Quick and Easy Healthy Indian Breakfast Recipe : Bread Uttapam!!

My daughter got up late today in the morning..so she said with morning tea, Mom please make some tasty instant breakfast too…

So this got me thinking and I came up with the idea of Instant and healthy Bread Uttapam!!! Tasted yum and can be made in five minutes..:):)

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Bread : 4 slices

Sooji: 1 bowl

Fresh Curd: 1/2 bowl

Mixed chopped Vegetables: 1 bowl ( Capsicum, Onion , Tomato, Carrot or any vegetables that is available at home)

Green Chilli : 1 piece

Ginger: 1 piece

Coriander Leaves

Spices ( as per taste): Salt, Red Chilli Powder, pinch of Turmeric Powder, Chaat Masala

Vegetable Oil: 1 tbsp

Recipe:

1) Cut the bread slices in round shape with cutter or a katori.

2) Mix sooji, curd , 2 bowl of water, chopped vegetables and all the spices mentioned above. Mix the batter and make sure it is thick.

3) Heat the pan and grease it well with oil or butter. Take the bread slice and apply the thick batter with a spoon on one side. Now put the slice on the pan with the side with the batter facing below. Apply the batter now on the side facing above.

4) Heat both the sides for 5~7 minutes on medium flame. Bread Uttapam is ready!!

Serve it hot with garmagaram chai and green chutney…Enjoy!!!!

Healthy Snacks Recipe: Oats Cutlets

My kids keeps on asking for new dishes everyday as eating the same old ones brings out a big no from them.

So in today’s world when junk food is a major attraction for kids, it is necessary as a mom, we ensure healthy food items are eaten by them. So I made these healthy oats cutlets for them today. Here is the recipe…hope you like it.

Ingredients: Slice of Bread : 2 pieces Potatoes : 2 small pieces Gram Flour or Chickpea flour ( Besan) : 2 spoon Oats: 1 bowl Ginger: 1 slice Oil – 1 teaspoon Coriander Leaves Spices: Salt, Red Chili Powder, Coriander Powder, Garam Masalam, Chaat Masala as per taste and required. Recipe:

1. Mix all these ingredients and make the cutlets in any shape.

2. Put oil in a pan and cook the cutlets on medium flame from both the sides in that pan. 3. Garnish with coriander leaves. Enjoy!!

Evening Tea Snacks: Jhatpat Whole Wheat Coconut Cookies!!

My daughter keeps on asking me everyday what’s new for snacks with evening chai? So yesterday when she said that she is bored of eating bhujia with evening chai, I decided as a mom, let’s make something healthy as well as yummy for my daughter. So I tried whole wheat coconut cookies!! What a hit it was with my entire family…I ended up making second batch of cookies in half an hour :):). Here is the recipe in case you would like to try freshly baked coconut cookies for your family:

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour : 1 cup

Suji : 1/2cup

Ghee : 1/2 cup

Crushed sugar : 1/2 cup

Coconut: 1/2 cup

Walnut or Almond: As per the number of cookies made ( to be put on the top of the cookies)

Milk: 3-4 tbsp

Baking Soda: 1/2 tsp

Recipe:

1) Mix ghee and sugar together thoroughly with a spoon so that the mixture becomes a little fluffy.

2) Add coconut powder and mix it.

3) Add whole wheat four, suji, baking soda and milk and make a dough from it. Keep it aside for 10 minutes covering the dough with muslin cloth.

4) In the meantime, preheat oven at 180 degree.

5) Make circular balls from the dough and press each round ball a little from the center. In the center, then put walnut or almond in the center.

6) Then bake the cookies for 20 minutes in the oven.

Jhatpat whole wheat healthy cookies are ready to eat ..Serve them hot with a garma garam chai as evening snacks!!

Indian Lunch Special : Yummy and Healthy Multigrain Vegetable Paratha!!!!

Multigrain Vegetable Paratha is a healthy option which you can switch to when your family wants delicious dished served everyday.

Ingredients:

Multigrain Flour: 1 bowl

Grated Cabbage: 1/2 bowl

Grated Carrot: 2 tablespoon

Chopped Capsicum: 1 piece

Grated Ginger : 1 piece

Chopped Green Chili: 2 pieces

Coriander Leaves

Spices as per taste : Salt, Turmeric, Cumins Seed, Asafetida, Garam Masala.

 Recipe: 

1. Mix all the ingredients and spices above and make a dough of it.
2. Now from the dough, prepare circular balls and roll them in a circle. Fill the masala in between and close it from all the sides. Now roll it into a circle like a chapati or paratha. Heat the tava and cook multigrain paratha from both the sides as you want with ghee or butter.
3. Serve hot with green chutney or tomato chutney.

Enjoyy!!!

