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Hungry Kya! Here are 5 nutritious snacks recipes

paneer-wrapAlong with being a lifestyle coach and nutritionist, I play one more dual role that of a homemaker and a mother. The big question that always arises is what snacks can we make which are healthy and quick to make at the same time, right?

Here are few recipes from my recipe book which are not only healthy but fast.

1. OATS PATTIES

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Ingredients Amount
Oats 1 cup
Capsicum 1 small
Carrot ½ no
Tomatoes 1 no
Spring Onions ½ cup
Gingerchilli paste 1 Tbsp
Lime ½ no.
Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
Red chilly powder ¼ tsp
Salt To taste
Oil 1 tsp

METHOD:

  1. Sprinkle water on oats. Continue this till it absorbs the water and becomes a bit sticky.
  2. To this add chopped capsicum, carrot, tomatoes, fresh onion with leaves, ginger chilli paste, lime, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt. Mix well.
  3. Divide the mixture into two equal halves. Make a flat (pattice) pieces of it and cook in a nonstick pan on both sides.
  4. Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

Nutritional Benefits: Oats is rich in fiber and the veggies are a source of vitamins and minerals, lime juice makes the food alkaline. Overall it is a great dish to start your day with which will surely improve your immunity and overall health

2. Steamed Spinach breads (PALAK DHOKLA)

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Ingredients Amount
Rawa 1-2 TBSP
Gramflour 1-2 TBSP
Spincach (palak) (finely chopped) 1 bunch
greenchilli paste ½ Tbsp
Salt To taste
Oil 1 tsp

 

METHOD:

  1. Mix all the dry ingredients in a vessel.
  2. To this mixture add 1 tsp of warm oil.
  3. Add luke warm water to make the batter of some flowing consistency.
  4. Pour this mixture into a greased tin and steam the mixture for around 30 minutes.
  5. Garnish with Spinach leaves. Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

 

Nutritional Benefits: This can serve as a super evening snack as it contains goodness of fiber, calcium, B vitamins of the spinach and is also a cereal pulse combination which improves the protein quality. Wholesome meal which is low in calories and has high satiety value.

3. FENUGREEK PANCAKES (METHI PUDLA)

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Ingredients Amount
fenugreek leaves (chopped) ½ bunch
Wheat flour 1 TBSP
Bajra flour 2 TBSP
Onion 1 no.
Gingerchilli paste 1 Tbsp
Garlic paste ½ tsp
Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
Salt To taste
Oil 1 tsp

 

METHOD:

1.Mix all the ingredients except oil in a vessel.

2.Add water to make the batter of pouring consistency

3.Make two pancakes on a nonstick pan

4.Serve hot with tomato ketchup/ Mint sauce (Pudina chutney)

Nutritional Benefits: It is not only rich in B vitamins (fenugreek leaves) and helps in improving hemoglobin but due to the addition of onion, ginger, garlic it is highly anti-inflammatory and good for gut health. Researches prove that consumption of ginger, garlic and onion helps fight GI infections too.

4.Bottle Gourd and Semolina Pancakes (DOODHI-RAWA PANCAKE)

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Ingredients Amount
Semolina 3 TBSP
Bottle gourd 100 gms
Curds (skim milk) 3 TBSP
Gingerchilli paste 1 Tbsp
Carrot For garnish
Salt To taste
Oil 1 tsp

 

METHOD:

  1. Grate the bottle gourd.
  2. Add semolina, ginger chilli paste, curds, salt and make a batter of pouring consistency by adding water.
  3. Make 3 small pancakes on a nonstick pan by adding oil.

4.Garnish with grated carrot and coriander.

5.Serve hot with green chutney

Nutritional Benefits: Bottle gourd has multi benefits like it is high in fiber, helps curb the acidity too, good for heart, and the list goes on. Curds are rich in probiotics which improves the gut bacteria.

 

5. COTTAGE CHEESE VEGETABLE WRAP ( PANEER VEG WRAP)

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Ingredients Amount
Gramflour 2 TBSP
Capsicum ½ no
Carrot ¼ no
Tomatoes 1 small
Spring onions ½ cup
Paneer (COTTAGE CHEESE) 200 ml(20 gms)
Coriander leaves Few sprigs
Lime ½ no.
Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
Red chilli powder ½ tsp
Pavbhaji masala/ Garam masala ½ tsp
Salt To taste
Oil 1 tsp

 

METHOD:

  1. For the Wrap:

To the gram flour add chopped coriander leaves, red chilli powder, salt and make a batter by adding water

Pour this batter on a nonstick and make a chilla

  1. For the filling:

In a nonstick pan, take 1 tsp of oil. Add chopped capsicum, carrot, spring onions, tomatoes, paneer cubes and cook for a minute. To this add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, lime juice, pav bhaji masala or any garam masala (blend of ground spices like peppercorns, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cardamom, bay leaf, caraway). You can even use herbs instead of this . Mix well. Cover the pan for 1-2 minutes. Cook until done.

