Tehari is a colorful and delicious rice dish very similar to veg pulao. This dish is very popular in Northern part of India specially in Uttar Pradesh. This is a very easy recipe and can be prepared when you are in rush. The rice is mixed with chopped vegetables and cooked together with aromatic spices. You can add any vegetables of your choice but generally cauliflower, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, peas and carrots provide an amazing taste. It is served with raita, or curd and papad. Enjoy this either during rush hours or during the weekends for a light lunch/dinner.
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Sweet Potato & Carrot Soup
Soup, generally used as an appetizer in Indian cuisines comes in variety of flavors based on ingredients. There are soups with ingredients such a lentil, tomato, beans, chicken and so on. The Chinese noodle soups are a entree rather than an appetizer. The two main kind of soups are clear and thick soups. This thick soup is prepared using sweet potato and carrot as main ingredients. It has beautiful red-orange color of carrot & beetroot, naturally sweetened by sweet potato and has hint of spices. This healthy and delicious soup is easy to prepare and best served with garlic bread and croutons. This is a favorite in my family and I keep getting demands for making this very often. 
Tomato Rice
Tomato rice is a popular dish in the Southern part of India. Tomato rice could be very simple or filled with lot of ingredients and flavors. This colorful dish is easy to prepare and perfect for lunch or lunch boxes. One can use either leftover rice from previous night or make a fresh rice. In this recipe I have added some additional ingredients to make it more flavorful. You can adjust the spices according to your taste. Tomato rice goes very well with plain yogurt or raita.
Avocado Hummus Rolls
Lavash is a soft, thin, flat bread popular in the middle East countries which is perfect for making sandwich wraps. It is easily available in super markets. Avocado hummus with roasted vegetables roll-up makes a delicious and awesome roll. You can add your kids favorite veggies in it. It can be made in advance and served at a later time. Also pack as lunch for your kids.
Mix Daal Khichdi
Khichdi is a light comfort food. It is very easy to prepare. Khichdi has many varieties and many of them are without vegetable basically only pulse and rice. In this recipe I have use vegetables and mixed pulses to give a different taste. You can tweak in with the vegetable of your choice.
Quinoa Kale & Spinach Patties
Quinoa is very healthy and a good source of protein. It tastes similar to brown rice or oatmeal. Quinoa combined with fresh kale, spinach, oats, onion, carrot, potato and Parmesan cheese is sure to rock your taste buds! This recipe is so flexible you could make all kinds of substitutions to suit your preferences and still get the same basic result. I made two types of patties, plain patties and bread covered patties. These patties can be served as a tea time appetizer or sandwiches with avocado dip. Tastes awesome.
Vegetable Stew
Vegetable stew is healthy and delicious side dish, made with vegetables and coconut milk. This recipe is generally made in Kerala, and goes very well with Appam.
Veg Manchurian Fried Rice
Veg Manchurian fried rice is a Indo-Chinese recipe made from leftover of the veg Manchurian and rice. You could prepare fresh veg Manchurian as well for the recipe. You can find the Veg Manchurian recipe here.