The Healthy Vegetarian Recipe Blog
As a person who loves any form of cooked greens, when I saw hara bhara kabab on the menu at the Mumbai Spice Cafe restaurant the first time, I was super excited to try it. The description said “spicy spinach and potato patties with green peas.” Of course, I loved it! What’s not to love…
If you’re here, you must be looking for the incredible satisfaction and delight of a lemon bar without all the eggs and egg yolks of the classic versions. You may even be wondering if your pursuit makes any sense at all? Since the lemon part is the most important part of the bar, is it…
Days with cool weather like rain and clouds are perfect for a warming soup such as this beet soup with greens. Just to be clear, I am describing that a typical spring day is perfect for this beet soup, but it is also fantastic in the fall and winter. Beets are one of the few…
It’s hard to find a salad green that’s lighter and easier to digest than arugula. The robust peppery flavor profile of the green leaf brings lightness, dryness, clarity, and warming qualities to the dinner table. This is the reason arugula salad is a wonderful complement for heavier foods, such as meats, whole grains, sandwiches, eggs,…
In the springtime, asparagus is one of the first vegetables to emerge from the ground. The reason for this, I have learned, is that the asparagus plant is a perennial plant that comes back on its own every year. In a seasonal garden, as the frozen ground warms up, plants that lay dormant all winter…
My earliest memory of garlic lemon butter sauce is probably as a dipping sauce with lobster, which was undoubtably rare in my life, but not as much as you might think since my dad’s from the lobster capital of the world: Prince Edward Island. My 6-year-old self peered intently at the tall stockpot filled with…
Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere and that layer of winter fat that your body built up to protect your delicate organs from the bitter cold of winter isn’t needed anymore. Similar to how animals emerge from hibernation, we humans have a similar mechanism that’s driven by changes in nature. You may not realize…
My grandmother’s recipe for sweet zucchini with parmesan is a sautéed side dish I grew up loving as a child, since my mom made it regularly. While making this zucchini recipe again recently, it brought back a bunch of visceral childhood memories of my anticipation for this vegetarian dish. I asked my adult self: “Why…
This recipe for Instant Pot tomato soup with coconut milk is my makeover of a gem I discovered over at Food52. Their editors are really good at identifying special recipes. They actually call them “genius recipes” – haha. This also happens to be the first Instant Pot recipe I ever tried after getting my first…
