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The myriad cuisines of India all love their vegetables! Veggies are diced and sliced, grated and mashed, stir-fried and curried into hundreds of vegetable dishes In this series, the A to Z of Indian Vegetables , we take an alphabetical journey through the various avatars of vegetables relished in Indian cuisine. For each letter, we will make a tasty vegetable dish that illustrates one manner in which vegetables are savored in India. Before we start this round up, a brief announcement : In two weeks, we will come to the Q of Indian vegetables. Now, Q is a very cha llenging letter, so I have built in a loophole. Q is for Quick , so recipes with the prefix "quick" will be welcomed as entries. If you have a favorite quick Indian/ Indian-inspired recipe involving vegetables, please do consider participating. Do you *have* to send in "Q for quick" entries? Absolutely not! If you want to get creative and make other Q recipes or use other Q words, please do so, I woul

The myriad cuisines of India all love their vegetables! Veggies are diced and sliced, grated and mashed, stir-fried and curried into hundreds of vegetable dishes In this series, the A to Z of Indian Vegetables , we take an alphabetical journey through the various avatars of vegetables relished in Indian cuisine. For each letter, we will make a tasty vegetable dish that illustrates one manner in which vegetables are savored in India. Welcome to the second half of our alphabetical journey... The "N" of Indian Vegetables The letter N inspired f ourteen novel Indian flavors! Truly, the entries in this round-up are extra-creative, no two are alike, with bloggers making the most of a pretty challenging letter... Let's start with an N flower ...the Neem Flower . The neem tree is a beautiful evergreen with great medicinal value and a plethora of uses . But I had no idea about the culinary use of the neem flower! Suganya of Tasty Palettes shows us how sun-dried neem flowe

This week at One Hot Stove , it is "Q for quick" ! So here is a quick post featuring my favorite quick meal It maximizes flavor and nutrition while minimizing effort and prep time. Mixed vegetables , lentils and rice come together, and are flavored by tamarind and a ready-made spice mix . The whole thing virtually cooks itself in the pressure cooker and you are in for a treat! Bisibele rice is a specialty from the Southern Indian state of Karnataka, featuring lentils, rice, vegetables and spices cooked together slowly and lovingly into a festive dish. In my quick khichdi, I use bisibele spice mix to approximate those flavors in a fraction of the time and make faux bisibele rice . Here's how... 1. Prepare 2 cups of mixed vegetables , cut in medium dice. Here, I have used green beans, frozen peas and carrots. Other vegetables that work well are zucchini, eggplant, cauliflower, lima beans etc. 2. Prepare 1 tbsp thick tamarind paste . If you use tamarind pulp, the past

Lakshmi of Veggie Cuisine has come up with a new event that is close to my heart: Regional Cuisines of India or RCI. Each month, we will be making the food of one region/ state of India. This month, the RCI event is being hosted by Latha of Masala Magic . The theme is Andhra Cuisine , i.e., the cuisine of the Southern state of Andhra Pradesh . I am a relative newcomer to the world of Andhra food. A few years ago, I was living in Bangalore for the summer, a nd ended up with some friends at a Andhra restaurant called Bheema's . That evening was my memorable introduction to Andhra cuisine . We ate off verdant banana leaves; the courses kept coming, progressively ever tastier and ever more fiery, until I had tears of pain running down my cheeks. But I kept gulping down cool water and eating some more. I don't know what they put in that food, but that stuff was downright addictive . Now, the world of food blogs has provided me with several wonderful "teachers" who ar

The myriad cuisines of India all love their vegetables! Veggies are diced and sliced, grated and mashed, stir-fried and curried into hundreds of vegetable dishes In this series, the A to Z of Indian Vegetables , we take an alphabetical journey through the various avatars of vegetables relished in Indian cuisine. For each letter, we will make a tasty vegetable dish that illustrates one manner in which vegetables are savored in India. The "Q" of Indian Vegetables (Note: I had written this round-up and was a couple of minutes away from posting it, and very unluckily , blogger wiped it off and I lost the whole write-up! :( :( This is the painfully re-written version. If I accidentally left an entry out during the re-writing process, please let me know and I will include it right away). The letter Q inspired twenty-three q uirky Indian flavors! First up, the only bona-fide English language Q ingredient that I can think of: the ancient seed, Quinoa . Quinoa is used as a grai