Today I am sharing a thogayal recipe which is made from ridge gourd peel. We can make this with simple ingredients. We usually peel the peerkangai and make peerkangai kadyal or make some other dish. Peels are fibre rich and have nutritive value.
Peerkangai Kadaiyal is a village style preparation. This is a Tamil Nadu style preparation. Kadaiyal means adding the required vegetables and cooking well and mashing with wooden masher called mathu and tempered with some tempering. Peerkangai Kadaiyal goes well with stemed rice or dosa. Peerkangai is also known as Ridge Gourd, Turai or Beerakaya .
Ragi is gluten free grain which is very good for our health. Ragi is a rich source of calcium, iron and protein. Ragi flour is rich in dietary fibre and it slowly digests. So the stomach feels fuller and is good for people with diabetes. Ragi is also known ass nachni or finger millet.
In this season, we get lots of mochai kottai. Mochai kottai has lots of health benefits. Mochai kottai looks like avaraikkai. Inside this , if we remove we can find mochai kottai. It is also known as field beans.Field beans is rich in proteins and helps in giving strength to our body. Field beans is … [Read more…]
Yesterday I was thinking what to keep for my son’s lunch box. My son is a choosy eater and it is tough to satisfy him. As I was thinking I got an idea of making Rajma Masala. Rajma masala is a Punjabi dish. Rajma masala is prepared with soaked kidney beans which is cooked with … [Read more…]
Adai is a healthy dosa made with mixed lentils and rice. I usually try to make different types of adai. This adai is made with five dhals and brown rice and boiled rice. This is a fiber rich breakfast which is very good for people with diabetes.
We often make sevai or idiyappam using raw rice. But this is a healthy sevai which we can prepare from wheat flour. Idiyappam or sevai makes a wonderful breakfast option. It is very healthy as it is a steamed food. It is easily digestible and good for diabetic people.
Millets are very healthy food option. For making this we need ragi flour and jowar flour, curd, chopped onions and green chillies. Mix all this with salt and we can make vadas. This is very tasty and is a healthy snack option.
We all know that millets are very good for our health. But some of us do not know how to cook millets and the ratio of water we need to cook millets. Today, I am sharing how to cook barnyard millet. You can use any millets in place of barnyard millet and cook.
The health benefits of bitter gourd are many and is rich in vital vitamins and minerals. It is also has very low calories and rich in dietary fiber. Bitter gourd is also very good for people with diabetes as it helps to control blood sugar. Consuming karela can help you get rid of acne, blemishes … [Read more…]