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Recipes with a Spice

Indian Cuisine for Balanced Nutrition    /By Kusum L. Gupta

1stbooks Library, 388 pages, 6x9, index, Sept 2002

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Emphasizing nutritious, high-fiber diets that are low in saturated fats and cholesterol, allowing you to spice up dinner time and treat your taste buds to an exciting range of flavors, Recipes with a Spice – Indian Cuisine for Balanced Nutrition makes cooking a creative process for healthful living.  Combining typical Indian ingredients and techniques with foods such as broccoli, soy products, wheat germ, and flaxseeds it offers something for everyone.   A collection of 260 recipes from different regions of India, it provides selected meat dishes but mostly vegetarian and vegan dishes to facilitate a change in life-style.

This book is an improved and enlarged edition of the earlier cookbook ‘Recipes with a Spice – From Asian-Indian Kitchens’ that has been sold out.  It addresses the needs of the experienced cook as well as the adventurous beginner or a child wishing to explore the world of cooking or changing to healthy way of eating.

It also offers:

A chapter called Cooking by Children with easy to prepare delicious meals, a fusion of Indian cuisine with other cuisines.   Separate chapters that give valuable information about foods for health, Food Group servings, and nutritive value in some commonly consumed foods.   Nutritive Value and Food Group Exchange, based on the Food Guide Pyramid recommended by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for each recipe. Healthy alternatives to prepare a dish are suggested.   Sample menus.   Some helpful hints and preparation techniques such as making yogurt and fresh cheese.   A description of the ingredients and an English translation of Indian terminology.   Easy to use measures such as ‘cup’, ‘teaspoon’, and ‘tablespoon’.   A separate listing of seasonings to facilitate adapting them to personal taste and preferences, and to dispel the myth that Indian cuisine is fatty, complicated and spicy.   Some quotations and sayings related to a balanced approach to life.