Healthy Bobbatlu

Ingredients:

1. Yellow Split  Dal (Pacchi sanaga pappu)

 

2. Honey

 

3. whole wheat flour

 

 

Preparation:-

1. Cook yellow split Dal in pressure cooker.

 

2. Dry roast cooked yellow split dal add honey to it fry for 10 minutes.

 

3. Make the balls with the above mixture.

 

4. Take maida (or) wheat flour add milk and mix well make dough with that.

 

5. Prepare small balls with above mixture.

 

6. Put the Split dal ball inside the maida and cover it.

 

7. Roll the whole thing with stick in chapathi shape.

 

8. Roast these on nonstick pan without using oil.

 

 

 

Sesame seeds Balls (Nuvvula Undalu in Telugu)

Ingredients

Dry roasted Sesame seeds – 1 cup

Fresh dry roasted coconut powder – ½ cup

Dates paste – 1 cup

Honey – 2 or 3 Tea spoons

Preparation:-

1. Lightly dry roast the sesame seeds.

2. Light dry roast the fresh coconut powder.

3. Prepare dates paste by removing seeds from them either by using stone grinder or mixi.

4. Take the sesame seeds, coconut powder, dates paste into stone grinder or big bowl mix well with stone or any wood stick little bit.

5. Add honey to these mixture and mix well with hand again, I felt little hard to mix them with hand I use my stand mixer with dough hook to mix these ingredients.

6. Now prepare balls with this mixture. Nice healthy sesame balls are ready to serve.

 

Healthy Peanut balls:-

 

Ingredients: -

Dry roasted peanuts - 1 cup

Dates paste - 1 cup

Elachi powder - little

Honey - 2 or 3 Tea spoons

Preparation:-

 

1. Lightly dry roast the peanuts, you can remove the skin or upper layer if you don't want, I generally don't

remove the skin.

 

2. Prepare dates paste by removing seeds from them either by using stone grinder or mixi.

 

3. Take the peanuts into stone grinder or big bowl break the peanuts using stone or any wood stick little

bit, don't make powder. Just break them little bit.

 

4. Add elachi powder and dates paste and mix well these ingredients.

 

5. Add honey to these dates, and peanuts mixture and mix well with hand, I felt little hard to mix them with

hand I use my stand mixer with dough hook to mix these ingredients.

 

6. Now prepare balls with this mixture. Nice healthy peanuts balls are ready to serve.

 

Because we are not using joggery to prepare these balls those are very good for health.

With above mentioned quantities I get approximately 10 balls.

 

Peanuts have lot of protein, dates have lot of iron, and these balls can eat by anyone daily two balls are

very good for health. They are really tasty than normal peanut balls.

 

Flax Seeds Burfi By Manujulas Kitchen

Ingredients:

1/2 cup golden flax seed powder or meal

1/2 cup coarsely ground walnut

1/2 cup coarsely ground almonds

1/2 cup coarsely ground cashews

1 teaspoon crushed cardamom about 8 cardamoms

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup water

Method of Preparation:

1. Grease the 8 inch plate and set aside.
2. Dry roast flex seed, over medium heat for about 1 minute. Add walnut, almond and cashew powder. Dry roast for about 2 minutes stirring continuously. Do not over roast the nuts, nuts will become oily.
3. Turn off the heat. Add cardamom mix it well and take out in a bowl. Set aside.
4. In same sauce pan boil the sugar and water together over medium heat. After syrup come to boil lower the heat to medium and let it boil for 1-2 minutes. To check the syrup put a drop over dry surface and check with finger syrup should be just sticky. On candy thermometer it should show 205 degree Ferranti.
5. Turn off the heat. Add the nuts mixture to the syrup. Mix it well and quickly spread over the greased plate by pressing from all sides to keep 1/4 inches in thickness and the edges clean.
6. Cool for a few minutes and cut them in about 1-1/2 inch square shape

Changes I have done:

Instead of 1 cup sugar added 1/2 cup (or little lesser for little less sweet) honey and did all the remaining as above, it worked great and tasted great.

