Manohar prepares curry of 1,500kg organic vegetables

Nagpur | Tuesday | 12th February, 2019

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To promote healthy and organic produce we procured vegetables from them and prepared this curry,” Manohar told TOI. We didn’t prepare lunch at home when we came to know that vegetables are all organic. “Organic produce tastes deliciously different as well,” he added.The preparation included 1,300 kgs of vegetables like spinach, methi leaves, carrots, potatoes, onions, black chana, tomatoes, carrots, eggplant, coriander leaves, curry leaves, ginger garlic paste and drumsticks.Spices and oil constituted remaining 200 kgs. Nagpur: The air in Vishnuji Ki Rasoi smelled of aromatic spices being roasted, it was buzzing with hurried activities as celebrity chef Vishnu Manohar was prepping to cook 1,500kg of vegetables in curry on Sunday.What was more special was all the spices, oil and raw vegetables used in the preparation were organic and acquired directly from the farmers. As chief guests, Girish Vyas and Hemant Gadkari were present who distributed the curry free of cost among public.“Even after toiling for months our farmers don’t get sufficient economic benefit of their produce..