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rava dosa Breakfast is the start of the day's meal planning. When you get to eat "soul food," you don't want anything else. This is exactly what I am experiencing today. Made Rava dosa 'n it tasted yum with potato sambar curry!!! Perfect meal combo to kick-start your day! Super easy to make 'n is equally filling. Recipe : 1 cup rava (suji) 1/2 cup rice flour 1 tsp atta 2 tbsp of curd (optional) 1 cup water (more or less depending on the consistency - the batter should not be too runny) salt as per taste Tempering/tadka ingredients: 1/2 tsp oil mustard seeds curry leaves chana dal, urad dal (optional) Procedure rava thali Mix rava, rice flour, atta, salt, and water. You can add 2 tbsp of curd.. Set it aside for 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile, boil potatoes. Cut boiled potatoes in small sizes. Marinate them with salt, turmeric, and sambar powder. Fry marinated potatoes on tawa/skillet. Pour one cup of water in a pan. Add 2 tsp o

source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Red_Robin_burger.jpg Burger is one of the most-blamed food for health problems in America. Let alone the ham, the veg burger is also dangerous. First, it is a junk food, second it has over processed ingredients, and third is the excess sodium. Junk food results in obesity while excess sodium leads to high blood pressure and an increased risk for heart disease, stroke and kidney disease. Processed ingredients have no essential nutrients. Many burgers available in the market contai n hexane, a chemical used to separate soya oil from soya seeds, that can cause cancer. Toppings and cheese are always processed and without any nutritional value. French fries make it more harmful, as these fries too have a bad health quotient. Instead of making burgers at home, substitute it with more healthier options. Burger is made from refined wheat flour, which has no nutritional value and is full of starch sugar. If you wish to

moong oat tikki Ritu Mendiratta is a health freak like me. She comes up with some of the healthiest recipes, with oats being the key ingredient. She shared yellow moong dal tikki (cutlet) yesterday, which inspired me to give her recipe a try. I loved the idea of using parboiled moong dal (yellow lentils) and blending the paste with oats and a mix of vegetables of your choice. I included carrot and peas, as I had only these two vegetables in stock. Nevertheless the outcome did not disappoint; rather, I would love to try the recipe with other lentils as well. Here's the recipe: INGREDIENTS: Oatmeal 1/2 CUP + 1/4 CUP YELLOW MOONG DAL 2/3 CUP ONION 1 (I didn't add) CARROT 1 Peas - 1/4 cup GARAM MASALA 1/4 TSP RED CHILLI POWDER 1/4 TSP CORIANDER Powder OIL 1 tbsp Ginger- small MILK 2 tbsp SALT as per taste Turmeric METHOD: Soak moong dal for an hour and then cook with turmeric for 10 minutes on a low flame. No need for pressure cooking the lentil. Drain

orange peel pickle Orange peel pickle , are you serious? Na, I am not kidding! After having thrown tons of orange peel all my life, I have come up with a tasty, tangy way to relish this vitamin C rich orange cover. Thus far, I was only aware of one use of orange peel, that is, face powder. Yes, during childhood, we would dry these peels under direct sunlight and then grind them to powder for application on face as a rejuvenating face pack. I do not remember whether the face pack ever did any trick, I simply loved the aroma! Another favorite activity we would indulge in during childhood was to squeeze orange peels in each other's eyes - yes, that was such an exciting moment. I do this even now...LOL!, though I do it with myself. For a long time, I have been discarding orange covers like anything or only using them as a deodorizer in my shoe rack and refrigerator. I imagined doing something else with these Vitamin C rich peels, which have umpteen other health benefit

What has brought you to this page is your search for a healthy breakfast option, right? Or you might be looking for a healthy snack idea for preschoolers or elders alike. When health tops the list of your priorities, can taste be left behind? Of course, you are often constrained for time when it comes to making healthy snacks. But not once you learn this one pot one shot vermicelli recipe. This instant vermicelli pulav biryani recipe takes inspiration from Jyothi Cooking Book. Instant Noodles - Na Instant Maggi - Na Instant Biryani Vermicelli Think of instant food, and 2-minute maggi will flash your mind in an instant. But there is more to instant food than instant maggi. What if we give you a no-fail recipe for instant biryani vermicelli that is more of a visual treat and tastes just like your favorite maggi. But our instant vermicelli upma or biryani has the advantage of being a healthy snack option, which is made with whole wheat semolina. I do not eat noodles.

