Eat Right! Live Happy: July 2011

Potato/Broccoli Bread slice roll

I had prepared this as a snack and we both liked it and also it so stomach filling it just became our dinner with Roasted corn soup .

Ingredients: For 6 slices

Bread Slices - 6 I used whole wheat bread

Potato - 2 small

Garlic - 1 clove minced

Broccoli head - 1 cup chopped finely

Paneer - 1 cup grated ( optional)

Cheese - 1 cup

Oil/Butter - 2 tbs divided

Salt and Pepper -to taste

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Ingredients:

Corn kernels - 2 cups

Potatoes - 3

Celery - 1 stick

Bell Pepper - 1/2 cup chopped

Green beans - 1/2 cup chopped

Any other vegetables if you like, I like to add zucchini and french onion

Milk/ heavy cream - 1 cup

Broth or water - 2 cup

Onion - 1 cup chopped

Cheddar Cheese - 1 cup

Garlic- 4

Salt and Pepper to taste

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Home made Yogurt made simple

Hmm... I tried making yogurt at home several times, I must have spoiled 4-5 gallons of milk trying to make a perfect curd/yogurt. Never turned up good and used to through it away. I finally did it and now everyday i make at home and we eat fresh home made yogurt. It is simple but need some careful steps.

In India it is so easy to make yogurt, boil milk and a tbs of yogurt culture would make a nice curd. But here may be because of the weather and other factors it never use to turn up so good until i found out alternate ways to make it.

Ingredients :

Milk - I use 2% , you can use whole milk as well.

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I had prepared this pudding last Sunday for my guests. I made this earlier never turned out right but this time it came out so good, Melting in the mouth. Try this and let me know how much have you enjoyed.

Ingredients: Serves 4 people

Sabudana /tapioca - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 cup
Milk - 21/2 cups ( add more if it becomes thick)
Water - 2 cups
Cardamom - Freshly ground 1 tbs
Cashews/ Chopped Almonds/ Raisins - handful (Optional but recommended)

Ghee/ Clarified Butter - 1 tbs

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Simple bread topped with tomato and cheese tastes wonderful.

Ingredients:

Italian long sized bread (preferably garlic flavor)

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Warm vangi bath

This is one of my all time favorite dish. We had a guest at home last Sunday and had prepared vangi bath for them and they loved it. It tastes yummy, trust me.

Ingredients you need for Vangi bath Masala :

Channa Dal : 3 tbs

Urad Dal : 3 tbs

Coriander Seeds : 1 tbs

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We loved this hummus taste so much, started preparing this spread over and over. It goes very well with any sandwich or wrap or even Dosa and Idli. I love to call it as Chickpea chutney.

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Banana Blue berry Smoothie

Hot weather and cold smoothies goes so well. I made banana, blue berry smoothie yesterday for vighnesh and he loved it in that hot weather. Very relaxing!.

Ingredients :

Banana - 1

Blue Berry - 1 cup

Milk - 1 cup

Orange Juice - 1/2 cup

Sugar or Honey (If desired)

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Subway Sandwich (My version)

I prefer to make and eat cool, soothing sandwiches over hot rice sambar during summer days. This will be our lunch for couple times a week in the summer days.

I usually use swiss or mozerilla cheese but this time I used something different. We went to wisconsin for a vacation. you might be knowing, wisconsin cheese is very famous and tasty. We witnessed the cheese making in one of the country side store and bought some cheese. Truely it is very tasty!.

What I used? (for foot long length bread)
Lettuce - sredded 1 cup
Tomato - thinly sliced 5-6 pieces
Cucumber - thinly sliced 5-6 pieces
Banana pepper - a few
Cucumber Pickle - 4-5 pieces

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Today's Lunch plate - Spinach ranch Pasta and Mung sprouts Quinoa Salad

Today's lunch was pasta salad and vegetable salad. This was a nice soothing lunch for the hot day today.

I was not thinking to add this recipe to my recipe book earlier, just prepared and came out very well so writing here to share with you.

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Mung Sprouts

Sprouts are highly nutritious and enzymes which promotes the good health. They are rich in digestible energy and rich in phyto chemicals, proteins and minerals.

According to Shipard (2005) - “Sprouts provide a good supply of Vitamins A, E & C plus B complex. Like enzymes, vitamins serve as bioactive catalysts to assist in the digestion and metabolism of feeds and the release of energy. They are also essential for the healing and repair of cells. However, vitamins are very perishable, and in general, the fresher the feeds eaten, the higher the vitamin content. The vitamin content of some seeds can increase by up to 20 times their original value within several days of sprouting. Mung Bean sprouts have B vitamin increases, compared to the dry seeds, of - B1 up 285%, B2 up 515%, B3 up 256%. Even soaking seeds overnight in water yields greatly increased amounts of B vitamins, as well as Vitamin C. Compared with mature plants, sprouts can yield vitamin contents 30 times higher.”

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Barley Facts

Why Barley ?

Barley is a good source of dietary fiber Vitamin A, Folate and even protein. Barley's fiber can prevent or help with a number of different conditions. You can prepare Barley dosa, idli or soup to introduce to your regular diet.

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Hearty Barley, quinoa soup

Barley is good source of dietary fibre, vitamin A and protein. And low in saturated fat and cholesterol. Read more about barley nutritional facts, selecting the barley and storage here.

Barley is one of our regular diet food. Sometime I use barley replacing rice, sometime make soup with that or make barley dosa and Idli. I ground the barley and make barley cereal for Arushi, she is 6 months now and she likes it.

Ingredient for Barley soup :

Barley - 1 cup
Quinoa - 1/2 cup

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Sweet Potato rice

Sweet Potato has many nutritional facts. This is high source of dietary fiber, low in cholesterol, sodium and saturated fats. It is a very good source of vitamin A and C. I try to use it often in our diet. Sometime bake them or I make curry or rice item like this.

Ingredients: Serving 2-3 adults

Basmati Rice - 2 cups

Sweet potato - chopped in to cubes ~1 cup

Peas - 1 cup

Carrot - 1/2 cup chopped

Green beans - chopped in to 1 inch lengthwise

Onion - 1 cup chopped

Garlic - 2 cloves, chopped finely

Ginger - 1 inch cube grated

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Home made Ghee/Tuppa / Clarified Butter

Fresh home made ghee has so much flavor and taste, which is hard to get it from the store bought one.
It is very simple, follow these steps carefully:

Butter melting in a pot

Fresh ghee

How did I do?

Melted butter is Ghee!. It is that simple. Follow me here to understand the steps

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Sweet summer salad !

What you need ?

Vegetables of your favorite and honey pepper combination is what triple 'S' . It's such a soothing salad on the side!.

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flax seed/whole wheat roll

Flax seed gives a nice texture and flavor with much of health benefits. Read more about flax seed here .

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