Easy healthy salad

 

Ingredients needed are fresh Baby spinach, White of  boiled eggs, Avocado cut into pieces and Broccoli cooked in microwave for 2minutes. Mix all in a bowl. For the dressing, in a bowl mix salt. pepper, lemon juice and olive oil. Beat throughly with a fork and pour over the vegetables. For the weight watchers this is a whole  meal with full of nutrients.

Fried eggplant (Brinjal) rice

 

What you need for this rice is

 

1.Rice (cooked) 2cups               

                  2. Brinjal cut into pieces 2 cups                   

3. Onions chopped 1 cup           

4. Tomatoes chopped 1 cup       

5. sambar powder 2 tb sp           

6. For seasoning mustad, meethi seeds , urad dhal and curry leaves.

7. salt to tase                              

8. lemon juice 1 Tb sp.              

9. For garnish - Chopped corriander leaves and few fried cashews.

10. Oil of your choice.                 

Deep fry brinjal pieces and keep aside. In a kadai add 1 Tb sp oil and season with the No:6 items.Add onions and fry till light brown . Add tomatoes and saute for 5 minutes. Now add sambar powder and add rice. Mix well and add salt and lemon juice. Turn off the heat and add the fried brinjal and garnish with nuts and corriander leaves. Have it with raita and pappad.

  

Tapioca ( kappa ) Masala

What you need is

1. Tapioca or Kappa cut into small cubes  2 cups

              2. Small onion (shallot) 5 bulbs

    3. Green chillies  to taste

     4. Turmeric powder 1 tsp

5. Salt  to taste            

6. Curry leaves           

7. Oil  1 Tb sp.           

8. Mustad and Urad dhal for seasoning.             

Cook tapioca with turmeric and salt untill soft. Crush onions and green chillies without adding water. In a pan heat oil and add mustad and urad dhal. Add the cruhed item and fry for 5 minutes. Add curry leaves and cooked tapioca. Add enough water as per your desired consistancy.You can mash it for  a thicker gravy. Serve with dosa, idli or chapathy.

Easy Tasty Egg Roast

For this easy tasty dish you need

1. Boiled eggs  4  ( make few slits )

2. Onion sliced 1 big                      

3. Ginger chopped 1Tb sp              

4. Garlic chopped 1 Tb sp              

                           5. Green chillies  to taste ( cut lengthwise)               

                            6.Corriander leaves 1 bunch                                      

7. Curry laves 3 stems                  

8. Lemon juice 1 Tb sp                

9. Salt to taste                              

10. Corrander powder 2 Tb sp        

11. turmeric powder 1 t sp             

12. Oil 2 Tb sp                                 

                                  

Heat oil in a pan . Add ginger, garlic and chillies. fry for 3 miniutes. Add onions and fry untill light brown . Add salt , corriander powder and turmeric powder. Fry on low heat and add eggs . Cover and keep on low fire for 5 minutes. Add lemon juice., chopped corriander leaves and curry leaves. Goes well with rice and chappathy.

Fried Brinjal Curry

What you need is

1. Brinjal cut into pieces 2cups.
2 .Coconut grated 1/2 cup.
3. Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
4. Red chilles to taste
5. Curd (yogurt) or sour butter milk 1/2 cup.
6. Oil to fry.
7. Salt to taste
8. For seasoning-mustad, jeera and curry leaves.

Deep fry brinjal. Keep aside. Grind 2 to 5 ingredients to a smooth paste. Add salt to this paste and bring to boil on a low fire as there is chance to curdle  .Take off from fire and season with mustad,jeera and curry leaves. Add fried brinjal and serve with rice or chappathy.

Healthy Leafy Dosa

 Ingredients
1. Raw rice 1cup
2. Coconut grated 1/2 cup
3 . Red chillies to taste
4. Turmeric powder 1tsp
5. Tamarind to taste
6. Asafotida 1/2 tsp
7. Salt to taste
8. Cooked rice 2Tb optional)
9. Chopped corriander leaves 1 cup (can substitute with drumstick leaves, methy leaves ,Palak or cabbage)

Soak rice for 4 to 5 hours. Gind with all the  ingredients from  2-8 to a smooth batter.Keep the batter for 4 hours.(if keeping for  more hours or overnight keep in the refregerator ). Add the chopped leaves.
.Make dosa with or without oil. Have it with your favourite chutny or pickle.

Moong and banana curry

You need
1.Moong 1/2cup
2.Raw banana 1
3.coconut grated 1/2 cup
4.red chillies to taste
5.turmeric powder 1tsp
6.tamarind or kodam puli to taste
7.salt
For seasoning-oil,mustad,urad dhal and curry leaves.

Procedure

Cook moong with enough water in a pressure cooker. In this add banana pieces and cook well with salt and tamarind or kodam puli.Grind coconut,chillies and turmeric to a smooth paste . Add the masala to the cooked moong and banana. Season with mustad,urad dhal and curry leaves.Healthy,tasty protein/fibre curry is ready to serve with rice or chapathy.

Rice balls in dhal gravy

For the rice balls you need
1. Idly rice  1 cup  ( I used brown matta rice)
2. Coconut grated  1/2  cup
3.  Salt to taste

Soak rice for 6 hours or overnight. Grind this with coconut and salt without water (I used my wet grinder ) to a thick dough.

Make small balls with this dough. Keep aside.

For the dhal gravy you need
1.  Tuvar dhal 1/2  cup
2.  Green chillies (cut lengthwise)  4
3.  Red chillies  (cut into pieces)  2
4.  Curry leaves  few
5.  Mustad  1tsp
6.  salt  to taste
7.  Ghee or Oil  for seasoning

Pressure cook dhal with green chillies untill soft. Add salt and enough  water.(it should be watery like rasam).  Do the seasoning with mustad, dry chillies and curry leaves in ghee or oil .Boil the gravy . Put the flame on low and add the rice balls one by one. Cover and cook on low heat for 20 minutes or untill the rice balls are cooked. Once cooked the gravy will get thick . Serve hot.