Healthy Indian Recipes – No long shopping lists needed, just a few simple ingredients and an assortment of good quality spices and pastes.
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Indian cuisine is renowned for its vibrant colors, diverse flavors and rich culinary traditions. It offers an inviting array of ingredients that not only please the palate, but also nourish the body. Spices like turmeric, cumin and garam masala combine with meat and vegetables to make delicious and unforgettable meals. You can make Indian dishes even healthier by using healthy cooking oils and substituting low-carb alternatives. We have gathered a few of our favorite healthy Indian recipes below.
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Healthy Indian Recipes
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Tandoori Fish
This Tandoori Fish with Garlic Butter Cauliflower is a simple sheet pan recipe for an easy weeknight dinner.
Cauliflower rice is cauliflower that is chopped up really tiny and then sauteed on the stove. It’s a great replacement for rice if you are going low carb! This recipe uses Indian spices to give
This simple paleo chicken tikka masala is bold in flavor and will keep you full for hours! This recipe is made paleo by swapping cashew cream for yogurt.
This bright and refreshing spiced vegan mango lassi is the perfect warm weather drink! A vegan twist on a classic yogurt based Indian drink that’s made with with fresh or frozen mango, dairy free yogurt, ice, cardamom, and cayenne for a little kick!
Learn how to make an easy White Biryani with this step-by-step recipe. This fragrant and flavorful chicken biryani is sure to become a weeknight favorite.
Chicken Barley Pulao is a twist on a classic dish from the Indian subcontinent. This tasty one-pot meal substitutes barley into a classic chicken pulao.
This is a simple recipe for delicious and Healthy Sourdough Flatbreads using the discard from your starter. It can be prepared in less than 1 hour, with only 25 minutes of hands-on time.
Masoor Dal is a fragrant and flavorful Indian spiced lentil curry made with red lentils, dried red chilis, onion, garlic, and cumin seeds. Enjoy a bowl of this naturally vegan and gluten-free spicy masoor dal as a simple side or healthy main dish.
If you made one of these yummy recipes that we rounded-up for you – please let us know in the comments how it turned out for you! If you have any improvements or other awesome keto shrimp recipes of your own – let us and other readers know as well!
Wow! Complaints anyone. I think your recipes look fantastic. And yes, compared to high carb meals, they do seem on the lower end of the carb spectrum. Keep the good recipes coming!
While I loved this page, I agree potato can never be low carb. However my main dilemma with low carb Indian meals is what to eat them with? As soon as you put roti alongside these meals, the low carb goal is defeated. So all I left with is some form of chicken/ egg and greens, making it harder to keep the regime. Any suggestions?
We usually eat them as is, almost like an Indian “stew”. When we’re looking to make it a bit more substantial, we’ll add some cauliflower rice. There’s also plenty of recipes online for low-carb roti and naan bread using coconut flour, etc – that’s something you can look into as well. 🙂
Yep – low carb diets and potatoes don’t mix! Rebranding is a good plan. Whilst I’m on a low carb diet, it doesn’t make these recipes any less appealing!!
Hello B, it’s not our intention to mislead our readers/visitors. So, we are in the process of rebranding from a “low-carb” to a mostly “whole ingredient” blog. We’ve come to realize that the opinion of what is and isn’t low-carb seems to vary from person to person, and since we are not qualified nutrition experts, we would rather avoid the confusion.
Wow it’s a year later and you still haven’t “rebranded” which is silly. That’s like saying you had a concussion when you wrote the title. Again. This list is not low carb. Why are you tricking people into clicking your link?
Hi Kevin! Thanks for spending your time to write this comment. We have, in fact, completely rebranded – BUT updating hundreds of older posts takes a LOT of time. This little post is pretty low down the the popularity list, so it might still be a while before we get to it. Until then, these recipes can be easily adapted (by substituting potato for cauliflower for example) if they’re not quite what you’re looking for (since they’re still healthier alternatives).
Wow! Complaints anyone. I think your recipes look fantastic. And yes, compared to high carb meals, they do seem on the lower end of the carb spectrum. Keep the good recipes coming!
Potatoes? Does the author understand the meaning of the words “low carb?” There’s no such thing as a low carb potato…
While I loved this page, I agree potato can never be low carb. However my main dilemma with low carb Indian meals is what to eat them with? As soon as you put roti alongside these meals, the low carb goal is defeated. So all I left with is some form of chicken/ egg and greens, making it harder to keep the regime. Any suggestions?
We usually eat them as is, almost like an Indian “stew”. When we’re looking to make it a bit more substantial, we’ll add some cauliflower rice. There’s also plenty of recipes online for low-carb roti and naan bread using coconut flour, etc – that’s something you can look into as well. 🙂
Yep – low carb diets and potatoes don’t mix! Rebranding is a good plan. Whilst I’m on a low carb diet, it doesn’t make these recipes any less appealing!!
This is not a low carb list. Potatoes and mango and coconut are not low carb in any way.
Hello B, it’s not our intention to mislead our readers/visitors. So, we are in the process of rebranding from a “low-carb” to a mostly “whole ingredient” blog. We’ve come to realize that the opinion of what is and isn’t low-carb seems to vary from person to person, and since we are not qualified nutrition experts, we would rather avoid the confusion.
Wow it’s a year later and you still haven’t “rebranded” which is silly. That’s like saying you had a concussion when you wrote the title. Again. This list is not low carb. Why are you tricking people into clicking your link?
Hi Kevin! Thanks for spending your time to write this comment. We have, in fact, completely rebranded – BUT updating hundreds of older posts takes a LOT of time. This little post is pretty low down the the popularity list, so it might still be a while before we get to it. Until then, these recipes can be easily adapted (by substituting potato for cauliflower for example) if they’re not quite what you’re looking for (since they’re still healthier alternatives).