Healthy Indian Dishes, Cooking vessels

Eat freshly cooked food daily, and ensure every meal is 100% Organic:

• Dosa (Healthy Types: Onion, Ragi, Spinach or Pesarattu) with chutnies made of Coconut, Tomato or Peanuts mixed with curry leaves, Or stir fry potato curry made of red potatoes + sweet potato. (Tip: use green chilies inplace of red chilly powder).
• Idli: Make healthy steam Idli's by adding shredded Carrots, or Green vegetables or Ragi to the batter.
• Stir Fry: Use healthy vegetables, carrots, beetroot, red onions, red cabbage, sprouts etc. (Tip: In cooking use herbs like Turmeric, Basil or Mint leaves, Cilantro and shredded Coconut).
• Top best vegetables: Spinach, Kale, Broccoli, Red Cabbage, Cauliflower, Tomato, Carrot, Oakra (Lady Finger), Beet root, Radish, String Beans, Swiss Chard, Peas, Brussels Sprouts, Squash, Red Onions, Moringa Sticks, Avocados and Sweet Potato.  Keep in Mind: It is important to ensure that your diet includes more than just one or two cereals (gluten free grains). A variety of highly nutritious, yet oft-neglected cereals are available, which can be important components of our diets.
• Choose grilled foods over fried snacks. You'll be making a healthier choice by avoiding the use of batter and excess oil.
• Chapati/ Bread: Make healthy chapatti's from Gluten free flours of Jowar, Amaranth, Almond, Corn, Oats, Rye, and Legumes flour. *Avoid Maida - Plain white refined flours... during the refining process, all the grain nutrients gets destroyed. the companies add a little bit of the lost nutrients back and label it “enriched” so it seems nutritious. Fewer nutrients mean you'll be feeling hungry soon after, so choose foods which are unrefined made of gluten free whole grains instead.
• Organic Veggie Cutlets (stir fry) are healthiest which serves as one full delicious meal. Use red potatoes over regular yellowish brown potatoes. (*Herb: Use Cinnamon in food, very good for heart).
• Oils preferable to cook are unprocessed Coconut Oil in Summer-time, Sesame oil in Winter-time. At the end of cooking you can also toss on dish with grass-fed Cow's Ghee has many health benefits. (*Coconut, Sesame and Grass-fed Cow's ghee oils are considered to be KING OF OILS). Other preferable organic healthy oils to cook are Grape seed, Peanut, Avocado, Canola or Mustard Oil. Also, other nutrition rich Oils: Olive and Flax can either one be tossed at the end on cooked dishes. *Remember the Olive and Flax oils are meant NOT TO HEAT. Make a note: Oils should be used always in small amounts.
• Curries should be made from organic ingredients, masalas, veggies etc. (*First clean the vegetables thoroughly soaking them in warm water, so that any chemicals sprayed on them are washed off). Some of the healthy curries can be made using (Drum sticks, or Bottle Gourd/Lauki, Cage-free Brown Eggs, Spinach, Kale, Broccoli, Tofu, Brown Mushroom, Bitter Melon, Oakra (Bhendi), Tomato, Cabbage etc. etc..).
• Soups (Sambar, Rasam) can be made with different types of healthy lentils (Urad Dal, Toor Dal, Masoor Dal, Moong Dal), Beans, Peas, Veggies..
• Beans (Rajma, Pinto) & Chickpea has more protein.
• Rice (Best rice to eat are Brown, Red, Hand Pounded). Some of the healthy rice dishes are Spinach, Tomato, Lemon, Lentil, Pulao, Yogurt Rice and Fried Rice (Egg and Veggie). *Add fiber food to your meals especially when having White Rice + Meat. Fiber food (Veggies, dry prunes, dates and seeds) really helps in softening the stool, relieves the constipation.
• Quinoa in place of white rice. Quinoa is for better health, fiber, omega-3 and protein.
• Oat Meal (Gluten Free) for break fast & dinner, is rich in fiber, protein and energy. To the oats, add the soaked nuts, raw honey and fruits for more nutrition. A serving of oatmeal can have as much as 5 grams of protein.
• Salt: Use only Himalayan salt, or Kala namak, Rock/Sendha Pink natural salt for cooking. (*DONOT use chemically refined white salt, more intake of white iodized salt causes paralysis, high blood pressure, leads to diabetic and cancer over the period). *Remember: always use the salt while the dish is cooking, do not use salt at the end.
• Sweets: To make sweets, use Brown Sugar, Honey, Maple Syrup Or Palm Jaggery (but DONOT use chemically refined white Sugar at all, more intake of white sugar over the period causes cancer, diabetic, wrinkles, old age soon). Every meal need not always be followed by a dessert. A lot of us want something sweet after meals. This is absolutely unnecessary and if cut down on a daily basis, it will help us manage our weight issues better. Let the dessert sweets be a treat reserved for special festive occasions or the weekends. If still craving for sweets, wanting to satisfy your taste buds, take fiber fruits either Guava, Papaya, Prunes, Dates or Palm Jaggery after the meal. Ayurveda suggests to sugar cravers can take carrot halwa which is made of ghee + Palm Jaggery + cardamom. (*remember donot mix honey with ghee is bad to health) or Have desi paan (betel leaves) for digestion but without chuna/ pickling lime on it. *Sesame seeds are very good to chew for reducing weight, or have a Peanut Chikki made with Palm jaggery + sesame seeds.
• Milk: Drink grass-fed cow's milk improves good HDL (high density lipoprotein), where as buffalo's milk is not good increases LDL. *BEST milk is the Almond milk.
• Cooking pans/vessels: For healthy cooking, use pans made of Stainless Steel, or Cast iron, Copper, or Ceramic, as these are recommended cookware vessels which are safe to cook. Avoid non-stick vessels. If there is non-stick (toxic) coated lines on the surface then ensure they are free from POFA (Perfluorooctanoic acid) also known as C8, is a man-made chemical. PFOA has the potential to be more of a health concern because it can stay in the environment and in the human body for long periods of time.(*Also, DO NOT USE any kind Aluminium vessels in the kitchen, as they are very harmful when cooked and toxic too).
• Cage-Free: If you are craving for chicken, eat only healthy Village Hen (Cage-Free/ Natu Kodi) chicken for Curries or Biryani. (DONOT eat red meat, beef or pork or farm raised chicken). **Add fiber food to your meals especially when having White Rice + Meat. Fiber food (Veggies, Prunes, Dates and Seeds) really helps in softening the stool, relieves the constipation.
• Pickles: If you are craving for pickles, go for mango, amla, lemon etc.. but make sure they are mixed with Methi or Ajwain or Jeera.. this way its healthy to eat and good for the body.
• Best Herbs: Turmeric, Red Onions, Ginger, Parsley Leaves, Cilantro, Curry leaves, Chives, Horseradish, Mint, Basil, Moringa leaves and Celery.
• Better digestion: Eat slowly and chew your food well as it helps in digestion and also we tend to eat less. For better digestion, drink water only after 2 hours of having meal, and during the meal to clear the throat, either have almond milk, butter milk or carrot juice in small sips.

