Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

You NEED this book in your life.I just got this book a week ago, and have made at least a dozen recipes so far! I didn't think I could love any Vegan Style Indian book more than her first one (The Indian Slow Cooker), but this is just as great! SO excited about this ALLl VEGAN book!! So many veggies including kale, okra, sweet potatoes, cabbage. Soups & Breads. Salads that sound amazing-think spicy fruits, carrots, daikons! Slow Cooker & Stovetop recipes. Can't wait to make the South Indian Crepes. The dishes are already very healthy with emphasis on whole foods & dried beans. Anupy uses small amounts of oil and salt. I have found that you can skip both of those and still have great food. Last night we had the Kale Pizza breads-a super quick snack. Oh, and it has Anupy's best on the planet Chai recipe. And the drink section includes Iced Coffee & Green Drinks-for those of us who don't just do one or the other! Very inexpensive on Amazon and a lifetime of Indian food. Ingredients are inexpensive. Now should I whip up another dish with the cabbage before hubby comes home....decisions..... Just a few of the recipes I have tried so far....Besan Poora (Chickpea Flour Crepes), Street Corn Salad, Jeera Aloo (Cumin Potato Hash), Punjabi Khardi (Chickpea Flour Curry with Veggies), Band Gobi (Punjabi Style Cabbage), Samosas, Cabbage with Mustard Seeds and Coconut, Methi Palak Aloo (Fenugreek Spinach Potatoes), Bhindi Masala (Crackling Okra), Sweet and Sour Potatoes, Spicy Plantains, Jeera Chawal (Cumin Rice), Tofu Curry, Mock Keema, Masala Tofu Scramble, Chickpea Poppers... Looking forward to trying the homemade yogurt (vegan of course!), Dosas, Spice Mixes, Chai, Chana & Split Moong Dal with Pepper Flakes, Panchratna Dal (5 lentil stew), Brown Rice and Adzuki Bean Dhokla, Tandoori Tempeh, Pomegranate Chaat, Tofu Pakora, South Indian Tomato and Tamarind Soup, Mattar Paneer, Curried Winter Melon, Lemon Brown Rice, and the list continues. Chutneys, Breads, Salads, Legumes, Dips. OH. Fabulous thing about slow cooking is that you cut up all those great things like cabbage, garlic, onions, etc...and then it takes time for the slow cooker to heat. This is perfect because that way we actually get those immunity boosting compounds out of the food. Either eat them raw or cut them up and let sit for 40 minutes. This book has both slow cooked & stovetop. And it seems like every ingredient is a REAL superfood. Affordable, everyday superfoods. Eat your medicine!! Cumin, Fenugreek, Chiles, Lemons, Ginger, Cilantro, Mustard, Onions, Garlic, Cardamom, Cloves, and more. All touted to be supernaturally high in antioxidants & healing powers...........Side Effects? A Belly Full of Healthy Food! Lay Flat Binding makes it so inviting. And Anupy spells all the "Indian Jargon" out, making it simple for first timers to flirt...... Flirt all you like, but I am ALL in!! Husband VERY happy with his Spicy Nights! (Obviously, you can adjust the spices.....But I'm experienced :)

When I think of vegetarian food, two cuisines come immediately to mind - those of India, perfect for ovo-lacto vegetarians who still consume eggs and dairy, and Japan, where soy products rather than dairy rule the day. What happens when an Indian wife & mother decides to not only give up meat, but to go completely vegan and rely on the soy products of Japan rather than the dairy of India? Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes Whether or not you are vegan or even vegetarian, (I am not, my granddaughter is) Anupy Singla, author of The Indian Slow Cooker: 50 Healthy, Easy, Authentic Recipes , does a superb job (one of the best I've seen) presenting both an introduction to Indian cuisine and a detailed list of spices and other ingredients commonly used in Indian cooking, often including photographs. 140 mostly easy recipes follow, ranging from basics like spice mixes, tamarind paste and directions for cooking various dried beans to soups, salads, and curries. Of special interest to vegans will be directions for making soy yogurt and a number of recipes that substitute baked tofu for the more traditional paneer cheese. Grandma's $0.02 - Every cook needs a trick or two up her sleeve to accommodate special diets deliciously. Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes is a great place to start. Highly recommended