  1. Place this filling into the centre of the chilla and wrap it. Cut it into pieces. Garnish with spring onion leaves and tomatoes.
  2. Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

Nutritional Benefits: It is high in protein with cottage cheese and gram flour. It contains goodness of fiber, Vit C, vitamins and minerals and other phytochemicals too. Children love this most as it looks like a frankie/roll but the base is super healthy here. Also helps in improving immunity, hemoglobin, better growth.

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Healthy Recipe challenge

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The Festive Season is just around the corner. Festivals uplift our mood and make our lives better. Apart from rejoicing with family and friends, the most important thing of all is the amount of food you get to pig out on. And, there’s no doubt that during every Indian festival there’s a huge spread at the table and everyone gathers for a massive feast.

We’ve all starved during the festive season to make enough room for the sudden influx of gorgeous dishes and that’s totally acceptable.

We start the season with ‘Ganesh Chaturthi’, a ten day Hindu Festival celebrating beloved Elephant- headed god’s birthday. His pot-belly is a clear sign of what an avid eater he is and we follow his stubby footsteps on this day and fill ourselves to the brim with delicious foods. A variety of foods is prepared which include lots of sweets and high dense foods.

When I decided to write a blog I came up with the idea of throwing healthy recipes challenge to my Players. The idea was – ‘We can eat healthy foods without being guilty’.   Some of the players took this challenge and have come up with healthy options of food which can be eaten during fasting and non-fasting days during the festive season.

Here is what the players have come up with

1) Player Parigna

-Idea: Recipe for Fasting foods.

Recipe: Fruits and nuts with hung sweet curd

-Ingredients: Curd, Honey, fruits and nuts

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-Method of Preparation: 

Mix 1 tablespoon honey in a bowl of curd. Tie this mixture in a soft muslin cloth and hang it for 2 hours. Cut seasonal fruits into small pieces. Chop some nuts of your choice. In a big bowl, mix hung cured, pieces of fruits and nuts.

2) Player- Vaibhav Sahu

Idea: Traditional sweet dish

Recipe: Dry Fruit Fudge

Ingredients: 100gm of Cashew nuts, almonds, 50gms Fox Nut (Makhana), dry coconut cut in thin long stripes, 50gm watermelon seeds, 100 gms Jaggery with a little water.

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Method of Preparation:

Heat clarified butter in a pan and fry the Cashewnut, Makhana (Fox Nut), Almond. Dry roast the watermelon seeds separately and keep them aside, dry roast watermelon seed keep aside. Take 100gms Jaggery mix with a little water, heat it in a pan and make a thick syrup. Remove the jaggery syrup and let it cool. Then put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Grease a mould with clarified butter (Ghee) set the mixture in a dish and allow it to cool. Your dish is ready to eat.

3) Poonam Kanakagiri

Idea: Healthy Salads

Recipe: Carrot Salad

Ingredients: Carrots grated 2cups, ¼ cup soaked split Green Gram (Moong dal), 2 tablespoons grated coconut, 2tsp lemon juice, salt, some fresh ginger chopped, some chopped cilantro, 1/4 tsp oil

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The method of Preparation: Take 1/4th tsp of oil and prepare a seasoning of mustard seeds, split Chick Pea (Channa dal), Split Black Gram (Urad dal) green chillies, Ginger and curry leaves, add the seasoning and the rest of ingredients to carrots and mix. And serve.

4) Khushboo Sinha–

Idea: Healthy meal option

Recipe: Sattu (Toasted gram flour) Pancake with Dal Cutlet

Ingredients: For Sattu Pancake: Sattu (Toasted gram flour), Chopped onion, green chillies, coriander, 1tsp mustard oil   

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The method of preparation: Add chopped onion, green chillies, coriander, 1 spoon of mustard oil and some water to the Sattu and bind it. Stuff this Sattu mixture in whole wheat flour and make pancakes.

