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Moringa Raagi Adai

Moringa leaves are rich in vitamins and iron and if taken regularly it provides us various health benefits such as healthy bones, helps in increasing WBC, to fight anemia etc., There are a wide variety of recipes/ways to consume moringa leaves. In today's recipe, i'm sharing my own go to breakfast recipe as it does not require any preparation time as such. I can prepare this while the tawa gets heated up as i have home grown moringa tree and is totally oraganic. Love the way it just branches out with a lot of flowers and drumsticks. I have shared the picture of the beauty as well. I have used organic green chillies from my terrace garden. Look how beautiful it is! Ingredients: 3/4 cup raagi flour 1/2 cup of moringa leaves 1 large onion, thinly sliced 1 green chilli, finely chopped salt to taste 1 tbsp ghee/cooking oil Water as required, to knead the flour Steps: 1. In a mixing bowl, add moringa leaves, sliced onions, chopped green chillies, salt and raa...

Ragi Sweet Semiya

Finger Millet or Ragi is a healthy traditional cereal and is gluten free, helps in reducing body weight. Also the cereal is rich in carbs, fibre, vitamins and good carbohydrates. For more health benefits, you can start include ragi in any form into your daily recipes like breakfast drink made with ragi sprouted flour, ragi dosai, ragi adai, ragi semiya - sweet & savory, ragi koozh (a staple food in TamilNadu). In today's recipe sharing, we would see a easy recipe of ragi semiya. I call it easy as the semiya is readily available in the market and we just need to soak it for a while and steam it. Then the cooked semiya can either be made into a upma or just mixed with cocounut & sugar to be relished as a healthy breakfast dish! The latter is my all-time favorite breakfast of late. Let's see the stepwise pictures and instructions. Ingredients: 100 gms of ragi semiya (store bought) 3 tbsp freshly grated coconut sugar as per your taste, you can use cane sugar or j...

Sprouts Salad

Sprouts have a major health benefits like providing the daily required amount of proteins and vitamins like C, K and B. They are also rich in fiber thereby helping in weight loss and good for skin health too. While sprouts are readily available in markets these days, it is always a better choice to prepare fresh sprouts at home. I'm happy to share the healthier version of breakfast recipe today using green gram sprouts and chick peas. The ingredients list is quite simple and you do not need to rush to the market. Let's quickly see how to make the amazing sprout salad. Ingredients: 1 cup of moong dhal or green gram 1 large tomato 1 ripe avocado 1/2 cup soaked and cooked chick peas salt to taste 1 tsp lime juice 1 tsp olive oil 1/2 tsp black pepper powder Food Advertising by How to make sprouts salad: 1. Wash and soak the green gram/moong dhal in enough water for 12 hours. 2. Strain the water using a muslin cloth or any cotton cloth. ...

Raagi Adai

Finger millet or raagi is one of the high nutritious cereal. Raagi Adai is made out of raagi flour which is readily available in stores these days. There are two ways to make the raagi Adai. One is salty and the other one is sweet. Here we are going to see about the salt version of raagi Adai. Ingredients: 1 cup raagi flour 2 cup chopped onions 1.5 cups chopped spinach or any greens 2 green chillies, finely chopped 1 tsp salt 2 tbsp oil or ghee Steps: 1. In a large mixing bowl, put together all the ingredients and and start mixing well, so that the salt is evenly spread in the flour. The little bit of water from the onion and spinach itself will make the dough together. 2. Sprinkle some water 💦 and mix it together. Form a dough by adding little water. The consistency should be that of a cookie dough. 3. Make big sized balls out of the batter. 4. Heat a pan, smear some oil or ghee. 5. Place one dough ball in the pan and pat it to...