The vegetarian Indian recipes taste equal to their non-vegetarian counterparts. They are highly nutritious and contain all the essential vitamins and minerals that are needed for healthy and brisk life. The vegetarian Indian recipes can be divided into breakfast recipes, lunch recipes and dinner recipes. The dosas, idlis, vada, pongal, roti, paratha, puri, upma, semolina are some of the tasty dishes made for breakfast in typical Indian family.

Different types of rice varieties like lemon rice, sambar rice, coconut rice, curd rice, bise bela bath, green pulav, mango rice, masala rice, methi rice, mint rice, pulav, vegetable pulao and vegetable biriyani are prepared for lunch. Together with these rice varieties gravies like vegetable korma, sambar, rasam, puzhikulambu and morkulambu are served in South Indian families. The side dishes like koottu, thuvayal and poriyal items are made with different vegetables with different tastes.

What is more in vegetarian Indian recipes? The beverages like milkshakes, masala doodh and payasams, soups like mixed vegetable soups, lemon coriander soup, mushroom soup, tomato soup and sweet corn soup and starters like stuffed tomatoes, eggplant kababs, paneer kababs, pokoda, vegetable cutlet and snacks and salads are also varieties of vegetarian Indian recipes.

The vegetarian Indian recipes include vegetable dishes made with many types of vegetables like brinjal, lady’s finger, tomato, potato, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, pumpkin, beans, carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, etc. When you are making vegetable dishes you must take care to wash the vegetables with warm water because they may contain harmful pesticides and insecticides sprayed on them. Organic vegetables are available these days free of these harmful substances but they are quite expensive.

The vegetarian Indian recipes taste great due to the method of preparation. The vegetables are cleaned and cut into small equal sized pieces. If you cut them too big then they may not absorb the spices or other products that you add to them. Never ever drain water from the vegetables when you cook them. This will not only deplete the vitamins and minerals present in them but also reduce the taste of the end products.

The typical way of making vegetable side dishes is to fry mustard and currypatta leaves in oil and add chopped onion, green chili and vegetable into it. Add little water if necessary and add salt and garam masala. You can add any masala that you like. If you are addicted to non-vegetarian food items, then you may add little ginger garlic paste and chicken masala to the vegetarian dishes to get the great taste of non-veg food items. However you should add masala items in very little quantity when compared to that used in non-veg foods. Grated coconut is added in the end to get nice flavor. If you want to add color to the cooked vegetables you can use natural colorings like turmeric powder. If you fry any vegetable after cooking till it turns slightly brown, you will get a different good taste.

I would say that vegetarian Indian recipes need more practice than non-veg items because they have to be prepared with utmost care not to overcook and not to over-fry. Get ready to enjoy the different varieties of vegetarian Indian recipes.

Article Posted By : Sumazla  On November 17, 2011lView All Articles

Suhaina Mazhar is a freelance content writer and blogger with five years experience in content writing. http://sumazla.blogspot.com is her blog.

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