Everyday Stir-Fry (Sabji)

I'm not definite which facet of this week's repast I similar better: the filling, healthful crunch of vegetables with Indian spice oregon the communicative of the pistillate down it.

When Bal Arneson came to Vancouver, B.C., from confederate India astir 16 years ago, she spoke astir nary English and had small money. Her arranged matrimony rapidly dissolved into divorce, and she was pregnant. But she knew however to navigator rapidly and cheaply, due to the fact that that's what girls successful her tiny colony of Tibbi were trained to do. So she went backmost to schoolhouse and started teaching cooking classes 8 years ago.

Today, the 35-year-old inactive lives successful Vancouver and teaches folks however to cook. She has a master's grade successful acquisition and designs programs for students with learning disabilities. She has remarried, has 2 children and has written a cookbook -- her archetypal -- that has go a nationalist bestseller successful Canada. It's beauteous (of course, she did the styling for it) and features accessible ingredients; "it's afloat of what we ate successful my village," she says. Many of her cooking-class students became look testers for the book.

Arneson looks and sounds similar the adjacent nutrient tv "it" girl. (Are you listening, Food Network? Martha?) In fact, she's hosting a play amusement connected the country's Global BC TV called "Friday Cook With Bal Arneson." Its absorption is not conscionable Indian but "healthy, speedy and aromatic," she says, similar the papaya chickenhearted she precocious made connected camera successful 9 minutes. Arneson adjacent offers vino pairing suggestions.

For this dish, she recommends a nice, acold Riesling. If you'd similar to pump up the protein, adhd 12 ounces of cooked, diced chickenhearted bosom erstwhile the herb goes in, making definite the nutrient is heated done earlier serving. Serve with atom oregon noodles.

Arneson's Web tract is www.spicegoddess.com.

Adapted from Arneson's "Everyday Indian" (Whitecap, 2009).

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  138

• Fat

  7 g

• Saturated Fat

  1 g

• Carbohydrates

  17 g

• Sodium

  374 mg

• Protein

  5 g

• Fiber

  6 g

• Sugar

  5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Arneson's "Everyday Indian" (Whitecap, 2009).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 13, 2026