Blueberry & honey yogurt

Fruits are always a healthy choice irrespective of the fact if you need to add some weight or shed some.  They make a great choice for smoothies or fresh flavored yogurts or simply to bite and eat them.  Berries are my favourite lot, and my weekly grocery shopping is never complete without berries.  I buy and stock atleast 2 variety of berries in fridge.

Stir Fried Rice

Ingredient required:-

Boiled Rice or Basmati Rice - 1 cup

A few cut vegetables (carrot, beans, broccoli, cauliflower,capsicum, aubergine, - any or a couple of these) - 1 cup.  In this recipe I used carrot, capsicum, peas and broad beans

Spring onion or ordinary onion - 1 

Salt - a pinch

Soya Sauce - 2 tsp

Olive oil - 2 tsp

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Procedure:-

1. Boil the rice seperately and let it cool.  They should not be too boiled and should not be sticky.  

2. In a hot wok, add olive oil, and add onions.  Saute them for few minutes.

3.  Add the cut vegetables into them and saute until the vegetables are cooked. 

4. Add salt and Soya Sauce on to them and reduce the gas to sim.

5.  Mix with rice

6. Relish the fast food stir fried rice with Yogurt or Tomato Ketchup

These equals the taste of fast food fried rice.  You can even add friend babycorns.  

Spinach Pakora

With less preparation time, it's a simple snack to munch on along with your piping hot tea on a chilly day.  

Ingredients:

Gram Flour/Chickpea flour - 1.5 cup
Spinach (nicely chopped) - 2 cup

Rice flour - 2 tsp
Red chilli powder -  a pinch
Green Chillies - 1 (finely chopped)
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp 

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Procedure:
1.  Mix all the ingredients together with little bit of water.  The batter you make should not be watery, but stiff and thick. 
2. Heat up oil in a deep frying pan.  Once it's heated up, take a little amount of batter and make fritters. 
3.  Let the fritters deep fry.  Once you see them turn brownish, them them off the pan.
4.  enjoy the hot spinach pakora with a sip of chai and get immersed in your favourite book.  
Note:  You can also add onion or a few mint leaves into the batter to add different taste and flavor.  

Oats Dosa

I tried out Oats Dosa yesterday and it came out really well.  It's pretty simple to do, and doesn't take a lot of time at all.  Plus, it's healthy.  
Ingredients Required:
Oats - 1 cup
Semolina - 1/4 cup
Rice flour - 1/4 cup
Green Chillies - 1 (finely chopped)
Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste

Preparation time: 10-15 minutes

Method:
1. Dry roast oats for few minutes (until you see a slight color change in oats)
2. Add Semolina and Rice flour to the roasted oats, and grind them to powder.  If you wish, you can add water and make them as batter.  
3.  Make the paste / powder that you blended into a batter.  
4. Add salt, cumin and green chillies.  You can add onions if you like.  
5. Mix the contents well and make it a thin batter (like the rava dosa batter)
6.  Now, making dosa with this thin batter is a bit difficult and different.  If you know how to make rava dosa, use the same method.  
7. In a hot dosa tawa, pour one laddle of batter from outside to inside, and fill up open spaces.  
8. Pour a tsp of oil on the corners of dosa.  Allow it to cook.  Flip the other side for few minutes.
And the oats dosa is ready. 

Note:  Instead of dry roasting oats, you can simply mix all the above said ingredients and set them aside for about 10-15 minutes and then make your dosa.  Both the results end in a finger licking healthy dosa!

When I tried this, I was so eager to taste them, and completely forgot to take pictures.  So bear with a recipe without photo!  And these dosas can be enjoyed over breakfast or dinner.  Compliment it with chutney / sambar or simply yogurt.  

Today's Special :)

Hope you all had a great Pongal / Sankranthi!  As I said yesterday, it was a silent day, but S got a bit better.  Glad!
Today I did not manage to get up early, so everything turned out to be messy and happened a bit late.  But that said, I did cook all that I had in mind.  S thoroughly enjoyed them!
Here's a quick catch of what I did :)

That's sweet pongal, salt pongal, vada and tomato chutney! 

Aroma from My Grandma's Kitchen

A recipe in the non-food blog from a non-foodie person! What better irony required than this!