Category Archives: Veg Recipes

Mushroon items, Veg Recipes

Koon Olarthu

Common mushroom, Button Mushroom , or when mature, the Portobello mushroom—is an edible mushroom native to Europe and North America. It is cultivated in more than 70 countries and is one of the most commonly and widely consumed mushrooms in the world.

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Ingredients

Mushroom – 250 gm
(cut into small pieces)
Shallots – 5 no
(finely chopped)
Grated coconut – 1 cup (optional)
Green chillies – 1 no
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Garlic pods – 2 nos
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
Black gram – 1 tsp
Curry leaves – A few
Salt – As needed
Oil – as needed

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Breakfast, Diabetic Diet

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.

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Ingredients:

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

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Breakfast, Diabetic Diet

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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Legume items, Veg Recipes

Kerala Kadala Kurry

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This is a very simple and tasty recipe. Most keralites make this curry similar way and enjoy it with puttu for breakfast or sometimes dinner.

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Ingredients:

Black Kadala – 1 cup
Shallots finely chopped – 1
Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tspn
Salt – to taste
Oil,Curry leaves
Roast and make a fine paste of:

Coriander powder – 1 ½ tspn
Fennel Seeds – 1/4 tspn
Dry red chilies – 3 to 4
Cinnamon – very small piece
Cloves -2
Coconut(grated) – 4 to 5 tspns
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Salads

Cucumber Raita

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Raita is a simple Indian side dish made with vegetables added to spiced yogurt generally served as a cool, refreshing accompaniment with Biriyani or fried rice.

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Ingredients

2% Yogurt 1 cup

Pickle cucumber(finely chopped) 1

Shallots (finely chopped) 4

Green chilli (finely chopped) 1

Tomato (finely chopped) 1

Coriander leaves(finely chopped) 2 tsp

Cumin powder 1 tsp

A dash of black pepper

Salt to taste

Method

1 In a bowl, stir yogurt until it is smooth.

2 Mix it with the chopped vegetables, cumin, pepper and salt

3 Garnish with a sprinkle of cumin powder and chopped coriander on top.

4 Serve chilled.