Healthy Indian Cooking: Over 100 Recipes for Vitality and Health

Author(s): Monisha Bharadwaj

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Written by a leading writer on Indian cuisine, this is a definitive guide to Indian eating for greater wellbeing, whether you are keen to follow the Ayurvedic approach or merely want recipes for delicious yet healthy Indian food. The book shows how healthy Indian food can be, revealing its value as an energy cuisine that can lift the spirits, tone the body and quieten the mind - all Ayurvedic aims - while also revealing the Ayurvedic principles behind Indian cuisine and explaining how to choose the right foods to eat, which ingredients to combine and the best methods of cooking. Because Ayurvedic practitioners believe that the colours of food can indicate their health values, the recipes are displayed on colour-coded pages that reflect the properties of their key ingredient.

General Information

  • : 9781780972633
  • : Carlton Books Ltd
  • : Prion Books Ltd
  • : 0.454
  • : 13 March 2013
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 September 2013
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Monisha Bharadwaj
  • : Paperback
  • : Sep-13
  • : 641.5630954
  • : 144
  • : 10 illustrations

More About The Product

Monisha Bharadwaj is a nutritionist and home economist, having worked as a consultant for the Times of India newspaper group. The author of the much-acclaimed The Indian Pantry, a compendium of Indian ingredients, Monisha has also written for a variety of publications, including the Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Telegraph and Elle magazine.

Introduction; The Basics; Soups and Starters; Seafood and Eggs; Chicken and Lamb; Vegetables; Sprouts, Lentils and Beans; Rice and Breads; Salads and Raitas; Desserts; Drinks; Index; Acknowledgements.