Many of the delicious veggie side dishes can be made ahead, which frees up stovetop or oven space and gives the flavors a chance to meld.
Preparation time 20 minutes
Total time 1 Hour
Yields 6 Cups
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Eggless Shah Jeera and Cardamom Cake
An eggless cake flavoured with shah jeera and cardamom which will definitely become one of your favorites. This is a nice basic recipe to have on hand for folks who need an eggless cake for various reasons whether health, allergic, religious etc.
Preparation Time 15 minutes
Cooking time 45 minutes
Yields 12 servings
Ingredients
All Purpose Flour 1 and 1/2 cups
Baking Powder 1 and 1/2 tsp
Baking Soda 1/2 tsp
Salt 1/4 tsp
Sugar/Splenda 3/4 cup
Butter, Softened 1 stick or 8 ounce
Unsweetened Applesauce 1/4 cup
Yogurt 2% 1/2 cup
Milk 3 Tbsp
Vanilla Extract 1/2 tsp
Ground cardamom 1 tsp
Shah Jeera 2 tsp
Ragi puttu
Ragi/ finger millet is rich in calcium, fibre, protein, iron and other minerals. It is a low fat cereal and most of the fats are in the unsaturated form.In southern parts of India, pediatricians recommend finger-millet-based food for infants of six months and above because of its high nutritional content, especially Iron and calcium. Home made Ragi malt happens to be one of the most popular infant food even to this day.Consumption of Ragi based diet is helpful for people with diabetes because of the higher fiber content as compared to rice and wheat. And also reduces starch digestibility and absorption.Ragi belongs to low to moderate glycemic index food category.
Ingredients:
Raagi flour – 2 cup
Grated Coconut – 12 tsp
Water
Salt
Gothambu chiratta puttu
When it comes to breakfast, it should be healthy as well as delicious, to kick-start the day. One such breakfast recipe is Puttu, which is commonly made with roasted rice flour or wheat flour. Here I am using a chiratta(coconut shell) puttu maker.Puttu is something that is truly Keralite but adopted by Srilankan household as well.
Ingredients:
Wheat flour/Atta – 2 cup
Grated Coconut – 12 tsp
Water
Salt
Mutton veggie soup
This is one of my favorite soup in the whole world. To top it off, this mineral rich bone soup is very good for health.
Ingredients
Goat/Mutton – 250 gm
Bay leaves – 2
Pepper corns – 2 tsp
Cinnamon – 1 stick
Cloves-2 no
Onions(chopped) – 1
Carrots(chopped) – 2
Broccoli head (chopped)-1 medium
Ginger (crushed) – A small piece
Green chillies( chopped )- 1No
Salt – As reqd
Pepper powder – As reqd
oil
Water – 2 cups Continue reading Mutton veggie soup