Baked Cinnamon Apples

Baked Cinnamon Apples

Ingredients:
10 apples - cored, peeled and sliced thinly
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice (optional)
1 dash salt
1 dash nutmeg

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375
2. Place cut and peeled apples in a mixing bowl and gently mix all the ingredients together.
3. Put apples in a non-stick pan, cover, and place in the oven. (Note: You can just mix the ingredients together in the pan if it’s non-stick. Or, you can coat the pan with a little margarine first to prevent sticking.)
4. Bake for 45 minutes, stirring at least once every 15 minutes.
5. Once the apples are soft, cook for a few more minutes to thicken the cinnamon sauce.

Healthy Jilledu kaya sweet

Ingredients: -

1. Dates Paste
2. Grated coconut
3. Brown Rice Rava
4. Milk

Preparation:

1. Cook brown rice ravva with milk and water 

 

2. Cook coconut with dates paste

 

3. Make coconut and dates balls

 

4. Keep these in brown rice cooked layer

 

5. Put these balls into idly cooker and cook.

 

 

 

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.