Sunday, February 14, 2016

An Dessert Sushi: A Healthy Eat

So I tried to make an Indian "healthy" version of a sushi.

To start with here is what I used:

1. Instead of seaweed, I used Betel Nut Leaf (wiki link). This leaf, I boiled, and then cooled. After which it looks like this:


2. Then instead of steamed rice, I used millets (wiki link) cooked in milk. For this I used millet and milk in the ratio of 1:2. To cook it, heat milk and bring it to a boil, wash and add the millet ( I used the Foxtail variant) to the hot milk. Simmer and let it slow cook. You should have your cooked millet in 15 minutes.

3. Instead of fish, I used freshly cut fruits and dates. I used bananas, papaya, and kiwi. It looked somewhat like this:


4. For the sauce, I used strawberries, that I blended.

To roll the sushi, spread out the betel leaf and spread the millet as shown:



And the finished product looks like this:



This is a healthy, sugar free dessert. When I say sugar free, I mean without artificial sugar. Only what's there in the fruit is what should satisfy that sweet tooth of yours.

*I invented this recipe, and hope that you copy it but, while giving me due credit!

Monday, February 8, 2016

A Simple Chicken Curry

Here is how you make tasty, healthy and simple chicken curry at home with simple ingredients.

To start, here are the ingredients:

Cloves 2
Bay Leaves 1
Cardamom 2
Cinnamon 1 medium stick
Oil 3 tbsp (preferably extra virgin olive oil)
Curd (thick yogurt/ cream/ cashew paste would also do) 2 tbsp
Turmeric 1 tsp
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Chicken 750gms
Ginger Garlic paste 2 tsp
Onions 3 finely chopped
Tomato 3-4 blended
Coriander leaves (for seasoning)
Ghee (for seasoning)
Green chili 1
Dry red chili 1
Water about 300 ml

The Procedure:

Take oil in a pan and let it heat. Make sure there is no water in the pan.
Toss in cloves, bay leaves, cardamom, dry red chili
One these things have fried a little (you’ll be able to tell when the dry red chili starts to lose a bit of its color), toss in the onions and green chili.
Let the thing cook till the onions are golden brown in color
Once this is done, you toss in the ginger garlic paste, and cook the mix till the smell of garlic is completely gone.
After this stage, add the tomato puree (that you blended), your coriander powder, turmeric, salt to taste, and curd.
Once this is cooked, and you’ll be able to tell its cooked, when the mixture starts to release oil, drop in the washed pieces of chicken, and stir to cover the chicken pieces with the mixture.
Let this thing cook for about 20 minutes, and you’ll be able to tell this when the chicken starts to become brown on the outside.
Add about 300 ml of warm water to the mix, and cover with a lid and let it cook. You can add some coriander and ghee to this if you want to. Wait for another 20 minutes till the chicken is completely cooked. You’ll be able to tell if the chicken is cooked or not, by poking the chicken pieces and seeing how easy it is to pierce it.
Let it cool to a temperature that is fit for consumption

Bon a petit!