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!
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.
Celebrate this year's Diwali with healthy sweets made out of millets. I have posted a variety of sweets and snack items using various millet flours. This laddu recipe can be prepared in no time. Bajra is rich in omega-3 fats, magnesium, potassium, fibre, and other nutrients that help lower blood pressure. Sattu/roasted gram powder/pottu kadalai maavu is an easy source of protein. Sattu is rich in iron, sodium, fibre, protein, and magnesium. This recipe can be prepared in no time. Try this for the upcoming festival.
Nowadays Moringa leaves are considered as super food but In India particularly in Tamilnadu these leaves are traditionally used to make various dishes. They are rich in Iron, calcium, potassium and dietary fibre. When combined with ragi which is another super rich millet, the health benefits manifolds. In this recipe I have added sattu or roasted gram flour for protein which makes this dish a complete meal.