Ingredients: For Dal:Toor Dal (Pigeon peas or arhar dal) – ½ cup, Water –1 cup

For Cutlet:Whole wheat flour (Chapati atta) – ½ cup,  optional, Turmeric powder – ¼ teaspoon, Red chili powder – ½ teaspoon , Asafoetida – a pinch, Salt – to taste, Water- 3/4th Cup.

Mix the dal with water in a pressure cooker and cook till 6-7 whistles. Then turn off the stove. Let the pressure go down by itself. While the dal is pressure cooking, make the dough for Cutlet. Take all dry ingredients (Wheat flour, salt, turmeric powder, red chili powder, asafoetida) in another bowl. Mix well.  Make Small Cutlets. Work with one flattened disc at a time. Roll it into about 12-inch diameter circle. Make sure that it is not too thick or too thin. Transfer it to a plate, cover it with clean kitchen towel. Roll the same with second dough ball.

Now add two-three Cutlet at a time into boiling dal and stir it so they do not stick to each other. If you add all cutlet at once they will stick and make a big lump. So make sure to add few at a time and after adding stir it once. Then add few more and stir. Let it simmer for 10-12 minutes and don’t forget to stir in between. If needed add some more water. Taste one Cutlet piece to check if it is cooked. Once cooked turn the stove off.  Lastly, add chopped coriander leaves and serve.

5) Mani Singhal

Idea: Fasting Recipe which serves as traditional food offered to God.

Recipe: Coriander (Dhaniya) Porridge

Ingredients:

1 Cup –Coriander Seeds (Dhaniya)

3/4 Cup – Brown Jaggery Sugar (Boora)

2 tbsp – Ghee (Clarified Butter)

7-8 – Chopped Almonds

2 tsp – Raisins

15-16 – Halved Cashew nuts

Method- Heat 1 tsp clarified butter (ghee) in a pan or wok and sauté cashew, almonds until golden brown, add raisins sauté for 30 seconds remove from wok and keep aside. In the same pan heat remaining clarified butter (ghee) add powdered coriander seeds and sauté for 4-5 minutes with continuous stirring or until raw smell goes and it becomes brown and engulfing the kitchen with its aroma. Transfer to a plate or bowl and allow to cool completely. Add powdered brown Jaggery sugar (boora), nuts and mix well to combine sugar and coriander powders together, using your hand is very good option to mix well.

6) Kavya

Idea: Healthy puffed paddy sweet balls (LADDOO) recipe

Ingredients: Puffed Paddy – 3 cups Jaggery – 2 cups Black Sesame Seeds – 1/4 cup Cashews or Groundnut or Almonds – 1/4 cup(dry roast and crushed) Cardamom powder – 1tsp Clarified Butter (Ghee) – 1/4 cup

The method of Preparation: Dry roast cashew/groundnut/almonds. Once cool crush to pieces • Dry roast the Black Sesame Seeds till they splutter • coarsely powder the Puffed Paddy.

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Method • Mix the Puffed Paddy powder, crushed peanuts cashew nuts, roasted sesame seeds, cardamom powder and clarified butter (ghee). • Place a heavy bottom pan/kadhai with 1/4cup water. Add jaggery to it. Bring it to boil in medium flame. When the jaggery melts completely – keep stirring and splash few drops of the jaggery syrup to a bowl of water. If the jaggery syrup does not dissolve and it crystallizes then it’s ready. It should be of sticky consistency. Turn off the flame. • Add this Jaggery syrup to the Puffed Paddy balls (Laddoo) mixture from step 1 and mix well. • Grease your palm with little clarified butter (ghee) and make round balls (Laddoos) of the desired size. • Healthy Puffed Paddy Laddoo is ready to serve. •

Pls Note: Puffed Paddy contains the husk and is rich in fiber content. • Using Jaggery instead of Sugar makes it healthier and Jaggery also contains iron. • Adding dry fruits of your choice is optional making it healthier and tastier. We can store this for few days and eat in between main meals.

These are wonderful recipes shared by the players who believe that festivals can also be healthy. Eating healthy is beneficial in the long run. The healthy recipe challenge was a way to motivate the players to be involved and try something new and innovative. And, am I glad to say that they have done a wonderful job.

Hope, everyone reading this blog will enjoy these recipes during this festive season.

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Quick healthy instant recipes

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Early morning cooking can be a nightmare for many people especially for the office goers who struggle with their morning meals and in this process often tend to skip their breakfast which is the most important meal of the day. Some struggle with their culinary skills and often have this excuse ready to skip their meals.