mix vegetable parantha for breakfast Paranthas are a quintessential breakfast in north India, especially Punjab and Delhi. Being a Punjabi, I have a fondness for paranthas, though I try to make low-calorie paranthas, using least amount of oil, instead of clarified butter. Anyway, I add oats and ragi flour to wheat flour to knead my daily dough for rotis and paranthas. This time I added finely chopped carrot, capsicum, peas, ginger and sprouts to the dough and made mix veg paranthas. These Indian flat bread rotis are healthier form of paranthas and taste great. I enjoyed these with sweet amla chutney. Ingredients wheat flour - 1 cup ragi flour - 1/4 cup Oatmeal (powder)- 1/4 cup salt, oil Ginger grated carom seeds (ajwain) Chopped Vegetables of your choice (carrot, capsicum, peas, cauliflower, methi) Procedure Mix everything and make a semi-soft dough. Let it sit for 10 minutes. Roll out into chapatis or paranthas. Fry using little oil/ghee on either side

oats almond ladoo Health remains on the top of my agenda when it comes to meal planning. I started making sweets last year after joining a few food groups and learning the basics of making sweets there. Thereafter, I have been continuing with my food experiments in my efforts to make the food we savor healthier. After having tried different kinds of sweets, I tried this super easy, quick, and healthy badam ladoo recipe that uses oats and almonds as the base. Before coming up with the final recipe, I had decided to make almond ladoos that I have made previously. While making ladoos this time, I decided to add oats to make these cute little balls healthier. Badam Burfi Ladoo The recipe does not disappoint, nor do these power-packed ladoos: almond oats ladoo 1/2 cup oatmeal (powder) 1/2 cup almond powder 1/2 cup condensed milk (if you do not have, you may use 1 cup milk and mix it with 2 tbsp of milk powder and let it simmer on low flame.. stir intermitte

steamed biscuit cake Looking for an easy biscuit cake recipe? Yes, this is the right place for it. I have seen many biscuit cake recipes and was always wondering whether we could make a cake with home-made cookies, since all recipes mentioned using Parle G, Marie biscuits.  I finally decided to give it a try with the oats, wheat cookies I had baked last night. The cookies turned out a little harder, since I used only 1 tsp of oil and replaced ghee with home-made condensed milk. Instead of throwing the cookies away, I decided to use them for my biscuit cake experiment. Additionally, I decided not to bake the cake. Instead I chose to steam it. The result did not disappoint; rather, I have got a soft, moist, and delectable cake. Glad that I did not throw my cookies away. The eggless biscuit cake recipe in cooker gives you a yummilicious cake that you would want to bake again and again. Whether you are looking for a biscuit cake recipe in cooker or a baked version, th

oats handvo This post is inspired by Ritu Mendiratta's oats handvo. I have been planning to make this savory snack for quite some time but could never try my hands at it.When Ritu posted her recipe, it instantly gave me the fillip to give this Gujarati snack a try. Though traditionally it is made using lentils and rice, we have chosen oats and semolina for the recipe. This makes a delectable, savory snack that I would love to relish again as a healthy breakfast or evening snack. Ingredients 1/2 cup- oat meal (powder) 1/2 cup- suji (unroasted - you may roast it) 3 tbsp- besan (optional - I included) 1/2 cup- curd salt, red chilly powder, mustard seeds, chana dal- 1/2 tsp urad dal- 1/2 tsp Baking soda- 1 fat pinch curry leaves- a few veggies of your choice- I included 1 carrot, 1 capsicum, handful of peas, green chilly sesame seeds - 1 tsp Oil- 1 tbsp hing- pinch roasted flax powder (alsi)- 1 tsp (optional) Water- little (to make thick idli type batter) Proc

moong masoor dal idli Healthy breakfast is the current theme in my group - Healthy Recipes by Homemakers. So we are all coming up with ideas to cook healthy meals for our families, starting with health-friendly breakfast ideas. Yesterday, I had decided to make kitchudi (a mixed lentil and rice porridge) and soaked moong dal, masoor dal and rice together for lunch. But then when it was time to prepare lunch, I changed my mind and decided to experiment with lentils and rice. I let it remain soaked until evening. In the evening, I ground everything together and kept the batter covered overnight. Let's see what I was able to cook with the batter. Ingredients moong dal idli 1/2 cup- yellow moong dal 1/2 cup- red masoor dal 1 cup- rice Finely chopped vegetables - carrots, capsicum, peas Grated/chopped ginger Salt Mustard seeds Chana dal -1/4 tsp urad dal- 1/4 tsp Curry leaves Hing- pinch Procedure masoor dal idli Soak dals and rice together for 5-7 h

