Rice Dosa

Dosa is a famous South Indian breakfast item. It tastes good with butter or oil. I tried with very less oil and avoided lentils, it tastes good though. Lentils are high in uric acid and protein as well, uric acids affects the risk of gout and artheritis.  A therapist and naturopathy doctor suggested avoiding lentils to artheritis people. Below is the lentil free dosa for you.......

Drumstick, Yellow Cucumber Curry

Yellow Cucumber or Lemon Cucumber is a gourd family vegetable called Dosakai(in Telugu) is available in parts of India. This can be used as raw and also preserved like pickle too. It's intake is very good for those who have dry skin as it keeps the skin fresh and smooth. Cucumber juice is best tonic for your skin and it also improves your complexion keeping the skin glowing and fresh.

Idly

Idly an Indian steamed cakes popular in south India often eaten at breakfast or as a snack. I grew up to the smell of idlis, fresh out of the pressure cooker/steamer, when I woke up in the morning. These soft pillowy cakes goes good with coconut chutney or sambar. Idly is one of your best friends when you are in diet and are very low in calories, this is completely oil free cooking.....

Strawberry Smoothie

The garden strawberry was first bred in Brittany, France in the 1750s. It is rich in vitamin C, and combination of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agents fight against many different kinds of cancer. So let us try a strawberry smoothie today.

Snakegourd chutney

The Snake Gourd is a tropical vegetable of Indian origin and is known as  potlakaaya in Telugu, Pudalankaai in Tamil, paduvalakaayi in Kannada and padavalanga in Malayalam. It’s a highly nutritious vegetable and is widely used in South Indian cuisine. Snake gourd has anti-inflamatery properties, natural antibiotic, remove pus, expel toxic matter from the body and also relieves constipation.

Lemon Rice aka Pulihora/Chitrannam/Puliodharai

As Hindus consider turmeric powder as a symbol of auspiciousness, this dish is cooked for almost all good occasions and during festive days. Other versions of pulihara are made with Un-ripe sour Mangoes and Tamarind. This tastes sour, salty, spicy hot at the same time, I remember my friend vyshnavi on this occasion who loves my pulihora.

Lima Beans Fry

Lima beans are a good source of protein and provide all the eight essential amino acids required for maintaining a healthy life. It is estimated that a single cup of uncooked lima beans provides around 85% of the daily protein requirement. Lima beans are excellent sources of natural antioxidants called anthocyanins, reduce the occurrence of certain inflammatory, degenerative and cardiovascular diseases. So let us try Indian lima beans (chikkudu kaya) today.....................

Basic Egg less Cake

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Today i am in a mood to bake a egg less cake.Yes, this is egg less cake. Baking egg less cake is not so easy with out a binding and raising agent, so today i will show you how to bake a cake easily using microwave. A very few ingredients go into this making, the main players being milk and oil. A delicious cake in 5 minutes time. Here you go......