HEALTHY GRILLED SPROUTS SANDWICH.

                                                                     Ingredients:

• 1 cup finely chopped cabbage, capsicum, carrots, cucumber, tomato and onion
• 1 cup mix sprouts (moong bean, lima bean, chickpeas,, green lentils, black-eyed peas, green peas etc.)
• 1 tbsp pizza seasoning
• 2 tbsp mayonnaise
• 1/4 tsp garlic paste
• coriander leaves
• 1 cup hung curd
• 1 & 1/2 tbsp ketchup
• salt and pepper
• bread slices

        Method:

•  In a bowl, add the hung curd, eggless mayonnaise, salt to taste, pepper, Italian pizza seasoning, garlic paste, coriander leaves and ketchup and mix all the ingredients well.

•  Add the mix sprouts  and finely chopped vegetables  - capsicum, cucumber, carrots ,cabbage, tomato and onion to the hung curd mixture and mix all the ingredients together.
• Take the mix and spread them over the brown bread slice 
  close sandwich with other slice.
• Grill on a hot Panini or a sandwich toaster with a spray of oil…serve hot!

Quinoa Dosa

Ingredients:

• 2 cups quinoa
• 3 green chilies
• 1 tbsp ginger
• 1/2  tbsp salt
• 3 to 4 tsp oil

Method:

1. Soak quinoa in the water for 2  hours.
2. Blend the quinoa, chilies, and ginger and salt  by adding water little by little till it gets dosa consistency. 
3. Heat the iron griddle or non -stick tawa well.
4. Make tawa again little cool before spreading batter with damp cloth or sprinkle some cold water.
5. pour a spoonful of batter in the center,spread with the back of the spoon to a thin round.
6. pour a tsp of oil over it.
7. Remove with spatula when crisp and Serve with coconut chutney,green chutney and sambhar.

Note: No need to ferment this quinoa dosa batter.

Jaipuri Pulao

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of boiled rice 
• 1 cup boiled mix vegetables (carrot, green peas, french beans ,sweet corn ,asparagus, )
• 1 tbsp cashew nut pieces 
• 1 tbsp raisins
• Coriander leaves 
• salt to taste
• 3 paneer cubes 
• 1 tbsp butter

For seasoning: 

•  pinch of mustards seeds
•  2 cardamons
•  1" cinnamon stick
•  4 pepper corns
•  2 cloves
•  1 bay leaf

 *  Masala Paste For Jaipuri Pulao  ( http://food4masti.blogspot.com/2013/07/masala-paste-for-jaipuri-pulao.html )

Method

1. Heat butter and add all the seasoning ingredients,cashewnuts and raisins and cook till cashew nuts are golden brown in colour. 
2. Add masala paste and cook for 3 to 4 mins.
3.  Add rice and vegetables and mix well till all the rice is coated with the masala paste
4. . Season with salt and remove from fire. Plate the rice and garnish with grated paneer and coriander leaves. Serve the rice with curd ,raita, dal, etc.

Masala Paste For Jaipuri Pulao

Ingredients-

 

• 1 small onion
• 2 green chillies
• 1/2 " ginger piece
• 1 tbsp cashew nuts
• 1 tsp coriander and cumin seed powder
• 1 tbsp cream

 Method-

1. Grind all the ingredients into a smooth paste.

No Bake Strawberry Icebox Cake .

Ingredients:

• 3 lbs. fresh strawberries, sliced
• 2 cup fat-free whipped cream 
• 8 to 10  graham crackers
• 1/4 cup chocolate syrup
• 1 box

                                                                 Method:

1.  Spread a small amount of whipped cream on the bottom of box.
2.  Place 3 graham cracker sheets down the middle and break 1 more sheets into crackers to fit down the sides. 
3.  Lightly cover the top of the graham crackers with more whipped cream and then a layer of sliced strawberries. Repeat three times, until you have 3 layers of graham crackers .
4. You’ll end with a layer of strawberries on top.
5. Drizzle chocolate syrup over top of cake.
6. Refrigerate covered for at least four hours, or until the crackers have softened completely. 

Pesarattu (Green gram dosa)

Ingredients:

• 1 cups green gram ( moong)
• 2 green chilly, chopped
• ½ inch piece ginger, chopped
• 1/2 cup rice 
• 1/4 cup Onion
• Jeera 1  tbs
• Salt  to  taste

Method:

Soak green gram and rice for 6 hours.  Grind soaked green gram and rice with green chillies, ginger, salt, jeera and onions by adding water little by little till it gets dosa consistency.  Now take a dosa nonstick pan, heat it and pour a small cup of dosa batter in the middle and spread it.  Fry it by applying oil on the edges and turn around. Serve hot.

Wheat Halwa (Shiro)

Ingredients:

• Ghee- 4 TBS
• Wheat flour – ½ Cup
• Sugar – 4 to 5 TBS
• Hot water – 1 to 1 & ½ Cup
• Sliced almonds – 2 TBS
• Raisin – 1 TBS
• Cashew Nut  - 2 TBS

Method:

1. Keep flame on low and add ghee to pan.
2. Add flour to it and mix it well.
3. Roast flour until its start to release roasting aroma or it’s become golden brown.
4. Add water slowly and mix it well until flour leave the edges of pan and ghee.
5. Add sugar to it and stir it for 2 minutes.
6. Take shiro into plat and garnish with remaining almond slices, raisins and cashew nut.
7. Serve it hot.