Monday, July 28, 2008

Healthy Eating!

Here are a few recipes that I came across at my yoga class. You don't need to spend any fuel to prepare these recipes. And they are healthy.

Hope you find it useful!

Beetroot salad:
Grated beetroot, soaked groundnuts, finely chopped capsicum, grated ginger and coconut, lime juice. Season and add salt, pepper, coriander & curry leaves. Mix all ingredients well.

Carrot salad: Grated carrot, sprouted green grams, finely chopped capsicum, grated ginger and coconut, lime juice. Season and add salt, pepper, coriander & curry leaves. Mix all ingredients well.

Cucumber salad: Finely chopped cucumber, capsicum, grated ginger & coconut, lime juice. Season all and add salt, pepper, coriander & curry leaves. Mix all ingredients well.

Snake gourd salad: Peel the skin and chop snake gourd, capsicum, grated ginger & coconut, chopped tomato, lime juice. Season all and add salt, pepper, coriander & curry leaves. Mix all ingredients well.

Sweet beaten rice: Thin beaten rice, grated coconut, concentrated jaggery syrup, cardamon. Mix all ingredients well.

Pungent hot beaten rice: Wash the thick beaten rice & drain it thoroughly, leave it for 45 minutes. Mix beaten rice, tamarind syrup, grated coconut, coriander & curry leaves.

Curd ashgourd: Grated ashgourd, ginger, curd, season and add salt, pepper, coriander & curry leaves.

Vegetable juice: Save the juice from grating the above vegetables. Mix together, add lime juice and sugar to taste. Serve immediately. (Do not keep the juice standing for a long while.)

Groundnut porridge: Soak groundnuts for 5-6 hours. Then put groundnuts, bananas, sugar, cardamon, and water in a mixie (food processor). Grind for 2 minutes. Add milk to taste and serve.

Coriander coffee: Powder equal quantities of pepper, jeera and dhania with a little bit of dry ginger. Add one teaspoonful to 200 mL of boiling water and heat for 2 minutes. Filter it, and add jaggery or sugar and lemon juice to taste.

(Courtesy: Isha Foundation)