Rice is one of the most basic elements in the Indian vegetarian cuisine and it is also one of the most versatile.
It can be used in limitless ways, cooked with spices, seasonings, nuts, raisins, curd, beans, nuts, yoghurt or vegetables.
Rice provides visual appeal, fibre and nutrition.
Rice also complements the protein in other foods.
When you eat rice together with such foods as dhal, nuts or dairy produce the total food value increases by up to 45%.
So in this edition we are going to show you how to prepare many tasty rice dishes from the Indian vegetarian cuisine.
Such as rice pilau with nuts and peas, tasty lemon rice, South Indian yoghurt rice, and kitery or mung bean and rice stew.
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