Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

dietary restrictions and serves lamb
burgers.)
This preference for vegetarian cuisine
often has nothing to do with dairy
products, a mainstay in Indian culture
and cuisine. Thus, most Indians are lacto
(milk) vegetarians. In my husband’s
childhood home (as in many households
where meat is consumed), one day each
week is observed as a holy day when no
meat is eaten. On that day, his family
would get their protein from paneer, a
homemade cheese made from cow’s
milk. To this day, Tuesday is my
husband’s day to sit down to a meal of
peas and homemade cheese (mattar
paneer).