Sabudana Khichadi

Sabudana Khichadi

Sabudana are cooked with potatoes and crushed peanuts, it is usually made during fasting days

It is the most popular snack recipe for vrat in India.

To make sabudana khichadi perfect you need to keep few points in your mind first you need to soak sabudana in right proportion (Eg.: 1cup sabudana  : soak in a 1 cup of water for 5-6 hr.)

Nutrition Fact:

Sago/sabudana is nearly pure carbohydrate and has very little protein , vitamins, or minerals.

The addition of peanuts to sabudana khichdi adds to the protein content, making it a more balanced meal. It has a high calorific content, due to the quality of starch and fat present.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sago/ sabudana soaked
• ½ cup roasted peanuts
• 2 small to medium size potatoes
• 8/10 curry leaves / kadi patta
• 2-3 green chilli chopped
• 1tsp cumin /jeera
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• Rock salt as required
• 5-6 tsp ghee
• Coriander leaved finely chopped   

Method:

1. First wash sabudana 2-3 times and then soak in 1 cup water for 5-6hr. always use proportion 1:1 (eg.: If you take 1 cup of sabudana than soak in a 1 cup of water)
2. Take 2-3 green chillies remove stem and then chopped finely
3. Peel and wash potato and then cut into pieces.
4. In a pan roast peanuts till browned and when cooled peel off skin and then grind coarse
5. In a mixing bowl add soak sabudana , coarsely peanuts , rock salt , curry leaves and sugar and mix well and keep aside.
6. Now heat ghee in a deep frying pan and when ghee is heat up then add cumin and leave it till crackle and then add chopped green chilies and cut potato and saute till the potatoes are cooked.
7. Now add red chili powder, coriander powder and stir well for 1-2 minutes.
8. Add sabudana mixture and keep on stirring the mixture for 5-6 minutes.
9. Lastly add lemon juice (optional ) mix well and close the fire.
10. Serve hot with cold curd/ dahi with curry leaves and cumin tadka.

      

     

crispy bajra nuggets

crispy bajra nuggets

This is one of the most delicious experimental recipe which can be a Great tea time snack or starter ….

Nutrition fact :

Bajra is mainly made of starch, a high-energy food. It contains niacin, a vitamin that plays a crucial role in lowering cholesterol levels It is also a fairly good source of magnesium and potassium, minerals that play a role in regulating blood pressure  Bajra is rich in insoluble fibre that helps digestion and stool formation.

Ingredients :

For Nuggets :

• 1cup bajra flour (roasted in butter)
• 1 cup boiled grated potato
• ½ cup roasted and grounded peanuts
• 4-5 green chilly
• 1-2 tbsp coriander powder
• Salt to test
• Butter milk for binding it into dough
• Oil to deep fry

For the filling:

• 1 cup mix vegetables , boiled and mashed (corn,green peas ) and graded carrot also you can add chopped onion 
• ½ cup spinach finely chopped
• ½ cup mozzarella cheese
• ½ cup boiled grated potato
• 1 tbsp tomato souse
• 1tbsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp dried mango powder
• 1 tbsp green chilies (finely chopped)
• 2-3 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped
• Pinch of sugar powder
• Salt to taste

Other  :

• ½  cup corn flour better for coating
• ½ cup bread crumbs for coating

Dough Preparation

• In a mixing bowl add bajra, potato, peanut crush  and all spices (salt, coriander powder, green chilly finely chopped, red chilli flakes) and make a mixture for dough
• Now add in little by little butter milk to bind it into thick dough

Filling Mixture

• Roughly give one whizz to the corn in blender but make sure  that you don’t make a fine paste here and then add carrot ,   GreenPeas, onion ,finely chopped spinach , coriander leaves , green chillies, potato , mozzarella cheese, salt to taste , dried mango powder, Pinch of sugar powder, tomato sauce and mix well and keep aside
• Now take a ball size portion of bajra dough and put a little filling in centre and bind well to shape into a ball …
• Repeat the same with the remaining dough

Crust preparation &Deep Fry

• Now deep this bolls into corn flour better and then bread crumbs for coating…
• Now in a deep frying pan add oil and deep fry these balls one at a time till golden on all side
• Fry these balls in low medium flame for consistent.
• Fry them till crispy and remove and serve with any dip of your choice or serve with         tomato sauce.