Guide To Vegetarian Recipes

Cooking is an art and every country in the world has something unique to offer. Each vegetable can be cooked in numerous ways by changing the ingredients and cooking procedure. Many people all around the world are now turning vegetarians as studies indicate that people who follow a well-balanced, high fibre and low fat vegetarian diet have lower incidence of hypertension, cancer, obesity and coronary artery disease.

Vegetarian cooking and vegetarian recipes are popular as they help you lose weight as well. Homemade food binds the family together and keeps the family traditions going from generation to generation.

The staples for vegetarian recipes include vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Most vegetarians eat free-range eggs and dairy products. Fruitarians avoid all processed foods and animal products, vegans avoid all the animal products, lacto-vegetarians eat dairy products but not the eggs, lacto-ovo-vegetarians eat eggs and dairy products and semi-vegetarians eat chicken and fish but not red meat.

Where to Find Vegetarian Recipes

Internet is a source to unlimited number of vegetarian recipes from all over the world. These recipes are easy to access and you can browse as per meal type, ingredients, season or special themes. There are recipes for daily consumption, youth recipes, easy recipes, healthy recipes, budget recipes, low carb recipes, quick recipes, wheat-free recipes and gourmet goodies. You can also choose recipes as per servings such as appetizer, breakfast, brunch, bakery, casserole, dessert, main course, salad, sandwich, side dish or soups.

There are also many books available offering wide range of vegetarian recipes and you can buy these books either from stores or over internet. Some of the most famous and successful vegetarian recipes cookbooks are Leiths Vegetarian Bible, Madhur Jaffery's World Vegetarian, New Vegetarian-Celia Brooks Brown, Delia's Vegetarian Collection, River Café Cook Book Green, A Paradiso Year, Pure Vegetarian, Veg: The Greengrocer's cookbook, The Accidental Vegetarian and Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Meals in Minutes. With the help of these books, you can either cook a meal in minutes or prepare an extravagant meal and impress your family.

If you are new to cooking, there are easy vegetarian recipes that are easy to follow with simple ingredients and procedure. By following these easy vegetarian recipes, you can improve your health by using all best quality ingredients, save money by making all recipes at home rather than going to expensive restaurants to eat them and also can prepare dishes and give them as gift to your neighbours and friends. If you have kids, there are many recipes that make healthy dishes more appealing to them and hence provide them with enough nutrition.