Eat Healthy with Millets, Palm Jaggery and Cold Pressed Oils
You don’t have to feel guilty indulging in these delicious deserts. By replacing traditional ingridients with healthier alternatives, you can satify your sweet tooth the right way!
Pumpkin can be used in so many baked goods. Its earthy flavor and dense fibrous texture is perfect in cakes, pies, tarts, cookies, scones, bars and squares, and muffins. You can get orangey brown colour if you use refined sugar. But I am more interested in healthy bakes than its appearance. Jowar flour is just perfect for baking and adding almond meal enhances its taste and aroma. Try this easy vegan recipe for this winter break.
Ganesh Chathurthi wishes to all !! May Sri Ganesha remove all the obstacles from our life. Modhaks are the special offering for this festival. After offering a rich feast to Him, Ganesha may need a paan to digest the food! This paan modhak recipe is a perfect offering to round off the feast! I have used paan leaves and paan stuffing including gulkand for this recipe. The outer covering is made of millet poha. Try this mouth watering recipe tomorrow!
Happy Baisakhi/Bihu/Ugadi/Gudi Padwa/Vishu/Tamil Puththandu to all !! The festival is celebrated in many parts of our country and I am sharing two excellent dessert dishes for the upcoming festival.
It is believed that phirni hailed from ancient Persia or Middle East and it’s the Mughals who both invented and introduced it to India. The Mughal Empire relished the regal milk-based dish and made it popular. In this recipe I have replaced basmati rice with millet, but that in anyway did not change the richness of the dish. Try these exotic varieties of phirnis and enjoy with family and friends.
Aval/Poha/Avalakki is made into a sweet dish either by adding sugar or Jaggery and offered as prasad during puja. It is a very simple dish and can be made easily. Any millet flakes / poha/ aval can be used for this recipe.
One of my friend Priya Ramanujam shared a recipe of halwa using cooked rice and sugar. It was very tempting! So, immediately I tried the recipe with millet and a few variations. I have tried the same recipe with different sweeteners like jaggery, palm jaggery and palm candy sugar. All came out very well and tasted too good. Try this easy recipe for Diwali and surprise your family!
