Vegetable Rava Idli

Vegetable Rava Idli


Big challenge daily. What to cook in breakfast. Tasty, healthy, instant and my kid should love it. Normally south Indian food is loved at my home. My daughter usually eat Idli with chutney or sugar but avoids eating with sambhar. I am dissatisfied with this combo as she is not consuming full nutrients.

I prepared this rava idli, which is quite healthy, easy, very soft and i have added veggies like carrot and capsicum with some cashew nuts so that I can give content what i want to give to my family.

If we have some guests and we have to quickly prepare some fancy breakfast where we don't need to prepare sambhar, we can simply go for this option. This is itself a complete meal with chutney and a cup of coffee or tea. Good outdoor tiffin option as well.

Preparation Time : 20 Min

Cooking Time : 15 Min

Ingredients :  

• 1 Cup rava (sooji)
• 1 Cup curd
• Pinch of hing Asafoetida 
• 3 Tablespoon oil +
• 1 Teaspoon mustard seeds
• 8 -10 Curry leaves
• 1 Teaspoon urad dal
• 1 Teaspoon Channa dal
• 8 - 10 Cashew nuts 
• 2 Green chilly chopped
• 1 Teaspoon grated ginger
• 1/2 Cup grated carrot
• 2 Tablespoon chopped capsicum
• 1 Teaspoon fruit salt
• Water as required 
• Salt according to taste
• chilly powder according to taste

Procedure :  

• Finish all cutting and chopping

• In a pan take 2 tablespoon oil, heat it, add mustard seeds and pinch of hing

• Now add urad dal, channa dal, curry leaves and cook for a minute. Add cashew nuts, roast it for a minute then add rava, chilly powder and salt. Dry roast all ingredients for 4 to 5 minutes. Keep it aside

• In a bowl take curd, green chillies, ginger, rava mixture, carrot, capsicum and 1 Tablespoon oil mix all together 

• Now add some water to the mixture till it is like paste as shown in picture

• Keep this mixture aside for 10 minutes
• Now add fruit salt to the mixture mix it and pour it into greased idli moulds

• Steam idli for 10 minutes or till it is cooked properly

• Serve it hot with tea or coffee

Tip :  

• Adding oil make it more soft
• You can add any other vegetable of your choice as beans, bell peppers 

Coconut Rice

Coconut Rice

I heartily thank Plattershare for giving me an opportunity in their "Belly Nirvana Program" to make recipes using specialised products. I also thank Go Organic India for providing me their premium product Coconut Oil to use in a recipe of my choice.

Before I received this product few days back one of my family member was diagnosed having high LDL Cholesterol (bad one) and when I was exploring on net food having low LDL, I was surprised to learn that Coconut Oil really is having many nutritional values. However some of its properties surprised me like it reduces LDL to HDL ratio and increases HDL; it also helps in reducing weight as it increases energy expenditure.

Though in our North Indian diet we rarely use coconut oil. With all this in mind, when I received this product I made this recipe and I got a totally different aroma so soothing that it was tempting me to take it fast down my throat. This encouraged me to make more dishes using this virgin coconut oil.

Preparation Time : 20 Min

Cooking Time : 10 Min

Ingredients :

• 2 Tablespoon Coconut oil
• 2 Cup Boiled Rice (Boil Rice with salt0
• 1 Cup grated fresh coconut
• 2 Onion sliced and deep fried on coconut oil
• 12 -15 Cashew nut fried (in coconut oil)
• 10 -15 Curry leaves (fried in coconut oil)
• 10 -15 Raisins
• 2 Red chilles
• 2 Green chilly chopped
• 1 Teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1 Teaspoon urad dal
• 1 Teaspoon channa dal
• Few curry leaves
• 2 Tablespoon Coconut Oil for frying

Procedure : 

• Boil Rice in plenty of water along with some salt and keep it aside
• Deep fry sliced onions and keep it aside as well
• Fry curry leaves and cashew-nut to be used later
• Grate coconut also for our use

• In a pan take 2 tablespoon of coconut oil; heat on low flame add mustard seeds to this 

• Now add urad dal and channa dal, roast them for 30 seconds

• Add chopped green chilly and red chilly to this along with few curry leaves and sauté it

• Now add granted coconut to this and cook for a minute

• Now add half of the fried onions, fried cashew nuts, raisins and roast it

• Now add boiled rice to this roast it nicely for a minute or two

• Add fried curry leaves to this

• Garnish it with fried onions and fried curry leaves and serve it hot ....