Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Besan Ladoo



Besan ladoos are one of the easiest yummiest and healthiest sweet from India. Nutty and sweet aroma of Chickpea flour fill your home while making this sweet. This protein filled sweet is equally loved by children as well as grown ups.
There are various methods people make this sweet. Method I am sharing here is my mom's recepi and full proof. You can make this sweet entirely from chickpea flour but adding little bit of samolina add crunch to the ladoos. We love it in this way but only chickpea flour ladoos are equally tasty.

Ingredients:
1.5 cup chickpea flour or besan
1 tbs Samolina
1/2 cup ghee or clarified butter.
3/4 cup sugar, powder it or you can use boora or tagar.
1/2 tsp cardimom powder( optional)
almond flakes for garnishing.

Method.

1. sieve the chickpea flour in a heavy bottomed pan, Add samolina and dry roast on medium flame for about 5 minutes untill a sweet aroma starts coming. Color will change slightly at this stage.

2. Add ghee and cook on medium sim flame until you'll get beautiful gloden color and raw smell of chickpea flour is gone.



3. Switch off the gas and let the mixture cool. When it is just warm add powdered sugar and cardimom powder. Mix well and make small balls or ladoos.
4. Garnish with sliced almonds.


Your yummiest ladoos are ready. Enjoy and leave feed back please. :)  

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Crunchy Green Salad




My easy peasy healthy yummy creamy crunchy Green Salad. Replace with lunch or dinner and make your weight loss much easier. Complete meal under 80 Calories and soo yummy that you can have it everyday. Best part can be made in just 5 minutes with few ingredients.
Celery is the main ingredient of this salad which is considered as negative calorie food as our body require to consume more energy to digest celery than it produce. It also contain a good amount of water to keep your body hydrated.
I am not a very healthy eater and do not like salad much but nuttiness, Calories  and crunchyness in this salad make me wants more with each bite.
so lovely people wait over and here comes the recepi or if I correct my words 'procedure'.

Dressing:
2 Tbs home made low fat yogurt
a pinch of salt
1/4 tsp crushed pepper
1 tsp Chia seeds 
Mix everything well and keep aside for 5 minutes so chia seeds absorb moisture.

Salad:
1 Celery stalk diced
1 medium size carrot peeled and diced
1/4 cup chopped cabbage 
1/4 cup diced cucumber
1/4 cup baby spinach
2 tsp sunflower seed ( you can use any seed mix)


Mix all the ingredients and toss with yogurt dressing. Taste salt and add more according to your taste.


Serve immediately or chill in fridge and serve.
Enjoy your low calorie but healthy and filling salad. Any questions feedback and suggestions welcome :)