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African Spinach
African Spinach is a very short stovetop recipe in which spinach cooks with ghee, olive oil, garlic, and vegetable bouillon.
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Organic Brown Rice Pea Pilau
Organic Brown Rice Pea Pilau brings brown rice, peas, tomato, onion, cumin, and warm whole spices into a single covered pot.
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Bean Pilau
Bean Pilau combines cooked azuki beans with basmati rice, yogurt, tomato, whole spices, and aromatics in a single pot, making it more substantial than a plain rice side.
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Kitchari
Kitchari combines split mung dal and basmati rice in a deliberately soft preparation.
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Organic Brown Rice Kitchari
Organic Brown Rice Kitchari adapts the rice-and-mung combination to short-grain brown rice, so it needs a longer cooking time than the basmati version.
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Vegetable Rice Pilau
Vegetable Rice Pilau is a full one-pot rice dish where basmati cooks with potato, tomato, bell pepper, peas, carrot, and spices rather than having vegetables folded in afterward.
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Simple Pea Pilau
Simple Pea Pilau is a compact basmati dish with peas and optional whole spices, giving the rice more character without turning it into a vegetable-heavy pilau.
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Balancing Mung Dal
Balancing Mung Dal pairs split yellow mung with a separate onion-and-spice vagar, so the lentils stay simple while the topping brings the main aromatic character.
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Strengthening Tur Dal
Strengthening Tur Dal is a layered tur dal finished with a tomato-and-spice vagar.
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Quick & Easy Red Masoor Dal
Quick & Easy Red Masoor Dal is a one-pot red-lentil recipe designed around the speed of masoor, which needs no soaking and softens in about twenty minutes.
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Channa Dal
Channa Dal uses split chickpeas with a strongly seasoned tomato vagar. The cooked dal stays separate until the sauce has fully developed.
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Tandoori Tofu
Tandoori Tofu depends on an overnight yogurt marinade, allowing the tofu to take on ginger, garlic, lemon, spices, chili, and cilantro before it reaches the oven.
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Sliced Tofu with Green Onions & Cilantro
Firm tofu takes on a ginger, lemon, soy, and sesame dressing before fresh herbs are added. The dish is marinated and served without a further cooking stage.
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Let’s Tofu with Bok Choy & Yam Home Fries
Let’s Tofu with Bok Choy & Yam Home Fries is really two quick preparations served together: sauced tofu with bok choy and separately browned yam slices.
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Urad Dal
Urad Dal pairs cooked black-skinned urad with a rich tomato-and-onion vagar, giving a thicker, more robust dal than lighter mung-based versions.
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Vegetarian Kheema Matur
Vegetarian Kheema Matur uses texturized vegetable protein in place of ground meat, pairing it with peas, tomato, warm spices, and whole aromatics.
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Sprouted Mung Dal
Sprouted Mung Dal is built around sprouted whole green mung beans, giving the dish a lighter structure than a thick split-lentil dal.
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Aromatic Basmati Rice
Aromatic Basmati Rice cooks the rice directly with whole cloves, cardamom, peppercorns, and cinnamon bark, allowing the grains to absorb the spice aroma as they steam.
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The Modern “Pau” Baji
The Modern “Pau” Baji uses texturized vegetable protein as the main protein, mixing it with yogurt, eggs, herbs, aromatics, and vegetables in a highly seasoned skillet dish.
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Simple Dal
Simple Dal uses whole urad dal and a separately cooked onion vagar, producing a substantial, earthy dish with a clear contrast between the soft lentils and caramelized topping.
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Cumin Rice
Cumin Rice is one of the simplest rice dishes using whole cumin seeds to perfume basmati without turning it into a heavily seasoned pilau.
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Saffron Rice
Saffron Rice uses only a few saffron strands, but the spice is soaked first so its color and aroma disperse through the entire pot.
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Simple Brown Masoor Dal
Simple Brown Masoor Dal uses brown or green lentils, which cook quickly and keep more shape than red lentils when they are watched carefully.
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Happy Cow Shepherd’s Pie
Happy Cow Shepherd’s Pie replaces the usual meat layer with seasoned texturized vegetable protein and vegetables, then tops the filling with mashed sweet potato.