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From: mo@well.UUCP (Maurice Weitman)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: dairy-free recipes
Message-ID: <1947@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 10:38:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 17 10:38:27 1986
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In article <4122@ut-ngp.UUCP> nandhu@ut-ngp.UUCP (Nandhakumar.) writes:
>
>I would also suggest any vegetarian cook book from India.
>Most Indian main dishes and side dishes are essentially dairy
>free and there are thousands of recipes to choose from.  
>The books I have were bought in India and mentioning them 
>probably would not serve any purpose here - but I am 
>sure a reasonably large book store would carry such books.  
>If you are ambitious you can try some really esoteric recipes
>from books presenting some of the regional cusines in India,
>such as Udipi, Andhra, etc.

I must obviously defer to nandhu's expertise here, but my experience
with Indian cooking, both from restaurants (including my own) and cook
books, is that lots of dairy is used.  One of the more ubiquitous  
ingredients is clarified butter (ghee).  I really might be wrong here,
but most of the restaurants I've eaten in seem to use this in almost
all of their dishes.  Again, it's entirely possible that my experience
is too narrow to be meaningful.  I mean, whom would YOU believe (about
matters Indian): Maurice or Nandhakumar???  %-)

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