Millet Mango Smoothie

Millet Mango Smoothie 

Smoothie is a delicious, light, healthy breakfast to kick start a day. You can use any millet of your choice to prepare this Smoothie. You can add more honey/ sugar according to your taste.

Ingredients:

Foxtail millet- 1/2 cup

Milk - 1 cup/ 250 ml

Honey - 3 tablespoons 

Mango - 2 nos

Method:

# Wash and rinse and soak Foxtail millet for 1/2 hr.

# Cook the millet with 1 cup of water. Cook until it turns soft.

# Add chopped mangoes, milk, honey, cooked Foxtail millet and blend until smooth.

# Serve with Mango slices.

Chocolate chips Cookies

Chocolate chips Cookies 

Happy  National Chocolate Chips day to all!

A simple, delicious, healthy Chocolate chips cookies made with whole wheat flour + Sorghum flour sweetened with brown sugar.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat flour- 1/2 cup

Sorghum/ jowar flour- 1/2 cup

Cocoa powder - 2 tablespoons 

Brown sugar- 1/2 cup

Butter- 1/4 cup 

Baking powder- 1tsp

Vannila essence- few drops

Milk - 2 tsp 

Chocolate chips - 1/4 cup

Method:

# Sieve whole wheat flour, Sorghum flour, cocoa powder, baking powder for 3-4 times.

# Cream butter and Brown sugar. It takes 5-7 minutes. 

# Add Vannila essence, dry Ingredients to creamed Butter.

#Add Chocolate chips. 

# Mix to make dough do not over Mix.

# If needed add milk to make a dough.

# Line baking tray with parchment paper.

# Preheat oven @170'c.

# Take small portions of the cookie dough and arrange the baking tray.

# Bake @170'c for 12-15 minutes.

Allow it to cool on wire rack and store in an airtight container.

Pl. do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!

Whole Wheat Bagels

Whole Wheat Bagels 

Bagels are shiny, crispy, chewy and dense in taste and texture.  These Bagels are made with  whole wheat flour.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat flour - 200gms

Instant dry yeast - 1.5 tsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Jaggery powder / sugar - 1 tablespoon

Water - 3/4 cup / 200ml 

Sesame seeds (white+black) - 1 tablespoons 

Poppy seeds - 1 tablespoon

Oil - 1 tablespoon

Method:

# Mix flour, Jaggery powder, yeast, salt.

# Add Luke warm water and start kneading the dough. Sprinkle  water and knead...until you get a smooth, soft dough. Apply oil and allow the dough to rise / double in size. It takes 1 hrs. 

# Once dough rises/ doubles...slightly punch and divide the dough to 7-8 parts.

# Boil 2 cups of water.

# shape the bagels, by placing a hole in the center as we do for donuts.

# Drop the shaped bagels into the  boiling water. After 2 Minutes  flip.

# Preheat oven @ 180'c.

# Grease the baking tin. Arrange the  bagels in baking tin...Sprinkle  Sesame seeds and Poppy seeds.

# Bake at same temperature for 20-25 Minutes.

Whole Wheat Bagels are ready to serve.

Littlemillet Dosa / Samai Dosai

Little Millet Dosa / Samai Dosai

Millets are very popular now a days. This is a simple, healthy millet breakfast recipe.

Ingredients:

Samai / little Millet - 3 cups

Urud dal - 1 cup

Aval / flat beatten rice flakes/ chivda - 1 cup

Fenugreek / methi seeds - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil - for making dosa

Method:

# wash and soak urud dal with fenugreek/ methi seeds for 1 hr.

# Wash little Millet and soak seperately for 1.5 hrs.

# Wash aval / beatten rice flakes for half an hour.

# Grind urud dal by adding little water. Sprinkle water and grind to a smooth, fluffy paste.

# Drain the water from little millet and grind by adding little water. Grind it to a smooth paste.

# Grind beatten rice flakes / aval to a smooth paste.

# Mix all the three paste together. Add salt and let it ferment for 2-3 hrs. Dosa batter should be slightly thin in consistency.

# Heat a tawa/ dosa pan... sprinkle some oil...tawa should be hot not smokee. 

# Add a laddle full of dosa batter, spread, add little oil. Let it cook....when sides of the dosa slightly changed its colour, try to flip. Cook for 30 seconds. 

Little Millet Dosa is ready to serve.

Please do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!

Fried Idli (Airfried)

Fried Idli (Airfried)

Happy World Idli Day to all!

Fried Idli's are delicious, crispy snacks served for tea-time. You can deep fry / shallow fry. 

Today I'm sharing an Airfried version of fried Idli.

Ingredients:

Idli - 7-8 nos

Gunpowder / idli pode - 2 tablespoons

Curry leaves for garnish

Oil - 1.5 tsp

Method:

# Cut idli in desired shape.

# Sprinkle idli powder/ gunpowder.

# Drizzle oil and make sure idli podi and oil is coated well.

# Airfry @ 200'c for 15-20 minutes. 

Or until it becomes golden in colour. 

Once done sprinkle curry leaves and serve.

Hot Cross Buns

Hot Cross Buns

Hot cross buns are super delicious, pillow soft, spiced, loaded with raisins and candid fruits. I made these buns with whole wheat flour.

Ingredients:

Whole wheat flour - 200 gms

Brown sugar - 2 tablespoons

Instant yeast - 1 tsp

Milk powder - 2 tablespoons

Raisins - 2 tablespoons

Cranberries - 2 tablespoons

Pineapple chunks - 2 tablespoons

Orange zest - 1/2 tsp

Spice powder - 1 tsp (cinnamon, clove, cardamom)

Milk + water - 1/2 cup / as required

Butter - 2 tablespoons

Honey - 1 tsp (to brush after buns are baked)

Whole wheat flour + water - 2 tablespoons

(to make a paste and draw a cross on buns before baking)

Method:

# Mix whole wheat flour, brown sugar, milk powder, yeast, spice powder.

# Add raisins, cranberries, orange zest, pineapple chunks mix well.

# Add milk + water and knead a soft dough. It will be sticky... add butter and start kneading the dough...till it becomes soft.

# Cling wrap the dough till it doubles in size. (For 1 hr).

#  After first proofing, gently knead for 2 more minutes.

# Grease the baking tin with oil/ butter. (8' rectangular baking tin)

# Divide the dough to 12 portions. Take each portion tuck it well and arrange them in the baking tin.

# Cover and allow it to rest / proof for 2nd time.(30-35 minutes)

# Mix 2 tablespoons of whole wheat flour + water to make a paste. Fill it in a piping bag.

# Preheat oven at 190'c.

# Once the buns doubles in size make a cross.

# Bake at 190'c for 20-25 minutes.

# Once it is baked, brush some honey.

# After 10 minutes demold and allow it to cool on wire rack. 

Hot Cross Buns are ready to serve.

Strawberry Smoothie

Strawberry Smoothie

Good Morning!

A simple, easy, healthy, fuss-free Smoothie recipe with fresh strawberries and banana's.

Ingredients:

Fresh strawberries - 1 cup

Banana's - 3-4 nos (medium size)

Oats - 2 tablespoons

Milk - 1/2 cup (125 ml)

Sugar - 1 tablespoon

Method:

# In a blender add chopped bananas, chopped strawberries, oats, sugar, milk and blend well... until every thing is smooth.

# Transfer to the serving glasses, garnish with strawberries and enjoy.

Pl. do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!