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aw i’m sure your parents will think of something or you can always go to an allergist…see incense problem solved!:biggthumb
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i feel that most indians are religious as hindus. and that is a compliment to them, just as a devout follower of Islam is able to be religious.
we can learn so much about each others' religions if we have a transparent open minded approach.
best,
Dushwari
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Hey…I eat meat but am a veggie-maniac at heart (and stromach)!!
I love soups and have couple of recipes if you like…but not authentic indian but def vegetarian.
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I dont know whats it with ppl linking Vegetarianism and Hinduism. itz like every Hindu is supposed to be a Vegetarian.
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is this a religious forum happning?
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nope, a forum for discussion on Society,Culture&literature, but agreed, it can be included in the Religion forum too.
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Hey that would be great if you share some 
I would love to know some spicy delicious soup reciepe :k:
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I dont know whats it with ppl linking Vegetarianism and Hinduism. itz like every Hindu is supposed to be a Vegetarian.
Well ! not every hindu but vegitarianism is associated with hindu society by and large. Primarily, because higher echelon of hindu society (i.e Brahmin) are deemed to be strict vegi and rest of hindu folks are not known to be very fond of meat either.
if it is a stereotype, even then it is not baseless. just have a quick look at survey answers most hindus observe vegiterainism on selected days (worship days) so it is evident that it has clear relationship with religion.
plus on a lighter note indian cricket team always struggled to find some genuine fast bowlers , but on the other hand Pakistan have always had really fast bowlers in every era... One of the main reason attributing to this phenomina was rampant vegiterianism in India.
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Chunky Veg and mac soup
Ingredients
Cut into large pieces potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, red onions and green pepper (capsicum)
Peas
2-3 blended tomatoes
In a pressure cooker put 2 tbsp butter and add all the chunky veggies and peas and mix 2 mins till they sizzle
Now add the blended tomatoes, salt, mixed dried herbs and black pepper and 1-2 tbsp tomato ketchup.
Mix 2-3 mins and add 2-3 cups hot water. (should be thick but soupy consistency)
When this mixture come to a boil, throw in a handful of macaroni and cover pressure cooker and 1 whistle will suffice.
May add other veg like broccoli, courgette.
Hope you enjoy
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@ Code_Red
but yaar, most non-Brahmins and Bengali and Kashmiri Pandit Brahmins are non-vegiis. vegetarians are a tiny minority here!!
actually it should be the Jains who should be linked with Vegetarianism, they just wont take meat!
and yes majority Hindus here are vegetarian only on selected special days.
itz not that all the Muslims have to have meat every day! so would that make them vegetarian!! though there are Vegetarian Muslims too.
but i hold nothing against vegetarianism. many of my family members, choose it. you feel lighter after a vegetarian meal. no cruelty to animals too.
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Even if Hindus do eat non veg, I don't think they eat it every day like non-Hindus might. It's more of a 2 or 3 times a week sort of thing or even of a lesser frequency and not almost every day like other religious groups.
anyway, veg food is much more healthy
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Thankyou aly-sam that was very sweet of you.
I would rather do some tweaking in the recipe.. Pressure cooker is a bit turn off in my stryle of cooking , i prefer not to use it. Instead of colliflower i would use brocoli. rest looks yummy :k:
pallavpotter - I still think vegitarian diet is very common in India. ( which is not a bad thing btw,) Mahatima Gandhi was and Amitabh Bachan is a vegitarian. Most of the people responding here are NRI. Just like most pakistani members of these forums are not living in Pakistan… so most of the time thier alignmet with local culture back is a bit off.
I have seen that platter in local indain movies in which they serve food. There never is any non-veg stuff there. I agree in lots of recent movies they show people eating chicken and stuff. some of the movie in which they have shown veg /non-veg clash
-Cheeni kam
-Chaachi 420
-Ghulam-e-mustafa
I agree that in India there must be large number of people who are non-veg. But I also dont think that vegitarians in India are in minority.
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Welcome Code_red :)
The platters you mentioned above are known as thalis. And yes they are veg...but we do have some restaraunts here that serve non-veg thalis...cost about 50 % more than veg ones....and I imagine they would not be so quick on the refill. Personally, I love only veg thalis.
