Healthy Indian Fusion Soups, Sa - Kaushal Das.azw3

Healthy Indian Fusion Soups, Salads and Snacks, is a cookbook of Indian fusion recipe for Soups, Salads and Snacks. This also include some main course entrees.

Soups and salads are incredible food for healthy living. However, as we all know eating them regularly not only becomes boring, after a few short weeks it becomes almost impossible. Most folks turn away from soups and salads after a brief interval.

For several years I have been experimenting with a variety of recipes for soups and salads in order to continue eating them regularly. I have also created several dishes for snacks and main courses based primarily on Indian ingredients but often using ingredients from other ethnic food. Indian food has a variety of herbs, spices and flavors that not only makes food very interesting but also preserves and enhances nutritional values while providing incredible flavors and taste. Many Indians are vegetarian. This has resulted in excellent use of a variety of vegetables, herbs and spices to enhance flavor and increase nutritional value. Primary sources of proteins used in Indian dishes are lentils, soy beans and paneer (a kind of cottage cheese).

However, typical Indian foods also suffer from heavy use of cream, butter, oil and fat. Often these same flavors and ingredients are used in many dishes resulting in similar taste. Sometime overuse of spices, especially hot spices, takes away the actual flavor of food.

In my dishes, I have primarily used Indian spices and ingredients, however I have adapted to locally available ingredients whenever appropriate. I tried to minimize use of butter, cream and other fats as much as possible. My focus was to create dishes that can be easily cooked in an average kitchen. Also I wanted to create dishes which can be consumed every day. A number of dishes are either low-calorie, or low-calorie options are provided so that diet or health-conscious people can also consume them regularly.

While Indian cuisines have a large variety of ingredients and incredible recipes, other cuisines like Chinese, Thai, Filipino and Mexican cuisines are also very rich in flavor. I have adopted several dishes in my book from other ethnic cuisine. I modified each dish and infused it with some Indian influence, however I tried to preserve the original ethnic flavors. Most of the ingredients used in this book will be readily available either in local food supermarkets or in Indian,South Asian or international groceries.

Some dishes included are those which are now more or less Indian, however they were adopted from other cuisines and over time became Indian. When I have presented an original dish, generally I have modified it to make the food simple and healthy.

This book is about simple, healthy and flavorful recipes using ingredients mostly available in local supermarkets, Indian or Asian stores. It’s not about creating a super-duper fancy five-star restaurant dish. While most recipes do not require any culinary skills or training, some recipes may require a few trials before they become perfect.