Healthy Indian recipes
One hundred everyday vegetarian dishes from Indian kitchens — breakfasts, dals, light meals, snacks, drinks and sweets. Little oil, clear steps, and a plate that fills as you cook.
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Breakfast
25 minMoong dal chilla
A soft yellow pancake of soaked split moong, ginger and coriander, cooked on a tawa with a few drops of oil.
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20 minVegetable oats upma
Rolled oats cooked like upma with mustard, curry leaves, carrot and peas. Ready in one pan.
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30 minRagi dosa
A lacy finger-millet dosa with onion, cumin and coriander. Crisp at the edge, soft in the middle.
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20 minLemon peas poha
Flattened rice rinsed, not soaked to mush, then tossed with peas, turmeric, lemon and peanuts.
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25 minSpinach besan chilla
Gram-flour pancakes stained green with blanched spinach, ginger and ajwain.
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30 minRava idli
Steamed semolina cakes raised with curd, mustard and carrot. No fermentation overnight.
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25 minVegetable daliya
Broken wheat simmered with beans, carrot and peas until the grains open.
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15 minMasala oats
A single bowl of oats cooked in spiced tomato water with onion and capsicum.
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15 minSprouted moong chaat
Steamed moong sprouts tossed with cucumber, tomato, lemon, cumin and coriander. No frying.
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15 minBanana ragi porridge
Finger-millet flour simmered in milk with a ripe banana and a pinch of cardamom.
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35 minMethi thepla
Soft wholewheat flatbreads kneaded with fresh fenugreek, curd, turmeric and sesame.
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30 minVegetable uttapam
Thick rice-and-dal pancakes topped with onion, tomato and capsicum, using leftover dosa batter or a quick soak.
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25 minSweet potato chaat
Steamed sweet potato with lemon, roasted cumin, chilli and coriander.
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25 minJowar vegetable upma
Sorghum grits cooked like upma with carrot, beans and curry leaves.
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20 minPaneer bhurji
Crumbled paneer cooked with onion, tomato, turmeric and a little garam masala.
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15 minApple cinnamon ragi
Ragi porridge in milk with grated apple and a pinch of cinnamon instead of a heavy sweetener.
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35 minFoxtail millet pongal
Millet and moong cooked soft, then tempered with pepper, cumin, ginger and curry leaves.
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20 minCucumber curd rice
Cooked rice folded into whisked curd with cucumber, ginger and a mustard tempering.
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