Interesting perspective on veg/non-veg clash. I am from veg family and was about to get married to non-veg family. My first meeting with my MIL was at an Indian restaraunt. First question she asked me: Does your mother eat meat?
I went home and my mum straight asked me: Does you MIL-to-be eat meat?
Highly amusing at the time, but later on I realised it was always to be an underlying tension.
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anyway, veg food is much more healthy
Couple of months back, i have noticed aggression and anger developing in me. One of my friends advised me to stop taking non-veg(incl egg), tea, coffee and to drink 5 lts of water every day. Now i am feeling light and cool all the time, but its hard to see someone eating roasted chicken besides you.
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Couple of months back, i have noticed aggression and anger developing in me. One of my friends advised me to stop taking non-veg(incl egg), tea, coffee and to drink 5 lts of water every day. Now i am feeling light and cool all the time, but its hard to see someone eating roasted chicken besides you.
The thing is that in india there are so many really great vegetarian restaurants that you never miss fish or chicken much. I must have eaten veg for almost 3 weeks without even a bit of non veg since two of my aunts in India are complete veges, but the last couple days I was there i was craving nonveg:o.
All our Indian friends except one couple here are all vegetarian so of course vegetarians are the majority. But I miss cooking non veg for friends when they come over, it's sometimes not so fun making and eating only veg dishes, for me in particular....sorry what can I say, I like my fish :)
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well said:k:
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Couple of months back, i have noticed aggression and anger developing in me. One of my friends advised me to stop taking non-veg(incl egg), tea, coffee and to drink 5 lts of water every day. Now i am feeling light and cool all the time, but its hard to see someone eating roasted chicken besides you.
I have heard that too from others.
Once I heard and repeated to someone that "you are what you eat"
He said "oh, so you're calling me a chicken"
I wisecracked, "you can always stop eating chicken"
he says " oh, so you can call me a cabbage"?
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Okay yaaro, maybe i am in a place not in India. :P
i almost never see anyone being vegetarian, except if
a) they are told so by the doctors
b) they choose to be one
c) they are overtly religious
d) they are animal lovers
e) they are on some dieting shieting
indopak...we have non-veg daily, except on Saturdays!!!!
ok, only fish and eggs, we have meat only on Sundays or on some special day.
personally i am not that much of a fish lover, my parents have them thrice a day. two varieties of fishes are made daily, so yeah, they love thier fishes.
i actually like veg thalis. quite more than non-veg ones.
@ stircasy
*Once I heard and repeated to someone that "you are what you eat"
He said "oh, so you're calling me a chicken"
I wisecracked, "you can always stop eating chicken"
he says " oh, so you can call me a cabbage"?*
actually i think i heard this before!!
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PallavP, actually i could never eat even chicken on an every day basis but for some reason seafood I love and it’s healthy too…except for all that mercury in it :vivo:
Code_Red, since when did you get so interested in Veg food? I can’t believe somebody that eats meat everyday would be so into veg soups and all 
Here’s a site that has some good Indian veg soups.
It’s a pretty reliable site and most of their recipes come out awesome
http://www.daawat.com/recipes/indian/soups.htm
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Thankyou very much for the link.
It is a mis-conception that muslims ( specially pakistani) eat meat everyday. Though they would love to. But normally it is not posible due to economic reasons. Our diet usually consists of grains (whole wheat , rice ) lentils (Daal) beans , vegitables.
Now, my interest in purely vegiterian dishes has some basis.
Firsly I like to know the use of dried herbs in more detail. It is The most important aspect of cooking in our part of world (subcontinent). I know about some common dried herbs but whenever i go to superstore I find dozens of different type of herbs which fascinates me.
The use of particular herb in dishes in perfect quantity greatly boast its taste and enhances the aoama.
For example cooking Zarda (colored sweet rice) is an art, a delicacy.
It is one of the most difficult dish. If cooked to perfection, it tastes heavenly.
It is difficult (to me atleast ) because its ingredient and style of cooking can vary to a great deal.
Similarly, my wife cooks chana-pullaow (chic-pea rice) which tastes out of this world.
Most of today’s contemporary recipes lack these dried herbs, which in my view renders dishes characterless. And on my part I am quite ignorant of their use. For instance i dont know where to use Anardana, Kalonji and what is the difference in use of Safaid Zera , Kala Zera, and how and where can i use imli and Alobukhara :hmmm: