Healthy Indian Cooking: Over 100 Recipes for Vitality and Wellness

For optimal health, go Indian! In this definitive guide to Indian eating for well-being, acclaimed food writer Monisha Bharadwaj provides more than 100 easy-to-prepare recipes that dispel the myths (high in fat, complicated, time-consuming) about the cuisine. She lays out the Ayurvedic principles underlying Indian cooking, explaining how to choose and combine ingredients, and the best method of preparing them. In accordance with Ayurvedic belief that a food's color indicates its health values, the dishes appear on color-coded pages reflecting the properties of their key ingredients. Both a guide to the Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle, and a cookbook to help you return to a state of harmonious balance, Healthy Indian Cooking also features a foreword by a leading Ayurvedic doctor.