TV Chef Anjum Anand grew up in London but has worked across the world in restaurants such as Café Spice in New York, the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles, and the Park Royal Hotel’s Indian restaurant in New Delhi. She rejects the assertion that Indian food is heavy and difficult to cook and is determined to make “cooking an Indian” as common as rustling up a stir-fry.

Her new TV series, Indian Food Made Easy, started on BBC2 on Monday, July 9. A book of the same name will accompany the series published by Quadrille on August 3.