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Oats puttu recipe | Indian weight loss recipe | Oats recipes

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Servings 1
Oats puttu is an easy gluten free breakfast which you can include in your diet for a healthy weight loss journey.

Equipment

  • Steamer

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup Instant oats
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1/4 cup Scraped coconut (Freshly scraped)

Instructions 

  • Take oats, scraped coconut and a pinch of salt in a bowl.
  • Sprinkle little water and make the oats flakes damp.
  • Steam in a mould or flat steamer about 6-8 minutes in low to medium flame.

Video

Notes

  1. Don't add too much water just damping oats flakes is enough.
  2. Steaming time may vary deepening on the heat of the flame and type of the mould/ steamer.
Author: Anishya
Course: Breakfast, Main Course
Cuisine: Indian, Kerala
Keyword: easy breakfast, gluten free recipes, healthy weight loss recipes, indian weight loss recipes, kerala weight loss recipes, Oats puttu, oats recipes, weight loss breakfast recipes
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Sweet millet rice recipe | Healthy kodo millet sweet recipe

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Sweet millet rice can be made with any millets. Here I’m sing unpolished kodo millet.

How to make the best healthy kodo millet sweet recipe

Here I’m explaining the ingredients and method of making a healthy kodo millet sweet.

Prepare time: 10 min
Cook: 15 min
Ready in: 25 min
Cuisine: Millet recipes
Serves: 4

Ingredients

  1. Unpolished kodo millet – 1/2 cup (any millet except finger millet and pearl millet can be used for this recipe)
  2. Water – 1.5 cups
  3. Jaggery powder – 1/2 cup
  4. Cardamom powder – 1/4 teaspoon
  5. Roasted cumin powder – 1/4 teaspoon
  6. Scraped coconut – 1/2 cup
  7. Ghee – 1 teaspoon
  8. Salt – a pinch

Method

  1. Wash and soak the kodo millet overnight or at least for 4 hours. If you are using kodo millet the water color while rinsing and washing will change to brown but it’s okay.
  2. In a pan cook the kodo millet with water. 1:3 is the ratio of kodo millet and water.
  3. After the millet is well cooked, add jaggery powder, cardamom powder, roasted cumin powder, scraped coconut, ghee and salt one by one and combine well.
  4. Switch off the flame and serve the sweet millet rice.

Pro tips & tricks by Anishya

  1.  Soaking millet is mandatory for the complete health benefits.
  2. Discard the millet soaked water after soaking, don’t use it for cooking.
  3. Adding ghee helps to absorb the nutrients fast from millets.
  4. Add more jaggery if you want more sweetness.

Variations you can try

  1. You can use any millet except finger millet and pearl millet can be used for this recipe.
  2. You can add little ginger powder for this recipe along with cardamom powder and cumin powder.
  3. You can make this recipe with any one of the spices, cardamom or cumin powder too.

Storage/ Serving tips

  1. Serve hot or warm
  2. Serve chilled

Best serving combos suggested by Anishya

  1. As it is
  2. With banana
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Grilled pineapple recipe | Barbeque nation style grilled pineapple recipe

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Grilled pineapple is juicy and very delicious. This is the best pineapple recipe I ever had.

How to make the best healthy grilled pineapple

Here I’m explaining the ingredients and method of making a healthy grilled pineapple

Prepare time: 10 min
Cook: 20 min
Ready in: 10 min
Cuisine: Healthy party dishes
Serves: 4

Ingredients

  1. Thick pineapple slices – 4 nos.
  2. Red chili powder – 1/4 teaspoon
  3. Cinnamon powder – 1/4 teaspoon
  4. Chaat masala powder – 1/4 teaspoon
  5. Jaggery powder/ brown sugar – 1 teaspoon
  6. Black salt/ normal salt – 1/8 teaspoon
  7. Butter – 1 tablespoon

Method

  1. Marinate the sliced pineapple with all other ingredients except butter.
  2. Heat butter in a pan and sear roast both sides till they changes the color to brown.

Pro tips & tricks by Anishya

  1.  Use sweet and juicy pineapple.
  2. Cook in medium to high flame for making a juicy grilled pineapple.

Variations you can try

  1. You can use either slices pineapple, cubed pineapple of long pineapple wedges for this recipe.
  2. You can substitute jaggery with sugar.
  3. I used the inner stem of the pineapple in the recipe but you can discard the stem.
  4. Use normal salt if black salt is not available.
  5. You can try making this recipe with just chili powder and salt too.

Storage tips

  1. Serve hot or warm
  2. Serve chilled

Best serving combos suggested by Anishya

  1. As a side dish to grilled non veg
  2. With vanilla ice cream
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Healthy guava chaat recipe | Guava salad

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Healthy guava chaat/ guava salad is made with few just ingredients.

I wanted to try a simple but healthy recipe with guava and ended up with below recipe. This is an Indian version of guava salad recipe.

How to make the best healthy Guava chaat/ Guava salad

Here I’m explaining the ingredients and method of making a healthy Guava chaat/ Guava salad.

Prepare time: 5 min
Cook: 0 min
Ready in: 5 min
Cuisine: Healthy salads
Serves: 2

Ingredients

  1. Guava – 1 medium, cut into bite-sized pieces
  2. Chili powder – 1/4 teaspoon
  3. Chaat masala powder – 1/4 teaspoon
  4. Black salt – to taste (or normal salt)
  5. Mustard paste – 1/4 teaspoon

Method

  1. Combine all ingredients well, shake the ingredients in a bowl so that all ingredients will be well coated with the guava.
  2. Serve.

Pro tips & tricks by Anishya

  1. You can use white or pink guava.
  2. Use the guava which is about to ripe. Ripe guava may not be suiting for this recipe.
  3. Adjust the ingredients according to your taste, there is no strict recipe for this guava salad.

Variations you can try

  1. You can make this guava chaat/ salad just with normal salt and chili powder.
  2. If you don’t have access to chaat masala powder you can avoid it in the recipe.
  3. You can use normal salt instead of black salt.

Storage tips

  1. Better serve immediately.

Best serving combos suggested by Anishya

  1. Serve it as a snack or salad.
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