Try out these quick options to make your life easy and move to a healthy routine:

(1) Sandwich Spread: Here is a recipe of protein rich spread which you can use for your multigrain sandwiches. It is filling and rich of antioxidants. 

Sandwich Spread

Ingredients:

  1. Avocado
  2. One cup boiled chick peas
  3. One lemon squeezed
  4. A dash of olive oil
  5. Some salt and pepper

Procedure:

  1. De-seed the avocado and cut into pieces.
  2. Boil the chickpeas
  3. Add all the above ingredients in a blender along with lemon juice, salt, pepper, and olive oil. This recipe can be stored in the refrigerator and can be used for good 1 week.

(2) Oats Uttapam: This can be a great option to carry in the tiffin box too.

Oats Uttapam

Ingredients:

  1. 1 Cup Powdered oats
    b. 1 cup low fat yogurt
  2. Veggies of your choice

Procedure:

    1. Mix all the ingredients together. Add salt and cumin seeds. Can prepare this mixture a night before.
    2. Take the batter in a large spoon and pour it on the non-stick pan and spread. You can use some cold compressed coconut oil for greasing the pan.
    3. Once cooked flip the side and let it cook.

(3) Almond Mango Smoothie: This is a quickie to prepare and has a dose of essential vitamins. This is best made during the Mango season. This refreshing beverage will make you feel fresh and full.

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Ingredients:

      1. A ripened mango
      2. Some soaked almonds
      3. To make it more nutritious some dates and walnuts will add to its value

Procedure: Blend all the ingredients together in a blender and have chilled.

(4) Sprouts sandwich: This is definitely a great easy snack recipe and full of nutrition.

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Ingredients:

      1. Multigrain bread
      2. Mix sprouts of moong, black gram
      3. Cut vegetables like onion, tomato, cucumber etc.
      4. To make it more protein rich you can add some cubes of cottage cheese or few peanuts.

Procedure:

      1. Take slices of multigrain bread
      2. Take sprouts and add vegetables of your choice, add some lemon to the chat.
      3. Put this mixture on the slices of bread. You can use some home-made spreads and paste like mint or tamarind paste instead of mayonnaise.

(5) Fruity Nutty yogurt: A delicious healthy smoothie, easy to make as well.

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Ingredients:

      1. Choose your favourite fruits
      2. Hung curd
      3. Some nuts like walnuts, almonds, raisins
      4. Honey or Jaggery by choice to add sweetness.

Procedure: Throw in all the ingredients in the blender and have it chilled.

Conclusion:

The above 5 recipes are quick, healthy and refreshing. These are good choices for those who are running out of time and are managing alone with their meals. These snacks can be taken any time of the day. They are healthy and easy to prepare.

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Delicious Recipes from Ragi

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After a long summer vacation kids are getting back to school. School life is tiring and we all have gone through it. It’s through these growing years that children need good nutrition and what if this nutrition can be made tasty and interesting with newer recipes time and again.

Here are a few healthy recipes that can be made with Ragi

  1. Ragi Porridge

Ragi Porridge

Ingredients

  • Ragi Flour 30gms
  • Water 200ml
  • Salt/ Jaggery
  • Milk 3 tbsps/ Buttermilk 50ml
  • Ghee 1 tsp

Procedure:

  • Take a pan and fill in the pan with water and allow it to boil.
  • Once the water starts boiling add jaggery or salt depending on the type of porridge. Then add ragi slowly while stirring in the water and prevent lumps formation.
  • Stir continuously till ragi is cooked for 5 minutes.
  • Once ragi is cooked add milk or buttermilk and turn off the heat.
  • Serve ragi hot with ghee and topped with nuts like almonds or walnuts.

Notes:

  • Ragi porridge is a simple yet healthy recipe that an infant can start their food with ragi apart from rice which is used as their first food.
  • Ragi is gluten free, hence it is given to people having gluten intolerance too.
  • It is less allergic unlike oats and thus, can be used as a universal food.
  • People who don’t take milk can substitute ragi for good calcium in their diet.
  • As we know ragi is a millet that is rich in calcium and iron. It also has good B complex vitamins.
  • It can be had as a breakfast option or mid morning snack too.
  • Can be used in weight loss diets too.

Preparation Time: 5 mins

Cooking Time: 5 mins

Serving size: 1 No.

