The Easy Curry Cookbook: 100 Delicious, Nutritious, Low Budget, Mouthwatering Curry Recipes Cookbook

Turmeric

Turmeric is the herb in curry that helps give it that yellowish/orange-like color. It is a main ingredient in most premade curry powders, and virtually no curry you fix or eat will be made without this herb.

Turmeric is healthy for you because it is a natural anti-inflammatory. It works great to reduce the painful effects of arthritis. And it also helps to naturally clean and restore the body's liver. Its active ingredient, curcumin, is also rumored to fight against Alzheimer's disease.

Coconut Milk

Coconut milk is another one of those essential curry ingredients that most likely will not be left out. It's pretty self-explanatory where coconut milk comes from. But what's not so obvious is that coconut milk helps to aid in digestion of foods, and the anti-viral and anti-bacterial fatty acids, among others, will help your body's immune system.

Potential

This may not seem like a health benefit at first, but one of the biggest reasons people have trouble staying on a diet is because they find low-fat and low-carb meals to be less appetizing. Curry doesn't have this problem. With the many spices used in cooking, an all vegan curry is actually one of the preferred varieties, and there are limitless variations you can make to tailor the dish to any diet.
Fruit for fruit (berries, more precisely), these peppers pack more vitamin C than citrus fruits. And not just a little more; some of these peppers have exponentially more vitamins than a fruit like an orange, lemon, cumquat or grapefruit.

Garlic

Almost everyone who knows a little bit about food knows that garlic has some truly magical medicinal qualities. Okay, so this mythical member of the onion family can ward off Dracula. But on a serious note: garlic is known to help reduce high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol levels, and has a truly powerful punch that can destroy cancerous cells in the human body.

Ginger

This tuber, kin to cardamom and turmeric, is garlic's best friend in Asian cooking - you will rarely find one without the other. Other than the unmistakable appealing taste, ginger is able to act as a pain reliever, helping with problems like arthritis, and it is also very effective in staving off nausea and motion sickness.

Cinnamon

Depending on what type of curry you're eating, there may or may not be a lot of cinnamon in it. However, after hearing about its health benefits, you may want to up the quantities of this spice.

Cinnamon is great for lowering blood sugar levels, thus being an essential ingredient to any healthy diet. It also helps to lower a person's total cholesterol levels and is a favorite ingredient in holistic Type 2 diabetes.

Meats

When using meats in curries, whether red meat (beef, lamb, deer, buffalo, etc.) or poultry (duck, chicken, turkey, etc.), most cooks trim off the fat and what you're left with is lean meat. Other than some cholesterol, everything else is very healthy for you when prepared this way.

You're cutting out the fat and receiving only the essential vitamins - A, B, C, D, and E vitamins. Most importantly, meat contains a powerful dose of B12 vitamins, helping your immune system and providing your body with energy.

Filling

This is another benefit that doesn't really sound like beneficial at first. However, when dealing with the battle again obesity, you'll find that meal portions are one of the many enemies of a healthy weight. Because of the ingredients used and its consistency, curry is a very filling dish. Even those among us with big appetites find that a bowl of curry is extremely satisfying.

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