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Special Recipes for Baby, Post Partum Mothers, Diabetes

Sibi’s Gold Coin

Have you ever wondered a chef making gold coins? These gold coins are edible unlike the expensive ones created by a goldsmith. At this point in time, when the gold price is skyrocketing, make these gold coins at home and stay happy!

 

gold-coin

Preparation Time : 30 minutes
Cooking Time : 10 minutes
Servings : 4

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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.

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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

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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.

ragiputtu

 

Ingredients:

Raagi flour – 2 cup
Grated Coconut – 12 tsp
Water
Salt

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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.

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Ingredients:

Wheat flour/Atta – 2 cup
Grated Coconut – 12 tsp
Water
Salt

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