Laziz Restaurant Style Indian Vegetable: Punjabi Palak Paneer

This is one of my son’s favorite dishes and we make it once every week in our household. Just like Malai Kofta, Palak Paneer is also one of the most famous dishes of India. Today I am sharing you the recipe for the delicious Palak Paneer.

Ingredients: 

Spinach : 1/2 kg

Onion: 2 small pieces

Tomato: 2 small pieces

Green Chili: 1 piece

Ginger: 1 piece

Garlic: 2 individual cloves

Ghee or Clarified Butter: 1 tablespoon

Paneer: 200 gm

Malai or cream; 1/2 bowl

Cashew nuts paste or powder : 8-10 pieces

Spices: Salt, Red Pepper powder, Mustard Seeds, Coriander powder, Garam Masala as per taste.

Recipe:

1. Grind Onion, Tomatoes, Ginger, Green Chili and Garlic in a grinder.
2. In a deep pan, boil spinach for 10 minutes in water.
3. Take spinach out and grind it separately in a grinder. Don’t throw the water away.
4. Take a deep pan, add olive oil and heat it. Add mustard seeds to it and then add the onion tomato paste in it.
5. Saute the paste till it starts to leave oil on the sides. As soon as it does that, add all the spices mentioned above and saute it for 2 minutes.
6.  Add the spinach paste to it. You can add the boiled water from spinach earlier as per the thickness required in the gravy. Saute it now for 5-7 minutes till it comes to a boil.
7. Cut the paneer into cubes and now add paneer cubes to the gravy above. Saute it for 2-3 minutes more.
8. Add cream or malai to palak paneer along with cashew nut paste to add richness to palak paneer.

Sprinkle grated paneer on the top for garnishing and enjoy yummy palak paneer.

Instant Healthy Indian Sweet Dish: Oats ke Laddu

Oats ke Laddu was made by me last year and it was an instant hit amongst kids specially… Not only kids, elders too love this healthy yet tasty laddu which can beaten without any guilt.

Try it and let me know your response…

Ingredients:

Oats: 2 bowl

Peanuts: 1/2 bowl

Sesame Seeds ( Til) – 2 tablespoon

Grated Fresh Jaggery ( Gud) – 1 bowl

Honey: 2 tablespoon

Grated Coconut or in powder form: 2 tablespoon

Almonds ( Badaam) or any other nuts –  As you like

Recipe:

1. Take a pan and heat the oats, nuts, sesame seeds and peanuts for 8-10 minutes on medium heat.
2. Cool it down for some time and grind the mixture now in a grinder. It should not be too fine.
3. Mix jaggery, honey and coconut thoroughly.
4. Make circular balls or laddu out of this.
5. Garnish it with sliced almonds.

If you are unable to make circular balls properly, add some more fresh jaggery or honey in it. Enjoy!!!!

Delicious Indian Breakfast – Instant Suji (Semolina) Dhokla

In Indian culture, Guests are considered as Gods. So one day, one of my friends and her family came to our house in the morning. Since I didn’t have time to prepare anything else, I quickly made this yummy dish for Breakfast and served them hot with a cup of Indian tea.

The entire family loved it and  and till date, whenever they come, this dish has become a staple serving item:). So here I am sharing the recipe with you today. Hopefully it will also become a staple serving item for some of your friends.

Ingredients:

Suji or Semolina- 2 cup

Eno or Soda – 1/2 teaspoon

Curd or Yogurt – 1/2 cup

Ginger – 1 piece

Green Chili – 3-4 pieces

Olive Oil – 1 tablespoon

Coriander Leaves

Water – 1.5 glass

Spices: Mustard Seeds, Curry Leaves, Salt, Red chili Powder

Recipe:

1. Mix suji, curd and water. Add salt as per taste. Add crushed ginger and 1 piece of green chili in the mixture. Now keep the mixture aside for 30 minutes.
2. If you have a steamer , add 1 glass of water in it and boil it. Add eno in the mixture now and put the mixture in the steamer pan and steam it. Cover the steamer with the lid and steam it for 15-20 minutes. If you don’t have a steamer, take a pan, add water and use a 1-2 inch deep plate    in which the mixture can be poured. Make sure to cover it with a lid or plate.
3. After 15-20 minutes of steam, take the pan out and let it cool down.
4. Cut the mixture now in square pieces.
5. Now take oil in a pan and heat it. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves and chopped green chilli. Now add the square pieces in the pan. Add salt and red chili powder as per taste and mix it.
6. For garnishing, add coriander leaves on the top and serve them hot with green chutney or tomato sauce.

 

Enjoy!!!!

