Category: Vegetables

Ingredients, Vegetables

The flavorful Green Garlic and its nutritional benefits

Green Garlic

Green Garlic is a young garlic plant that looks beautiful. The foliage is flat, with a single garlic clove at the base, and has lush long roots. Every inch of the plant is edible.

Vegetables

Do you know about the season’s special Navdhari Bhindi / Shravani Bhendi?

Navdhari bhindi

Navdhari Bhindi also known as the Shravani Bhendi or Gavathi Bhendi in Marathi is a variety of the lady’s finger/okra.

Ingredients, Main Course Meals, Vegetables

Takla or Cassia Tora: Availability, Nutrition, and Usage.

Takla

Cassia Tora aka Takla pronounced as टाकळयाची भाजी is a leafy vegetable that is specifically available during monsoons. It is a ran bhaji aka wild food and is found in many regions of India eg. Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, etc.

Ingredients, Vegetables

Phodshi – A lesser known Ranbhaji

Phodshi

As I was doing my grocery shopping yesterday, I saw a lady selling something that looked like grass along with other vegetables. I got curious and walked up to her to inquire about it. She mentioned that it is a ran bhaji called Phodshi that is only available during the rains and hence is called …

Ingredients, Main Course Meals, Vegetables

All about the Dragon Stalk Yam (Shevala/Shevla)

With the first few showers of rain, you get a variety of interesting leafy vegetables which are available just for a short time. One such vegetable is Dragon Stalk Yam which is mainly available just before the monsoons begin. Though you do get it during the rains too though the ones you get just before …