Health for life

Most of our dinner goes for parathas or rotis, my kids just love rotis with anything. Obviously rotis is one of the staple food at our home after rice. I can feed easily everyone at home with stuffed parathas. I can go for anything for stuffing,none will bother about the stuffing,even if ill go for bittergourd stuffing,am sure they will enjoy their parathas, needless to say now how they will enjoy having parathas. By the way, am yet to make that bittergourd stuffed parathas and i dont have any idea how those bittergourd parathas will tastes.

Coming to todays paratha post, i prepared the stuffing with grated carrots and cooked moong sprouts, which i spiced simply with onions,greenchillies,garam masala powder and chaat masala. This paratha doesnt even need any side dish to enjoy,the stuffing itself will replace the side dishes usually we make for rotis.An another nutritious,very healthy parathas to enjoy without any guilt. This stuffed parathas was big hit among everyone at home and we loved it. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#27.Sending  to my own event Healthy Diet - Cooking with Sprouts guest hosted by Roshni.



2cups Whole wheat flour
1/2cup Warm water
1tbsp Oil
Salt

For stuffing:
2nos Carrots(grated finely)
1cup Sprouted whole greengram (cooked & mashed)
1nos Onion (chopped)
2nos Green chillies(chopped)
1tsp Garam masala powder
1/2tsp Chaat masala
Salt

Take the wheat flour,oil and salt together in a bowl,add the warm water and knead everything as a stiff and smooth dough,keep aside for half an hour..

Take the cooked sprouted greengram,chopped green chillies,garam masala powder,chaat masala and salt, mix everything well and keep aside.

Saute the chopped onions,grated carrots with enough oil and add it to the already prepared sprouted eengram mixture,mix well.

Make medium sized balls from the dough, flatten them as small circles with the rolling pin.

Drop enough carrot-greengram masala and cover the masala by sealing the edges of the flatten dough.

Dust with flour and roll them gently as parathas.

Heat a tawa, drop this flattened  paratha over the hot tawa, drizzle few drops of oil and cook until they get well cooked..

Serve hot..

I dont want to say again and again that most of our dinner will be either salads or soups. For this weeks blogging marathon, am posting this quick,easy peasy and mildly tangy salad as my choice of theme for this week is Mango. In my previous post, i said that mango are showing their head in Indian groceries here and we couldnt resist to them and i picked some fresh raw mangoes from there few days back.

Seriously i never tried my hands in salad with raw mangoes, this time i really want to give a try and finally i did. Trust me, if you are mango lovers like me, am sure that you will definitely go crazy after having this salad. Sweetness of corn and carrot balance very well the tanginess of the raw mango and the crushed peanuts,sesame seeds gives a wonderful flavour to this simple salad. I didnt prepared any special dressing for this salad,just served them with salt,white pepper powder and olive oil. Give a try friends, am sure you guys will definitely love this fabulous salad.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this 28th edition.Sending this salad to my own event Healthy Diet-Healthy Salads by Archana of The Mad Scientists Kitchen and to my another event CWS-Peanuts hosted by me.


1no Raw Mango (large & julienned)
2nos Carrots (medium size & julienned)
1cup Sweet corn kernels (canned)
Handful of raw peanuts (crushed)
1tbsp Sesame seeds
Salt
White pepper powder
Oilve oil (as per need)

Take the julienned raw mango pieces, carrot pieces,sweet corns in a bowl,give a mix.

Now add the crushed peanuts, sesame seeds to the veggies,give a mix.

Meanwhile take the salt,pepper powder,olive oil in a bowl,mix it and keep this dressing aside.

While serving the salad, add the already prepared dressing generously to salad, give a mix and serve.

Most of our dinners are salads and soups, obviously i make variety of salads coz everyone at home like to have different salads. Sometime i will break my head to feed them. Few days back, for our dinner i prepared this healthy,nutty and easy breezy salad with grated carrot and walnuts.

This salad may sound very simple but tastewise they are just mindblowing, the addition of walnuts makes this usual carrot salad very interesting. I served this salad with a vinegar dressing prepared simply with white vinegar, green chillies,olive oil and salt. If you are planning to make a carrot salad, dont forget to add a handful of walnuts. Am sure you will see the difference between the usual carrot salad and this walnut carrot salad.Sending to Vijis SYS-WS - Apple & Carrot and to my own event Healthy Diet-Healthy Salads by Archana of The Mad Scientists Kitchen.


3nos Carrots (grated)
Handful of Walnuts
2nos Green chillies (chopped)
2tbsp Olive oil
2tbsp White vinegar
Salt as per need

Take the green chillies,olive oil,white vinegar,salt in a bowl,mix and keep aside.

Now take the grated carrots, walnuts in a bowl,mix.

While serving, add the dressing as per need.

Give a stir and serve.