South Indian Vegetarian Cookbook

By Vim Kay

Learn to cook

Filter coffee, upma, and coconut chutney for breakfast
Rice, sambhar, and potato fry for lunch
Onion bajji and kesari for snacks and sweets
and more ...

This book includes ...

Just the recipes - open a recipe and start cooking.

A comprehensive glossary - to help you learn about ingredients that are unfamiliar.

Helpful cooking tips - how to cook rice, make recipes less spicy, and more...

17 vegan-friendly dishes - with tips on making additional recipes vegan.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vim Kay
• Release date: Mar 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005168339

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South Indian Vegetarian Cookbook

Vim Kay

Third Edition, 2022.

Copyright © 2022 Vim Kay.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

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South Indian Vegetarian Cookbook

Why I wrote this

Basics

What you will need

How spicy are these recipes?

Can I make it vegan?

Cooking rice

Cooking potatoes

Breakfast

Masala tea

Filter coffee

Rava upma

Vegetable kichadi

Rice

Tomato rice ▾

Curd rice

Rice porridge ▾

Vegetable biriyani

Curries

Dhal

Aviyal

Green gram curry ▾

Sambhar ▾

Dhal & vegetable curry ▾

Tamarind curry ▾

Rasam ▾

Side dishes

Potato fry ▾

Carrot & beans fry ▾

Bitter gourd fry ▾

Drumstick fry ▾

Coconut chutney ▾

Onion & cucumber pachadi

Snacks

Fried peanuts ▾

Spicy popcorn

Peanut chaat ▾

Potato bonda ▾

Onion bajji ▾

Vegetable puffs

Sweets

Kesari

Sweet pongal

Sweet gram ▾

Thanks for reading

Glossary

Credits

Why I wrote this

Dear reader,

Thank you for your interest in South Indian Vegetarian Cookbook. This is a collection of recipes for the vegetarian dishes I cook regularly at home.

I love to cook and have been learning to do so for over 20 years. For any given dish, I try out a number of different recipes and record the best recipe in a notebook, along with the modifications I had made. I learnt some of these recipes from my mother.

When family and friends liked some of these dishes, I felt it will be good to share these recipes with everyone. The result is this cookbook.

I hope you will enjoy making these dishes.

Happy cooking!

Vim Kay

https://vimkaysrecipes.neocities.org

Basics

What you will need

How spicy are these recipes?

Can I make it vegan?

Cooking rice

Cooking potatoes

What you will need

I make use of the following items in this cookbook.

Measuring cups

¼ cup, ½ cup and 1 cup.

Measuring cups

Measuring spoons

¼ tsp, ½ tsp, 1 tsp, and 1 tbsp.

Picture of teaspoons and a tablespoon

Blender

For dry or wet grinding, for example, to prepare items like coconut chutney.

Picture of tabletop mixer-grinder with 2 jars

Strainer

For filtering tea, coffee, or jaggery in recipes like sweet pongal.

Photo of a stainless steel strainer

Pressure cooker

A kitchen equipment used for cooking items quickly under a higher pressure and temperature. Useful for cooking dhal, green gram etc.,

Photo of a stainless steel pressure cooker

If you do not have one at home, you can soak the item overnight in water and then cook in a pan with a closed lid.

Kitchen scale

For weighing items.

Photo of a digital kitchen scale

Timer

To keep track of cooking time.

How spicy are these recipes?

The recipes included in this book can be considered as spicy, but not extra spicy.

recipes are spicy but not extra spicy