Cabbage-Amaranth-Carrot Pakora/Vegetable Fritters with MultiGrain Flours

This is a very kid friendly snack and is delicious and healthy to eat.All the ingredients in here are easily available and can be made in a jiffy.Generally, pakoras are made with besan/chickpea flour but we can make it more healthier and tastier by adding ragi flour,flax meal,rice flour,oats flour etc.In my recipe today I used besan flour,ragi flour and flax meal for binding the veggies.

Let us see how these delicious pakoras/fritters are made---------

Main Ingredients :

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Shredded Cabbage.................1 cup

Shredded Carrot.....................1/2 cup

Shredded Amaranth Greens.....1 cup(packed)

Besan/Chickpea Flour..............1/2 cup

Ragi Flour................................1/2 cup

Flax Meal................................1/4 cup

Seasoning Ingredients :

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Saunf.................................1tsp

Coriander Seeds................1tsp

Turmeric............................1/4tsp

Paprika..............................1tsp

Salt....................................to taste

Oil.....................................for deep frying

Preparation :

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Place all the cleaned and shredded veggies in a mixing bowl.

Add the besan flour,ragi flour and flax meal to the cut vegetables.

Now add the seasoning ingredients like saunf,coriander seeds,turmeric,paprika and salt to the bowl of veggies and flours.

Now mix all the ingredients in the bowl ,slowly with a clean hand till the veggies get coated well with the multi flours and spices.(I did not use any water as there was enough wetness in the vegetables,if needed slowly sprinkle a few drops of water at a time and coat the veggies with the flour.We do not want watery batter.)

Now get the oil heated up and slowly start adding the flour coated veggies to the hot oil and deep fry them.Once fried remove the pakoras/fritters from the oil and serve them with ketchup or sweet chutney or green chutney of your choice.

Delicious and healthy pakoras are ready to be served.

Note :

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1) I used frozen and thawed amaranth greens in the pakoras.So they had enough wetness in them to wet the grain flours.

2) These fritters did not soak in too much oil into them.So that is good.

3) I did not use any rising agents like baking soda to the pakora mix.

All in all this is a healthy snack.We enjoyed it and hope you would too.

This recipe goes to CWF-WG: Ragi/Finger Millet event guest hosted by Dennise.

Tried and Tasted on Tuesday's: Dec 21st 2010

Today is Tuesday and I am back today with a delicious dish that I tried and tasted in my kitchen following the recipe shared by one of my wonderful blog pal who presents her delicious dishes beautifully.This is a very healthy dish that could be made instantly and is ready in 30 minutes from start to finish.

Without further ado here is the bookmarked dish of the day--------

1)  Instant Quinoa Idli from Taste of Pearl City by Umm Mymoonah .

This was a very simple and easy to make dish and was a instant hit.We all enjoyed eating this delicious Instant Quinoa Idli with chutney.I followed most of her recipe as is except that I made the following changes:

I used red quinoa grains instead of regular quinoa and also used 1 cup sooji instead of 1/2 cup.I also added crushed ginger along with chillies to the batter.I also added 1/4 cup of grated carrot , a pinch of asafoetida,1/2tsp of ajwain(carom) seeds and few toasted cashews to the batter.

Thank you Umm Mymoonah for sharing this delicious and healthy dish with us.Please visit her blog for the recipe tried here today and also for many delicious dishes she has in store for us to try and to experiment.Will be back next week with more tried and tasted recipes.

This goes to Bookmarked on Tuesdays Event hosted by Priya Mitharwal .

Instant Multi-Grains Idli and Dosa(Healthy and Lowfat)

I started preparing batter for ravva dosa and ended up making this idli as everyone in the house voted for idli.This idli was very tasty.It is a very healthy and fatfree dish prepared instantly.

Let us get into the preparation of the recipe-----------------

Main Ingredients :
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Wheat Flour........................2cups
Sooji Ravva......................... 1.5cups
Rice Flour............................1/2cup
Instant Oats.........................1cup
Ragi Flour............................1cup
Yogurt.................................2cups
Cashew Halves....................1/4cup
Water.................................as needed
Salt......................................to taste
Baking Soda........................ 1tsp
Oil......................................for greasing idli plates

Preparation :

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Take a bowl and place all the above ingredients in it and make a batter to get a little thicker than a pouring consistency.Let the batter rest for 30 minutes.

While the batter is resting grease the idli plates .Now pour the batter into the oiled plates and steam for 15 minutes in a idli cooker or a pressure cooker or in any vessel in which you can place the idli stand .

Turn off the heat and let sit for 5 minutes. Remove the idlis from the cooker and serve them hot with karapodi(made with curry leaves), ginger chutney and dalia-coconut chutney.

I made few pancakes/dosas with the same batter and it tasted very good too.I did not add any oil while making the dosas.

Serve the instant multi-grain dosa with karapodi , ginger chutney and dalia-coconut chutney.

Try it and let me know how you like it .

I am sending this Instant Multi-Grain Idli and Dosa recipe to Show Me Your WholeGrains event hosted by Divya.