BOLLYWOOD CELEBS GO VEGAN

PTI
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Nearly 50 leading names from the world of Bollywood,
fashion and music have shared their kitchen secrets in a
book on how to keep their celebrity status intact by
incorporating a delicious healthy vegan diet with no
cholesterol.

Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Hema
Malini, Mahesh Bhatt, Sonam Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha and
Vidya Balan are just a few who have contributed their
recipes which include no animal products.

The book*The Vegan Kitchen: Bollywood Style!, published
by Westland, is authored by Anuradha Sawhney.

With forewords from renowned doctors Esselstyn Caldwell
and Neal Barnard and fitness expert Mickey Mehta, who
explain how a nutritious vegan diet can help reverse
heart disease, manage diabetes and reduce obesity, as
well as promote fitness, the book is a cocktail of taste,
glamour and health in truly vegan style.

It has a collection of healthy vegan (vegetarian recipes
which do not use any milk or milk products) dishes from
around the world and from different parts of India.

‘Bad man’ Gulshan Grover gives a recipe for brown rice
poha. “This is a dish that I started to eat because of my
son Sanjay. He made me aware of the fact that by having
poha*made of brown rice flakes, I was consuming fibre
which is good for health, yet not compromising on taste,”
he says.

Om Puri has a recipe for*palak raita, saying, “I love
palak*in any form… Sometimes, if I feel like eating the
raita*with*chappatis, I boil potatoes, break them with my
hand and add them to thepalak raita.”

Model Yana Gupta also contributes a recipe that has*palak
as an ingredient - coriander spinach brown rice. “I love
this dish simply because I am obsessed with*palak*in
whatever form.”

Mahesh Bhatt has this to say about his recipe of spinach,
onion and carrot soup “This is a great soup. Often I just
don’t feel like eating a heavy dinner and Soni makes me
something light like this soup and a salad. This also
goes well with light pasta and it’s full of nutrition.”

Dilip Kumar enjoys eating vegetarian dishes and the
recipe he contributes is that of*aaloo mattar. Wife Saira
Banu gives a vegan recipe of Bhavnagiri*mirchi*aur*aaloo.

Other recipes include*rajma*(Sonakshi Sinha), drumstick
sambar*(Hema Malini),*sookha*aaloo*or stir fried potatoes
(Sonam Kapoor), Kerala*pachadi*or red pumpkin with
coconut (Vidya Balan) and Kashmiri*dum aaloo*(Anupam
Kher).

Pickled bamboo shoot, a delicacy from Assam and a
favourite of late singer-composer Bhupen Hazarika, also
finds a place in the book. His long-time companion
Kalpana Lajmi also has a recipe to offer - mango curry.

Actress-model Dipannita Sharma teaches how to cook*Boror
Tenga*or Assamese tomato curry with lentil dumplings.
Every recipe has been contributed by top celebrities from
Bollywood, the world of fashion, television and even
music.

“These celebrities may not necessarily be vegetarian or
vegan themselves, but they took time out to share their
favourite vegetarian, non-diary recipes,” the writer
says.

“Some of them sent me their own recipes, some of them who
do not cook, asked their friends and family or recipes of
the vegan dish they love best to eat... They made a
serious effort to get the recipes.”

Whole grain, oil-free, plant-based diets are quickly
becoming essential in today’s age of high cholesterol,
obesity, lifestyle-based cancers, hypertension and adult
onset diabetes. The recipes in the book fit the bill of
being nutritious, whole grain and plant-based to a T!
Every dish is delicious, nutritious and absolutely
cruelty free.

And an added advantage: almost every dish can be made
without using any oil.

PTI

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