  1. Apple and Ragi Halwa

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Ingredients:

  • Apple 1 no.
  • Ragi 3tbsps
  • Ghee 1 tsp
  • Water little
  • Cinnamon powder a pinch
  • Jaggery 2 tsps

Procedure

  • Soak apple in salt water to wash off the pesticides on the skin for few minutes.
  • Grind the apple with skin or without skin and keep aside.
  • Take a pan, add water and jaggery and allow it to boil.
  • Once the water starts boiling add ragi flour and stir continuously and mix together to remove lumps.
  • Once ragi is cooked, add ghee and grounded apple paste to the ragi and mix well.
  • Stir it together for few seconds and switch off the heat.
  • Make sure we are not cooking apple too much.
  • Serve hot or refrigerate it for half an hour and serve with Grated nuts.

Notes:

  • Ragi is used for its good iron and calcium content. It’s as filling as our routine cereals we take.
  • Its best used for kids as ragi helps in bone formation and healthy teeth too.
  • It’s easily cooked and mixed with various ingredients to make it healthier as we mixed apple that is rich in soluble fiber and also Vitamin C and made the recipe more nutritious.
  • Best for breakfast option and evening snack once the kids come back from school , this recipe can be served to replenish their nutrition.

Preparation time: 2 mins

Cooking time: 7 mins

Serving Size: 1 no.

  1. Ragi Idli

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Ingredients:

  • Idli Rice/ or idli rawa -1 cup
  • Ragi flour/finger millet flour -2 cups
  • Whole Urad dal (whole/without skin) – 1 cup
  • Fenugreek seeds -1/2 tsp
  • Salt as needed

Procedure:

  • Wash and soak urad dal + fenugreek seeds for 4 hours. Wash and soak rice separately for 4-5 hours or we get lidi rawa separately which can be soaked and added directly to urad dal after grounded.
  • Grind urad dal adding water little at a time until smooth and fluffy. Remove and keep it in a vessel.
  • Grind rice adding water from time to time to a slightly coarse batter.
  • Now add the urad dal batter, ragi flour and salt to the rice batter and grind everything together until well mixed. The consistency of the batter should be similar to idli batter (neither too thick nor too thin).
  • Remove from the wet grinder and mix it well with your hands. Leave it to ferment overnight or for 7-8 hours. Use a big vessel to prevent it from over flowing as it will double while fermenting. Our Ragi Idli batter is ready.

Method

  • Heat water in an idli vessel or steamer. Mix the fermented ragi idli batter well and pour a ladle of batter into the idli molds and place it inside the steamer or idli cooker.
  • Steam cook for 10-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the idli comes out clean. Once done sprinkle water and remove from the mold after 2-3 minutes.
  • Serve hot with sambar or chutney of your choice.

Notes:

  • Ragi idli is a steamed recipe and it will gain lot of nutritional value.
  • Best had for breakfast options. It is also a good tiffin option for school or evening snack once the child returns from school
  • Easily digestible and has good probiotic bacteria as it is fermented.
  • Calcium rich with less fat.

Preparation Time: 30mins

Cooking time : 20 mins

Serving size: 4 no.s

  1. Ragi coconut cookies

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Ingredients:

  • ¾ cup desiccated coconut / dried coconut
  • ¾ cup ragi flour / finger millet flour (can use even ragi puttu podi for the best crust)
  • ½ cup wheat flour or plain flour/ maida (if possible use unbleached flour)
  • 150 grams unsalted butter
  • 150 grams jaggery
  • 1 tbsp. honey
  • 1 to 2 tsp. Vanilla extract
  • 1 small egg

Procedure:

  • Take butter and jaggery in a bowl and beat them together till light and fluffy.
  • Once it is done add egg and beat it in a blender. Also add vanilla extract and mix well
  • Now add coconut, wheat flour and maida. Blend them continuously.
  • Once a moist dough is formed, sprinkle honey all over evenly and mix it.
  • Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
  • Preheat the oven to 180 C for at least 15 mins.
  • Make balls and flatten them slightly on the baking sheet.
  • Bake the balls till done. It may take around 10 mins.
  • Make these in batches till the entire dough is finished.
  • Cool the ragi biscuits on a wire rack. Store in an airtight container and use up within 2 weeks.

Notes:

  • These biscuits are very healthy and has good energy.
  • Can be used as an interval snacks for the kids instead of regular biscuits as these contain ragi which has calcium and iron.
  • As they contain wheat flour too fiber is also well incorporated in the recipe.
  • Kids like cookies and tend to go out and buy them. Instead these can be prepared at home with good sanitation and hygiene.
  • Overall, nutritious and kids love biscuits as their snacks, Hence, a well nutritious and filling recipe.

