It's not so hard to incorporate a variety of health-giving, glorious greens in your daily meals. Eight recipes that show you how.
Roopali Mohanti presents her aunt's recipe for a mutton curry with fenugreek greens in it. The curry also uses a masala packed with spices like khus khus, dhania, pepper and more.
Please find the recipe here: Green Mutton Curry
A koottu-style preparation of a humble green fancifies it up so well that a meal of it with rice, ghee, pickle, raita and appalams makes an especially pleasing vegetarian Sunday lunch, says Zelda Pande. It uses dal, baby sambar onions, tamarind, ghee and lots of curry patta.
Please find the recipe here: Keerai Koottu
Cholee or green amaranth, when lightly sauteed with alus, like how Mayur Sanap did it, with garlic and crushed peanuts added, makes for a light, nutritious veggie to have your rotis with.
Please find the recipe here: Green Amaranth Sabji
The unique, slightly thick-leaved but very tasty Malabar spinach, also called bassela or poi, is a great green to add to any curry or dal, as Sunita Harisinghani did to her prawn curry. Or have it simply sauteed with a dot of ghee.
Please find the recipe here: Malabar Spinach And Prawn Curry
Chef Shadab Ahmed prefers to gussy his saag dish of mustard greens and spinach with a little cream to make it fit for a king. Omit the cream if health is what you are looking for.
Please find the recipe here: Gandane Ka Saag
For an asli sabji of sarson ka saag, follow Smita Kotian's classical recipes that softens the saag by boiling it down relentlessly.
Please find the recipe here: Sarson Ka Saag
Mayur Sanap cooks up chicken in a thick coriander, mint and yoghurt gravy. Don't forget coriander has some wonderful nutritional properties too. The same recipe can also be used to make a haryali paneer.
Please find the recipe here: Chicken Hariyali
The lightest of light salads, with much taste is courtesy Chef Pranay Kumar Singh. Several types of greens are artfully mixed with mango, cucumber, tomaotes, French beans and a refeshing dressing.
Please find the recipe here: Mixed Leaf Salad With Mango And Roasted Cashewnut