Showing posts with label Healthy Living. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthy Living. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Wheat and Oats Idli

Wheat and oats idli is an excellent diet recipe. Although it is made with wheat rava it taste good and inviting. so try and let me know.


Serving for 2 (6 nos )
Ingredients
Cracked wheat/ Wheat Rava -- 1/2 cup
Oats round into powder  -- 3 tsp
Rice flour  -- 2tsp
Urad dal  flour-- 1 tsp
Mustard seeds -- 1 tsp
Split uraddal -- 1/2 tsp
Onion chopped -- 1 cup
Green chili -- 3 nos
Soda salt -- a inch
Curry leaves --few
Buttermilk -- 2 cup
Salt
Oil

Method

  •  Dry roast wheat Rava and Oats powder until raw spell disappear.
  • Mix oats flour, wheat rava, rice flour and urad flour along with  salt and buttermilk .
  • Saute mustard,uraddal  onion,   and chili until translucent and add to batter .
  • Make the batter rise by resting the batter  for an hour.
  • Pour the batter in the idly vessel and  cook for 15 min and rest it for 5 min to scop out idly
  • Serve with chutney and sambhar.
Wheat

Monday, November 15, 2010

Wheat Dosa

Wheat Dosa  is a healthy  dosa. Bored of eating Chapathi daily on diet  try this easy dosa recipe and enjoy .


Ingredients ( 10 no)

Wheat flour -- 1cup
Rice flour -- 1 cup
Red Chili -- 1 tsp
Jeera -- 1 tsp
Salt -- a  pinch
Water -- 11/2 cups

Method 

Mix all the ingredients into a watery batter  and pour it to dosa  wit little holes on a red hot dosa
tava and then reduce the flame to low and cook with little oil.Turn the dosa and serve hot with chutney

Watermelon Juice

Watermelon is an healthy fruit . Consuming watermelon helps to loose weight but eating watermelon becomes pain after few slice so i made into a  tasty juice.It takes a good with strawberry but adding a fruit over powers the melon taste  so i can out with this juice.Its healthy and refreshing try and enjoy.


Ingredients

Watermelon -- 1 nos
Crushed ginger slice --2
 Mint crushed -- 2 leaves
Strawberry preservative --  3 tsp( according to taste)
Salt -- a pinch

Method

Blend the seedless melon with  all the ingredients ans serve chili

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Clear Veg Soup

Clear veg soup is a healthy soup and act as awonder ful medicine . Consuming 2 serving of veg every day is a healthy food habit so try this tasty soup and enjoy. i make this soup when weather is cold and need some thing hot to drink try this and enjoy...





Ingredients

Vegetables   -- 1 cup (1 Carrot,  10 Beans,few  Cauliflower, 1 cup peas , 1 potato, 10spinach leaves, beet root -- 1 slice, green onion --2 nos)
Tomatoes --1 no
Green chili --2 nos
Ginger  --  1 inch 
Garlic -- 6 nos
Turmeric --  A pinch
Soy sauce --2 tsp
Cracked Pepper --  3 tsp
Can add fryed bread for extra cruch but i add  bread microwaved for 2.25 min
Salt


 Method

  • Pressure cook all the veg   with ginger, garlic, tomatoes, chili, with salt, turmeric.
  • Add soy sauce, pepper and salt with fryed bread  on top.( add  bread last)
  • Granish with Corriander leaves and serve hot.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Oats Uthapam

Oats is good for health but iam bored to take it usually so i tried to take it as a dosa which i liked . Although it can be made simple it wont taste that good so i tested with many combination and came out with this recipe.Try it out for sure...

Serving for 2 (6 nos )
Ingredients
Oats round into powder  -- 1 cup
Rice flour  -- 1 cup
Urad dal  flour-- 2 tsp
Jeera -- 2 tsp
Onion chopped -- 1 cup
Tomatoes -- 1/2 chopped
Green chili -- 3 nos
Red chili -- 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves --few
Lime juice-- 2 tsp( or butter milk)
Water -- 3 cups
Oil


Method

  • Mix oats flour, rice flour and urad flour along with red chili powder, salt lime juice.
  • Saute  jeera, onion, tomatoes  and chili until half  cooked.(it will be fully cooked in dosa)
  • Make the batter rise by resting the batter  for an hour.(it should be watery and ready to flow.)
  • We can make aappam either in a dosa pan  or a flat pan .I used a flat pan since i cook in electric burner .
  • Pour the batter make the side thin and center thick ,add little oil and cook covered.
  • Cook  the other sides also by turning overcook in low flame for long time to make crispy uthhapam.
  • Serve hot  with mint or corrinder chutney