Eggless Whole Wheat Tropical Banana Bread

I hope all of you had great week end and those of you in US had a great Thanksgiving and long weekend. Even though I avoid gluten because out of four people in house hold,  two are on a gluten free diet because of various health reasons. But I love to bake and I jump on opportunities when I have to bake it with gluten based flours and have to give it out to others. The moment I saw this tropical banana bread recipe in the good house keeping book – recipes for children which my elder one had got it for me, I was totally tempted to bake. I baked this quick bread for one of my friend few months back and got a great review. Do not be intimidated with the long list of ingredients, once you get a grasp of the ingredients this is very easy...

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Tindora(Ivy Gourd) Quinoa

Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers and friends. I am sure every body would have started on their Thanksgiving menu and meal ideas already and  if you are still trying to figure out an option for the main course and which needs to be something nutritious, guilt free and something you don’t have to worry about after indulging. Then do include this high protein pseudo grain in menu.  Very easy to prepare and nutritious. Do try it out and let me know, how you liked it.Ivy gourd(Tindora) can be found in Indian(Asian) stores and is very low in carbohydrate and in alternate medicine it is believed to regulate sugar metabolism. Looks like a small miniature cucumber and crunchy and crispy in taste.Preparation Time – 15 MinutesCooking Time...

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Eggless Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are not health food to do a write up about the nutritional value. But they are any time better than the store bought one with no preservatives and additives.I have been baking these chocolate chip cookies for a long time and continue to bake them when I have to do a nut free baking.  This is the recipe which you can find in the Nestle Chocolate Chip Bags and I just substituted with whole wheat instead of refined flour and raw sugar instead of white sugar and are egg free. Personally I prefer my Almond Flour Chocolate chip cookies over these but I had to make these for some body who is allergic to nuts. So if you are looking for a chocolate chip cookie recipe to bake this holiday season do try out this one and do let me know how...

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Mixed Bean & Raw Banana Cutlet

How often do you do pantry audits? I do once in couple of weeks and when I did, I had small amounts of four different varieties of beans lying around and also had few raw bananas, onion, little bit of mixed vegetables lying in my refrigerator. In my attempt to clean up my refrigerator and my pantry and  before I stock up on fresh new produce. I wanted to use up  all these little bit of everything and  make something out of it.  Finally ended up in making these healthy and delicious cutlets, you can make them more tasty and sinful by adding some boiled and mashed potatoes and powdered bread crumbs and of course deep frying them and making it more interesting and delicious. But I decided to stick on to the high protein, low...

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Spinach & Bean Soup

So planning to throw a holiday party ? Definitely include these kind of soups and salads, which are water rich and fiber rich to fills up and helps to cut down on the calorie rich main course. Spinach is such a healthy vegetable with loads of Vitamin A, Vitamin K, Iron, Calcium apart from a host of other vitamins and minerals. A low glycemic index food and will perfectly fit the diet list of weight watchers and carb watchers also. The addition of Cannellini bean in this soup, adds not only thickness to this soup but fortifies with additional protein.  This recipe is too simple and can be done in minutes, do try this out and let me know what you think about this one.Preparation Time - 10 MinutesCooking Time - 10 to 15 MinutesServes -...

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Mixed Veg & Chick Pea Salad with Parsley & Yogurt Dressing

Do you love salads? I do, not just because they are so healthy and good for the body but also they are easy to put together in a jiffy. Most of the time no cooking is involved, add this and that. Come up with a dressing and toss things together and the salad is ready in few minutes. Starting the meal with fiber and water rich food like salads or soups with veggies fills you up and prevents from over doing the high calorie main course later. So give this colorful salad a try as a part of your Thanks giving meal and let me know how you like it. Now getting on to this super simple recipe.Preparation Time - 10 MinutesCooking Time - NoneServes - 4IngredientsCucumber - 1 (Medium size, washed, peeled and cubed)Tomato - 1 small choppedMixed bell peppers...

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Eggplant Quinoa

Quinoa is a protein rich pseudo grain, meaning a seed actually used as grain and is of South American origin. With a slightly crunchy texture and a nutty flavor this can be substituted in place of rice in most of the dishes. Quinoa is available in your local health food store or online stores. This eggplant quinoa is super quick to make. With rice being a staple in the region from where I come, there are so many varieties of rice that are prepared and relished and this is one amongst them. But in my house hold since quinoa is a staple, I just substituted the rice with quinoa to make this protein rich one pot meal.  The spice powder  is the key to this flavorful and delicious dish and I make it before hand and this stays good for at...

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Sweet Tender Pumpkin in Coconut Sauce(Parangikottai Paal Kootu)

Think Pumpkin people think the ripe orange color, but the young tender pumpkin is green in color with very tender seeds. I don't know how many of you have used it in your cooking, I rarely find that kind of young tenders ones in the grocery stores or farmers market here. This dish was made almost year and half before when my parents visited us. I love this young tender pumpkin and my sister who was in the west coast at that time, packed off couple of them from the farmers market there. The tender pumpkins have slight green color skin and the skin is also pretty edible because they are not thick like the yellow ones. A very simple dish made by adding jaggery(panela) & coconut, this dish absolutely tastes divine. So if you happen to see the...

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Pumpkin Mung Bean Halwa

Mung Bean is a very good source of protein and is very easy to digest. Inspired by my earlier Mung Bean Halwa, I tried this one with a slight variation, yes by adding pumpkin puree to this halwa. Pumpkin does give a very lovely color and slight sweetness to this dessert. This dessert is high in protein and made with iron rich jaggery. So if you like pumpkins and are looking for recipes using pumpkin during this fall season,do try this out and let me know how you liked it.Ingredients Split Yellow Moong Dal(Mung Bean) – 1 cup Ghee (clarified butter) – 1/2 cup + 1 tbspPumpkin pieces - 2 Cups Powdered Jaggery – 1/2 cup  Cardamom powder - pinch  Toasted nuts – 1 tbsp for garnishing Method 1) Soak Moong Dal overnight in water. 2) Next day...

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Green Mung Bean Savory Pancake(Pesarattu)

If you are looking for a high protein and low carb super nutritious break fast recipe, do include this recipe  in your list. A signatory breakfast of Andhra(Southern State in India) is super filling and at the same time very nutritious also. If you haven't tried this before, do try out this gluten free, grain free, savory power packed breakfast made with legumes. Normally accompanied with coconut and ginger chutney, they are such a treat for the taste palate. I served this one with Bell pepper & Almond Chutney. Preparation Time - 20 MinutesCooking Time  - 20 MinutesServes - Around 6 IngredientsWhole Green Mung Bean/ Dal - 1 CupSalt - 3/4 Tsp or more to tasteGinger - peeled 1/2 inch pieceGreen Chili - 2 to 3 depending on the spice...

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