Post vegetarian dish pics here!!

[Harinama]

As a Vaishnava, I try to only eat food that is offerable to the Lord; that is, food that is sattvic, without meat, fish or eggs, and as much as possible, without onions or garlic.

Post your favourite vegetarian dishes in the form of pictures here! :D





Kachoris! Deep fried pastry balls filled with lentils and other nummy treats!



http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LyB756qoPQc/Sp59NRsuhQI/AAAAAAAAACQ/eUn41l0m2O8/s400/kachori.jpg

[Harinama]

Empanadas with beans and cheese!

http://www.ciudadesplanetarias.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Empanadas-Vegetarianas1.jpg

[PARAM]

Empanadas with beans and cheese!

http://www.ciudadesplanetarias.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Empanadas-Vegetarianas1.jpg

This is Gujiya.

One thing is that cheese originally is not vegetarian, only new kind of cheese made in India are vegetarian as another type of paneer.

[Arjuni]

Namasté, fellow hungry people,

Mmmm, food pictures, right up my alley!

Everyone, meet my favourite sweets. Here, we have kalakand, which I think must be Hindi for yummy.



http://www.white-phoenix.net/kalakand_1.jpg
Muahahaha. Diet? What diet? Oh, you can start that tomorrow.


Don't be fooled by its innocent appearance, or its simple ingredients; in a single pot, curds, milk, and sugar are somehow transformed into pure evil. Pure rich, delicious, mouth-watering, chewy evil. There is nothing else that tastes quite so rich.


...or is there?


Cook kalakand down longer, let it get darker, more condensed, and still richer and sweeter, and you get its even more addictive cousin: Milk Cake.



http://www.white-phoenix.net/250a.gif
New SUPER kalakand! Warning: Not sattvic if you eat the whole plate.


I cook kalakand once a month, and it's funny how the people around me have started to keep track of moon phases. I'm starting to suspect that they care far less about the white orb in the sky and far more about the white sweets on the plate. :P


Kalakand also gets bonus points because it comes out of a smoking, hissing, rumbly pot that spits burning drops of milk at you and makes deep thundery noises as the sweet cooks down. It feels like you're doing something really epic, but actually isn't that hard to make.


Indraneela
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Oṁ Indrāya Namaḥ.
Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya.

[Sahasranama]

This is Gujiya.

One thing is that cheese originally is not vegetarian, only new kind of cheese made in India are vegetarian as another type of paneer.
Yes, generally cheese has rennet. But most organic cheeses have vegetarian rennet, you'll have to read the ingredients.

[Eastern Mind]

Vannakkam: Dosa, anyone?

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ifood.tv/system/files/u14/Dosa_fan_club.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ifood.tv/blog/6_feet_pancake_dosa&usg=__GlT5p94CjrG685ZyEaIc07QeOKI=&h=450&w=600&sz=40&hl=en&start=0&sig2=aFJOVCxCARw6cr-YlmaNiQ&zoom=1&tbnid=Vyz1ViIqMsuzmM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=177&ei=CyHMTZr5L4mSgQfBj_DiBw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddosa%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D729%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=462&vpy=110&dur=5546&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=148&ty=93&page=1&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0


Aum Namasivaya

[Arjuni]

That is one heck of a dosa. I wonder if it tastes very good or if it's just six feet of mediocrity...
I'd want to eat it with the people in the picture, anyway, because they look like they're having fun.

But give me idlis any day. And then more idlis. And more idlis after that. And anyone who doesn't like idlis, I'll eat your share. :D

http://festivals.iloveindia.com/onam/pics/idli.jpg


Indraneela
===
Oṁ Indrāya Namaḥ.
Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya.

[Harinama]

This is Gujiya.

One thing is that cheese originally is not vegetarian, only new kind of cheese made in India are vegetarian as another type of paneer.

There are alot of cheeses without rennet in the market.

And there is also quark cheese, labneh, farmer's cheese, curd cheese, etc. that is also vegetarian, without the use of some hardening agent.

Empanadas is something my grandmother used to make, except with meat and with eggs in the pastry dough. It is originally a Spanish dish, found in the Philippines and in places in Latin America (although I am sure that other forms of filled pastries are found all over the world), and it is a savoury (I looked up gujiya, and that is a sweet).

I use flour, water, salt, and some vegetable shortening as my base (although my grandmother would also add egg and baking powder and a pinch of baking soda). Then, I fill it with my filling, flute the edges with my hands, and then fry them. :D


I love dosas and idlis... YUM!!

How about some Filipino fruit salad?

http://www.1bestcuisineguide.com/images/filipino-fruit-salad.jpg

Coconut shavings, canned fruit and coconut gellies (made of agar-agar), all submerged in a thickened cream...

[Harinama]

How about a taste of Mexican horchata?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ko9pjFnD7bU/Taptk7LcqVI/AAAAAAAAASA/sU27XpIAVAw/s320/horchata.jpg

A malted sweet rice drink with cinnamon and other spices. So refreshing, delicious, and a real treat! As we don't get Tex-Mex restaurants (and they don't have this native Mexican drink) or Latino restaurants here as much as in the United States, I still crave this once in a blue moon!

[Arjuni]

Many Mexican workers came into New Orleans to help rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, and with them came a lot of delicious food; I tasted horchata for the first time a few years ago, and it's astonishingly cooling, so light and refreshing! The market here sells a bottled mix, but it's just not the same.

Filipino fruit salad is good. Puto maya is even better!

http://homecookingrocks.com/wp-content/pinoycook/wp-content/putomaya.jpg
Oh, look, it's more pale geometric food that Indraneela likes!

