March 31, 2008
This recipe is my second entry to Jihva for Ingredients – April.
Please check my previous post here.
Here is the recipe for you using raw garlic.
Ingredients

- 5 or 6 flakes of garlic
- 2 pieces of coconut
- One green chilly
- One small piece of ginger
- One cup of fresh curd
- Salt to taste
- Coriander leaves for garnishing
For seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon of mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon of jeera (cumin seeds)
- A pinch of hing (asafoetida)
- 1/2 teaspoon cooking oil
- 3or4 curry leaves
Method

- Peel off the skin from the garlic.
- Grind garlic, coconut,ginger and green chilly into fine paste.
- Mix the ground paste and curd with enough salt.
- In a small frying pan put 1/2 teaspoon oil.
- Add mustard and jeera.
- When mustard starts spluttering, add hing and curry leaves.
- Add the seasoning to the mixture and stir well.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Serve with any mixed rice or chappathi.
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March 31, 2008
This recipe is my entry to Jihva for Ingredients – April.
I take this opportunity to thank Indira for introducing something like JFI and attracting many food-bloggers to participate in this.
Indira’s blog has truly been an inspiration for me to write my own.
I also appreciate Mathy Kandasamy’s initiative to host JFI for the month of April.
So here comes my first recipe featuring garlic cooked to perfection.
Ingredients

- 1 cup of garlic flakes (100 gms)
- 6 medium sized mushroom
- 1 big onion
- 1 tomato
- 1 green chilly
- Small piece of ginger
- Half bunch of mint leaves
- Few coriander leaves
- 1 small cup of fresh curd
- 1 teaspoon ghee
- 1 teaspoon cooking oil
- 1 teaspoon dhania – jeera powder (A blended powder of coriander and cumin seeds)
- 1 teaspoon red chilly powder
- 1 teaspoon garam masala powder
- A small piece of cinnamon
- 1 clove
- 1 cardamom
- Salt for taste
Method

- Wash the mushroom thoroughly and cut them into pieces.
- Remove the skin from the garlic and cut it into two.
- Cut onion and tomato into fine small pieces.
- Grind one teaspoon of cut onion, ginger, two flakes of garlic, mint leaves, coriander leaves, green chilly into fine paste.
- Take a frying pan and put 1 teaspoon ghee.
- Add mushroom and little salt and fry till it becomes soft. Keep it aside.
- Add one teaspoon of oil in the pan.
- Add cinnamon, clove and cardamom.
- Add the cut onion and garlic flakes and fry till it becomes soft.
- Add the ground masala and fry till you get a nice aroma.
- Add cut tomato and fry till it gets cooked.
- Add all the masala powders and fry for a while.
- Add one cup of curd and boil for two minutes.
- Add the fried mushroom and enough salt and boil for 5 minutes.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Serve hot with phulka.
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Posted by Sharadha
March 29, 2008
Ingredients:

- One cup of wheat rava (200 gms)
- One teaspoon of mustard
- One teaspoon of urad dhal (Blackgram dhal)
- One teaspoon of channa dhal (Bengalgram dhal)
- One teaspoon of cooking oil
- One teaspoon of hing (asafoetida)
- Few curry leaves
- Salt as required
For Grinding:
- Two medium size green chillies
- One small bunch of coriander leaves
- Few pieces of coconut
- One teaspoon lemon juice
Method:

- Grind coconut, green chillies, coriander leaves and lemon juice coarsely.
- In a frying pan put one teaspoon oil.
- Add Mustard, urad dhal and channa dhal.
- When mustard starts popping, add hing and curry leaves.
- Then add two cups of water.
- Add the ground paste and salt.
- When water starts boiling, add wheat rava little by little and stir well.
- When the mixture thickens, switch off the burner and allow it to cool for 10 minutes.
- The consistency of the mixture should be like upma.
- Touching little water in the hand, make small oval shaped balls (egg shape)out of that mixture.
- Place the balls in a greased Idly plate and steam for ten minutes.
- For 200 gms of rava you get 12 medium sized kozhukattai.
- Serve hot with coriander chutney.
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Posted by Sharadha
March 26, 2008
Ingredients

- One cup of sprouted wheat
- 1/2 cup of sprouted green gram
- Two teaspoon of channa dhal (Bengal gram dhal)
- Two teaspoon of redgram dhal(Toor dhal)
- Two teaspoon of urad dhal ( Blackgram dhal)
- 2 or 3 Red chillies
- One teaspoon of hing ( asafoetida)
- Salt as required
- Cooking oil for making adai
- Few curry leaves
- One small cup of cut onion
Method
Getting the batter ready

- Soak channa dhal, urad dhal , redgram dhal and redchillies for one hour.
- Grind sprouted wheat to a coarse paste.
- Grind sprouted green gram, channa dhal, urad dhal, redgram dhal,Redchillies and hing to a coarse paste.
- Mix the ground wheat and ground dhal with enough salt.
- Add cut onion and curry leaves to the batter.
- Mix well.
- Add enough water to the mixture so that the consistency of the mixture should be little thicker than dosa batter.
Preparation

