Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

unhealthy, I reserve it for drizzling on
salads and into salad dressings and for
making hummus. For cooking, I instead
reach for oils that can better take the heat
needed to make good Indian food,
including coconut oil, grapeseed oil
(which has a smoke point of up to 421°F
[216°C]), and safflower oil. I really like
grapeseed because of its light flavor and
taste—it works particularly well with
Indian foods. I like to use coconut oil for
South Indian cooking. You’ll be fine
with any light vegetable oil or canola
oil. I use flaxseed oil to moisten roti and
naan, but you should never cook with
flaxseed oil, as it cannot take heat. In
parts of India, mustard, untoasted
sesame, and peanut oils are commonly