Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

relatively inexpensive hand-held blender can be used to easily break down curries and soups right in the cooking vessel. It’s al ...

to boil water quickly and easily. It’s also great to have on hand when you need to add water to a slow cooker, as cold or lukewa ...

each clove. The skins fell away easily, and I got all my aggressions out at the same time! MICROPLANE GRATER: I own the most us ...

POTS AND PANS: I’ve used the same pots and pans since I received them as wedding gifts in 1999. Yours don’t have to be high-tec ...

breads like pooris and making fried snacks like samosas. ROLLING PIN: Have one handy for rolling out traditional Indian flatbre ...

edges on the peeler make taking the skin off tomatoes and peaches a piece of cake. It’s the best and cheapest kitchen contraptio ...

that it should have several beneficial functions: a removable inner cooking insert to make cleaning easy, different cooking sett ...

a slow cooker that doesn’t have a “high” setting. Slow cookers are safe and use much less electricity than a conventional gas or ...

a cup or two, and then add boiled water halfway through the cooking process. If you don’t have a slow cooker, don’t worry. You c ...

be pulled out for cooking. It’s an easy way to dole out your spices without fussing with lids and grabbing for jars in the back ...

endless. SPICE GRINDER: Grinding your own spices is much easier than you think if you have the right tools. The best and most b ...

completely. Legumes: Lentils, Beans, and Peas Low in fat. No cholesterol. High in folate, potassium, iron, and magnesium. Extrem ...

protein as long as you combine your legumes with grains. Both categories are deficient in different amino acids, but you can mak ...

around the country. The one grocery aisle that seems to baffle everyone is the one where beans and lentils are stocked. There ar ...

green and still in the pods. My girls love to take the pods, open them up like peanut shells, and gobble up the raw, green chick ...

Now, just because there seem to be hundreds of different-looking bags on the shelves does not mean there are hundreds of varieti ...

The split legume without the skin (called dhuli, which means “washed” in Hindi). Try cooking these different forms of the same ...

especially true for products from Indian grocery stores, and especially for black lentils, which mix in seamlessly with small pi ...

Store them dry in a dark, cool place, ideally in glass containers, and they will last for up to six months. DISCARDING SPOILED ...

that beans that have been soaked eliminate gas later. I’ve never noticed any difference—maybe because we are so used to eating t ...