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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Indian food is often vegan.[/quote]

Not true. A lot of it has yogurt or cream. Most all of it has ghee. [/quote]

Indian food comprises many regional cuisines, so it's diffcult to generalize. What you see offered at most restaurants is usually Punjabi cuisine or some kind of variation, and it's true that many of those dishes use cream and/or paneer, but many do not. And of course most any dish cooked with ghee can be cooked with oil (but the flavor may well change.) Another thing: many paneer dishes also use a nut-based gravy (usually cashews or almonds) which would work for vegans (without the paneer, obviously!).

South Indian vegetarian cuisine veers toward more plant-based, dairy free dishes: idli, dosa, sambar, vada and many curry dishes use no dairy ingredients, and are usually cooked with oil, not ghee. Yogurt is a staple of South Indian cuisine, but obviously one could avoid this.

I'm South Indian and cook Indian food often, and rarely do I prepare foods with ghee or pour cream into the dish. Last night we had rice, three vegetable curries (all vegan) dal and yogurt. A vegan disner could eat anything on the table except the yogurt.

There's a cookbook on Amazon by Anupy Singla called Vegan Indian Cooking -- I haven't used any of the recipes but maybe it's worth checking out. [/quote]

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