2 medium onions (any sweet variety), steamed and pureed
2 green chiles (any variety based on your heat preference), steamed and pureed
2 tablespoons tomato puree
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken (I use a combination of breasts and thighs, but just one or the other also works)
¼ cup yogurt
Salt to taste
¼ cup cashew paste (cashew nuts ground with water to form a paste)
¼ cup heavy cream
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
Cilantro
Rice or naan
In a heavy pan, heat the butter (hot but not smoking) and add the cloves, cinnamon, fennel seeds, and fenugreek leaves, if using. Let sizzle for a minute.
Add the ginger garlic paste and stir for 2 minutes.
Add the pureed onions and pureed green chiles and stir for 5 minutes.
Add the tomato puree and stir for 2 minutes.
Add the chicken and sauté for 5 minutes.
Add the yogurt and salt and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes, or until the chicken is fully cooked.
Add the cashew paste, cream, and nutmeg and cook for 2 minutes.
Garnish with cilantro and serve hot with rice or naan.
Reading Group Guide
While the story of Pride and Prejudice clearly influenced this book, in what ways was it different?
What were your first impressions of Trisha and DJ? How did they change over the course of the novel? And how did Trisha’s and DJ’s impressions of each other change?
Family plays a very important role for both DJ and Trisha. Discuss how their familial expectations defined their characters. How did the impressions that DJ and Trisha have about their own families change as they discovered more about themselves and their histories?
The author has her characters explore their own prejudices throughout the course of the story. Was there anything that surprised you in their explorations of each other’s backgrounds and cultures?
Though she was an incredibly successful doctor, Trisha had a lot of insecurity about other parts of her life. How do you think compartmentalizing parts of their lives impacted the characters’ personalities?
DJ had a very rough childhood. Talk about how his past influenced both how he dealt with the women in his life (Emma, Trisha, Julia) and how he looked at the world.
Both DJ and Trisha had very specific ideas about how to handle Emma’s treatment. Do you think either of them was right?
Discuss how the author upended some ideas of traditional gender roles.
Indian food is a big part of this story. Talk about how cooking, eating, and discussing food helped bring our characters together. (Which recipes made you the hungriest?)
What do you think Jane Austen would say about this homage to her story?
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dev, Sonali, author.
Title: Pride, prejudice, and other flavors : a novel / Sonali Dev.
Description: First edition. | New York : William Morrow Paperbacks, [2019]
Subjects: LCSH: Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. | FICTION / Family Life. | GSAFD: Love stories.
Classification: LCC PS3604.E883 P75 2019 | DDC 813/.6--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019009606
Digital Edition MAY 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-283906-0
Version 03132019
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-283905-3
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