- Heat a non stick tawa.
- Smear little oil and spread one ladle full of this batter to a thick circular shape.
- Make a few holes in the centre.
- Pour oil on the sides and in centre and cook on a low heat.
- Turn over and pour little oil and let it cook till it is crisp all around and golden brown in colour.
- Serve hot with any chutney or sambar.
How to Make Sprouted wheat
- Soak Whole Wheat in fresh water. Keep it over night. The next day pack the wheat in a thin cotton cloth.Let it remain for 24 hours. The third day you can see the sprouts coming up in the seeds.
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Posted by Sharadha
March 18, 2008
I read in a magazine that green salads not only fill your stomach well but also help you reduce weight. In this healthy salad recipe, I use sprouted green gram along with raw vegetables and a choice of spices to enhance the taste. My husband relishes this salad and it turns out to be a good appetizer.
You can have just this salad for dinner. This will help you reduce weight drastically.
Ingredients

- One small cup of sprouted green gram
- One onion
- One small capsicum
- Half cucumber
- One piece of cabbage
- One carrot
- Few celery leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper powder
- 1/2 teaspoon redchilly powder
- 1 teaspoon oregano ( Italian spice)
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoon vinegar
- Salt for taste
Method

- Cut cabbage, carrot, capsicum,cucumber and onion into thin strips.
- Cut celery leaves into small pieces.
- In a bowl Put all the cut vegetables along with green gram sprout.
- Add red chilly powder, pepper powder oregano and salt
- Mix well.
- Add 2 teaspoon of vinegar and olive oil and mix well.
- Serve with hot soup and whole wheat bread.
Lakshmi of Taste of Mysore has a recipe for Sprouted Moong Salad in her site. Do check that out too.
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Posted by Sharadha
March 16, 2008
Chick peas are highly nutritious and they contain maximum of 25% protein. If you want to lose weight, have chick peas with two rotis for lunch at least 3 days a week. Chick peas fills your stomach quite well just like sprouted green gram.
There are two types of chick peas. Here I use desi chickpeas which are smaller in size with a thick seed coat.They appear dark brown in colour and take 24 hours to get the sprouts.
Ingredients

- One cup of sprouted chick peas
- One big onion
- One tomato
- One red chilly
- one green chilly
- 3 flakes of garlic
- One hand full of mint leaves
- A small piece of ginger
- One teaspoon of hing (asafoetida)
- One teaspoon of jeera
- One teaspoon of daniya
- One teaspoon of mustard
- One teaspoon of urad dal
- Few curry leaves
- Few coriander leaves
- One teaspoon of lemon juice
- 11/2 teaspoon of cooking oil
- Salt as required
Method

- Cook sprouted chick peas with enough salt and water till it becomes soft.
- Cut onion into small pieces.
- Grind onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, red chilly, mint leaves, jeera (cumin seeds), daniya (coriander seeds) into a fine paste.
- Put 11/2 teaspoon oil in a pan.
- Add mustard and urad dal. Let it splutter.
- Add green chillies , curry leaves and hing.
- Add the remaining cut onion and fry till it becomes soft.
- Add the ground paste and fry till it becomes dry.
- Add the boiled chick peas and fry for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the burner, add lemon juice and stir it well.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
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Posted by Sharadha
March 12, 2008
As mentioned earlier, you can mix sprouts with a combination of vegetables and this way sprouted green gram becomes palatable too. I tried using a choice of spices and ingredients to enhance the taste of this dish. Here is the recipe:
Ingredients

- One tender snake gourd
- 2 onions
- 1 tomato
- 3 flakes of garlic
- One hand full of mint leaves
- 2 green chillies
- One teaspoon of jeera (cumin seeds)
- 1/2 teaspoon of daniya powder (coriander powder)
- One teaspoon of panch phoran*
- One small cup of green gram sprout
- 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of hing (asafoetida)
- 2 to 3 tablespoon of curd
- 2 teaspoon of cooking oil
- Salt for taste
*Panch Phoran
Mixture of 5 spices that is mustard(rye), methi (fenugreek), jeera, fennelseeds(sonf), and kala jeera in equal quantity.
Method

- Cut the snake gourd in to small pieces.
- Cut onion into small pieces.
- Cut tomato into four.
- Grind onion, garlic, tomato, green chillies, raw jeera, pudina and curd in to fine paste.
- Boil snake gourd and sprout in a pan with enough salt, and water, turmeric powder, and hing till it is completely cooked.
- Remove it and keep it aside.
- Put 2 tsp oil in a frying pan, add panch phoran and let it splutter.
- Add cut onion and fry till it becomes soft.
- Add the ground paste and fry till the raw smell goes.
- Add dhaniya powder and fry for a minute.
- Add the cooked snake gourd and sprout and fry for 5 minutes.
- If required water may be added to make it gravy.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
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