Healthy Carrot Laddu

Hi All, I am back to my blog after many months...After this break I want to come back to all of you with a sweet. That is Carrot Laddu. Sorry forgot to metion ;) Healthy Carrot Laddu.

The point to be noted is I dint use sugar or jaggery to make this, but believe me its awesome...!!!
My family has lot of diabetics from my mom ,my father in law to my aunt who is my neighbour at Pune, hence just wanted to give them a nice flavour with out disturbing their health.Here is the recipie...Try it out. Doesnt take much time, so it will be a quick serving sweet.

Ingredients :

3 big carrots ( grated)
*Dates syrup made at home ( take a cup of dates,soak in 1 cup of water for half an hour and then blend to gether adding another half cup of water into a smooth paste)
2 tabl spns Milk powder ( optional)
Few Dry fruits ( cashew/badam/walnut)
1 tabl spn oil/butter.

1.Take a kadai, add oil or butter and allow it to get hot.
2.Now fry the dry fruits and take them aside
3.Add the grated carrot to the kadai and fry them nicely until carrots lightly change their color and their aroma hits our kitchen. ( It may take 10-12 mins with continuous stirring)
4.now add  2 to 3 tbl spns of dates syrup and mix it up nicely with the fried carrot and allow them to blend their flavours and change in to a bit thicker mixture.
5.If you cant wait for it to get thicker, we can add milk powder to make the mixture thicker so that we can mould them into laddus.
6.Finally add the dry fruits and switch of the stove.
7.Let them get a bit cool and then make them into shape of laddus.

I bet they are delicious and yummy :)

Pls do let me know your suggestions and feed back !

Mixed Dal Kichdi

Once when I was busy doing window shopping at reliance fresh, just saw a small packet with all dals mixed together , bought it out of excitement, but later on chased by my hubby to just use it and make something tasty out of it... Have a look of the output below ;)

Of course !!!!! It worked out too good.
 
My version of mixed dal kichdi ...
 
Ingredients :
1/2 bowl long grain Rice
1/3 green moong dal
1/3 yellow Moong Dal
1/3 massor dal
1 Small onion chopped
Paste of 2 green chillies & 1" ginger piece ( Paste is optional.Instead use chilli and ginger cut into small pieces )
1 Tbls Oil
1tsp cumin seeds
1/4 tsp Turmeric
1 1/2 tsp salt
pepper/miriyaalu 3- 4

Tempering:
Oil- 1 tblspn
urad dal
chanadal
jeera
redchilli
kaju
kadipattha/ karivepaaku

 
Method :
1. First fry the dals in a spoon of oil for 3 to 4 mins and turn it off.    
1.Now ,Wash and Soak the rice and Dals seperately. Leave for 10min.
2.In a cooker, heat the one spoon of oil and add cumin seeds
3.Add the chopped onion and chiili and ginger paste. Stir and saute for 1min.
4.Add the rice ,pepper and moong Dal.
5.Add the salt and turmeric
6.Make sure not to put too much water .The water should just covers the rice and Dals.
7.turn on the cooker
8.It jus takes the time normal rice would take.
9. Just check accordingly and tun off the cooker and check, pls add some water if necessary

Once the Rice is done, put a small kadai on stove , add oil and let it heat.
Roast kaju till they are roasted well and take them out.
Now in the same kadai add all the ingredients under tempering.Fry nicely until a wonderful aroma hits ur kitchen.Add this to the cooked kichdi and
My god !!! You cant resist it.

Serve it with  Raita

Variation: I can suggest you a masala powder which can be made in your kitchen and added to the above recipie at step 4 with the other ingredients
If you have time and wanted a nice and different taste,
Dry roast 5 cloves + 2 elaichi + 1 dalchin ( half inch )+ few jeera and grind them to a fine powder. It smells awesomee and tastes fantastic when added to the kichdi.

