Spicy, Tangy or Sweet, Granny’s magical touch to the easy vegetarian recipes.

We all have colorful childhood memories of our grandmothers and the magic of their cooking. Even the simplest meal would be an exquisite treat with fresh and bursting flavors. Most of the granny’s breakfast and lunch recipes end up becoming not just classic family recipes but the lifelong favorites of family members.

We are listing here some of the traditional and easy vegetarian recipes from the grandma’s kitchen.

• Chukandar (Beetroot) Puri: Colorful puris with a characteristic flavor is one of the favorite dishes from the grandmother’s kitchen. Served with hot potato and gourd curry, it is one of the perfect treat for both kids and adults.
• Zarda or Mutanjan: It is one of the popular Lucknowi treats which drive its name from the urdu word ‘Zard’ meaning yellow. This traditional sweet dish prepared by boiling rice with milk, and adding sugar and yellow color to it. It is one of the popular dishes from the grandma’s kitchen flavored with raisins, almond, pistachios, saffron and cardamoms.
• Aloo Posto: It is a popular Bengali dish cooked with potato in a poppy seed paste and eaten with rice, roti and other sides.
• Idiyappam: This noodle shape traditional Tamil snack is cooked in almost every home across south India. This dish is prepared from rice flour and water. Serve it with mango chutney and coconut chutney.
• Thekua: This is a crispy and crusty traditional dish from Bihar and Jharkhand made up of wheat flour, coconut, ghee, jaggery, coconut and cardamom combined with raisins and dates.
• Choorma: It is one of the most popular recipes from Haryana prepared by grandmothers from crushed wheat flour roti mixed with desi ghee and gur shakkar. Dry fruits are also mixed for additional flavor.
• Chana Dal Peetha: Tempered with curry leaves and mustard and served with the fresh coriander chutney, these lentil stuffed dumplings is one of the favorite lunch recipes of Indians.
• Bajre ki Khichdi: It is one of the traditional easy vegetarian recipes of Haryana. It is one of the yummiest khichdis which is popular not only among Haryanwis but across India in dinner prepared from Bajra and moong dal.
• Stuffed brinjal: It is one of the amazing vegetarian lunch recipes prepared with baby brinjals with fenugreek and coriander seeds based masala. Serve it with Dal and rice in lunch or dinner.
• Saffron coconut rice: When we were kid, we all have seen mothers and grandmothers cooking yellow rice. It is one of the favorite dishes of kids as well as adults. The yellow rice is prepared with freshly squeezed coconut milk, saffron and butter. A few whole spices are added to it including cloves, cinnamon and cardamom.
• Palak and Makhana Subji: This is simplest and delicious spinach and makhana (foxnut) lunch recipes that has wide health benefits. It is a good source of calcium that has a low glycemic index and is good for diabetics too.

So try out these simple recipes from grandma’s kitchen and bring back a lot of fun memories of childhood. Tell us which one is your favorite.

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