Biologically Humans are fruitarians.
Human body is designed to eat fruits and nuts.
Since humans have started to eat cooked food thousands of years ago it is difficult to change to raw food suddenly.
So we should live in natural raw food as far as possible and for the remaining we should follow vegan diet.(ie avoiding milk, curd, butter, ghee, butter milk egg etc.which comes under animal protein)
Also in the vegan diet we should follow healthy vegan diet.
I have prepared a list of vegan substitutes While switching over from non veg to vegan diet.
If you have a idea of following vegan diet I think it would be helpful to you.
That is the purpose of this list.
In this list I have written non veg/veg food on the left side.
I have written the vegan substitutes on the right side.
Instead of mutton you can use soya, potato and jack fruit seeds.
Instead of chicken mushroom can be used,
Instead of milk we can use coconut milk.
Instead of egg omlette we can use green gram omlette.
Ginger instead of green chilly.
pepper instead of red chilly.
In the place of tamarind we can use tomato, mango, lemon, kudam puli which is available in nattu marunthu kadai.
Tiger kills at forest but tamarind kills at home says a famous proverb.
Hence instead of tamarind these 4 alternatives can be used.
Himalayan rock salt in the place of sea salt/iodized salt.
In the traditional country medicines given it is advised to have a diet without salt and tamarind for 48 days .
The diet works more than the medicine in curing the disease.
so we can realise how it is important to reduce salt and tamarind in our food.
sea salt, iodized salt can be substituted by himalayan rock salt or indupu.
In the place of oil chekku coconut oil can be used.
vegetable /mushroom biriyani in the place of mutton/chicken biriyani.
Instead of fish fry elephant yam fry can be substituted.
This has to be avoided.
Because lot of oil is required for this receipe.
however  if one feels it difficult to change from non veg to vegan diet this can be used as an substitute.
coconut curd can be used in the place of dairy curd.
coconut butter milk, lemon juice in the place of butter milk
instead of polished rice unpolished rice, wheat and flattened rice(aval) can be used.
Instead of snacks flattened rice (aval), Puffed rice (pori), roasted gram(pottu kadalai) can be used.
For substituting sweets panchamirtham, sesame burfi (elurundai), ground nut burfi,(kadalai burfi) dry fruit laddu can be used.
Instead of coffee black coffee and sukku coffee can be used.
Instead of tea lemon tea, black tea and herbal tea can be substituted.
Those who drink regularly coffee and tea will find it difficult to stop them immediately.
They can use these substitutes.
vegetable /mush room soup in the place of non veg soups.
coconut curd rice in the place of curd rice.
vegan mor kulambu instead of mor kulambu.
cashew laddu in the place of pal peda.
Instead of using mustard for tempering pepper, cumin and fenugreek seeds can be used.
Instead of white sugar- palm sugar, jaggery and karumbu sarkari can be used.
Those who want to overcome drinking habit can have coconut milk and red banana in their diet daily.
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