*AVOID NON-ORGANIC FOODS where the Chemicals, GMO (genetically modified organism), Lead, Nitrates, Mercury, Chlorine and Pesticides are been used to grow food. By eating all these contaminated non-organic food vegetables, leafs, pulses, fruits, meats.. will slowly make us sick and leads to many diseases, health issues and CANCER.

*BE CAUTIOUS of poultry (chickens) which are feeded with antibiotics and hormones are very harmful to health when eaten.

Grow 100% Organic food in your home garden for better WORLD OF TOMMOROW.



Recipe sites:
1) http://www.vahrehvah.com/ (Popular Video Recipes from Sanjay Thumma).
    http://www.youtube.com/user/vahchef
2) http://www.sailusfood.com/  (Popular Sailu's Food Recipes..)
3) http://www.AllRecipes.com ;
4) www.Epicurious.com (Food Recipes for people who loves to eat).
5) http://www.harpalssokhi.com/   (Popular Harpal Singh)
    http://www.youtube.com/user/chefharpalsingh
6) http://www.sanjeevkapoor.com/  (Famous Sanjeev Kapoor)
    http://www.youtube.com/user/sanjeevkapoorkhazana
7) http://tarladalal.com/   (Popular Tarla Dalala)
8) http://www.bawarchi.com/ 
9) http://nishamadhulika.com/
10) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwB9ngJhJPY3emyWOcpW9Fg   (ATTAMMA TV)
http://www.attammatv.com/
11) http://chowdersingh.com/  (Indian Street Food Recipes)
12) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HI1D6sti3g (Biryani recipe)
13) http://cooks.ndtv.com/article/show/10-best-biryani-recipes-610418?pfrom=home-recipes
14) http://whfoods.com/recipestoc.php
15) http://fatfree.com/recipes/
16) http://www.veganricha.com/  (Pure vegetarian recipes..)
17) http://www.padhuskitchen.com/ (Padhu's .. kids friendly recipes)
18) http://www.simplytadka.com/
19) http://www.chitrasfoodbook.com/
20) http://www.divinetaste.com/ (Pure vegetarian recipes..)
21) http://www.sharmispassions.com/  (South indian dishes..)
22) http://www.rakskitchen.net/  (Authentic indian recipes ...)
23) http://www.jeyashriskitchen.com/  (Veggie blog..)
24) https://www.masalaherb.com/recipes/  (Goan delicious recipes ..)
25) http://www.spicytasty.com/  (Spicy authentic recipes from three musketeer ladies)