Healthy Indian Vegetarian Recipes

Ingredients : All purpose flour ( Maida) -200 gms Salt as per taste Green chillies -3 Ginger - Chopped into small pieces Jeera -2 Teaspoons Baking soda - 2 pinches Curd - 1 Cup Oil for deep frying Method of preparation : 1. Take a bowl add maida to the bowl, then add curd, salt , green chillies, jeera, baking soda. 2. Keep it aside for  half an hour. 3. Put a pan on the stove add oil to it, let it boil for few mins , then take sufficient batter into the fingers and drop it into the oil into round shape. 4.  Fry it till it becomes golden colour , take it out drain out extra oil with the help of the tissues and serve hot  with your desired chutney.

Ingredients : Bitter gourd  -1/4 kg Salt as per taste Tamarind pulp - 2 Tablespoons Turmeric powder one pinch Chilli powder - 2 Teaspoons Curry leaves few Green chillies - 2 Onions - 3 Coriander leaves few Seasoning - Chana dal , urad dal,  jeera, mustard seeds each of one teaspoon ,dry red chillies -2 Method of preparation : 1. Cut the bitter gourd into small pieces. 2. Put them I salt for few mins and take out the water comes from the bitter gourd. 3. Cook the bitter gourd in water till it gets cooked. 4. Put the pan on the stove add oil to it. 5. Make seasoning in the oil then add green chillies and curry leaves to the seasoning. 6. Cut the onions into small pieces and add it to the seasoning. 7. Later add the cooked bitter gourd to it, add salt,  turmeric powder , chilli powder, tamarind pulp, jaggaery , coriander leaves and all the ingredients gets mixed up. 8. Switch off the stove and serve the curry with cooked rice.

Ingredients : Wheat flour - 1 Cup Jowar flour - 1 Cup Rage flour - 1 Cup Rice flour - 1 Cup Salt as per taste Jeera - 2 Teaspoons Bajra flour - 1 Cup Foxtail millet flour - 1 Cup All flours small cup quantities Green chillies - 2 Oil for making dosa. Method of preparation : 1. Mix all the flours in a bowl and enough water . 2. Add jeera, salt, chillies in the batter. 3. Keep the batter aside for half an hour. 4. Now put an dosa pan and let it get heated for few secs. 5. Then pour the batter into a thin layer and let it get cooked both the sides. 6. Serve with chutney  or some powder( podi ). 7. You can add butter milk into the batter for the sourness taste to the dosa.

Ingredients. : Sooji /semolina/ ravva - 1 Glass Coconut - 1/2 Sugar  - 1 Glass powdered Cardamom powder -1 Teaspoon Ghee - 2 Tablespoons Cashew nut and kismiss - 1Tablespoon each Milk - 1 Cup Method of preparation : 1. Take a pan add little ghee ,  then add sooji to the ghee. 2. Let it turn the colour into light red , then take it into a plate. 3. Cut the coconut into half, then grate it and keep aside. 4. Take sugar and make it into powder. 5. Fry cashew nut and kismiss in little ghee. 6. Dry roast coconut too. 7. Make a fine powder of cardamom. 8. Add remaining ghee to the pan , mix all the ingredients and keep them in the pan for few secs. 9. Add warm milk too while Mixing all the ingredients. 10. Let it become cool,  make it into Laddus.

Ingredients: Bitter gourd - 200 gms Oil for shallow frying. For stuffing : Onion -  finely chopped Green chilli - 2 finely chopped Jeera powder - 1Teaspoon Garam masala - 1Teaspoon Turmeric powder - One pinch Coriander leaves few Salt as per taste Ground nut - Roasted and crushed Method of preparation : 1. Take bitter gourd clean it with water and slit in the middle of it. 2. Boil the bitter gourd in water for few mins. 3. Sauté above given ingredients. 4.  Put a pan on the stove , add oil to the pan, fill  the bitter gourd with stuffing. 5. And shallow fry the bitter gourd till it is fried.