 

Nice Natural Healthy Salads by NLS Team

1. Tri Color Kids Favorite Salad


Ingredients:
Carrot 1Medium
Grated Coconut Half
Coriander Small Bunch
OR
Any other thick green fruit or vegetable 1 Medium
Honey 1 Spoon
Dates Long Pieces 24

Method:
Grate or make small pieces of carrot and coconut. Clean and chop coriander.
Arrange these three items like Indian flag. Put honey in round shape and arrange dates in that.
It is favorite salad of my friend’s kids in my parties.

2. Fresh Seeds Salad

Ingredients:
Fresh Green Peas 50grams
Sweet Corn Seeds 50grams
Soaked Brown Chick peas 50grams
Soaked Ground Nuts 10 grams
Capsicum 1 Piece
OR
Black Pepper (Optional) 10 Seeds
Tomato 1 Piece
OR
Lemon Juice (Optional) 2 Spoons
Wash nicely all seeds and mix well in one bowl. Cut tomato and capsicum into small cubes mix with seeds. This one we can consume immediately. Otherwise mix black pepper powder in lemon juice and mix with seeds keep it aside for 15 to 20 minutes and enjoy.

3. RIDGE GUARD

(BEERA KAYA IN TELUGU,
TURAYEE IN HINDI)
Ingredients:
Ridge Guard 1Medium
Ground Nuts (Soaked or Roasted) 2 Spoons (10 seeds)
Green Cucumber (Keera) 1 Medium
Remove only string like ridge, head and tail of ridge guard. Wash cucumber and ridge guard. Grate into a bowl mix with nuts. Serve fresh. Good for diabetic and overweight people also as snack or breakfast.

4. BOTTLE GUARD

(SORA KAYA IN TELUGU,
LOKI IN HINDI)
Ingredients:
Bottle Guard 1 Medium
Pine Apple 4 Slices
Pomegranate 2 Spoons (Seeds)
Wash bottle guard cut or grate into small pieces. Cut pine apple slices. Mix both in a bowl garnish with pomegranate seeds. Good for diabetic also as snack or breakfast.

PAKODAS

Ingredients:
Chick Peas Flour 1Cup
(Basin Ki Ata,Senaga Pindi)
Cauliflower Stems Paste 1Cup
Curd Half Cup
Spinach (Palak) 1Cup
Chilies 3
Onions (Optional) 1
Lemon 2
Coriander 1Cup
Ginger Half inch piece
Cumin Seeds (Jeera) 1 tea spoon
Butter (Meegada, Malai) 2 Table Spoons
Step 1: Cut chilies and onions into small pieces and soak in lemon juice for 20 minutes.
Finely chop spinach, coriander and keep aside.
Paste tender cauliflower stem, boil with curd. Paste ginger and jeera roughly.
Step 2: Keep above ingredients in one bowl and add chick peas flour to make tight batter.
Step 3: Place non-stick dosa pan on stove and coat with quarter spoon butter place the batter in tiny pieces on it and roast and turn with fingers to other side and roast until golden brown.
Serve to kids as side dish with rice or as snack as much as they want.


Tomato, Coconut Patties
(Vadalu)

Ingredients:
Chick Peas Flour 1Cup
(Basin Ki Ata,Senaga Pindi)
Tomatoes 3
Coconut Half Cup
Spinach (Palak) 1Cup
Chilies 3
Onions (Optional) 1
Lemon 2
Coriander 1Cup
Ginger Half inch piece
Cumin Seeds (Jeera) 1 tea spoon
Butter (Meegada, Malai) 2 Table Spoons
Step 1: Cut chilies and onions into small pieces and soak in lemon juice for 20 minutes.
Finely chop spinach, coriander and keep aside.
Paste tomatoes, grate coconut, paste ginger and jeera roughly.
Step 2: Place above ingredients accept tomato paste in in one bowl and add chickpea’s flour to make little loose batter mix with tomato paste spoon by spoon.
Step 3: Place non-stick dosa pan on stove and coat with quarter spoon butter place the batter in small round pieces on it and roast, turn to other side and roast until golden brown.
Eat instead of dinner as many as you want once in month.


