Skip to main content

Posts

Chocolate dipped strawberries

French Beans Kootu/Stew

French beans have plenty benefits like eye care, improved bone health, control diabetes, improve immunity, prevent colon cancer and reduce heart risks. In today's blog post, we are going to see healthy vegetarian dish made using lentils and french beans. Kootu or stew is a south indian recipe, which is nothing but pressure cooked lentils with onions, tomatoes, garlic (helps reducing gastric troubles caused by lentils), turmeric powder. Then any vegetable like cabbage, squash, french beans, carrots, peas could be added and cooked for few more whistles or until done. Then comes the freshly ground cocount, cumin and black pepper corns paste. This spicy and tasty paste gets added to the pressure cooked dhal/lentil + vegetable combo to make the kootu or stew. Then you can temper it with coconut oil or any cooking oil along with mustard, urad dhal/black gram and few red chillies. Let's see how to make French beans kootu. Ingredients: 1 cup masoor dhal 1 large onion, roug...

Almond meal

When you have kids at home, it is quite challenging to provide them a balanced diet for them. Sometimes the food they like the most might turn as an aversion for them just in few weeks of time. Thinking of how to add proteins to a kids drink or corn flakes i just decided to prepare homemade almond meal. Almond meal is rich in proteins and helps in easy digestion too. This is not only good for kids but also for adults as well. You can add a spoonful of almond meal to breakfast bowl or cup of hot milk or hot water and sip it in the morning. Sometimes you shall add it to the chapati/wheat flour also while making chapati for the kids. Multi-grain porridge is one of the breakfast recipes these days kids have due to restricted time in the weekday mornings. Almond meal can be added while making the porridge. Ingredients: 1 cup of raw almonds 1/2 cup of sugar, can be adjusted per your taste Food Advertising by How to make almond meal: 1. Take a clean and ...

Eggless Marble pound cake

Marble pound cake looks delightful and colorful as it has both cocoa and the white cake batter in it. The design however depends on the swirl you give it to the batter as final finish before baking. The was moist and dense. Let's see how to make the marble pound cake. This is an eggless version of marble pound cake. I substituted yogurt in place of eggs. The texture of the cake is dense and moist at the same time. Ingredients: 1.5 cups of all purpose flour 3/4 cup of cocoa powder 1 cup of sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence 1/2 cup of oil 1/2 cup of hot water 3/4 cup of yogurt or curd 1/2 tsp baking soda Food Advertising by Food Advertising by How to make marble pound cake: 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C or 350 degrees F for atleast 15 minutes. Grease a loaf pan with oil and then dust it with flour. Keep it ready. 2. Sieve together flour and baking soda. 3. In a mixing bowl, add a cup of...