Steamy-coconutty and delicious! My best friend's mother - who is from the Phillippines - used to make them often, and would sometimes tint them pink and blue and yellow for special occasions. That and her pancit were her two best dishes - though the latter is not ideal for posting in a vegetarian topic...


Indraneela
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Oṁ Indrāya Namaḥ.
Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya.

[Water]

All of this round food makes me think of perogies -
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mq_QAeIH1Oo/TDqwR_wr06I/AAAAAAAAADQ/606iwtXJ-mk/s1600/Perogies.jpg

And gyoza -
http://www.1bestcuisineguide.com/images/yamato-oriental-cuisine-gyoza.jpg

You can find the wrappers in most grocery stores and fill them with cheese. Make sure you check the ingredients - not all of the empanada, perogy and won-ton, gyoza or egg-roll wrappers are vegetarian.

A really simple dinner is to take whole organic milk, lemon juice and the wrappers above. Heat the milk just under boiling and add lemon juice. Collect the curds, press them in cheese cloth. Add to the wrapper and fry or boil. Makes a pretty good Ravioli, too. :)

[Harinama]

Indraneela, I used to make vegetarian pancit canton very often for devotees before, LOL. I just loved how simple it is to make it. XD And I don't think I've ever had puto maya before... it must be a regional specialty~!

Water, I just make my own empanadas, perogies and gyoza, lol. The only wrappers I use are the spring roll ones, because there's no way I'm going through that trouble just to do that. XD And that idea of using fresh curd to make ravioli is ingenious! I must do that some day.

Let's try a samosa now... :D

http://static.ifood.tv/files/samosaa.jpg

Potatoey goodness with red tamarind chutney... so delicious! :D

[Sahasranama]

Falafel

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/imager/salad-days/b/original/1678186/3a8a/food.jpg

[saidevo]

ISKCON's akShaya pAtra project
http://www.akshayapatra.org/centralized-kitchen-gallery

annadAnam at Dharmasthala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vDlucLIIbo
http://www.shridharmasthala.org/pages/annadaana.html

Is there any such initiative in the West for free public feeding?

[Harinama]

ISKCON's akShaya pAtra project
http://www.akshayapatra.org/centralized-kitchen-gallery

annadAnam at Dharmasthala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vDlucLIIbo
http://www.shridharmasthala.org/pages/annadaana.html

Is there any such initiative in the West for free public feeding?

Yes, but on a smaller scale. ISKCON has their 'Food For Life' program which feeds vegan prasada to different cities, for a small fee for university and college students, or for free amongst the homeless.

They are the only feeding program that feeds people internationally with vegetarian food, let alone prasada. They went down during the earthquake in Haiti and fed thousands of people Krishna-prasada.

[Harinama]

Karma-free pancakes!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cWj1ohY55Y0/TFxy7E8KQrI/AAAAAAAABMw/u6U-5U6ZpHI/s1600/whole-wheat-blueberry-pancakes.jpg

[PARAM]

What about Besan Laddu


http://hindunet.tolshop.com/v1/product_images/ins06_large.jpg

[Eastern Mind]

Vannakkam: Wow. I'm beginning to realise what a fussy eater I am. There are 4 things I personally really can't handle regarding diet.

1) too much sugar ... I feel ill from one can of soda
2) too much oil ... same feeling
3) too much white ... either bread, or rice
4) too much food at once

So although a certain picture may look appetising to one person, another can be totally grossed out by it.

Aum Namasivaya

[Arjuni]

Namasté,

EM, I'm much the same as you in terms of food intolerances...a while back I tried to make this thread healthier by making a long post about the best vegetable existing upon this planet (OKRA), and not once, but twice, it was eaten by various computer errors on my end.

I thought of this thread again tonight, though, when I came across this recipe. I was watching videos of the cook making vadai and moong dal dosa, and then came across her recipe for, unbelievably, bread pakoras (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8vQMOKnwY)! Battered deep-fried white bread!

Sometimes it's easy to forget that "vegetarian" doesn't equal "anything I want to eat, as long as it doesn't have meat". Technically one could be vegetarian and live on a diet of French fries, chips, and Coke, though it's certainly committing harm to oneself at that point...

Well, one more post of not-so-healthy food and then I'll try to revisit that okra post. I had some chaat papri at the Punjab Pavilion last night (Folklorama (http://www.folklorama.ca/) - one of Winnipeg's best festivals IMHO), and was inspired to look at food pictures and recipes anew.

http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2009/12/132306,xcitefun-papri-chaat-2.jpg
Chaat papri: Crispy wafers, chickpeas and potatoes, yogurt sauce, tamarind chutney, and spices. The Folklorama version also came with raw red onions. Yum!

Indraneela
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Oṁ Indrāya Namaḥ.
Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya.

[satay]

chaat!! mmm... so delicious.


http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2009/12/132306,xcitefun-papri-chaat-2.jpg
Chaat papri: Crispy wafers, chickpeas and potatoes, yogurt sauce, tamarind chutney, and spices. The Folklorama version also came with raw red onions. Yum!

Indraneela
===
Oṁ Indrāya Namaḥ.
Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya.

[TatTvamAsi]

Indraneela

http://static.ifood.tv/files/samosaa.jpg

Potatoey goodness with red tamarind chutney... so delicious! :D

mmmm... everybody is a fatty inside; I love me some SomAsI.. btw, the actual name comes from Tamil: SOMASI.. got corrupted to Samosa.. just like ToyoDa became ToyoTa.. lol..

[Ramakrishna]

Aloo Gobi has always been one of my favorite dishes

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rD9FJsJNTMg/TZQbV3cf9iI/AAAAAAAAADs/Qqin9EKCjF8/s1600/aloo-gobhi1.jpg