I really love this recipe book. I have had this book for a couple of years but I only recently became vegan so I finally started flipping through it for recipes. Now I've made LOTS of dishes from this book and they always turn out great. I have a several other vegan & vegetarian recipe books including ones that were highly recommended on Amazon but this is the one I like the most. I am not Indian so I appreciate that the book doesn't assume any prior knowledge of Indian cuisine. I also like the fact that it uses traditional techniques like toasting and crushing spices which one of my other recipe books skips (my guess is to make the dishes easier to make). Anyways my husband who is Indian has loved the dishes from this book. The ones I've made so far were done in under an hour. There are dishes that take longer but I haven't tried them yet. I started being a bit more organized with my meals, planning for the entire week by bookmarking recipes in this book and listing the ingredients I would need to by. As a result I always know what meals I can make with what I have in the fridge/pantry. I thought I would prefer a hard copy of the book, but I like having a Kindle Edition more. It has to be on the counter top which means hard copies get dirty and wet (thats whats happened to my other recipe books ). The kindle is easy to clean. On top of that I can book mark 20 recipes (which I actually have done) easily on a kindle, which is not so easy to do on a hard copy book. I use it on my Kindle Fire which I can read in bed at night to plan out recipes. A hard copy book would have meant that I have to keep a really bright light on. Overall I have been very happy with this book as it expanded my rather narrow repertoire of vegan recipes. That has helped me look forward to meals rather than dreading them.

Ich liebe indische Küche und kann dieses Buch ohne Einschränkungen weiterempfehlen, egal ob vegan oder nicht. Die meisten Vegetarier leben in Indien. Es sind noch etwa 40 %. Früher waren es mehr, aber durch die Globalisierung wird auch in Indien mehr Fleisch gegessen. Man kann es allerdings nicht mit Deutschland vergleichen. In Indien essen die Menschen ca. 5 kg pro Kopf pro Jahr. In Deutschland etwa 60 kg. Das Buch ist in englischer Sprache.

Ethical vegetarians beware: there are the photos with a elephant (the writer is shown riding it). You know, to domesticate an elephant you must break its spirit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVckvi_gWVo).

If you want to cook authentic (and healthy and simple!) Indian food, these books are for you!!! This book is perfect for non-vegans and vegans: a lot of Indian food is naturally vegan, so either way, you will love this book! Anupy's books have all the staples of Indian cuisine, and she has done an amazing job at making it simple for non-Indians while keeping it authentic. Her books are really well organized, they have lots of great photos and tips, each recipe is really well explained and easy to follow, and they are all really healthy!!! I am a Canadian married to an Indian and her books have changed my life - I now cook authentic Indian food regularly for my family, and my husband and his family couldn't be more impressed!! I have all three of her books now and we love all of her recipes. Thank you Anupy for helping people like me and keep up the amazing work!!! P.S. Check out her blog here to try out a few recipes and see for yourself how great it is: http://www.indianasapplepie.com/

Loved the simple, and easy to follow recipe formats. All of the recipes I've cooked so far have been delicious. My favourite recipes so far are cumin rice, and chana and Split moong dal with pepper flakes.

I love this book, I'm a vegetarian who cooks a lot of vegan food and my downfall for dairy is more often that now paneer, I can't wait to try the tofu substitute for paneer. The recipes are simple and ( as far as I have tried) very tasty with a subtle blend of spices. The baked samosa sticks are to die for as it the spinach stuffed paratha ( which my kids loved, that alone makes the book worth the money) . I don't own a slow cooker so it is helpful to have instructions on how to cook dishes without one . This is fast becoming one of my favourite recipe books and I have many!!!! My only ask for the next one is please tell me how to cut jaggery without killing myself !!!!! I have no microwave to soften it