Spicy Lentil without Oil

You can call this as lentil soup and eat with baguette, naan rotis or with soft cooked brown rice or just without anything as light dinner.

here you go :

Ingredients:

1) any whole lentil (not dal)

2) Tomatoes

3) Onions

4) Potatoes

5) Turmeric Powder

6) Salt

7) Tamarind or lemon juice or dried skin of Kokam fruit

Spice mix Ingredients:

1) Coriander Seeds

2) cinnamon stick one small

3) Cumin

4) Red Chilies dried

5) Dry unsweetened coconut flakes or fresh grated coconut

6) 2 Cloves

7) 2 Cardamom

8) pepper corns

Procedure:

1. Soak the lentil of your choice for about an hour or more possible.
   
2. In a cooking pot let half a liter water boil, now add deseeded finely chopped tomatoes onion turmeric powder, soaked lentil and Salt to it.
3. Switch the flame to medium cover with lid and let it cook for about 30 35 mins.
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6. Soak the tamarind or dried skin of kokam fruit on water for 20 mins
   
7. by the time your lentil is getting cooked and kokam is getting soaked in water we can prepare the spice mix.
8. Take all spices mentioned and roast in a little bit of oil till everything is bit crunchy and be carefull you dont burn them so do it on medium flame.
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10. Put all the roasted ingredients in blender and some water in it and grind it to a very fine paste
    
11. As soon your lentil is soft cooked add the grinded paste to your lentil and also add the tamarind or kokam soaked water to it or lemon juice will also do.
12. Use the spicy dried chilies specially the Thai or Indian chilies.
13. let all this mixture boil well and simmer for a while
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15. Enjoy!!!!  and let me know your reviews and comments.

Multigrain Cabbage Paratha

Parathas or Indian stuffed bread is mostly considered as fast food or food that loaded with calories and too much fat.Here i have my recipe which is loaded with less calories because am going to use gluten free whole grains flours in this.

Ingredients;

1. Cabbage
2. Pearl millet , finger millet,foxtail millet Flour
3. Brown rice flour 
4. whole grain wheat and any available pulse flour 
5. Green chilies 
6. onion
7. Carom seeds
8. sesame 
9. Sea Salt
10. Cumin Powder 
11. Lemon juice or Dry Mango powder
12. Cold pressed oil

Procedure:

1) Grate the Cabbage in a mixing bowl.
If you grate it coarsely then you will feel the crisp while eating the bread  so its your choice how you would like to have it.
2) Chop onions and green chilies  just as its shown like in picture  and add to the grated cabbage.

3) Add cumin powder 1 spoonful Carom seeds 2 spoonful half lemon juice or dry mango powder sesame seeds salt and Astefodia and salt.

 4) Now after you have finished adding all the above ingredients just mix everything well and start adding all the above mentioned whole grain flours all flours in 1:1 proportion.

 5) Mix it all with not too much water because the cabbage tends to release water so please add water very slowly and be careful you dough is not too lose, it needs to be nice thick. keep it aside for 15 mins and start making small parathas with a rolling pin.

6) This paratha do not have primary ingredient as wheat thats why it contains less gluten and it wont be so easy to make parathas , so u need a little practice and it might even break in the beginning.

7) You do not need to necessarily add oil during roasting because you have already added oil in the dough. Enjoy the parathas with mint chutney.

8) So Friends please try this recipe enjoy it and please let me know your reviews on it.

The thick mix veg soup

Here is a very healthy and delicious soup recipe for you. This recipe is without any broth and butter cream or fatty stuff and additional sauces.

You can always make this on weekdays when you are too tired from work and still want to eat something healthy and stomach filling with less efforts.

so here we go...

Here is are the simple ingredients we need

1. Potatoes 
2. Carrots
3. Onion
4. Broccoli
5. Parsley root if available
6. Pepper 
7. Sea Salt
8. Oregano dried or fresh optional
9. Caraway seeds this is must 
10. Extra virgine olive oil or any cold pressed oil NO REFINED OIL 

lets get started as we have all the necessary ingredients 

1. In a cooking bowl add very little oil. chop all your veggies and add to it.
2. You don't need to chop them all very fine just cut them and add them. Here carrots potato and onion are main ingredients rest veggies you can add by your choice for eg even pumpkin, cauliflower beetroot also could taste great. Just keep in mind to take equal portions of each to get the right taste.
3. To this add 4 to 5 pepper corns some sea salt and caraway seeds and some water that it just covers all vegetables cover the bowl and let it cook on a low to medium flame till everything is soft cooked.

4. After its soft cooked let it cool down for a while and use a hand mixer and grind it well to form a thick paste.Now you can put some oregano and Rosemary in it.

5. once you have grind everything if you think its too thick you can add a little water and let it cook for a little more time. but i would recommend you to keep it thick that tastes much better and even healthier.

6. If you do not have all these herbs like parsley or oregano rosemary no problem just use the regional herbs available it can be anything Dill or coriander or whatever you have fresh at home.

7. Now add some fresh grounded Pepper or fresh grounded chili flakes and if you wish very little cheese from your region. I like this recipe with Edammer cheese. But as i said its not at all necessary to add cheese because the soup will taste very good even without any cheese. Enjoy it with a whole multi-grain bread.

Important Tip : Do not pressure cook these Veggies.

Cooking on Low flame and longer time will help you get the right taste

Use organic Vegetables only.

             

The whole Grain Spinach Rice

Here am writing a blog of real good healthy recipies which are good for your tummy and equally delecious too.....

Whole grains contains a lots of dietary fibres and minerals which are totally removed in white grains.

the White Grains consists only of endosperm which consists of carbohydrates and proteins only.

Whenever i talk to my freinds that i eat only whole grains their very first reaction .... how long does it take to cook and second one is its sooo borring how can u eat that....

Well.... the answere to all your questions is right here in my blog yummy for tummy

Here i begin with a very simple recipie... Inspiration for starters.

Ingredients:

1) Whole grain rice also known as brown rice

2) Tomatoes

3) Spinach

4) cumin powder or whole cumin

5) Astefodia

6) Salt

7) Coriander Optional

8) Turmeric powder or a small piece of kurkuma

Ingredients for tempering:

1) Cold pressed oil or /Ayurvedic Ghee

** Please do not use refined oil for this recipe that will affect the taste as well as the nutritional value**

2) Mustard

3) Cumin

4) Green chilies / red chilies as you like 

Procedure:

1) Soak the brown rice in water for an hour or more depending how much time you have.

If you do not have time then its okay you can just use it directly.

Imp tip:  If you buy a very good quality organic brown rice then i recommend you not to wash the rice because that will lose some minerals or vitamins from the barn layer, depends on the quality you are buying and my recommendation is to buy always organic products then there will be no question of chemicals sprayed on it.

2) Use a cooking bowl to cook this rice or a pressure cooker if you want to save time its your choice.

3) Bring water to boil and add freshly cut tomatoes , cumin powder or whole cumin salt turmeric powder and rice to it. 

4) Water quantity should be triple times that of rice.

If you are cooking in pan it would take 35 mins on medium flame and if using pressure cooker then I recommend 7 8 whistles.

5) Once the rice is enough cooked add finely chopped Spinach to it.

6) Add little water if its completely drained and let it cook for a few minutes till the spinach is soft cooked.

7) Now you can make a tempering with mustard cumin seeds and chillies and garnish with corriender.

This is a very simple recipie to start cooking with whole grains and organic vegetables.

Enjoy this rice with Kadhi or simply make more watery like a thick soup.