Tag: healthyfood

Wheat Cake

After I started baking I literally have stopped going towards the bakery which I think is a good sign and I always look for recipes that is healthy as maida/plainflour is not my cup of tea. So here I am with a recipe I tried from the web and it is one of the yummy cakes I came across which is guilt free 🙂 . Lets begin no? 🙂

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Ingredients :

Atta/Whole Wheat – 2 cups

1 to 2 cups of jaggery , cane sugar (intent is to refrain using refined sugar)

1/2 tb baking powder

1 1/2 tb baking soda

2 tb cinammon powder

3/4 cup refined oil (I used rice bran oil)

1 cup curd

water as required

walnuts, raisins , figs – a fistful

Method (I use a connection micro wave, so if you are using a oven please adjust accordingly)

1.)Pre Heat the microwave to 180 deg C | for oven 200 deg c is good

2.)Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl

3.)Blend the curd and oil together in another bowl.

4.) Mix the dry and wet ingredients and mix well. Add water as required to get the dripping consistency .

5.) add the dry fruits the way you want . I chose to garnish them , sometimes I mix them with the cake mixture itself

6.) Oil bottom of the baking dish and bake at 180 deg C for about an hour , of course checking in regular intervals . The tooth pick has to come clear when inserted and thats the sign of a baked cake .

7.) cut and serve when cool

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Dry ingredients mix

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Wet Ingredients mix

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Blend blend both

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The dry fruit time

Notes : Mixing the ingredients well is key to a good cake is my learning .

You can replace all the ingredients with maida, sugar etc and that will be the regular cake. This is an attempt to eat healthy and yet tasty .

Sugar I added one cup and it was just sweet the way I like and if you are sweet tooth soul then make it 2 cups of sugar (cane) .

 

Oats Dosa

What to make for breakfast is a question I ask myself every morning and sometimes the previous night. Its the most important meal of the day and has to be like a King’s meal I am told . For some unknown reasons I decided to make Oats Dosa . I had not soaked any ingredients required for a regular Dosa and wanted an easy way out too hence the idea 😉 .

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I made this in like 30 mins and wanted to share the recipe .

Ingredients :

Oats : 1 cup (put it in the mixer and powder it)

Rice flour : half cup

Roasted Rava /Semolina : Half Cup (make sure it is not roasted to brown)

Curd : half cup

Onion : 1 finely chopped

Green Chillies : 2 finely chopped

salt to taste

Water as required

Method:

Take a bowl, add oats, rice flour, rava , curd and mix. Add  water and bring it to almost watery consistency. Now add onion and chillies followed by salt and mix well. These are porous crispy dosa like the rava dosa so the consistency has to be watery. Keep it closed for about 30 mins and make Dosa’s hot . They will be crispy , delicious and healthy too :D.I like it this way , you can temper / tadka the batter with oil, peppercorns , jeera too.

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Oats Dosa batter

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Crispy Oats Dosa

 Simplest Onion Chutney 

One onion and 2 green chillies (this can be added basis your liking)  grind  them with salt. It is ready .It was simple and yummy.

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If you cant handle the punch raw onions and chillies bestow upon you ,add some oil to it and it immediately neutralises that flavour  .

Enjoy the dosa and let me know how you liked it 🙂

#Happy eating

 

#kallepori #Bhel

After my regular Sunday Cubbon park time I was stepping out of the park when I saw an old lady unpacking a huge sack near the gate. Very curious I peeped to see what was she trying to unwrap and realised she was preparing to sell kalle pori as she referred them to(Bhel ). I was stumped as I love bhel and i had never seen anything like this before , she read my expression and jumped in to clarify that this was “wheat Bhel” . My happiness knew no bounds 🙂 (Oh!yes , these small things do make me very happy) . She had this north karnataka accent, was very humble and she was talking to the right person as I cant stop myself from trying anything new . Before I realised I asked her how much and bought one litre of it and parted with the cash and walked away…

Once I reached home I inspected the treasure I had with me , this thing was three times the size of the regular Bhel and the puffs were cream in colour  . She had told me “madam you can do oggarane with it “, she meant to say that I can temper(tadka) it and savour . I stored  it carefully in an airtight container .  I woke up this morning to a raining Bangalore and I had this urge to munch on something healthy during the day .. Something which is guilt free . So I prepared this .

Recipe: I added a spoon of olive oil into the wok and when it heated added mustard , dry red chillies , peanuts , turmeric powder , asafoetida and sautéed .. Once I felt it was ready I put the stove off and added red chilly powder and mixed it . Finally added the puffed wheat corns into the mixture and voila you get to see the result and it tasted yummy too . I didn’t add salt to this as I didn’t feed the need to … What better way to enjoy the Bangalore weather? 🙂

PS: you can make this with the regular bhel and corn flakes too 🙂 image1.JPG