Moong Veggie Fingers

Moong Veggie Fingers 

Every day challenge is what to prepare in breakfast which is healthy, easy, different and full of veggies. This recipe fulfils all the parameters that I am looking for in my breakfast. Especially The Moong Dal.

Moong Dal is very versatile, yummy and easy to use with lots of health benefits. We can easily add it in our meal plan in many ways. Be it in a soup, a salad, curries, snacks or rice.

If we talk about the health benefits of Moong beans, the very first thing is if you are a weight watcher. It is high in fibre and protein which helps us with weight loss. Moong Dal is a good source of "Folate" And during pregnancy, doctors advise to take food rich in Folate. It is rich in Potassium, Magnesium and Fibre which improves Heart health.  It improves Digestion. It is also packed with lots of Nutrients. So add Moong Beans to our meal as it is good for our family's health....

Preparation Time :  20 min.

Cooking Time :  20 Min

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Ingredients :

• Split Green moong dal 1 cup soaked for 6 to 7 hours
• Onion Chopped 1 medium size
• Ginger grated 1 inch piece 
• Green chillies chopped 2
• Carrot 1 medium size grated
• Capsicum 1 small size finely chopped
• Bread slice 6 (I used brown bread)
• Coriander leaves chopped 2 Tablespoon
• Salt according to taste 
• Red chilly Powder according to taste
• Oil for cooking around 2 tablespoon

Procedure :  

• Soak green moong dal for 6 to 7 hours or overnight and keep aside

• Now remove the excess water from moong dal and grind it in smooth paste 

• Finish Cutting and chopping of vegetables 

• In a bowl take Moong dal paste add chopped onions, green chillies, ginger, carrots, capsicum, coriander leaves, salt and red chilly powder

• Mix all ingredients well and form a smooth mixture as shown in picture 

• Now take a bread slice and spread moong and veggie mixture on one side of bread. 

• Take a non- sticky pan apply few drops of oil . Now place the bread on pan as shown in picture 

• Cook toast for a minute or two. Now turn it and cook it from another side. Repeat the steps with rest of bread slices. 

• Once bread is cooked from both the side cut it in to thin fingers or whatever shape you like. 

• Enjoy your guilt free breakfast with some Almonds and a cup of Milk.  

Bread Cheese Canape

Bread Cheese Canapé  

Winters are in. Time to enjoy winter veggies. My favourite one is green Chana. I prefer to add these Chana in various vegetables that i cook. Recently I prepared another variant of evening snacks using these Chana and paneer. I prepared paneer bhurji which is quite popular in our homes. For variation to that I added green chana and put crushed black pepper.

This gave it a different taste and crunchiness of chana made it more delicious. Once this stuff is ready I placed it on top of brown bread canapes, to make them more tempting for kids to pick one and gulp down. It is  nutritious and a change from routine evening snacks. Great option which is filling, healthy and innovative.

Enjoy and delight your family...

Preparation Time :  20 Min

Cooking Time : 15 Min

Ingredients :

• Cottage Cheese (paneer ) 200 gm
• Onion 1 medium size sliced
• Potato 1  medium size disced 
• Green chana 1/2 cup
• Green chilly chopped 2
• Cumin seeds 1/2 teaspoon
• Black pepper crushed 1 tea spoon
• Sant according to taste
• Oil 2 tablespoon for cooking
• Coriander chopped 1 Tablespoon
• Brown bread slice 4

Procedure :  

• Slice onion keep aside, chop potato keep a side

• In a pan take oil 1 1/2 tablespoon heat it add cumin seeds

• Now add sliced onion to this cook it for a minute or two
• Now add potato to this and on low flame cook this for 5 minute or till the potato is cooked

• Add salt, chopped green chill along with crushed pepper

• Mix it add green chana and cook is fro 3 minutes

• Crumble cottage cheese and add to the mixture

• Now increase the flame to high and cook the whole mixture for two to three minute. Make sure that all water is evaporated but paneer should not be over cooked

• Add chopped coriander to this

For Canapés   

• Take brown bread cut, it into square or rounds what ever shape you like
• Toast it on hot tava from both the side by applying little oil.

• Now place small portion of paneer and chana bhurji as shown in picture

• Repeat the steps with rest of the canapes 

• Serve it with a glass of milk or juice 
• Or you can serve this bhurji with lacha parantha and butter milk .. the way you like 

Tip :   

• If you wish you can apply green chutney to bread canapé to make it more spicy
• You can give it more colours by adding bell pepper to your bhurji
• You can use this as a sandwich filling
• Variations are unlimited ... 

Poha Vada (Flattened Rice Vada)

Poha Vada (Flattened Rice Vada)  

Poha is one of the most popular breakfast dish, having a very big consumer base. Whether it is north or west, popularity of poha is pretty high. At least once or twice this is cooked in our homes and we feel delighted to relish it.

Similarly if you are from south, idli or dosa or vada would be your favourite to start your mornings. However real challenge with South Indian breakfast is that you need to ensure your material is ready one night before. So you have to keep the batter ready beforehand itself.

Here I faced a tricky situation when family desired to have Vada with Sambhar and I didn't have the batter. So I thought and came up with an innovative concept to make Vada from Poha i.e. flattened rice (also known as Chura in some places). This is easily digestible and easily available. So try this at home

Preparation Time :  30 Min

Cooking Time : 20 Min

Ingredients :  

• Poha 1 Cup
• Curd 1/2 Cup
• Rice flour 1 Tablespoon
• Bread slice 2 no.
• Onion 1 medium size chopped
• Green chillies 2 Chopped
• Ginger Chopped 1 Tea spoon
• Curry leaves 8 to 10
• Black pepper corn 8 to 10 crushed
• Pinch of Hing (asafoetida)
• Salt according to taste
• Oil for frying

Procedure :  

• In a bowl take poha wash it and transfer this into strainer. So that poha doesn't absorb too much water and became messy. Keep it a side in a strainer.

• Finish all cutting and chopping
• In a bowl take poha add chopped onion, rice flour, curry leaves, green chilly, pinch of hing, crushed pepper corn, ginger

• Soak bread in water as shown in picture. Remove excess of water. crush it and add with breast of the mixture along with curd and salt

• Now mix all ingredients nicely you will get a dough like texture

• Take a small portion of mixture and form flat tikki with whole in middle as shown in picture 
• Prepare all the vadas and keep aside

• In a pan heat oil once the oil is hot deep fry vada in this on medium flame. Till it is cook from both the side

• once it is cook take out from pan and keep it on kitchen towel so that the excess of oil is removed

• Enjoy this with a sambar, chutney and a cup of tea ..

Tip    

• If you like you can add few cashew nuts to this it will give some nutty taste
• If dough is too much sticky add some bread crumbs to this otherwise your vada will be too much oily