Health for life

Am trying to reduce adding rice in most of my dishes especially when it comes to our dinner dishes like dosas or pongal. Yep nowadays am making pongal or non fermentation dosas with healthy grains like different millets,oats and cracked wheat. Trust me, we dont miss the rice in our dishes. Few days back, i tried making an interesting dumpling with super healthy foxtail millet aka thinai with mixed dals. This dumplings are just amazing with many nutritional value, serve simply with a shallot chutney makes a wonderful dinner too.

This dumpling batter goes for easy preparation and no fermentation is needed. Just leave the batter in room temperature for an hour and make your dumplings with your paniyaram pan. You can have them either for snacks or for dinner if you dont feel like making your dinner with other stuffs. You can feed easily everyone at home with millets without their knowledge as some wont like to have foods prepared with millets.Sending to my own event CWS-Urad Dal guest hosted by Sowmya of Nivedhanam and to my event Healthy Diet-Diabetic Friendly Recipes.


1cup Foxtail Millet/Thinai arisi
1/2cup Channadal
1/2cup Toor dal
1/2cup Yellow moongdal
1/2cup Urad dal
4nos Dry red chillies
1tsp Fennel seeds
3nos Garlic cloves
Salt

Soak the foxtail millet along with all dals for atleast 3 hours.

Grind thesoaked millet and dal with dry red chillies, fennel seeds, garlic cloves with enough water and salt as bit coarse paste.

Keep aside the batter for an hour or two hours in room temperature.

Heat the kuzhi paniyaram pan in medium heat, pour few drops of oil n pour a ladle of the batter.

Put the flame in simmer n cook slowly, turn on both sides until they get well cooked.

Dont cook them in high flame.

Serve hot with spicy coconut chutney or onion chutney..

My pantry is always filled with different sorts of spice mix powders,i cant survive without them. Whenever i feel lazy to cook up something,i simply mix some spice powder with hot steaming rice topped with ghee and enjoy with a simple spicy side dish,yep its my kind of comforting food. Everyone at home love these kind of spice powders, my recent favourite spice powder is this healthy lentils spice powder with flax seeds.This spice powder is definitely handy,healthy and versatile, you can spice up your curries,your leftover idlies or dosas with this flaxseed paruppu podi.

This spice powder conserved well in an air tightened box can stay pect for almost a month or more than if you make them in huge quantity.Somehow i love to make this kind of spice powders in small batches,so that i can mix and match the ingredients as i wish. Dont forget to give a try to this healthy spice powder and enjoy the nutritional value of flax seeds thoroughly by consuming this healthy spice powder.Sending to Paris Only Food for Pregnancy.


1/4cup Toordal
1/4cup Yellow moongdal
3tbsp Channadal
1/4cup Flax seeds
3nos Dry red chillies
1tsp Peppercorns
1tsp Cumin seeds
3nos Garlic cloves
Salt

Dry roast evenly the dals together until a nice aroma comes out..

Now dry roast the flax seeds,dry red chillies,peppercorns,cumin seeds and keep aside until they gets cool completely.

Grind everything with salt as coarse powder, finally add the garlic cloves and grind it well..

Conserve in an air tightened box..

Enjoy with rice topped sesame oil and potato roast..