Ingredients : Tomatoes. - 2 Salt as per taste Drumstick -  3  pieces Curry leaves few Turmeric powder one pinch Coriander leaves few Rasam powder 2 Teaspoons Seasoning - Jeera , mustard seeds and asoefitida Boiled tuvar dal ( cooked one Tablespoon) Method of preparation : 1. Put a bowl with water on the stove. 2. Add salt , turmeric powder , tomatoes , drumstick, curry leaves, tuvar dal cooked, rasam powder and boil it for few mins till the tomatoes and drumstick gets cooked. 3.  Add  one teaspoon of ghee to the pan , add jeera , mustard seeds , asoefitida. 4. Add the seasoning to the rasam. 5.  Garnish with coriander leaves. Note : Add coconut, ginger , green chilli and garlic (Optional) made into a paste. Rasam powder : Coriander seeds , jeera, dry red chillies, pepper, tuvar dal asoefitida, dry ginger. Put all these in sun light and make into a powder. Having rasam daily  in lunch or dinner is good for health. It improves digestion.

Ingredients: Cluster beans ( goru chikkudu)   - 250gms Salt as per taste Turmeric powder Chanadal - 2 Tablespoons Scrapped coconut -  Half coconut Seasoning - chana dal, urad dal, jeera , mustard seeds ,one teaspoon , dry red chillies - 2, Curry leaves  few Method of preparation : 1. Cook the cluster beans in water till it gets cooked. 2. Soak chana dal in water for few hours. 3. Make seasoning with the above given ingredients. 4. Add curry leavesto the seasoning. 5. Add the cooked cluster beans and chana dal. 6. Add turmeric powder and salt to the curry. 7.  Lastly add scrapped coconut to the curry. 8.  Serve with rice.

Ingredients : Podina ( mint leaves) - 4 bunches Salt as per taste Tomatoes - 3 Seasoning - chanadal, urad dal, mustard seeds, jeera methi seeds one teaspoon each, dry red chilli - 3, asoefitida one pinch. Tamarind - Little Turmeric powder one pinch Coriander leaves few Green chillies - 2 Oil for seasoning and frying the podina and tomatoes. Method of preparation : 1. Clean the podina with water and cut the tomatoes into small pieces. 2. Put a pan on the stove and add little oil for seasoning . 3. Add the above ingredients to the oil and fry it till turns brown colour. 4. Then keep aside the seasoning and add tomatoes and podina to little oil in the same pan. 5. Take a mixi jar add seasoning, salt, turmeric powder , podina tomato fried, tamarind , coriander leaves and grind it coarsely. 6. Serve with hot rice.

Ingredients : Potato - 200 gms Capsicum - 150 gms Salt as per taste  Turmeric power one pinch Coriander powder  - 1 Teaspoon Jeera powder - 1 Teaspoon Garam masala -1 Teaspoon Coriander leaves  few Tomatoes - 3 Full cream- 2 Teaspoons Chilli powder - 1 Teaspoon Kasoori methi one Tablespoon Method of preparation : 1. Cook the potatoes in pressure cooker and take out the skin of the potatoes. 2.  Cut the capsicum into small pieces, tomato into small pieces. 3.  Put a pan on the stove and add capsicum and sauté it for a while 4.  After capsicum is cooked add potatoes and tomatoes . 5. Add salt , turmeric powder, coriander leaves, jeera powder, garam masala powder, kasoori methi leaves . 6. After all the ingredients are mixed up add milk cream and coriander leaves. 7.  Serve with chapati .

