Delicious And Easy Dry Sabzi Recipes With Super Food Jaggery

Jaggery or Gur, is a traditional sweetener used all over India in different traditional recipes. Not only in recipes, it is also used in medicines for its various benefits. This sweet super food is great ingredient to be included in your daily diet. Our elders used to eat a small piece of jaggery usually at the end of a meal and especially during winters as jaggery is loaded with antioxidants and minerals hence building stronger immunity.

Jaggery is also great at flushing out toxins from your body and purifying blood. Jaggery also causes the release of endorphins which is the happy hormones which helps relax your body and is extremely good at controlling your mood swings especially during periods. Jaggery is rich in iron and folate and so it extremely good for pregnant women as it also gives instant energy to fight weakness in the body. 

Various shades of jaggery are available through out India, from golden browns to dark browns. The colour of the jaggery depends on what juice is used to make the jaggery. Most common Jaggery is made with sugarcane juice and it is lighter in colour. Date or Palm juice Jaggery is a bit darker in shade.

Jaggery is commonly used in most Indian households, especially in Bengali and Gujarati recipes. Many traditional desserts across India especially rice puddings, mostly uses Jaggery. It can also be used in savoury dishes to balance out the sweet, sour and acidic taste. The sweet and slightly fermented taste of Jaggery goes well in savoury dishes. 

You can add Jaggery in your Dry and Gravy Sabzi to give a little hint of sweetness as it not only enhances the taste, it also brings out the flavour of the dish. Also if you want to avoid sugar, this is a great alternative to even include in your Tea or Coffee. 

With all the benefits of Jaggery and the great taste that it adds to the dish there is no excuses as to not to include it into your diet, unless you would not know how to use it in cooking. So to help you with this here are some delicious, mouth watering side dishes, both North Indian and South Indian which you can make and enjoy with a simple dal or curry and phulka or rice.

1. North Indian Dry Vegetable Recipe

Methi Dana Sabzi Recipe - Healthy Fenugreek Seeds Stir Fry

Gawar Phali Methi Ki Sabzi Recipe -Cluster Beans Methi Sabzi

Turai Baingan Ki Sabzi Recipe - Eggplant Ridge Gourd Sabzi

Lal Mathachi Bhaji Recipe - Amaranth Leaves Moong Sprouts Sabzi

Khatta-Meetha Tamatar Sabzi Recipe - A Chutney Style Dry Sabzi

Ringan Methi Nu Shaak Recipe - Gujarati Style Eggplant & Fenugreek Leaves Sabzi

Sweet & Spicy Raw Papaya Moongphali Ki Sabzi Recipe

Carrot Beans Sukhi Sabzi Recipe With Simple Masala

Turai Pyaz Hari Mirch Ki Sabzi Recipe-Ridge Gourd Stir Fry With Green Chili And Onions

Maharashtrian Style Kelfulachi Bhaji Recipe - Banana Flower Stir Fry Recipe

Khatti Meethi Tinda Masala Recipe

Maharashtrian Style Farasbi Chi Bhaji Recipe - Beans Cooked With Peanuts

Bharwa Baingan Aur Pyaaz Ki Sabzi Recipe - Roz Ka Khana With Figaro Olive Oil

Khatti Meethi Mooli Ki Sabzi Recipe-Sweet and Tangy Radish Dry Recipe

Achari Aloo Sabzi Recipe - Potatoes In Spicy Pickle Masala

No Onion No Garlic Raw Tomato Sabzi Recipe

Rajasthani Sweet & Spicy Ker Sangri Sabzi Recipe

Chawli (Beans) Ajwain Ki Sabzi Recipe (Cowpea Beans Stir Fry)

Karela Masala Sabzi Recipe

Kaddu Simla Mirch Sabzi Recipe - Pumpkin Capsicum Sabzi

Khatti Meethi Tindora Sabzi Recipe - Gujarati Tindora Nu Shaak

Achari Amla Mirchi Ki Sabzi Recipe - Gooseberry & Green Chilli Sabzi

Baby Corn Carrot Sabzi Recipe

Amrood Ni Kari Recipe (Parsi Style Dry Guava Curry Recipe)

2. South Indian Dry Vegetable Recipes

Konkani Tendli Sukke Recipe - Ivy Gourd/Tindora Stir Fry

Mixed Vegetable Koora Recipe - Mixed Vegetable Poriyal

Poosanikai Haddu Sweet Curry Recipe - Pumpkin Sweet Curry

Pulikuthi Upperi Recipe - Spicy & Tangy Palakkad Poriyal Recipe

Mulyachi Bhaji Recipe - Goan Style Mooli Ki Sabzi

Maharashtrian Bakar Bhaji Recipe

Chow Chow Verkadalai Masala Curry Recipe - Chayote Peanut Poriyal Recipe

Karnataka Style Menthya Soppu Hesaru Kaalu Palya Recipe

Cabbage Foogath Recipe - Goan Style Cabbage Stir Fry

Udupi Style Bendekayi Palya Recipe - Ladies Finger With Coconut

Bharli Vangi Recipe - Maharashtrian Style Stuffed Brinjals

Mangalorean Kadle Manoli Recipe - Tindora Kala Chana Sabzi

Stuffed Gilka Recipe (Maharashtrian Style Stuffed Silk Squash)

Konkani Style Vengaya Sagle Recipe - Eggplant Drumstick Curry

Chettinad Style Urulai Roast Recipe - Baby Potato Roast

Konkani Style Kadgi Chakko Recipe - Raw Jackfruit With Coconut

Gorikayi Palya Recipe - Karnataka Style Gawar Phali Sabzi

Kerala Pumpkin Pachadi Recipe (Parangikai Pachadi)

Karwar Style Anasa Patal Bhaji Recipe-Pineapple cooked with coconut

Karwar Style Surana Bhaji Recipe - Hot and Sour Yam Dry Curry

Karwar Style Kelya Sasav Recipe-Ripened Banana Relish

Karwar Style Karatya Kismore Recipe - Sweet Tangy Bitter Gourd Sabzi

No Onion No Garlic Black Eyed Beans Curry Recipe

Aluchi Bhaji Recipe - Maharashtrian Style Colocasia Leaves Curry

Bell Pepper Sabji Recipe-No Onion No Garlic

Andhra Style Kakarakaya Vepudu Recipe - Bitter Gourd Stir Fry

Moongachi Usali (Goan Style Sprouted Green Gram Stir Fry)

Goan Style Maskachi Bhaji Recipe-Moringa Leaves Stir Fry With Jackfruit Seeds

Aavryachi Bhaji-Avarakkai Poriyal Recipe-Broad Beans Stir Fry

Agathi Keerai Recipe

Pavakkai Poriyal Recipe - Karela Ki Sabzi