ROASTED MIXED CORN SALAD

           

                               

                          

                                             

     INGREDIENTS

• Sweet corn ( boiled) - 50 g
• Cucumber( cut into cubes)-50g
• Paneer cubes - 50 g
• Carrot- ( cut into cubes)- 50g
• Tomato ( cut into cubes) - 1no
• French beans( 11/2 inches long)- 50g
• Bell peppers ( different colours)- 50g
• Green chilli (chopped)- 2no
• Lime juice- 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Coriander/ parsley leaves ( chopped)- handful
•   Mixed herbs ( optional)

    METHOD

•  Pour one tsp olive oil in a frying pan
•   Lightly fry all the ingredients separately 
•   Mix all the roasted ingredients with lime juice,  green chilli, coriander leaves and salt.

   This salad is extremely healthy and filling. You can use it in weight loss  diet. It can be eaten for lunch or   dinner as the main course.          

                      SPROUT SALAD

INGREDIENTS 

• Mix sprouts - 100 g
• Cucumber ( cut into small cubes) - 2 no
• Bell peppers ( green, yellow, orange ) cut into small cubes - 50 g
• Carrot ( cut into cubes) - 1/2 cup
• Tomato ( cut into cubes) - 1 medium size
• Spring onion ( chopped ) - 1/4 cup
• Ginger ( chopped ) - 1 inch long
• Green chilli ( chopped) - 1 or 2 no
• Lemon juice - 1 lemon
• Pepper powder - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste 

METHOD

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Our healthy sprout salad is ready to serve at lunch or dinner.

TIPS : Adjust the quantity of lime juice according to your taste. While preparing the salad for elderly boil the sprouts for a few minutes ( 3 or 4 ) to help easy digestion.

 PANEER MIX VEGETABLE CURRY 

INGREDIENTS

• Potato ( cut into square) -2 medium size
• Paneer cubes -100 g
• Long beans/ barbarian/bids (cut into 11/2 inches long)- 100 g
• Carrot- 1 no
• Cauliflower/ broccoli ( cut) - 100g
• Green peas- 1/2 cup
• Chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Coriander powder- 2 tsp
• Pepper powder- 1/2 tsp
• Ginger and garlic paste - 2 tsp
• Handful of chopped coriander leaves for garnishing 

• Medium sized onion - 2 no
• Tomato- 2 medium sized
• Mustard - 2 tsp 

Put chopped onion, tomatoes and mustard in a grinder to make a fine paste.

METHOD

• Heat a deep bottomed vessel or kadhai 
• Pour 1to 2 tbsp oil
• Put 1 tsp mustard seed. When it crackles transfer ground paste of onion, tomato and mustard seed. Add dry spices n ginger garlic paste.
• Fry the masala for 2 minutes
• Add cut vegetables n salt to taste
• Sauté for another 5 minutes
• Add water . Cover the lid . 
• Cook for another 10 to 15minutes.
• Add paneer . Cook for 5 minutes. 
• Garnish with coriander leaves.

      Paneer mix vegetable curry is ready.

        Serve hot with chapati, poori, naan or rice.

    TIPS: choose any vegetable  of your choice.

     Your feedback will be greatly appreciated 😊. Have a great day….

RAJMA SALAD

Hello viewers!

    I always make it a point to post something healthy and super easy recipe which is tried and tested umpteen times in my kitchen. Of late salads is a favourite item of my family as we are on a weight loss journey. And hope you too will try and like it. Here goes the recipe…..

                              RAJMA SALAD

       Ingredients 

• Rajma ( kidney beans) -   100 g
• Bell peppers ( green, yellow, orange)- 1cup
• Cucumber- 1 cup
• Carrot - 1/4 cup
• Onion - 1/2 cup

• Spring onion- 1/4 cup
• Parsley or green coriander- 1/4 cup
• Green chilli - 2 no
• Red chilli powder- 1tsp
• Salt to taste 
• Lime juice. 2 tbsp
• Mixed herbs (optional)

      Method

 

• Soak rajma overnight in water
• Boil the rajma in a cooker or a sauce pan and strain it
• Cut bell peppers, cucumber, carrot, onion in shapes of your choice
• Chop spring onion, green chilli, coriander leaves
• Mix all the ingredients with the boiled rajma

 Serve it as a meal or with chapati or rice

TIPS:  Mixed herbs and green onions are optional. You can enhance the flavour by using some chilly sauce also.

