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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 them 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

Indian vegetables are available in a large variety. 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 – mustard leaves curry’ is popular and a yummy, easy to make curry. It is served with ‘Makke 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, Goto Curry Recipes.

To access vegetables with rice recipes Goto Rice Recipes.

To access vegetables with lentils, 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, sautéeing 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 or sautéeing.

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

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Vegetable Varieties For You

Grilled Vegetables - Quick vegetable recipe.

Potato Masala - Aloo Bhaji - Boiled potato dish served with Poori - Chapati. 

Beans Fry - Beans Subji - Serve with plain steamed rice or roti.

Cabbage Fry - Gobi Subji - Serve with rice or roti.

Kohlrabi Recipes - Knolkohl - navalkol Subji

Kohlrabi (Knolkol) with (Masoor)Red Lentil  - Serve with rice or roti

How to cook beets - Easy way.

Vegetable Stir Fry - Quick Vegetable dish.

Eggplant Recipes -

Avial - South indian recipe, a vegetable stew from Kerala


Related Pages You May find Interesting:-

Indian Breads - Flat breads, fried breads to serve at dinner and as snacks.
Indian Curries - North Indian and South Indian Curries.
Lentil Recipes - To go with Rice dishes.
Rice Recipes - Serve vegetable dishes as accompaniment for rice.

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