Indian food is amazing, specially if you're vegetarian.
If someone would ask me to choose a menu for 5 days out of a week, for breakfast, lunch and dinner between a 5* Michelin chef or yellow lentil curry with 2 rotis and a coconut sembal, I would go with the curry. Any day.
When you look at vegetarian cuisine outside of india, with very few exceptions in terms of restaurants and few exceptions in terms of dishes, it looks like unimaginative dimwits took to the pans.
Cooking really is an art. I cooked this the other day, it was one of the best things I've ever made. It was like a bean chilli but from heaven. Specially posting this for you!
Dal Makhani
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Vegetarian meals don't have to be sad. Indian cuisine is often veggie and exceptionally good. Meera Sodha's book Fresh India [0] is a goldmine for cheap veggie recipies that you wouldn't miss meat from (I say this as someone who likes meat!)
Indian vegetarian food is great (I'm Indian). But its biggest problem is the lack of any "solid" food or texture (which is why you see raw onion on every Indian dinner plate - to give the necessary crunch to dal-rice).
Good read! If you get a chance, visit India/South Asia to try out various vegetarian dishes (preferably from different regions). You will be surprised by how much variety is available for vegetarians.
The ones branded as Indian cuisine outside India tend to be mostly a collection of popular dishes rather than sampling of everything. So you will end up feeling that most of them taste similar.
As an Indian and a vegetarian, I agree with both those assertions. Indian cuisine(s.. there are many regional cuisines) is full of naturally delicious vegetarian (and even vegan) dishes. But that also includes a lot of starchy and fried foods. But there's such an abundant diversity available that you can prepare lots of healthy, delicious menus with different set of constraints (high protein, low carb, low fat, high fat/protein etc.)
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