Healthy Indian Vegetarian Recipes

 Ingredients: Tuvar dal - 1 small cup Bottle gourd- 1/2 of the bottle gourd Potato - 1 Salt as per taste Coriander leaves- Handful Ginger garlic paste- half teaspoon  Turmeric powder-  two pinches Chilli powder - 1/2 teaspoon  Curry leaves -Handul Seasoning - Mustard seeds, cumin seeds, dry red chilli,asoefotida, carom seeds Method of preparation: Take a pressure  cooker and place it on the stove , once heated add in oil. Add the above mentioned seasoning and once it splutters, add in curry leaves, onion, ginger garlic paste, slit green chilli. After onions turn translucent, add tomatoes and let it cook  for a minute. Add turmeric powder, salt, coriander and cumin seeds powder, red chilli powder and mix well. Add the chopped potatoes, bottle gourd pieces, washed tuvar dal and add sufficient water which is about 1-11/2 cup. Place the lid of the pressure cooker and wait for 2-3 whistles, until potatoes are completely cooked. after 5 mins open the lid and mash the cooked vegetables and pu

 Ingredients :  Ladies Finger - 1/2 kg Curd  - 100 ml Salt  as per taste Oil - 2  Teaspoons Coriander powder - 1 teaspoon  Cumin seeds powder - 1Teaspoon  Turmeric powder  - 1 pinch Kashmiri chilli powder - 1 teaspoon  Onion - 2 Tomatoes - 2 Garam masala powder - 1//2 teaspoon  Roasted Gram Flour - 1 1/2 teaspoon  Milk cream - 1 tablespoon  Coriander leaves - Handful Method of preparation : 1. Wash and clean the ladies finger, cut into one inch pieces and shallow fry them. 2. Place a pan on the stove, add oil, once heated add cumin seeds, sliced onion, then add tomato purée ( add tomatoes, garlic, ginger and grind it in a mixer jar). 3. Add shallow fried ladies finger pieces into the onions and tomatoes mixture, Then add turmeric powder,salt, Kashmiri chilli powder, coriander Jeera powder and garam masala powder dry spices. 4. Then cook it till all the ingredients with some water and add dry roasted gram flour and mix well, later add curd( I have whisked the curd well before adding) 5.

 Ingredients : Dry peas - 1 cup ( Soak overnight) Salt as per taste Potatoes - 2  Onions - 2 Tomatoes - 2 Chat masala - 1 Teaspoon  Black salt - 2 pinches  Dry mango powder - 1/2 teaspoon  Cumin powder - 1/2 teaspoon  Coriander powder - 1/2 teaspoon  Chilli powder - 1/2 teaspoon  Sugar  powder - 1/4 teaspoon  Curd - 1 small cup Sweet chutney - 1 small cup Green chutney - 1 small cup Coriander leaves - handful  Method of preparation : 1- Boil the potato(without peel), and peas in a pressure cooker for two whistles. 2.  Chop onions and tomatoes into small pieces and fry them in a pan, add finely chopped ginger, garlic and green chillies  3.  Slightly mash the potatoes and peas, and then add onion and tomatoes and then add all dry masalas to it. 4. Take a serving bowl, , add in the hot Ragada. 4. Then add curd on top of the mixture, top it up with green chutney and sweet chutney, add raw tomatoes, onions and grated carrot to it. 5. Garnish it with coriander leaves, pomegranate seeds, spri

 Ingredients : Cashew nut -  2 tablespoons  Pistachio -  2 tablespoons  Almonds- 2 tablespoons  Flax seeds - 1 teaspoon  Musk melon seeds - 1 teaspoon  Sesame seeds - 11/2 teaspoons Fried Chana dal - 1 Tablespoon  Peanuts - 11/2 tablespoons  Somf  - 11/2 teaspoons Walnut - 1 Tablespoon Cardamom   - 3 pods Ghee Jaggery - 1/2 cup Water -  3/4 cup  Method of preparation : 1. Dry roast all the nuts (also saunf and cardamom) one after the other. 2. Let it cool for 10 minutes. .3. Grind them into a fine powder, (make sure not to add the entire mixture at once). 4. Take a pan, add jaggery and water, keep stirring. 5. Boil the mixture for 7-8 minutes, and keep it aside for 5-10 minutes until it comes to room temperature. 6. Into the jaggery mixture add in the nuts well, and add in two teaspoons of melted ghee. 7. Take lemon size mixture and shape them into round balls.

 Ingredients : Basmati rice - 1 glass Salt as per taste Coconut milk - 1Small cup Garam masala- 1 Tablespoon ( Raw) Coriander powder- 1/2 teaspoon  Cumin powder -1/2 teaspoon  Garam masala powder- A pinch Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon  Dry fruits (Broken cashews, raisins, chopped badam )- 2 teaspoons Podina -  Handful chopped Coriander leaves -  Handful chopped Onions - 2  sliced Green chillies - 2 Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon  Oil - 11/2 teaspoon s Butter-  1 teaspoon  Method of preparation : 1. Heat a pressure cooker, add-in oil and butter, once heated add Jeera, raw garam masala, and sauté it for 30 seconds. 2. Add in dry fruits, slit green chillies, onions, finely chopped mint leaves and coriander leaves and mix it well. 3. Once the onions turn golden brown, add salt, turmeric powder, garam masala powder and coriander cumin powder and coconut milk, stir well 4. Into the cooker add the washed and soaked Basmati rice and mix well to make sure that the milk doesn’t stick to the bottom an