Dal and Green Veggies Chops-Tasty Healthy Recipes to Enjoy for the New Year 2019

Are you tired of having pulses/legumes and common veggies in your lunch and dinner? Alternatively, are you a parent and often facing difficulty to make your child eat legumes, pulses and nutritious green veggies?

If yes, you will have good news now. This New Year, we have come up with one of the tasty healthy recipes for individuals belonging to every age group with Dal and Green Veggies Chop. Moreover, as our dal-based recipe contains 0% Maida and we have soaked the oil post frying, you may enjoy our chops even when you are on a diet plan.

Ingredients Required-

·         1cup of Mug Dal (you may choose combination of dals or any other dal)

·         Carrots

·         Cabbage

·         Capsicum

·         Green peas

·         Green chilies

·         Tomato

·         Ginger garlic paste

·         Cumin seeds

·         Turmeric powder

·         Chili powder

·         Coriander powder

·         Cumin powder

·         Garam masala

·         Tomato sauce

·         Chili sauce

·         Salt to taste

·         Peanuts and

·         Besan and/or Jowar as optional ingredients

Preliminary Steps

·         Soak the dal for 15minutes and drain out the water

·         Put the soak dal in the mixer and grind it (avoid grinding it finely)

Preparation of the Stuffing

Chop each of the veggies, including tomatoes and green chilies so that you may easily mix and grind them in a mixer grinder.

·         Heat 1tablespoon of oil in a pan and add cumin seeds

·         Add peanuts and fry it for a while

·         Add the grinded veggie mixer

·         Add ginger garlic paste (skip this if you already added ginger garlic paste or in clove form at the time of grinding veggies)

·         Add common salt and other aforementioned spices, while stir for a while

·         Add chili sauce and tomato sauce and stir for some time further

·         Remove the stuffing from the pan and leave it to cool.

Preparation of the Dough and Balls

·         Mix the grinded dal and the prepared stuffing properly

·         Add besan and/or jowar to make the dough strong

·         Add salt and red chili powder to enhance the taste

·         Once you prepare the dough, start taking out small lemon size balls.

Preparation of Chops

·         Heat the oil (mustard oil is preferable) in a pan

·         Fry each of the balls until they turn golden brown in color

With our Mug Dal and green veggies combined recipe, you will get each of the essential nutrients present in pulses, carrots, cabbage and green peas by enjoying a great taste.

Cabbage Kathi Rolls and Cutlets-Best Winter Time Tasty and Healthy Snack to Enjoy

Whenever we talk about green veggies, one of the popular names that strike in our mind is cabbage. Strong reason for this is that as a fresh and a green leafy vegetable, it gives tons of nutritional benefits with low amount of calories and fat. However, as the nature of a human being, he or she gives priority to taste rather than overall health while choosing any food item, including the mentioned green veggie i.e. cabbage. 

Thus, in order to give a perfect blend between excellent taste and good health, we have introduced a few tasty and healthy recipes prepared with cabbage in combination with some other veggies in small amounts. In addition, to meet the objective of diet-friendly recipe or gluten-free recipe, we have used sorghum i.e. jowar flour and gram flour i.e. besan instead of Maida. These include the following-

·         Cabbage Kathi Rolls and

·         Cabbage Cutlets

Note-Initial preparation and stuffing for both of these recipes are similar, but the difference lies in the shape and extent of frying cutlets and rolls in a pan.

Ingredients Required

·         1 small size or half big size of cabbage

·         Handful of green peas

·         1 small size carrot

·         1 tomato

·         2 to 3 green chilies

·         Ginger garlic in clove forms or as paste

·         Cumin seeds

·         Oil (mustard oil is preferable)

·         Turmeric powder

·         Chili powder

·         Chili sauce

·         Tomato sauce

·         Schezwan chutney

·         Coriander powder

·         Cumin powder

·         Garam masala

·         Salt to taste

·         Jowar/sorghum 1 cup

·         Besan/gram flour of half cup

Preparation of the Stuffing

To start the preparation, you have to chop each of the veggies finely and place into a mixer grinder to make a semi-solid type of paste.

·         Heat one or two tablespoon of oil in a pan and add cumin seeds

·         Add the semi-solid mixture in the pan

·         Add each of the aforementioned spices and sauces one by one.

·         Add salt to taste

·         If required add only a few amount of water to avoid sticking of the paste

·         Stir occasionally for a while

·         Your stuffing becomes ready and keep it for some time to cool

Preparation of Dough

To prepare the dough, you have to mix the stuffing with sorghum and gram flours with a pinch of salt and 1tablespoon of oil.

Here, you have to prepare a bit hard dough, so that you may easily prepare cutlet or roll in the later steps.

Preparation of Rolls or Cutlets

For Kathi Rolls

·        Take a small size of the dough and make it just like a shape of a thin roll i.e. or stick (a kathi in Hindi)

·         Repeat the procedure for each of the dough’s pieces.

·         Heat the oil in a pan and fry it.

·         In case of rolls, you have to opt for deep fry.

·         Finally, you should serve the rolls hot with pickle, curd, chutney or sauce.

For Cutlets

·         In case of cutlets, you have to make flat shapes before fry them in a pan.

