In Assam, there is a veg preparation that I know as "bhaji". The name pretty much just means "vegetables". It's a vegetable stir fry with potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, onion and spices. It's often a side to a a simple meal of rice and mansoor dal sauce (a lentil sauce). Peas were sometimes added to the bhaji. I love peas :^)
The rice was usually a local basic rice, but in my growing-up it was basmati rice, which was a better quality than usual.
When we moved to south India, there was a lot more yogurt, and coconut was a lot more common. |