Green onions are an excellent source of Vitamin C, K, A, and phytochemicals that boost immune system health. How do you preserve/store spring onions? Here are valuable inputs from my group - Healthy Recipes by Homemakers: how to store spring onion replanting spring onion, garlic, planting mint, coriander, turmeric

khatta meetha shalgam Shalgam is widely available these days. I had not tried any shalgam recipes until last year, but this year, it's different. I have experimented a lot with this vegetable, which comes with multiple health benefits that I have already discussed in my earlier post . This post gets inspiration from my dear friend Anna's shalgam matar post . I had got really late for lunch today. Just a quick glance at her recipe gave me the inspiration to go ahead with the recipe with my own modifications. The result did not disappoint; rather, I have made the tangiest shalgam matar today. Let's come back to the recipe: Ingredients Shalgam - 2 Matar (peas) - 1/2 cup (more or less depending on your choice) Onion- 2 Tomato-2 Ginger-garlic paste- 1 tbsp Gur (jaggery)- 1 small piece Salt as per taste Coriander powder Green chilly Dry red chilly- 1 Mustard oil- 2 tbsp Hing- 1 pinch Jeera Sabut dhaniya- 1/2 tsp (smash in your mortar and pestle...o

oats coconut cookies Coconut cookies are tasty and full of flavors. Agree? When health is a priority but cookies are your must-have tea time accompaniment, you have got to include ingredients that can give you little healthier biscuits. This is exactly what I keep trying, since I can't have my cup of tea without cookies (though I take only one cookie with my cuppa tea). Let's see what all I have included in this eggless coconut cookie recipe, which is full of flavors: Coconut Cookie Ingredients oats wheat coconut cookies Dry coconut powder- 1 cup Oats (powdered)- 1 cup Wheat flour - 1 cup Baking powder- 1 tsp Ghee/butter- 2 tbsp Oil- 2 tbsp (you may need 1/2 tbsp more) Milk- 2 tbsp Sugar- 2 tbsp (you may need more, as I take less sugar) Salt- pinch cardamom (elaichi) saunf (fennel)- optional Crunchy Oatmeal Cookies Procedure coconut cookies Sieve wheat flour and baking powder. Add oat meal and coconut powder. Mix well. Take a grinde

oats gajjar idli I love idlis and have been trying different versions. I have already tried oats idli. This time decided to make these healthier with the addition of carrot.  Healthy Oats Gajjar Idli 1 cup- Oats 1 cup -Suji 1 cup- Curd  1/2 cup -Water (check the batter consistency - should not be too flowy, rather should be of dropping consistency) Salt- as per taste 1 Carrot- grated/ground Mustard seeds (rai)- 1/4 tsp Curry leaves (kadi pata) Chana dal - 2 pinches (optional) Urad dal- 2 pinches (optional) Oil Baking soda- 2 fat inches Procedure oats suji idli Grind oats. Keep aside. Take a pan. Add oil. Crackle mustard seeds. Add curry leaves. Next add chana dal and urad dal. Let them splutter. Add suji. Roast for 2-3 minutes. Now add oat powder. Fry for 2 mins. Let it cool down for 2-3 minutes. Mix with grated carrot. Take a bowl. Mix oats-suji with curd. Now add enough water to  reach dropping consistency. Add baking soda. Stir immediat

broccoli palak saag Do you love sarson ka saag? Of course, you have heard about palak ka saag and enjoyed its heavenly combination with makki di roti and sarson. But have you ever heard of broccoli palak saag? Yes, this post takes inspiration from Nature Kahlon's broccoli-spinach (palak) saag recipe. I was so attracted to the post that I had to give this easy saag recipe a try.  I modified the recipe a little to add another interesting twist and come up with my own broccoli-palak- saag with shalgam. I must tell you when the palak saag was cooking, my house was filled with a distinct aroma that reminds me of Punjab villages, where this green leafy curry is cooked in a traditional way. This is my best attempt at saag making. It tastes similar to the authentic sarson saag that we relish in Punjab. I am in love with the aroma of palak broccoli saag. Considered among world's healthiest foods, broccoli is rich in vitamins K and C, potassium, and fiber. The green

coconut cookies Of course, you have savored branded coconut cookies innumerable times in your lifetime. It won't be wrong to say that you have also enjoyed the bakery coconut biscuits as well. But there is no comparison to home food. If you can bake cookies with healthy ingredients, there is no match to it. Earlier, I shared a wheat coconut cookie recipe using ghee. This time I have blended ghee and oil for a healthier twist. The result is not disappointing; rather, I simply love these cookies more than ever. Parul Bansal tried this coconut cookie recipe and shared her experience with me. I am so glad that her family loved these crunchy bites, flavored with coconut. Atta Cookie Recipe : 1 cup- wheat flour  1/2 cup desiccated coconut 2 tbsp - butter/ghee ( clarified butter)  3 tbsp- oil (I used saffola) I tbsp milk powdered sugar - as per taste 1 tsp baking powder Procedure for baking eggless coconut cookies wheat coconut cookies 1. Preheat the oven