The Complete Vegetable Cookbook

This unique presentation describing the cooking of vegetables in myriad ways is the result of over fifty years of expertise in the kitchen. Arranged alphabetically, every chapter contains a number of recipes for cooking the concerned vegetables. The recipes reflect the differing tastes, the different edible oils used, and the characteristic flavors of all the regions of India, besides some of the foreign lands. Each chapter begins with a brief note on the general nutritional value and the inherent medicinal properties of a particular vegetable. Though not qualified, the reader is enlightened about the overall contribution that the vegetables makes towards healthy living – particularly through old time-tested recipes of grandmothers for coping with minor ailments. All over the world, presently, there is a growing awareness of the beneficial effects of a vegetarian diet. Unfortunately, there is a widespread, but erroneous, impression that a vegetarian diet is inferior. The recipes in this book, about 300 of them, would dispel such notions, by appealing to the palate, and nourish the body.