Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

doesn’t even eat eggs, but my father eats
meat. In our home, we followed an
Indian diet—which is predominantly
vegetarian—most days. The only time
we’d have meat would be for parties,
when my mother would make chicken
breast smothered in barbecue sauce, or
when we’d make a rare run to a fast-
food restaurant.
The way we ate then is the way a vast
number of people still eat in India,
where about 30 percent of the country’s
sizable population is vegetarian—
primarily Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains.
Most Muslims eat meat, just not pork;
similarly, Hindus refrain from eating
beef for religious reasons. (In India,
even McDonald’s is sensitive to local