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I choose to soak my millets overnight or for at least 4-5 hours. Soaking helps remove or lower the anti-nutrients or phytates in millets and whole grains. What are phytates? Well, they are the plant's protection. Wondering what it means? Plants are naturally designed to protect themselves from scavengers or attackers. So they tend to create a toxic coating around their fruits (that is, the seeds). This phytic content can be toxic to human health. This is the reason we should soak or sprout grains to eliminate or reduce the phytates before drying and turning them to powder. Sounds so easy, right? Well, making homemade millet flour is easy and hygienic. Why soak and sprout millets? Sprouting increases their absorption capacity and makes millets easy to digest for your stomach.  How to make millet flour at home gluten-free as a skinny recipe or weight loss recipe? Millet flour recipes are nutritious, easy, and healthy. Millets are a nutrient powerhouse, agree? If you love millet

Whether you are looking for healthy cookie recipes, cookies with jaggery, jaggery biscuits recipes, healthy muffins recipes, healthy cakes recipes, you will find it all here. When you are on mercuryimp, you can think of only healthy stuff. WHY? We believe in healthy eating - clean eating - and healthy living. Here's a healthy baking series by Parshotam Kaur aunty . It's not for nothing that I call her cookie queen. :)  Semolina custard muffins recipe custard muffins ingredients 1/2 cup whole Wheat flour 1/4cup semolina 1/4cup custard pd 1/4cup butter /oil 1/4-1/3cup jaggery pd /sugar 1/4t sp b soda 2/3t sp BP Milk as required How to make custard muffins recipe Sieve flour, mix semolina, custard pd, BP, b soda & keep aside. In a bowl take jaggery pd /sugar & butter beat till creamy now add dry ingredients in batches & mix nicely add milk as required to make a batter of medium consistency, take 2sp of coco chips dust with flour and add to the batt

Are you looking for a gluten-free mathri recipe, then this baked jowar crackers recipe with jaggery can be a hit at your place. Many have already tried it. So why wait any longer to bake jowar mathri with jaggery at home? Give your gluten intolerant loved one a sweet treat to satiate their cravings for a sweet cracker with the baked jowar mathri. Topped with sesame seeds that add a nutty flavor to the jowar crackers, the mathri is baked without baking powder and soda. Sorghum mathri is a low-calorie cracker recipe. sorghum crackers recipe indian Jowar Benefits A digestive aid, sorghum is rich in fiber and phytochemicals Anti-inflammatory properties that keep free radicals away - which are linked to cancer cell growth Anti-diabetic- making jowar for diabetics a healthy whole grain alternative Helps improve insulin sensitivity A boon for dieters being a low-calorie gluten-free flour Here's the video recipe of baked jowar crackers recipe in airfryer Indian 3/4 c

If you have not started with sourdough, the time to do so is now!!! I admit I am an UNCONVENTIONAL baker, who goes with her heart in terms of baking. I do not follow the traditional/typical baking conventions, norms. I believe in self-learning through experimentation. When it gives me good results, I am happy to share the results with you.  Started with sourdough a few months ago - the first bake with sourdough was focaccia that was so very sour that I literally started wondering why would people eat sourdough when it was too sour in taste (they say, thus the name - sourdough).   But when you take something to heart and wish to be better at what you do everytime, you LEARN and UNLEARN a lot many things.  Now that I am experimenting with sourdough and learning from experience, my SOURDOUGH is no longer SOUR. It is the BEST thing on earth to learn and grab. BELIEVE YOU ME, friends. If you start with sourdough, you will never return to using commercial yeast even. The best thing (apart fr

  Have you ever tried making a sourdough jowar bread in India without yeast? I say yeast-free millet bread recipe to explain that the sorghum bread India recipe does not use commercial yeast. Rather, here's presenting my experiments with 100% whole wheat sourdough starter bread in India - today, it is a wholesome sourdough recipe of sorghum flour bread in airfryer. What stands out in this jowar sourdough bread India is that it is chemical free, loaded with good things, no knead, and easy to make. You literally can prepare the dough at night and bake it the next day in the morning, the small sourdough loaf with whole wheat in India will taste yum. Is it a gluten-free bread? Well, the millet bread recipe no yeast or jowar or sorghum flour is a gluten-free flour options. It is one of the best ways to enjoy numerous health benefits. Jowar is a healthy food for diabetics , cancer patients, thyroid patients, and everyone alike. Here's my experiment with 100% whole wheat sourdoug

Oats smoothie for weight loss is one healthy drink for summers and winters that you will want to indulge in all seasons. I am in love with this nutritious oats smoothie without milk, are you? If you have been looking for a recipe for oats smoothie without banana, then this recipe is not for you. But I suggest adding a banana with a pinch of cinnamon and you will love everything about this oats smoothie for dinner. I want to include this oats breakfast smoothie recipe in my Indian diet and relish it every day.  Oats smoothie benefits It is packed with fiber from oats. It is highly nutritious from oats, banana, blueberries, and chia seeds. It is highly antioxidant-rich from blueberries, which are the highest source of antioxidants among berries. It is loaded with dietary fiber from chia seeds to keep your digestive system healthy. It is packed with omega 3 fatty acids. It is flavored with cinnamon , which has heart benefits and even plays a role in cholesterol management as well as diab

I am crazy for oats since I started including these cereal grains in my diet. Does that mean oats taste so good that I cannot keep me from falling in love with them? Well, frankly, oats are completely bland in taste. Oats are a cereal grain loaded with soluble fiber. That means they keep you feeling full for longer, keeping a check on intermittent hunger pangs that often are to be blamed for guilty indulgence. Here I will be talking about oats benefits and showing you the recipe to make a healthy oatmeal dip that is lemony and sweet. I call it vegan oats lemon curd or oats ki khatti meethi chutney.  But before I share the vegan dips recipes, let us walk through some of the benefits of oats for health: Choose Oats for a Healthy Heart  The FDA suggests consuming 3 grams or more of β-glucan from oats or barley for a heart-healthy diet. According to the Food and Drug Administration, there is a lower risk of coronary heart disease in people whose daily diet includes at least 3 grams of be