Healthy Butter Free Indian Mixed Daal ( Mixed Lentil Soup)

 

One of my friend was fond of daal but was told by doctor not to eat ghee or oil at all. Since in Indian household, daal typically contains tadka so she could not eat daal. So I thought of trying out healthy butter free daal for her and came up with this recipe. My friend and family both loved it and my friend is eating daal without any hesitation or guilt.

Ingredients:

1 Bowl of Mixed Daal ( Washed Green Lentils, and Red Lentils) – Mix each dal in equal quantity equivalent to one bowl.

Onion: 2 small sized pieces

Tomato: 2 small sized pieces

Garlic: 8-10 individual small pieces

Ginger: 1 small piece

Coriander Leaves

Lemon: 1 piece

Whole Green or Red Chili: 2 pieces

Spice: Salt, Turmeric, Garam Masala, Cumin powder (jeera powder), asafetida (hing)

Recipe:

1. Put 2 glass of water in a pressure cooker and boil it. Wash the mixed daal and now add it in the boiling water. Put salt and turmeric and close the lid of the pressure cooker. Heat the pressure cooker till two whistles comes.
2. Open the lid of the pressure cooker and add chopped onion, tomatoes, green chili, ginger and crushed garlic in the pressure cooker . In spices add garam masala, cumin powder and hing to the mixture.
3. Now without the lid, heat the cooker for 10 minutes on slow heat.
4. Now garnish with coriander leaves, red chili and add lime to it as per taste.

Serve it hot only ( it will not taste good once it is cold)…The tasty healthy daal is ready to be eaten!!!!

Healthy Butter Free Indian Mixed Daal ( Mixed Lentil Soup)

 

One of my friend was fond of daal but was told by doctor not to eat ghee or oil at all. Since in Indian household, daal typically contains tadka so she could not eat daal. So I thought of trying out healthy butter free daal for her and came up with this recipe. My friend and family both loved it and my friend is eating daal without any hesitation or guilt.

Ingredients:

1 Bowl of Mixed Daal ( Washed Moong Daal, Chilke wali green moong daal, masoor daal, urad daal and chana daal) – Mix each dal in equal quantity equivalent to one bowl.

Onion: 2 small sized pieces

Tomato: 2 small sized pieces

Garlic: 8-10 individual small pieces

Ginger: 1 small piece

Coriander Leaves

Lemon: 1 piece

Whole Green or Red Chili: 2 pieces

Spice: Salt, Turmeric, Garam Masala, Cumin powder (jeera powder), asafetida (hing)

Recipe:

1. Put 2 glass of water in a pressure cooker and boil it. Wash the mixed daal and now add it in the boiling water. Put salt and turmeric and close the lid of the pressure cooker. Heat the pressure cooker till two whistles comes.
2. Open the lid of the pressure cooker and add chopped onion, tomatoes, green chili, ginger and crushed garlic in the pressure cooker . In spices add garam masala, cumin powder and hing to the mixture.
3. Now without the lid, heat the cooker for 10 minutes on slow heat.
4. Now garnish with coriander leaves, red chili and add lime to it as per taste.

Serve it hot only ( it will not taste good once it is cold)…The tasty healthy daal is ready to be eaten!!!!

Healthy Indian Snacks/Breakfast Recipe: Murmure/Puffed Rice Pohe

Recently one of friends complained about the excess of Murmure/Puffed Rice (having bought by mistake) and how it was being wasted since no one was eating I, so I told her about this breakfast or snack recipe. Her family loved it since it was healthy and at the same time tasty…Let me know how do you like it?

Ingredients:

Murmure ( Kurmure or Puffed Rice) : 100 gm

Onion: 1 small piece

Tomato: 1 small piece

Ginger: 1/2 small piece grated

Green Chili: 1 small piece

Coriander Leaves

Lime: 1 small piece

Peanuts or Mungfali : 7-15 pieces as per taste

Olive Oil: 1 tea spoon

Curry Leaves

Spices: Mustard Seeds, Salt, Red Chili Powder, Turmeric as per taste.

Recipe:

1. Soak murmure or puffed rice in water for 5-10 minutes.
2. Drain the water out from the puffed rice .
3. Put olive oil in a pan. Once the oil is hot, put mustard seeds and curry leaves in it.
4. Now put pea nuts in the pan and let them turn slightly brown in 2-3 minutes.
5. Immediately put chopped pieces of onion and sauté them till they turn slightly brown.
6. Put chopped tomato in the pan now and sauté them .
7. Put puffed rice or murmure in it and mix them nicely.
8. Put all the spices now as per taste and mix them nicely in the mixture.
9. After 2 minutes, add cut small pieces of green chili to it. Delicious Puffed rice pohe is ready to eat. Add lime to the pohe as per taste.
10. For garnishing, you can use coriander leaves and bhujia.

 

Enjoy the yummy pohe!!!!