CHAKKARA PONGAL

Ingredients:

Brown Rice 1 Cup
Whole Green Gram ¾ Cup
Water 1 Cup
Milk 2 Cups
Milk Cream 2 Spoons (Optional)
(Top layer of boiled milk)
Dates Paste ½ Cup
Coconut ¼ Piece
Cashew 5 or 10 pieces
Raisins 10 Pieces
Honey 4 Spoons
Cardamom 4 Pieces

Wash brown rice, light dry fry whole green gram, mix both of them with 1 cup water and 1 cup milk and boil in pressure cooker until 3 whistles. Add one more cup boiled milk in this boiled brown rice and dal mixture. Take pan dry fry cashew, coconut pieces and raisins. Keep in slim flame and mix cardamoms powder and milk cream. Switch of stove and mix dates paste and honey. Enjoy hot Pongal in festivals only yearly once.

Brown Rice Cooking Instructions

Brown Rice is considered to be one of the most nutritious and healthiest foods. If you are worried about your growing weight, feeling fatigue, more often, want to stay away from diabetes; want to keep your cholesterol level down then brown rice is the right kind of food for you. Therefore every individual should wake up himself and abolish the use of white Rice and supplement it with brown rice.

Brown rice is a very nutritious and healthy product. As of now let us learn how to cook brown rice in a few simple steps:

Cooking brown rice is a little tricky and time taking process. Many people have trouble cooking brown rice in the beginning. Once you cook regularly you get used to it. You must bear this in order get the full nutrients it has. The first step is to clean and rinse the rice properly and soak in lukewarm water for at least half an hour or more. Since brown rice is a whole large grain with upper bran layer intact; it needs to be soaked in lukewarm water for better result.

Here you must learn to add right amount of water to cook brown rice. For cooking brown rice take double the quantity of water to rice. For example:

1.    If you are cooking 2 cups of rice add 4 cups of water. Any thing less makes the rice hard to eat and anything more makes it messy.

2.    Now put on the stove and cook the rice on high flame for 5 to 10 minutes and then reduce the flame letting the rice cook in a simmer for another 20 minutes. It usually takes long time to cook when compared to white rice. Do not bother about the gas expenditure while cooking. Think about the benefits of eating brown rice. Because regular use of brown rice keeps you away from doctors and medicines.

3.    When the rice is cooked take off the stove and keep the lid closed for a while for better results.

Your rice is now ready to serve. Serve it hot with any curry. Regular use of brown rice keeps you fit and healthy. Make a practice of eating brown rice regularly at your home and make your friends and relatives follow the same.

Hope you find this information useful. Keep watching the space for more updates.

Beet Root Curry Recipe

Ingrediants:

Beetroot - 1 Kg
Green chilli - 10
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Curry Leaves
Onions - 2
Salt - for taste
Hing - little
Turmeric powder - pinch
Moong Dal - (30 minutes rinsed in water)
Cumin Powder - 1/2 Teaspoon
Coriander Powder - 1/2 Teaspoon
Chopped coriander

• Remove the upper skin of beetroot using peeler and grate the beetroot.
• Soak moong daal for around 30 min .
• Chop some onions if you would like to use onions but it really adds taste to the curry.
• Chop green chillies.
• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add musturd seeds, cumin seeds.
• Add hing if you would like.
• Now add green chillies and onions and cook it till it is light brown.
• Add grated beetroot and cook it for sometime.
• Add moong daal. If required add water, else fry it in oil itself.
• Fry till moong daal is cooked properly and if needed add water .
• Add salt, chilli powder , cumin powder, sesimi powder, coriander powder and fry till all the moisture is gone.