khakra

Ingredients :Khakra is healthy delicious snack

• wheat flour - 80 gms
• cummin powder - 1 tsp
• Flaxseed 15gm(benifit of this seed is for heart diesease and lowering cholesteral)
• salt - to taste
• oil-1tsp to knead
• water to bind dough

Method :
•Mix whole wheat flour and roasted flaxseed powder. Make dough, adding salt and cummin powder

 •Knead the dough and portion out into four equal sized balls.

 •Roll them like a thin roti. Roast on hot tawa till crisp, turning often.

 •Drizzle few drops of oil on both the sides. Serve with chutney.

  Try Variation:

Variation in the  recipe can be made by addition of Spinach and Tomato puree (Cocktail Khakra) or Fenugreek leaves and Garlic (Masala Khakra).

Apple kheer

Ingredients :
apple - 1
skimmed milk - 300 ml
cornflour - 2 tsp
artificial sweetener - few drops
vanilla essense - few drops
Almonds chopped- 2tsp

Method :

Boil the milk and cool it. Mix cornflour in 2 cups of milk and make a cornflour paste.

Add the cornflour paste to the milk. Wash apple and grate.

Immediately add grated apple to the milk and boil it, stirring continuously

Remove kheer from flame, add artificial sweetener, essense,almonds and serve chilled.

I am seding this recipe to the event http://recipesfortheverydaywoman.blogspot.com/2011/01/delicious-desserts-annoucement-and.html

Fruits and vegetable salad

Ingredients :

• capsicum - 1
• cabbage - 50 gms
• tomatoes - 2
• onion - 1
• grapes - 100 gms
• sprouted moong - 50 gms
• apple - 1
• papaya -half chopped
• honey - 1 tbsp
• lemon juice - 1 tbsp
• few sprigs of coriander

For dressing:

Mix 1 tbsp of honey with 1 tsp of lemon juice, salt and pepper.

 Cut capsicum and cabbage thin and lengthwise . Cut tomatoes and onions into tiny cubes.

Cut grapes and apple,papaya into small peices. Mix the fruits and vegetable and keep aside.

 Mix the salad and dressing. decorate with coriander leaves and serve chilled.

I am sending this recipe to the tastebuds1.blogspot.com for "cooking with fruits event"

JAL JEERA

If you want to try out something different, very unconventional for Holi, then make Jaljeera. A refreshing drink, Jaljeera tastes good and contains no bhang at all! Therefore, you do not have to worry about the after effects of bhang, while relishing on jaljeera.

Ingreedients :

• lemon juice - 1 tsp
• mint leaves - 10
• ginger - 1/2 " peice
• jeera/cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
• rock salt - 1/4 tsp(black salt)
• sugar/sweetener - 1/4 tsp
• water - 250 ml
• 1/2 tsp Cilantro Leaves Paste
• 1 tbsp Dried Mango Powder (Amchursalt to taste)
• table salt to taste

Method :

Grind mint and ginger together and squeeze out the juice.

 Roast jeera and make powder along with rock salt and table salt .

 Mix all the above ingredients including lemon juice , sweetener and water and serve chilled..

Spicy sprouts sandwich

Ingredients:

• 8 slices whole wheat bread
• ½ cup onions, sliced
• 4 teaspoons low fat butter to cook

 For the sprouts and spices

•  1 cup mixed sprouts, boiled
•  ½ cup potatoes, boiled and mashed
•  ½ cup onions, finely chopped
•  2 teaspoons ginger-garlic paste
•  1 green chilli, finely chopped
•  2 teaspoons pav bhaji masala
•  2 teaspoons coriander-cumin seed (dhania-jeera) powder
•  ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder (haldi)
•  ½ teaspoon black salt (sanchal)
•  1½ cups tomatoes, finely chopped
•  2 teaspoons oil
•  salt to taste

 Method :

 Heat the oil in a non-stick pan, add the onions and sauté till the onions turn translucent.Add the ginger-garlic paste, green chilli and sauté for another 1 minute.

 Add the pav bhaji masala, coriander-cumin seed powder, turmeric powder, black salt, tomatoes and salt and cook for 5 minutes.Add the sprouts and potatoes and mix well. Keep aside.

 Divide the sprouts mixture into 4 equal portions.Place one portion on one slice of bread.

Top with an onion slice and sandwich using another slice of bread.Repeat with the remaining ingredients to make 3 more sandwiches.

Pre-heat the griller and grill the sandwiches, using a little low fat butter to cook.

Healthy Sandwich ready.

Vegetable Stir fry

Ingredients :

• 1 cup capsicum, cut into thin strips
• 1 cup paneer (cottage cheese), cut into thin strips
• 1 spring onion, sliced
• 1/2 cup baby corn,sliced
• 1/2 cucumber,sliced
• 1/2 cup broccoli florets
• 1/4 cup bean sprouts
• 1 small tomato, deseeded and sliced
• 1 teaspoon onion seeds (kalonji)
• 1 teaspoon oil
• salt to taste

  Method :

 Heat the oil and add the onion seeds.Add all the vegetables and salt and saute on a high flame till the vegetables are tender.

 Add the paneer and sauté for another minute.add little amount of  black pepper on the fry..

Remove from the flame and serve immediately. try before serving sprinkle  lemon juice over the fry  for a  an extra taste

 You can add 3 colours of capsicum (yellow, red and green).