DUDHI HALVA, BOTTLEGOURD HALVA, LAUKI KI HALVA

Lauki halva is made with  milk and sugar.  you can add sugar free for making it diet friendly.

The bottle gourd is low in fat and cholesterol yet high in dietary fibre. It contains 96% water and 100gm of it contains around 12 Kcal. It is rich in iron and also has vitamins C and B complex.  Its high water content makes it very cooling. The cooked Bottle Gourd is cooling, calming, diuretic and easy to digest. It is also effective against constipation and other digestive disorders.  It carries the potential to break the calculi (stones).  A glass of juice with lime juice consumed is quite beneficial.  

ASHGOURD HALVA, POOSHNIKA HALVA, KUMBALANGA HALVA, SAFED BOPLA HALVA, sugar free, diet friendly

Ashgourd halva is made out of grated ashgourd, milk and sugar.  It is a very easy preparation and a very nice sweet dish.

Beetroot sago kheer, beetroot javarisi payasam

Beetroot sago kheer is a delicious kheer made out of grated beetroot, sago and milk.  If loaded with dry fruits,it is awesome.

     Beetroot’s amazing range of vitamins and nutrients have been shown to boost your immune system, helping you better fight off infection. These nutrients help stimulate the reoxygenation of cells and the production of new blood cells.  health-benefits-of-beet-root.html

Let us have a look at the recipe now:

Beetroot sago kheer

BEETROOT VADA

Beetroot vada is made with beetroot, tuvar dal, chana dal & curry leaves.  Beetroot is a super-storehouse of both vitamin C and iron.   Both are essential elements for health. 

Beetroot vada

EASY BISCUIT CAKE l Cakes/bakes

Biscuit cake is made easily with parle glucose biscuit, sugar and cocoa powder.  whenever we want to celebrate birthday of our children in the building, we make this easy cake and they love it.  It is easy, healthy and  tasty too.

Easy Biscuit cake

GOOSEBERRY CHUTNEY, NELLIKKA CHUTNEY, AMLA CHUTNEY, AVLA CHUTNEY

Goosberry contains a lot of Vitamin C.  It is eaten by everybody in the form of raw, or pickle or chutney or gooseberry rice etc.  It is also used for ayurvedic medicines since it has got lot of medicinal values. If one avla taken in the morning  is good for diabetic people.

Gooseberry chutney

LASOONI SAMBAR

LASOONI SAMBAR

Lasooni sambar is made with lasoon and masala made out of kopra, onion  and lasoon.  It is not like the normal sambar but resembles the Rasam.    It goes well with rice.

DABELI OR KUTCHI DABELI

Dabeli or Kutchi dabeli or Double roti is a snack food of India.  Originated from the Kutch region of Gujarat, it is a spicy  street food and a snack item with a cup of hot  tea or coffee. It is  made with boiled potatoes mixed with the dabeli masala, garlic chutney, date tamarind chutney then put in the Pav or Bun garnished with nylon sev, onion, roasted masala peanuts.

In Maharashtra, the Vada Pav is famous, similarly, in Gujarat, this delicious dish is famous.  It is not only famous in Gujarat, but in other parts of India also.

If you have the chutney items and masala ready at home, it is an easy dish to make at home.

Let us have a look at the recipe now:

Dabeli

Yam Chutney, Suran Chutney, Chena Kizhangu Chutney, Elephant Foot chutney

Yam Chutney can be made very easily and goes well with rice, chapati, dosa and Idli.  I made this chutney as accompaniment for Idli today.  Normally, we use coconut for the chutney's but for this chutney i did not use coconut, still it was very tasty.

Let us have a look at the recipe now:

Ingredients:

1/4 cup yam cooked with little salt and turmeric
1/4 cup grated coconut.
1 green chilli
1 small piece of ginger finely chopped
1/2 cup curd
1-2 garlic cloves (optional I did not use it)
salt as per taste.


Seasoning:

1 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
a pinch of hing powder
few curry leaves
2-3 broken red chilli

Method:

Put the cooked yam, coconut, chilli, ginger, garlic, salt and grind
add some water while grinding.  when you get a smooth paste of it,
add the curd and pulse it for few seconds.
adjust the consistency by adding water.
season with the items mentioned under seasoning.

You can make avla (gooseberry) chutney, mango  chutney (mango kept in salt water for few days), pumpkin chutney etc.

see more chutney varieties


green-chutney-coriander-chutney.html
red-theeka-chutney-for-chaats.html
dry-lasoon-chutney.html
date-tamarind-sweet-chutney.html 


the above are for chaats

other chutney varieties.

mango-chutney-manga-chammandi.html
ginger-chutney-inji-chutney-inji-curry.html
uppu-mangai-arachukalaki-azhugu.html
banana-stem-chutney-vazhathandu-chutney.html
snake-gourd-chutney-padval-chutney.html
mango-jam-mango-chutney-mango-spread.html
cherry-and-tomato-chutney.html
pumpkin-flaxseed-gun-powder-diet.html
vepilakkati-narghanga-elai-podi-urugai.html
gooseberry-chutney-nellikka-chutney.html 

FRIED RICE

Fried rice is made withe some mixed vegetables, soya sauce and pepper powder.  It is another way of making the children to eat the vegetables who are reluctant to eat vegetables viz. carrots, beans etc. You can serve this vegetable manchurian, gobi manchurian etc.

see the link for  vegetable-manchurian.html 

mix vegetable fried rice