You can do so much beyond just salads with ‘Sprouts 6 delicious and healthy recipes

With monsoons in full force in many parts of India, we are tempted to eat hot, piping food which are just irresistible! So how about if we add some nutrition in these food. I love sprouts and they are nutritionally very good too. Usually when people hear the word sprouts they think probably yet another boring veggie salad but, we can make it interesting and tasty. I had made some few advances with sprouts this monsoon to make it tasty, tangy and healthier too…

Here is my collection of recipes. It’s personally tried and tested special dishes of sprouts. So put on your chef’s hat and exhibit your cooking skills!

Sprout Cutlet/Tikki

Ingredients:

Mixed sprouts [garbanzo bean (kabuli chana), Green Gram ( moong)] 20 gm
Grated veggies (carrot, potato, pumpkin, lauki, etc.)
Cheakpea Flour (Besan) (just for binding) 1tsp
Semolina (Suji/rawa)-for wrapping
Dry masalas-turmeric powder-1/4tsp
Red chili powder-1/2 tsp
Salt according to taste and tangy spices (chat masala) -pinch

Method:

Boil sprouts and potato. Mash it. Don’t boil other veggies just grate it finely. Mix all the ingredients except semolina (Suji/Rawa). Make flat balls out of the mixture and then wrap it in the semolina and shallow fry it. Finally serve it with chutney or sauce.

2. Sprout Mix

Ingredients:

Mixed sprouts (garbanzo bean (kabuli chana), Green Gram ( moong) 20 gm
Vegetables such as carrot, onion, tomato, beetroot, cucumber, corns Dry masalas-turmeric powder-1/4tsp
Red chili powder-1/2 tsp
Salt according to taste and tangy spices (chaat masala) -pinch

Method:

Take mixed sprouts add finely chopped vegetables and all dry spices. Then serve it with coriander and tamarind sauce (chutney).

3. Sprouts and Paneer Schezwan Cigar

Ingredient

Green Gram (Moong) Sprouts – 1 cup
Grated Cottage Cheese (Paneer) – 1 cup
Szechuan Sauce – 3 tbsp
Sweet and Chili sauce – 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Grated cheese – 1/4 cup
For rolls: wheat flour Indian breads (chapatti) or multi grain flour bread (chapatti).

Method:

In a big mixing bowl, take sprouts, cottage cheese, Szechuan sauce, sweet and chili sauce, cheese and salt. Mix them well. Keep it aside.
Take one wheat flour or multi grain cooked bread (chapatti). Place a portion of the cottage cheese and sprouts mixture at one corner of the bread. Roll it up tightly starting from the end where the filling is placed to make a cigar. Seal the edges of the bread (Chapattis)
Shallow fry it in the pan.

Paneer and Sprouts Szechuan Cigar is ready. Serve them immediately with spicy sauce.

4. Sprout Sandwich

Ingredients:

Mix sprouts
Muti grain bread
Grated vegetable (carrot, pumpkin etc.)
Raw vegetables cut in slice: onion, tomato, cucumber
Grated paneer-1/4th cube
Dry masalas: Red chili powder, turmeric, chat masalas

Method:

Except raw vegetables mix all the ingredients and your filling is ready.

Now take bread apply coriander chutney on it and place the above mixture, place then the raw sliced vegetables and close it with the other slice of bread on it and grill it. Serve hot with sauce.

5. Mixed Sprouts Dosa

Grind sprouts along with steamed Pancake (Idli-dosa) batter, Cumin seeds, garlic, ginger, green chilies along with a little water.
Don’t add too much water.
Add salt and mix.
For the seasoning, finely chopped onions, green chilli, coriander and curry leaves.
Mix with cumin seeds and set aside.
This is an optional step to use as a topping/stuffing for the steamed flat pancakes (dosa).
Heat a girdle over medium heat.
When it is hot enough, pour a ladle of batter and swirl in circular motion to spread it.
Drizzle very little oil around the dosa.
Spread some of the seasoning on the top. The wet surface will help it to stick.
Add a few drops of oil over the onions if required or just press with the ladle so that the onions stick to the steamed pancake (dosa) without falling off.
When it is done on that side flip to other side and
Cook for a minute.
Turn it again, fold and remove into a serving plate.
Repeat the process to make required number of flat pancakes.
For mixed sprout steamed pancake (dosa) with coriander: Now include generous amounts of chopped coriander to the above batter and grind once again.
Make steamed panckaes with this batter following the same process as above.

6. Sprouts Pancake

Ingredients:

Mixed sprouts-20 gm
Ground oats-10 gm or 1 table spoon
Grated vegetables-carrot, bottle gourd, pumpkin, spinach etc.
Dry spices -red chili powder, turmeric, salt to taste

Method:

Grind the sprouts.
Take a bowl and pour the ground powder of sprouts and all the ingredients and add water in it and make a thin batter.
Heat a girdle over medium heat.
When it is hot enough, pour a ladle of batter and swirl in circular motion to spread it.
Drizzle very little oil around the pancake.
Flip it up and cook it from both the sides.