Asian rice recipes made simple

Pragati Bidkar, the founder of popular vegetarian food blog KamalKitchen.com launched her new book, Rice Bowl: Vegetarian Rice Recipes from India and the World. The book features vegetarian rice recipes from across India. From biryani, to vegetable pulao, masale Bhat, lemon rice, tamarind rice, tomato rice, curd rice – you name it and the recipe is available in the book.

In addition, Pragati has included rice dishes from other Asian countries like vegetable fried rice, Thai pineapple rice, rice stew among others. There are also vegan recipes like the Jambalaya. US-based Pragati says, “Being South Asian, rice is definitely part of my DNA. Rice has firm place in the traditional Indian meal.

And given our ethnic diversity, there are so many different ways of dishing it up.” She promises simple to make recipes with step-by-step instructions and some great pictures in her book. Her first book “30 Days of Daal” w