Eat Healthy with Millets, Palm Jaggery and Cold Pressed Oils
Start your day right with some delicious millet based idlis, parathas, waffles, panacakes and more! Everything from easy to cook recipes for a lazy sunday to hearty brunches!
One medium ripe banana, provides about 110 calories, 0 gram fat, 1 gram protein, 28 grams carbohydrate, 15 grams sugar (naturally occurring), 3 grams fiber, and 450 mg potassium. During ripening, the starch is converted into sugars and ends up being less than 1% when the banana is fully ripe. This simple recipe with very few ingredients is kids friendly one and they are nutritious too. Try this for breakfast and make your kids happy.
Uthappam is one of the most popular breakfast dish. There are so many variations by using different combinations of rice and dal or with rava. In this recipe I have used foxtail millet along with grated potatoes other ingredients. The batter is neither fermented nor Eno or curd is used. Try this veggie loaded breakfast recipe with millets.
In addition to bringing a pop of colour to the dish, beets are highly nutritious and packed with essential vitamins, minerals, and plant compounds, many of which have medicinal properties. They are low in calories and contain a bit of almost all of the vitamins and minerals. Some studies show that beetroot juice could significantly lower levels of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Beets contain pigments called betalains, which possess a number of anti-inflammatory properties.
Adding beet puree to the millet flour to make beet parathas is an easy way to include this veggie in our diet.
Paniyaram are ball shaped dumplings made with fermented batter. They are known by different names paddu, gundu pongala, guliyappa etc. In this recipe I have used whole jowar grains and fenugreek/vendhayam seeds as main ingredients. Fenugreek seeds are rich in vitamins such as thiamin, folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, vitamins A, B6, and C, and are a rich storehouse of many minerals such as copper, potassium, calcium, iron, selenium, zinc, manganese, and magnesium. Fenugreek leaves are a rich source of vitamin K as well.
Both Jowar and fenugreek seeds are rich in fibre which helps for proper digestion, weight loss and controlling sugar.
Sweet basil belongs to our holy Thulsi family and it has as many health benefits as our native plant. Today Thulsi Vivah is celebrated and I am sharing a fusion dosa recipe using millets and basil. Basil helps to detoxify liver, a great stress buster, helps to maintain sugar levels, fights cancer and has anti bacterial properties. Pesto is made out of basil and is used in many recipes. Pesto sauce is made by grinding basil leaves, some peanuts/almonds/cashews/walnuts, olive oil, little salt, lemon juice, garlic cloves and black pepper together and obtaining thick paste. Garlic is optional. I didn't add. This can be stored in the fridge for a few days and by deep freezing can be stored for a couple of months.