·         Here, you may go with either shallow fry or deep fry depending on your taste buds and other health requirements.

Once you complete the process, serve the cutlets hot with any type of sauce or chutney of your own choice. 

Paneer Mustard Khas Khas-Unique Way to Satisfy Taste Buds and Get Pool of Health Benefits

Looking for a unique way to have protein-rich paneer, just try out our paneer khas khas gravy. An interesting fact of the dish is that it not only lets you to get plenty of proteins to strengthen your bones and muscles, but also let you to achieve improved cardiac health, along with other benefits. Thanks to the inclusion of khas khas and mustard seeds in powdered forms.

Overview of Paneer Mustard Khas Khas Gravy

Paneer mustard khas khas seeds gravy is a different type of paneer recipe to have at any time of the day. The dish consists of pieces of fried paneer dipped in semi-thick gravy consisting of 1cup of powdered khas khas and a tablespoon of powdered mustard seeds. (Mustard seed in higher amount will make the dish to taste bitter).

Ingredients Needed-

·         1-cup of khas khas seeds

·         1-tablespoon of mustard seeds

·         100 grams paneer (in small pieces)

·         Water to adjust the gravy

·         Salt to taste

·         Finely chopped onions

·         Finely chopped tomatoes (optional)

·         Ginger Garlic Paste

·         Turmeric Powder

Preparation Method

Grind both mustard and khas khas seeds in a mixer grinder and keep it aside

·         Heat the oil in a pan

·         Add finely chopped onions

·         Add ginger garlic paste

·         Add pieces of paneer and fry for a while

·         Add the powdered mixture of khas khas and mustard

·         Add water to adjust the level of gravy

·         Add salt and turmeric powder

·         Depending on whether you have it single, with chapatti, oats or rice (brown rice preferred), you have to adjust the level of the gravy.

·         Take out the cooked recipe in a bowl and serve hot

Health Benefits of Mustard and Khas Khas at a Glance

Khas Khas Health Benefits

·         Improves cardiac functions

·         Heals pain and inflammation in no time

·         Avoids sleeping disorders

·         Avoids respiratory problems

·         Improves digestion and nervous systems

·         Boosts immunity

·         Increases bone density

Mustard Health Benefits

·         Helps you to fight with uterine cancer

·         Improves your cardiovascular health

·         Helps to form red blood cells

·         Boosts your bone strength because of its high amount of selenium

·         Helps in proper sleep during nighttime

Therefore, paneer lovers whenever you have cravings towards paneer dishes, you should definitely try this with your friends and family members. 

Paneer Dragon Rolls- Low Carb Starters for Fitness Freaks and Party Lovers

Every one of us likes to have parties and enjoyment to take a break from our busy work life. Parties consisting tasty starters, beverages and dance with music playing in the background not only help in relaxing our mind, but also give us energy and a change.

However, parties consisting of startup items may also force us to intake lots of calories than we intake in any normal day. Especially, starters made with flours served in parties break your health diet plan. Thus, we have come up with our low carbohydrate-based Atta-made Paneer Dragon Rolls to allow our fitness freaks enjoy parties with besties without breaking diet plan.    

About Atta-made Paneer Dragon Rolls

Atta-made paneer dragon rolls are perfect startup replacements of paneer dragon rolls served in any restaurants or during parties. The specialty of these dragon rolls is that instead of using all-purpose flour called Maida, we have used Atta to make the outer coating. Furthermore, we have used protein rich pieces of paneer combined with green veggies in its stuffing with the objective to give you every possible essential nutrient along with ultimate enjoyment in your party.  

Ingredients Required

·         Wheat Flour

·         100grams of paneer in small pieces

·         Water

·         Ajwain

·         Oil

·         Finely chopped veggies

·         Finely chopped onions and tomatoes

·         Salt

·         Cumin seeds

·         Turmeric Powder

·         Chili Powder

·         Coriander Powder

·         Cumin Powder

·         Garam Masala

·         Aamchur Masala

·         Garlic Cloves

Preparation Method

Preparation of Dough

·         Add wheat flours, a pinch of salt and Ajwain, while mix well

·         Add water to maintain the proportion and prepare soft wheat flour dough.

Preparation of Stuffing

·         Heat the oil in a pan

·         Add garlic cloves and cumin seeds

·         Add chopped onions and tomatoes

·         Add all the veggies and paneer pieces

·         Fry for a while

·         Add turmeric and chili powders

·         Add cumin and coriander powders

·         Add garam masala and aamchur masala

·         Stir for a while and set the stuffing aside

Preparation of the Rolls

·         Take a small piece of the dough made with wheat flour and flatten it (similar to making a chapatti). However, you have to make sure flattening it thin as possible.

·         Take small amount of stuffing and place it on the flatten surface.

·         Roll it properly and fold it from both sides.

·         Repeat the same steps for other rolls.

·         Heat the oil in a pan

·         Fry the rolls until they turn golden brown.

·         Serve hot with curd, veggies salad, chili sauce and tomato sauce.

Therefore, whenever you want to enjoy parties with your friends, just try for our low carbohydrate-based Atta made Paneer Dragon Rolls.