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Healthy Vegetable Recipes

Vegetable recipes are important for a vegetarian diet as vegetables provide the required vitamins and minerals to your body. You need to eat the vegetables any way, so prepare the vegetable side dishes in different ways and make them more tasty and interesting by using different vegetable recipes.

Children are generally fussy about eating vegetables. By using different recipes, children and grown ups too, eat the same vegetables willingly. As You will be able to present the same vegetables in a different look and taste, they consider you a great cook too!

Fresh vegetables provide more vitamins and minerals as well as fiber. Leafy vegetables provide calcium, iron, vitamin A and C. Carrots, Cabbage provide Vitamin A. Cabbage, peas, beans ,carrots, cauliflower, potatoes, radishes have more alkaline content.

Vegetables - carrots, potatoes, capsicum, beans, bottle gourd

Vegetables are available in a large variety in India. Apart from the above mentioned, commonly used vegetables, cluster beans, knolkhol, aravi, tinda, tondali, brinjals, ridge gourd, white gourd are used.

Among leafy vegetables spinach, fenugreek, cola cassia and also many other local varieties are there.

In the northern states, especially Punjab, 'Sarson ka Sag that is 'mustard leaves curry' is popular and a yummy, easy to make curry. It is served with 'Makki ki roti- flat bread made with maize flour'.

In southern states, vegetables are cooked by themselves to make subjis. They are also mixed with dals to make Sambar or Kootoo. Greens are also cooked with lentils such as toovar dal to make 'Soppina Saru or Mussup' in Karnataka.

To access vegetables with gravy recipes, Goto Curry Recipes.

To access vegetables with rice recipes Goto Rice Recipes.

To access vegetables with lentils recipes, Goto Lentil recipes

Vegetables are cooked in different ways in all regions using different masalas (spice mixes). So the same vegetable tastes different when cooked and looks different too. Wouldn't that be interesting to you and your family?

Vegetables are cooked by steaming, stirfrying, sauteeing and deep frying. You can choose the way you cook your vegetables. Deep frying once in a while is ok but otherwise it is better to use the other ways such as boiling, steaming, stir frying or sauteeing.

Below you will find vegetables cooked in healthy way. Do try the recipes and give us feedback using the contact form.

Vegetable Varieties For You


cabbage subji - gobiCabbage Fry - Gobi Subji

- Serve with rice or roti.

kohlrabi subji navalkol bhaji knolkolKohlrabi Recipes-Knolkohl-navalkol Subji

- Serve with plain steamed rice

potato recipe- aloo bhaji - aloo subji - potato masala Potato Masala - Aloo Bhaji

- Potato subji served with Poori - Chapati.

Bharli Vangi, Tumbid Badnekai. stuffed eggplantStuffed Eggplant - Bharli Vangi - Tumbid Badnekai.

- Serve with rice or roti. - Bharli Vangi, Tumbid Badnekai.

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