CURRY IN A HURRY.Think you have to take a trip to your favorite Indian restaurant to enjoy exotic dishes like Dal Makhani, Navratan Korma korma Noun a type of mild Indian dish consisting of meat or vegetables cooked in water, yoghurt, or cream [from Urdu] , or Vegetable Jalfrazi? A visit to your local health food store will do. Tamarind tamarind (tăm`ərĭnd), tropical ornamental evergreen tree (Tamarindus indica) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), native to Africa and probably to Asia, but now widely grown in the tropics. Tree entrees bring you "the taste of the East, with the convenience of the West!" The company's Web site isn't kidding. The vegetarian shelf-stable meals combine brown rice with the healthy staples found in traditional Indian cuisine--vegetables like carrots, onions, cauliflower, and spinach, and legumes Legumes A family of plants that bear edible seeds in pods, including beans and peas. Mentioned in: Cholesterol, High legumes (l like chickpeas, lentils, and kidney beans. And the curry, turmeric turmeric: see ginger. turmeric Perennial herbaceous plant (Curcuma longa; family Zingiberaceae), native to southern India and Indonesia. Its tuberous rhizomes have been used from antiquity as a condiment, as a textile dye, and medically as an , ginger, and other spices are right out of Bombay or Delhi. The eight dishes average 350 calories, nine grams of fat (just two of them saturated), 680 mg of sodium, and a healthy nine grams of fiber. Just watch out for the Palak Paneer. The spinach is fine, but the Indian cheese boosts the sat fat to an unsavory six grams. Our favorites: the Alu Chole (curried chickpeas and potatoes), the Channa Channa is a genus of the Channidae family of snakehead fishes. It contains about 29 species. Fish in the genus (called cá lóc in Vietnamese) are prized in Vietnamese cuisine, and are sometimes used as a main ingredient in the sour soup called Dal Masala (lentils with vegetables), and the Dhingri Mutter (peas with sauteed mushrooms). Just plop each main-dish tray and rice pouch into boiling water for five minutes and drain. Then get ready for a little Instant India. Tamarind Tree: (781) 224-9639. |
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