South Asian Heart Healthy Recipes

Healthy food does not mean tasteless food. Below are some online resources that provide heart healthy versions of your favorite South Asian dishes. With these delicious recipes, you won’t even miss the extra fat.

The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin released Indian Foods: AAPI’s Guide to Health, Nutrition, and Diabetes with heart healthier options for the South Asian diet, including information in several languages. The guide offers healthy eating tips for the different regional cuisines of India, ideas for preparing healthy foods at parties, and tips for modifying high fat recipes to more heart healthy versions. Download a free electronic .pdf version . You need Adobe Acrobat to view the guide*.
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Tarla Dalal is India’s bestselling cookbook author and provides hundreds of recipes on her website, which features a heart healthy section. Free recipes are available regularly and additional ones can be purchased at a cost. She has written a total of 100 titles, recently adding health-related cookbooks with recipes and information on various subjects like:

The Pregnancy Cookbook
Baby and Toddler food
Delicious Diabetic Recipes
Fast foods made Healthy
Healthy Breakfast
Healthy Soups and Salads
Cooking with 1 Teaspoon of Oil
Healthy Soups and Salads
Healthy Breakfast and Calcium Rich Recipes

Fat Free South Asian Recipes features fat free (or almost fat free) South Asian recipes that individuals from all over the world have submitted.