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Indian Food & Its Benefits

The Indian food is liked throughout the world because of its taste, texture and the benefit it offers. The Indian food offers many benefits, especially if it is cooked in a healthy oil like canola oil. Indian vegetarian dishes are loaded with antioxidants. Many spices protect against cancer, heart disease, arthritis and Alzheimer's disease. The rate of Alzheimer's disease in India is about four times lower than in the USA which is attributed to the use of spices. Spices are also good for the metabolism of the body.

The Indian foods are rich in whole grains including lentils, legumes and dried beans such as kidney beans, chickpeas, black-eyed beans, etc. Whole grains are good sources of good sources of protein, dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals; and low in fat and are heart friendly. Whole grains may help reduce the risk of colon cancer, and cancers of the stomach and mouth.

The Indian bread is made of whole wheat flour as opposed to the American people who eat generally bread made up of white flour. The South Indians eat special dishes that use fermented lentils and rice. All of these are very nutritious and healthy.

Many Indians are vegetarian. They do not eat any animal based foods but eat vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat milk and plant-based proteins. These foods are good for weight loss, heart and blood pressure.

Vegetarian Recipes

The Indian vegetarian recipes given on this web site are low calorie, low fat (less than 1% added fat) and involve no cholesterol. Almost all the recipes use spices such as turmeric, garama masala, cardamom, chili pepper, fenugreek seeds, ginger and garlic.

The health benefits of the Indian food depend on the method of cooking.

If a recipe calls for too much cream, yogurt, ghee or oil and crushed cashews, then the dish will be very rich in taste and texture, but it will have no nutritional value. The north Indian food, Punjabi food and the foods available in restaurants are cooked (rather over-cooked) like this and they are higher in fat and lower in nutritional value. These foods are generally prepared with deep frying onions, ginger, and spices in lot of oil or ghee. Read more on Indian food nutrition and calories.

Instead of deep frying, you can stir-fry or saute them in very little vegetable oil. The over-cooked foods loses their nutrition because, in the process, the vitamins and minerals are leached out. You should leave the cooking of a vegetable when it is still crisp.

Over 200 low fat or fat free and cholesterol free recipes are given under different categories. You will be surprised to realize that low calorie vegetarian dishes can be so tasty ! These vegetarian recipes are healthy recipes and can form a part of a healthy vegetarian diet.

Follow the recipes given on this web site and you will discover that you need not to be a culinary expert to cook low fat nutritious and tasty dishes.

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List of Indian Vegetarian Recipes

All the low calorie vegetarian recipes are categorized into following different groups.

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Recipe for Body, Mind and the Soul
Prakash Patel
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When ever you cook any food, you should repeat or chanting any holy MANTRA in mind while prepartion and cooking of food. This will change the FOOD to PRASAD, and the person who eat this prasad will bless and its affect positively on body as well as on mind.

Plus your KITCHEN will fill with all positive vibrations, the person who enter in it will feel peace.

So lets change and prepare the BODY as well as MIND to experience the SOUL.

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Enjoy over 200 low calorie vegetarian recipes categorized in different types. You will be surprised to realise thatvegetarian food can be so healthy and tasty!