Ingredients: Bread packet  -  16- 20 pieces Milk - 250 ml Condensed milk - 1/2 Tin Cardamom -2 pods Pistachios and badam cut into slices( ormaka a powder of kaju, pistachio and badam) Saffron few Strands Bread crumbs  - 2 teaspoons Ghee - 1 Tablespoon Method of preparation : 1. Heat milk to a boil add in condensed milk , cardamom powder, saffron strands mix it up well. 2. After few mins add bread crumbs . 3. Mix it up well. 4. Switch of the flame , when the shahi thickens a bit. 5. Cut the bread into your desired shape . 6. Heat a pan add in around two teaspoons ghee and roast the bread until golden brown 7. When the bread is done , switch off the flame place the pieces on a plate pour the shahi on TOP of it and let it cool . 8. You can top it up with some almonds , pistachio kaju andsaffron.

Ingredients: One egg plant (Aubergine) Salt as per taste Turmeric powder one pinch Seasoning - Urad dal, Chanadal, mustard seeds, jeera ,methi seeds one teaspoon each,dry red chillies   - 2. asoefitida one pinch Coriander leaves few Tamarind little Oil for seasoning Green chillies - 2 Method of preparation :  1. Put the eggplant (Aubergine) on the stove directly , roast it, till the skin  of the egg plant comes out easily. 2. Make seasoning  with above ingredients and keep aside. 3. Take out the skin of the egg plant , mash it slightly,  and add salt, turmeric powder, coriander leaves , green chillies, tamarind and grind it coarsely. 4. Add seasoning to the chutney.

Ingredients : Raw banana - 2 Salt as per taste Turmeric powder one pinch Ginger - 1 piece Green chillies  - 2 Curry leaves few Coriander leaves small bunch Seasoning - Chana dal , urad dal, mustard seeds, jeera each of one teaspoon, groundnut one table spoon, dry red chillies - 2 Lemon juice - 2 Teaspoons Method of preparation : 1. Cut the raw banana into two pieces and put it in the water and let it get cooked till it becomes soft. 2. Make seasoning with the above give ingredients, cut ginger and green chilli into small pieces and add it to the seasoning. 3. Add curry leaves too to the seasoning. 4. Add the cooked raw bananas  after mashing them into a small pieces to the seasoning , then add turmeric powder and salt. 5. Add coriander leaves and lemon juice to the curry. 6. Serve the curry hot with cooked rice. Nutritional values of raw banana  :  Rawbanana contains  high fibre , they help in maintaining blood sugar and also helps in keeping heart healthy. It conta

Ingredients : Goru chikkudu (Cluster beans) -1/4 kg Salt as per taste Seasoning - Chana dal, urad dal, jeera, mustard seeds one tea spoon each, dry red chillies -3 asoefitida one pinch Turmeric powder one pinch Gravy for patoli - Chanadal - 1 Tablespoon, Moong dal -1 Tablespoon, tuvar dal- 1 Tablespoon, dry red chillies - 4, jeera - 2 Teaspoons Oil for seasoning Coriander leaves few Curry leaves few Method of preparation : 1. Soak three dals ,red chillies,jeera for few mins. 2. Put a pan on the stove add oil for seasoning. 3. Add curry leaves  to the seasoning. 4. Boil the goru chikkudu ( cluster beans) in water for few mins till it gets cooked. 5.  Add the gravy to the  cluster beans , turmeric powder, salt and cook for sometime. 6. Lastly add coriander leaves to the curry.

Ingredients : Potatoes - 200 gms Salt as per taste Oil for deep frying Besan - 2 Cups Chilli powder - 1 Teaspoon Rice flour - 1/2 Cup Baking soda one pinch optional Ajwain - 1 Teaspoon Method of preparation : 1. Clean the potatoes in water and peel the skin of potatoes and cut into thin circles and put it in water till you make them as bajji. 2.  Take a bowl add besan, rice flour , salt , chilli powder, ajwain , baking soda ( Optional ). 3. Add water to the above mixture and make into a thick batter where you can dip the potato pieces in the batter. 4. Put oil in a pan, and let the oil gets heated up . 5. Take the potato pieces and dip them in the batter and put them in oil. 6.  Let it become brown colour , then take them out from the oil and serve them hot.