
  10. M says

    March 30, 2017 at 5:26 pm

    I would make mango kulfi!!

    Reply
  11. amy pest says

    March 30, 2017 at 8:00 pm

    i would make a baked alaska

    Reply
  12. Fiona says

    March 30, 2017 at 8:14 pm

    Eek! I would make a chocolate coffee cake

    Reply
  13. Liane Amos says

    March 30, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    My favourite Chocolate mousse cake

    Reply
  14. kim jackson says

    March 30, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    i would make banoffee pie with a twist 😀

    Reply
  15. Suzanne says

    March 30, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    Cherry clafoutis

    Reply
  16. Rebecca England says

    March 30, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    I think it would be a creme brulee

    Reply
  17. Sarah says

    March 30, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    I’d make a m’hencha

    Reply
  18. jenna rothen says

    March 30, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    bread pudding

    Reply
  19. Sobia says

    March 30, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    I would make gajar ka halwa

    Reply
  20. leanne weir says

    March 30, 2017 at 11:00 pm

    I would bake a cherry bakewell tart

    Reply
  21. Caroline H says

    March 30, 2017 at 11:44 pm

    Well. Sumayya lives in Scotland so it would have to be Cranachan with a twist!

    Reply
  22. stuart hargreaves says

    March 31, 2017 at 7:50 am

    hot and spicy parsnip soup

    Reply
  23. Kristie Metcalfe says

    March 31, 2017 at 8:57 am

    I think i would make a Nutella Cheekecake. While it is no bake, its just so yummy and easy on the palette after a lovely dinner.

    Reply
  24. Helen Tovell says

    March 31, 2017 at 12:57 pm

    A strawberry cheesecake

    Reply
  25. sam r says

    March 31, 2017 at 6:31 pm

    Looks like a lovely book! I would make an apple crumble! x

    Reply
  26. Sarah Rees says

    March 31, 2017 at 6:44 pm

    I would make a big chocolate cake

    Reply
  27. Fozia Akhtar says

    March 31, 2017 at 7:37 pm

    Strawberry cheesecake

    Reply
  28. Sarah Ann says

    April 1, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    After watching Masterchef last night, I’d try making raspberry bread and butter pudding.

    Reply
  29. Lisa Pope says

    April 1, 2017 at 4:28 pm

    I’d make some dainty rose madelines & pistachio ice-crem

    Reply
  30. Andrea Upton says

    April 1, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    French Lemon Tarte

    Reply
  31. Melissa Lee says

    April 1, 2017 at 11:28 pm

    I would make a red velvet cake

    Reply
  32. Solange says

    April 2, 2017 at 2:26 am

    Black Forest Gateau

    Reply
  33. ADEINNE TONNER says

    April 2, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    Has to be plain and simple my favourite thing to bake which is chocolate brownies

    Reply
  34. Iris W says

    April 2, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    I would bake a traditional “Engadiner Nusstorte” a nut cake from the region in Switzerland where I am from

    Reply
  35. Emily Clark says

    April 3, 2017 at 4:06 pm

    I’d make honey biscuits. They’re quite simple, but they have a lovely honey taste which really stays with you.

    Reply
  36. cheryl hadfield says

    April 3, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    I would make strawberry cheesecake

    Reply
  37. Heidi Roberts says

    April 5, 2017 at 8:22 pm

    This book is absolutely beautiful – I have got a copy too.

    Reply
  38. Susan Hoggett says

    April 13, 2017 at 7:18 am

    I’D TREAT HER TO MY CARAMEL SHORTBREAD CHEESECAKE

    Reply
  39. Sofie says

    April 13, 2017 at 11:15 am

    A black forest cake

    Reply
  40. Maxine G says

    April 13, 2017 at 6:40 pm

    Ooh, that’s difficult! I guess it would have to be a baked cheesecake topped with spiced rhubarb and almonds for a middle Eastern twist!

    Reply
  41. Lisa Wilkinson says

    April 19, 2017 at 10:23 am

    I’d bake my a steak and ale pie with my father-in-laws home-brewed ale

    Reply
  42. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella says

    April 20, 2017 at 7:15 am

    This sounds like a gorgeous cookbook. I want to eat everything that you’ve mentioned!! 😀

    Reply
  43. Jane says

    April 22, 2017 at 8:23 pm

    I would make my favourite black forest gateaux and ask how I could make it more exotic.

    Reply
  44. Jane H Shaw says

    April 23, 2017 at 9:04 am

    It would have to be chocolate coffee cake thanks

    Reply
  45. Sally angel says

    April 23, 2017 at 11:34 pm

    I would make my family favourite dessert of apple crumble. 🙂

    Reply
  46. Jamie C Millard says

    April 24, 2017 at 11:04 am

    LEMON CHEESECAKE

    Reply
  47. Gary Martindale says

    April 24, 2017 at 12:42 pm

    Banoffee Pie

    Reply
  48. Andrew Hindley says

    April 24, 2017 at 2:16 pm

    I would make RAS MALAI

    Reply
  49. Caroline Bourne says

    April 24, 2017 at 3:42 pm

    A chocolate cake

    Reply
  50. Deborah Bird says

    April 24, 2017 at 4:51 pm

    Well I make lovely cakes so I would make her a chocolate flake cake!
    These recipes look delicious!

    Reply
  51. Natalie Crossan says

    April 24, 2017 at 8:10 pm

    i’d make a black forrest gateau

    Reply
  52. claire little says

    April 24, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    chocolate brownies the best of my talents atm.

    Reply
  53. Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says

    April 25, 2017 at 5:24 am

    What a glorious way to grow up – eating spices sourced from around the world. I’m going to look for this book.

    Reply

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Hi! I’m GG and I write a Food and Travel Blog based in the UK. I began my blog in 2011 after years spent in the fashion industry, travelling the world. Finally I had time to think and indulge in my passions for writing, travel, food, and photography, in my own time.♥
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