Preparation Time: 1hr

Cooking time: 10mins

Serving size: 4 no.s of biscuits.

  1. MULTI GRAIN DOSA

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Ingredients:  1:4 ratios

  • 1 cup Urad dal (soak separately)
  • 1 cup of each jowar , ragi, bajra, brown rice ( anyother millet combination) (soak all together)
  • 2 tsp methi seeds
  • Salt

Preparation:

  • Soak
  • Grind all together and make a batter.
  • Leave it to ferment.
  • Add salt just before cooking
  • Make dosa on the pan and serve hot.

Notes:

  • Because of the colour of ragi, dosa is modified to be mixed with different grains and made acceptable to the eyes. As it is said, we eat first with our eyes.
  • We can mix only ragi and dal and rice and make dosas. But, making a multi grain dosa will also give various nutrients that each ingredients have.
  • Kids usually get bored with regular breakfast options hence, such innovative and different ingredients should be used to get various nutrients.
  1. Ragi and Nuts laddoo

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Ingredients:

  • Ragi 3 tbsps
  • Almonds 4 nos.
  • Walnuts 4 no.s
  • Coconut 1.5 cup
  • Elaichi 4 no.s
  • Jaggery 1 cup
  • Sesame seeds 2 tbps

Procedure:

  • Roast ragi flour in 1 tbsp. ghee till it turns aromatic.
  • Dry roast almonds, walnuts and set aside
  • Lightly roast coconut and sesame seeds. Cool them.
  • Grate jaggery and set aside.
  • Now blend dry ingredients together or separately i.e., almonds, walnuts, coconuts, sesame seeds and elaichi
  • Now add Ragi flour in the blender and jaggery and blend well.
  • Let the oil in the nuts and other ingredients ooze out and mix well in the blender.
  • Make balls while the mix is still warm. If needed add melted warm ghee and make balls.
  • Ragi and nuts laddoo are ready to eat.

Notes:

  • As it is laddoo kids like to carry them in their wrist while studying or playing and eat.
  • They can be stored for weeks.
  • Most of the kids feel stressed up during their exams and tend to loose hair.
  • As ragi and nuts contain iron it will help them gain lustrous hair.
  • Also nuts contains good fats which will help the kids to have a good memory.

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 10 mins

Serving size: 5 no.s of laddoos

  1. Ragi Banana Chocolate Cake

Ragi Banana Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all purporse flour
  • 1/2 cup finger miller flour (ragi flour)
  • 1/2 cup of cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3 large eggs or Flaxmeal Egg Replacer
  • 1-1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 1 cup milk or almond milk (vegan)
  • 1 cup oil
  • 1 cup of mashed bananas

Directions for Ragi Banana Chocolate Cake Recipe

  • To begin making the Chocolate Banana Finger Millet Cake Recipe, first get all the ingredients ready.
  • Next, preheat the oven to 180 C and grease and flour a large loaf pan or a spring foam pan or a bunt pan
  • Sift the flours, cocoa powder, along with baking powder and salt. Keep aside. I like to double sift the flours as it incorporates a good amount of air.
  • In a large bowl add in the oil, sugar, eggs (Flaxmeal Egg Replacer), vanilla essence and milk. Beat together all the ingredients until combined.
  • Gradually beat in the flour mixture and finally the bananas. Beat until all the ingredients are well combined.
  • Pour the cake batter into the greased pan, place it into the oven to bake for about 35 to 45 minutes until a tester when inserted inside comes out clean.
  • Once the chocolate banana cake is baked, allow it to cool for a little bit before you can cut into slices.
  • Serve the Healthy Finger Millet Banana Chocolate Cake along with tea or coffee or even as a healthy snack for the kids.

Note:

  • Cakes are delicious, and healthy if ingredients are planned well.
  • We buy cakes from outside to celebrate birthdays, anniversarys etc. Cakes are a token of celebration.
  • When prepared at home, we can plan healthy nutrients and prevent bacterial contamination and prepare hygienically.
  • As kids love cake delicacies, they can get good nutrients like calcium, iron, good calories too from ragi and as we are adding banana it had good antioxidants like zinc and gives us energy too.

Preparation time: 1 hr

Cooking time: 40 mins

Serving size: Half a kg cake

Let’s make healthy combinations for the kids and make them happy and stay healthy.

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