Waitrose Launch Restaurant Quality Contemporary Indian Meal Range

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Waitrose has introduced a new range of contemporary, restaurantquality Indian meals that can be enjoyed at home.

The new range combines traditional Indian flavours with aninnovative and modern approach to cooking. It moves away from thecreamy sauce combinations to which we have all become accustomedand provides an eating style which is less rich and can be enjoyedat any time. Ideal for quick and easy lunches and suppers, theWaitrose Indian Collection offers delicious dishes that can beready in minutes. Perfect for midweek convenience, withoutcompromising on flavour.

Tasty, authentic Indian dining at home has never been simpler.

Created by leading Indian chefs, each dish is prepared usingtraditional methods and only fresh herbs and whole and groundspices - ensuring that each product is free from artificialflavourings, colourings and preservatives.

The mouth watering range comprises many new recipes, inspired bythe finest restaurants across India. They include marinated meat,poultry and fish dishes, spicy stir fries, healthier baked samosasand breads and dals with an exciting twist. Also in the range istender masala lamb chops marinated in spicy yoghurt with blackcumin seeds, coriander and mint, served with crushed spicypotatoes, masala dal and a raita dip. Another stalwart of the rangeis chargrilled chicken breast flavoured with fresh coriander andmint, served with a stir fry of asparagus and babycorn, accompaniedwith moong dal. And vegetarians can serve up Paneer cheese, greenand red pepper kebabs, served with a spicy button and chestnutmushroom stir fry and a spinach dal.

There are 13 new additions to the range - 11 balanced meals and twoappetisers. Each pack provides a complete meal for one person,which includes three separate dishes and contains at least one ofyour five a day vegetable portions. Each is presented in threetiered stacked pots as inspired by three tiered lunch boxestraditionally delivered daily to workplaces all over Mumbai.

Laura Keey, Waitrose Chilled Prepared Food Buyer, responsible fordeveloping the range, says: Earlier this year I travelled to Indiawith two expert chefs to research the countrys new style ofcontemporary cooking. Our mission was to bring back excitingrecipes to add to the range of familiar Indian dishes we alreadyknow and love. We found inspiration for the range in many placesacross Jaipur, Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata. From sitting on thefloor in basic roadside cafes, eating from banana leaves, to diningin the traditional palaces of maharajas - it was an education and afeast!

She says: Skilled cooks showed us new ways with recipes, spicesand traditional cooking methods. For example, in Delhi wediscovered Subz Kalonjee, a vegetable stir fry that youll find inmany of our new meal combinations. For this dish, handfuls ofvegetables are blanched and then lightly stir fried with spices,including onion seed and cumin. Our new collection offers an arrayof dishes which are new to this country and we are excited to bethe first retailer to sell this new, modern style of Indian food.

The new range was launched into Waitrose branches on 4 October withdistinctive elephant-print packaging in the chilled food aisles.

The range includes:
Waitrose Chicken Khurchan, Asparagus and Babycorn Stir Fry, SpinachDal 475g