     

                                               TOMATO YAKHNI PULAO  

          This recipe is prepared with the easily available simple ingredients in our kitchen. The cooking time is hardly half an hour including the preparations. This pulao doesn’t need any curry except a simple raita, pickle or pappad. So let’s begin……

 INGREDIENTS

• Biriyani rice - 1 cup
• Onion- 2 medium sized
• Tomato- 3 medium sized
• potato- 2 medium sized cut into 8 pieces
• Cooking oil
• Ghee- 1 tbsp
• Coconut milk- 1/4 cup(optional)
• Ginger garlic paste- 2 tbsp
• 3 green chilly
• Garam masala whole(3 cardamom, 4 clove, 2 inch  cinnamon stick, 2 bay leaf)
• Garam masala powder-1/2 tspn
• Handful of coriander and mint leaves
• chilli powder- 1tspn
• turmeric powder-1/2 tspn
• Salt

      RAITA

• curd -1/2 cup
• grated cucumber-1 
• crushed green chilli -1/2 tspn
• salt to taste

Mix all the ingredients and sprinkle some chilli powder.

METHOD

• Heat oil in a cooker.
• add whole garam masala, sliced onion 
• stir until brown 
• add ginger garlic paste, green chilli and tomato
• add 1 tspn chilli powder, 1/2 tspn turmeric powder
• add the washed and rinsed rice, potato, garam masala powder, corriander leaves, mint leaves and ghee.
• add salt to taste and stir the rice for 1 minute.
• add coconut milk and 2 1/2 cups of warm water.
• stir well
• close the cooker and wait for 1 whistle.
• switch off the flame and open the lid after 10 minutes.
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaf and serve hot with raita.

TIPS:

Shallow fry the potato and sprinkle some salt for enhanced taste.

wheat dosa

                                                                      Wheat Dosa 

Wheat dosa is an innovative and very popular form of chapati. It is softer than chapati; can be made very easily and is  healthy too. And believe me it tastes amazing! As the modern world has become hub of diabetic patients most people tend to shy away from rice and other starchy foods. In this blog my effort is to give you the  recipes in its healthiest and simplest form with minimum oil and other health-bothering ingredients. And the cooking method which I use is very very flexible and tension free. So let's begin with our wheat dosa...


 INGREDIENTS

• Wheat flour (ata) - 1 cup
• grated ginger - 1/4 tspn
• til (sesame seed)- 1/4 tspn
• oil or ghee
• salt as per taste 

   
 COCONUT MILK

•  Take a cup of grated coconut in a blender 
•  Add 1/4 cup water
• Grind well 
• Add 1/4 cup more water
• Strain 
• Add salt to taste

METHOD

• Mix all the ingredients with required amount of water to make a batter of same thickness as of rice dosa( you can mix in a blender too)
• Heat a non stick frying pan
• Take a ladle full of batter and spread it in round shape as we do for dosa
• Turn the flame to medium
• Cook for a minute and turn 
• Cook for another one minute 
• Now our wheat dosa is ready ! Serve hot with coconut milk , chana masala or any curry of your choice 

TIPS

• Use non stick frying pan to avoid sticking 
• Cook on medium flame
• Batter should be of medium consistency( neither too thick nor too thin)
• You can apply extra oil on dosa while cooking
• You can try other seeds also like carom seed and black cumin or discard all the seeds if you don't like

Aloo Gobhi Matar Dry Sabzi

                   
                                                Aloo Gobhi Matar Dry Sabzi

  Indian vegetable cooking is quite incomplete without this evergreen sabzi of aloo, gobhi and matar, be it home or restaurant. This is one of my favourite vegetables I would love to have with any kind of bread or rice! There are different methods of cooking  Aloo Gobhi Matar ki sabzi depending on different regions. But the way which I chose is super simple and amazingly healthy, with very very less oil. Nevertheless immensely tasty! So let us start.......


 INGREDIENTS

• Cauliflower 250 gm
• Potato 1 medium size
• Green peas (Matar)- 1/2 cup
• Tomatoes - 1 med size
• Red chilli powder 1 Tsp
• Turmeric powder 1 Tsp
• Coriander powder 1 tbsp
• Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
• Garam masala powder
• Coriander leaves for garnishing
• Cooking oil 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste

    METHOD

• Cut cauliflower into medium size florets
• Peel and cut potatoes
• Keep the cauliflower florets in salted water for 15-30 minutes ( to kill germs if any), drain, wash well and keep it aside
• Heat oil in a pan
• Add ginger garlic paste
• Saute for one minute
• Add cauliflower, potato, matar and fry for one minute
• Add turmeric, red chilli , coriander powder and tomato
• Mix well and stir-fry for a few minutes till the moisture is completely absorbed
• Add one cup water 
• Add garam masala powder, cover with a lid and cook on low flame for 5 to 10 minutes
•  Garnish with coriander 
• Serve hot with chapati, paratha, poori or rice 

TIPS

• You can increase or decrease the quantity of oil
• Deseed tomatoes or altogether skip ( tomato is considered harmful for kidneys) 
• Use 1/2 tsp amchur(dried mango) powder for tomato