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 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 Fry - Gobi Subji

- Serve with rice or roti.

Kohlrabi Recipes-Knolkohl-navalkol Subji

- Serve with plain steamed rice

Potato Masala - Aloo Bhaji

- Potato subji served with Poori - Chapati.

Stuffed Eggplant - Bharli Vangi - Tumbid Badnekai.

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

• Vegetable Frankie recipe - Mixed vegetable recipe to make frankie.
• Grilled Vegetables - Quick vegetable recipe.


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


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


• How to cook beets - Easy way.


• Vegetable Stir Fry - Quick Vegetable dish.


• Avial - South indian recipe, a vegetable stew from Kerala
• Eggplant Recipes


• Roasting eggplant on the stove top - To make baigan bharta.



• Roasted - Mashed Eggplant - Roasted eggplant bharta, maharashtrian style.


• Baigan ka Bharta - North Indian bharta recipe


• Eggplant curry - Mixed curry with vegetables


• Eggplant Potato subji - Potato eggplant - aloo baingan subji


• Palak - Spinach Recipes


• Spinach Dal - A Palak (spinach) and lentils recipe
• Spinach soup - Palak soup
• Spinach dal - Palak dal
• Palak Paratha - Spinach flat bread
• Palak Poori - Spinach fried bread
• Palak Paneer - Spinach with indian cottage cheese


• Potato Recipes - Potato Recipes - Aloo Recipes

• Potato and eggplant(baingan/brinjal/aubergine) subji
• Aloo paratha - Potato bread
• Potato pancakes
• Aloo poha - Batata poha
• Aloo methi - Potato fenugreek subji
• Aloo bonda - Batata vada
• Potato curry - Batata Rassa bhaji
• Potato subji - Aloo bhaji - Potato Masala

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