Masala Tomato Rice

Ingredients :

Basmati Rice/Pulav rice : 1 cup
Tomatoes : 5 to 6
Onion - 1 big ( chopped length wise)
shahi jeera- 1 spn
slitted green chillies: 4
pudina leaves : fist ful
coriander leaves: fistful

My Masala powder

Procedure:

1. soak rice for an hour ( If u have time)
2. Now boil 3 cups of water in a container
3. Once it comes up to a boil,add salt,pudina leaves and jeera
4. Now add rice and cook so that grains are seperate ( cooking in a container ,with stirring in between is preferrable)
5. While the rice is cooking, just switch on another stove
6. place a kadai, add oil- do tadka, then add onion, chopped tomatoes and slitted chilli
7. Let it cook until tomatoes tun smooth adn juicy when pressed with back of a ladle.
8. Now add the Masala powder over here and coriander leaves
9. Add the cooked rice and mix nicely and allow it to get fried properly and evenly

My Masala Powder

After using many masala's - garam masala, goda masala --- that masala and this masala which I bought in big bazaar,
thought of preparing one out of my own thought and keeping it in tact for using when its necessary.
Just see it and use it in case u like. here's the recipie for it.

Ingredients:
cloves  - 1 tspn
pepper  - 3
dalchin - 1/2 inch
elaichi - 4
jeera   - 1 spn

Dry roast all the above ingredients and make fine powder out of it.

This one will be good for masala rice, biryani's ,pulav and fried rice also...try it !!!

Popu/Tadka/Tempering

Tadka/Popu/tempering :

Ingredients:

Oil : 1 tblspn
Chanadal - 1 spoon
urad dal - 1 spoon
mustard seeds - 1 spoon
jeera - 1 spoon
red chilli - 2 to 3 break into slits
kadi pattha/ karivepaaku - fistful
garlic ( crushed ) : 5 /Optional
( Garlic is mandatory for dal, sambar, rasam and any traditional curries)

Heat oil in a small kadai, once its hot enough add all the above ingredients and cook until a nice aroma hits your kitchen, thats it .
Start your recipie  or end end it up by adding tadka !!
anyways it makes a path to heaven :) I promise

Green Chutney

Hi ,
Let me put before you a simple and healthy recipie.
having a spoon of this chutney everyday with breakfast gives you a good start.


Green chutney with plain dosa !!! My healthy breakfast wr is urs ???



Ingredients:


coriander/ kothimeer : fistful
pudina : fistful
kadi pattha/ karivepaku : fistful
green chillies: 2 to 3 ( based on your taste)
Salt : 1 spn



 Just grind all the above ingredients with a pinch of salt according to your taste
and there you are !!!


Serve it with idli or dosa and be healthy and fit !!

Gutthi vankaya/ Bharli Vaangi / stuffed brinjal masala

Gutthi vankaya/ Bharli Vaangi / stuffed brinjal masala :

Ingredients:

•10 small brinjals/eggplants,
•1 cup dry shredded coconut,
•1/2 cup peanut powder or peanuts (roasted),
•1/4 cup sesame seeds,
•1 tbsp each coriander-cumin seeds,
•2 tbsp Maharashtrian goda Masala ,
•1 tsp tamarind pulp,
•1 tbsp jaggery,
•2 tsp chili powder,
•salt to taste,
•1 tsp ginger-garlic paste (optional),
•1 tsp turmeric powder.
•2 tsp oil.

Masala:
cloves : 5-6
black pepper : 6
jeera : 1 tspn
elaichi : 4
dalchin - half inch piece
Roast all the above masala ingredients and grind them together into powder consistency.

Method :

1.Remove stems and give four vertical slits (not fully) to the brinjals from the top. If you want to keep the stems, give the slits from the bottom of the brinajls keeping the stem intact. Keep them in salt water for 10 minutes and rinse. Set aside.

2.Roast coconut, sesame seeds, coriander-cumin seeds together till light brown. Powder this mixture and combine tamarind, jaggery, peanut powder, ginger-garlic paste, salt, chili powder and masala mentioned above

3.Heat oil in a pan. Make standard tempering with mustard and turmeric.

4.Add the eggplants and sauté for half a minute and adda pinch of salt just enough for making the brinjal's soft.

5.Add the masala and mix well. Add 1 cup water. Close the lid and cook until eggplants are soft.

6.Garnish with additional coriander leaves. Serve hot !!!