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The Everyday Healthy Vegetarian – Nandita Iyer

“With this book, Nandita serves up her repertoire through easy-to-follow and source recipes that will certainly add much-needed oomph to your tables and lifestyles.”

– Chef Manu Chandra

THE BASICS

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Hachette India (30 December 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 935009827X
  • ISBN-13: 978-9350098271
  • Official release date: 5 Jan 2018

ABOUT THE BOOK

Cooking healthy meals can be creative, easy and downright fun!

In The Everyday Healthy Vegetarian, Dr Nandita Iyer, trained nutritionist and self-taught celebrity chef, provides a fantastic combination of myth-busting nutritional advice and simple, fuss-free vegetarian recipes using everyday ingredients from the Indian kitchen.

In over 100 delectable recipes spread across four sections, she guides you through interesting ways of preparing the same old vegetables and fruits, while upping the protein content of your diet, and ensuring you get your daily dose of energy-filled grains and brain-stimulating fats.

WHAT’S INSIDE

Chapters

The birth of this book

What this  book will do for you

My kitchen

Stocking up for healthy cooking

Menu Planning: How To Go about It and Why It Is Important

Basic Equipment: A Checklist

Helpful Healthy Cooking Tips

How to Make Amazing Salads at Home

Some Recipe Guidelines

Recipes – Eat the Rainbow

Recipes – Good Carbs

Recipes – Protein Punch

Recipes – Healthy Fats

Sample Menu Plan for a Week

Dietary Index

  • Superfood Recipes
  • Vegan Recipes
  • Gluten free Recipes
  • Diabetic friendly Recipes

Recipe Index – Ingredients

Acknowledgements

Special features
. The low-down on the nutritional values of everyday superfoods and advice on how to incorporate them into your diet;
. Diabetic-friendly meals, as well as vegan and gluten-free recipes;
. Weekly meal plans featuring interesting combinations that balance your nutritional intake;
. Tips on growing your own foods in your garden, terrace or balcony.

Illustrated with gorgeous photographs of the food you’re about to prepare, this book will undoubtedly inspire you to opt for a healthier way of life.

You can watch my video explaining to you all that the book is about.

WHERE TO BUY

The Everyday Healthy Vegetarian cookbook is available on Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Flipkart and in bookstores

PRESS

How a novice cook became one of India’s most popular food bloggers and a published author – Scroll / 27 Dec 2017

Drooled at recipes on Saffrontrail? Meet the food blogger the internet loves. – The News Minute / 2 Jan 2018

Excerpt – The Everyday Healthy Vegetarian – Hindustan Times  / 5 Jan 2018

Art and science of cooking up new ideas – Asian Age / 10 Jan 2018

Review: Foodlovers magazine  / 16 Jan 2018

Vegetarian cooking can be a lot of fun – Interview in ShethepeopleTV / 17 Jan 2018

Vegetarian recipes good enough to repeat – The Hindu / 18 Jan 2018

Bring back the carbs – Mumbai Mirror / 28 Jan 2018

Nandita ‘Saffron Trail’ Iyer wants you to eat healthy with her debut cookbook – The Week / 31 Jan 2018

Going gluten free – Mint / 12 Feb 2018

Nandita Iyer’s journey from being trained as a medical doctor to a self-taught celebrity chef, blogger and published writer – Your Story/ 2 April 2018

 

EVENTS

Book signing and panel discussion on food writing in India / Atta Galatta, Bangalore – 24 Feb 2018 (coverage in The Hindu)

Cooking demo at Saltrock Food Festival / 25 Feb 2018 (coverage in Bangalore Mirror)

Cooking demo and book signing at Godrej Nature’s Basket, Whitefield (Bangalore) on 9 March 2018

AS FEATURED IN

AS FEATURED IN
  • not always in a saree and big bindi
  • Two delicious recipes that use whole bunches of spring onions for that punch of allium flavour as well as the bright green colour- in my latest column for Mint Lounge. . Sharing the recipes below so you can save the post to your folders / take screenshots. . ❓Apart from using them as a garnish, what are your favourite ways to use spring onions❓ . SPRING ONION ‘AKKI ROTTI’ Makes 4 INGREDIENTS 2 tsp oil 2 cups spring onion greens, finely chopped 2-3 green chillies, sliced 2 tbsp peanuts, crushed 1 tsp salt 2 tbsp fresh coconut, grated 1 cup rice flour 2-3 tsp oil for cooking METHOD Heat 2 tsp oil in a pan and sauté spring onion greens until wilted. Stir in green chillies and peanuts. Add one cup water to this along with salt and coconut. Bring to a boil. Empty the cup of rice flour in the water. Turn off flame, cover and keep aside to steam for 10 minutes. Using a wooden ladle, incorporate all the flour into the liquid to make a dough. Remove on to a flat surface and knead to form a smooth dough. Divide the dough into four portions. Between two plastic sheets or baking paper, roll out into a thick roti. Cook on both sides on a hot pan using a few drops of oil until golden spots appear. Serve with coconut chutney or podi. SPRING ONION AND POTATO SALAD Serves 2 INGREDIENTS 250g potatoes (4 small) 1 tbsp olive oil 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 stalk celery, thinly sliced (optional) 1 cup spring onion greens, finely chopped 1/4 tsp salt A pinch of chilli flakes 2 tsp lemon juice 2 tsp wholegrain mustard METHOD Pressure cook or boil the potatoes. Peel and cut into 1-inch size chunks. Over low heat, sauté the garlic in oil in a pan. Add celery and sauté for 2-3 minutes. Toss in the chopped spring onion greens and stir on medium flame for 3-4 minutes or until wilted. Add the potatoes, salt and chilli flakes and toss well. Remove into a bowl. Add lemon juice and wholegrain mustard and toss well to combine. Serve warm or cold .
  • That was dinner last evening. Cabbage subzi with onion and potato, carrot-cucumber-basil salad with salt and lemon juice, phulkas and dahi. According to my son, I make the perfect cabbage to go with roti and ammama (my mum) makes the perfect cabbage to go with Rasam rice 😍 . I like to stick to a very simple dinner on Mondays which means either roti subzi or dal rice kinda menu. Much needed if the weekend has been frought with indulgences.
  • Making our day better by simply sitting in a corner of a room- this lovely bunch of flowers. . I subscribe to this weekly flower box from @theshadesofspring and they send us a surprise mix of flowers every Saturday. . Check my stories for more pics
  • Inspiration can come in any form. Whether it be food, fashion or even furniture. This marshmallow inspired sofa is a prime example how one can beautifully be #Reinspired. @scriptonlineind has found the perfect balance of style and comfort to provided a unique #FreedomOfLiving. Guess it's time to #ScriptMySpace. . . Tell me how you’ll reinspire these marshmallows? I plan to dip them in the melted chocolate and then drizzle white chocolate and sprinkles over it 😍
  • Currently in harvest mode are these green Mysore brinjals and small sized karelas --swipe to see these plants in my garden. . Do share with me your ideas for these two veggies🍆🍃 because I'm going to have a lot of these in the coming days😁
  • in my happy place . . . . This saree is over 12 years old bought from Kalanjali -Hyderabad
  • This beautiful song from the movie Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is set in Raag Khamaj. It’s a tough one sung by Shreya Ghoshal and Javed Bashir, took me quite a bit of practice to learn at least some of the soulful nuances of this number.

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