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 Carrot Tomato Soup Recipe | how to make Carrot Tomato Soup  Carrot Tomato Soup Recipe  : Chopped carrot and tomato is boiled together in water to make soup. Soups are considered very healthy, if cooked healthy ways. We can make soup at home very easily. Butter makes soups very tasty, so I prefer to add butter instead of other oils. If you have a health condition which suggests to avoid butter, please go ahead with the oils.

Aloo ke pakode recipe | How to make Aloo Pakode | Potato bhajji Aloo Pakode / Potaato Bhajji Recipe  : Potato cubes are dipped in gram flour batter and deep fried till golden brown and crisp. Later served with chutney / ketchup. Aloo ke pakode is a very popular tea time snack. This simple snack can be prepared in just 15 minutes.

Dhokla recipe | How to make Dhokla | Besan (Gram Flour) Dhokla Dhokla is a popular gujarati snack. it is an instant snack which can be prepared in less then 30 minutes. Dhokla is prepared using gram flour / besan. Dhokla is sweet and sour snack which has sugar and lemon juice both. Gujarati cuisine has different versions of Dhokla like Khaman, khatta dhokla, Rawa Dhokla, Dal Dhokla and Rasia Dhokla. There may be more types of dhokla as well.

Chili Mushroom Fry recipe | How to make Chili Mushroom Fry Chili Mushroom Fry is an indo chinese dish. It is a simple and quick indo chinese dish which can be served with fried rice or boiled rice. It can also be served with Chapati and Parathas as well. Chili Mushroom Fry is prepared by shallow frying mushroom. We can also deep fry mushroom but to avoid using much oil, shallow frying mushroom is a healthy option. 

Rava Masala Appam Recipe | How to make Rava Masala Appam Rava Masala Appam is instant Appam recipe. Appam is made using Idly Dosa batter. Appam is soft dumpling. 

Oats Honey Pancake recipe | How to make Oats Honey Pancake | Pancake recipe for Kids Pancakes are kids favorite, specially with honey and chocolate syrup. Grown up also like pancakes. It is a very simple and quick dish which is healthy, full of taste and very quick to make. Usually pancakes are prepared using all purpose flour / maida but I always replace maida / all purpose flour with whole wheat flour.

Mushroom Paratha recipe | How to make Mushroom Paratha  Mushroom Paratha is heavy breakfast for busy morning. Mushroom is a healthy vegetable and often cooked as a side dish with chapati or rice. Mushroom paratha is a mushrrom stuffed paratha which is a flat bread and can be served for mornings, luch or dinner. Mushroom is stir fried along with onion to make mushroom stuffing. Because mushroom does not take much time to cook, preparing mushroom stuffing for paratha takes 5 - 7 minutes.

Methi Paratha Recipe | How to make Methi Paratha  Methi Paratha is a quick and healthy breakfast. Methi or Fenugreek is easily available in vegetable markets during winter in India. Methi is a green and added to many other vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes as well.

Tomato Chokha recipe | How to make Tomato Bharta Tomato  Chokha or Tomato Bharta is a dish prepared using roasted tomatoes. Tomato Chokha comes from Bihar and eastern part of Uttar Pradesh. Litti Chokha from Bihar is popular worldwide. Sattu stuffed Litti is served with chokha recipes either it be Tomato Chokha, Potato Chokha (Aloo ka Chokha) or Eggplant Chokha (Baingan ka Chokha).

Dalia Upma recipe | How to make Dalia Upma | Broken wheat upma Dalia or broken wheat is a very healthy food. It is high in protein and fiber so it is good for them who are trying to loose weight. One cup of cooked dalia has about 150 calories where as one plain paratha has 120 calories. Dalia or broken wheat is a very rich source of iron. It is good as a baby food as well.

Carrot Onion Paratha recipe | How to make Carrot Onion Paratha Weekdays mornings our kitchens are busy in making paratha and packing it for school or offices. Children love to eat paratha in lunchbox at school and it is the most appropriate way to keep their tiny bellies full and keep them energized. Carrot Onion paratha ticks all the checkboxes to be a healthy and nutritious lunchbox food. Apart from busy weekdays morning, weekend mornings will give chance to have hot carrot onion paratha and enjoy it with flavored ginger tea ! In case, you are not a tea person, raita and pickles are always there to boost the taste.

Vermicelli Upma Recipe | How to make Vermicelli Upma/ Semiya Upma Vermicelli or Semiya upma is a very quick breakfast or snack. It is best when served with ginger tea . Vermicelli is the thing which can be used to make sweets like kheer, paysam, halwa and can be consumed as a salty snack like upma also.  Vermicelli Upma

Lauki Pakora Recipe | How to make Lauki Pakora Lauki Pakoras are quick and easy dish to prepare. Lauki is a healthy food which can be consumed as sabzi, curry, raita, kheer, barfi, paratha and thepla as well. Pakora is another lauki recipe which is very easy to make at home.

Garlic Chutney Recipe | How to make Garlic Chutney Garlic Chutney or Lahsun Chutney , again a very simple no cooking chutney. In North Indian  cuisine chutney is not cooked. It is just a paste of raw veggies/ greens and aromatic spice. Lahsun Chutney or Garlic Chutney is no exception. In Haryana this chutney is prepared almost every alternate in winter. People there like to eat chapati and chutney as a combination and they can skip sabzi or curry and meal can be only Chapati like missi roti or bajra roti along with this garlic chutney. 

Puda Recipe | How to make Puda | Poora Recipe Puda or Poora is sweet flatbread made using whole wheat flour , jaggery powder and fennel seeds (saunf). Puda is mostly prepared as an offering in prayers and is a very traditional form of Indian sweets. Specially in North indian states Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab, Puda or Poora is a very commonly made sweet.

Sattu Sharbat Recipe | How to make Sattu Sharbat Sattu Sharbat is summer drink. Sattu means any dal or grain roasted and than powdered. Most common Sattu is black roasted Chana powder. Sometimes Sattu can be a mix of cereal and pulses. Sattu Sharbat is a summer cooler for human body.   Sattu Sharbat

Pudina Chutney Recipe | How to make Mint Leave Chutney Pudina Chutney or Mint Leaves Chutney is prepared using mint leaves only and no other part of the plant. There is a reason for that, first Mint stems are hard and need a bit more grinding then leaves and also the stems are very strong in taste. That is why whereas we use green coriander as a whole leaves along the stems, for pudina chutney we only use leaves. 

Cabbage Sandwich Recipe | Cabbage Sandwich with Leftover Sabzi Cabbage Sandwich with leftover is just a very quick breakfast. Whenever we are having leftover sabzi , we always try to use those. We try to use it as a stuffing in a paratha , sometimes mash and mix it in dough while kneading and sometime make a sandwich . Cabbage sandwich is a healthy and quick breakfast which can be prepared using leftover cabbage sabzi . 

Tawa Paneer Masala Recipe | How to make Tawa Paneer Masala Just like the Bhaji is done for Pav Bhaji, same way Paneer is also cooked to make Tawa Paneer Masala.  Tawa Paneer Masala can provide a variety from the other popular paneer dishes like Palak Paneer and Paneer Makhani.