Sambar rice for healthy weight loss

If u maintain a healthy diet it is the solution to many problems and you will see pounds coming down . Fruits and vegetables are gifts from mother nature if u add more of these in your daily diet they help to heal your body and keeps you full longer . I dont find difficult to maintain a healthy diet now because i 💖 the change . And I would call this Sambar rice recipie as balanced diet

Ingredients I used

Rice - 2cups
Toor dal - 2 cups
Water - 10cups(To cook rice and dal)
Carrots - 2big
Beetroot - 1big
Radish - 1 big
Tomatoes - 4 big
Brinjal - 4
Bottle guard- 5 inch piece
Sambar powder - 4tbs
Turmeric powder - 1tbs
Red chilli powder - 2tbs
Tamarind water - extracted from lemon sized tamarind
Jaggery - a small piece
Salt - according to taste
Ghee - 3tbs
Hing  , curry leaves and chopped Coriander leaves

Method
Firstly take rice and dal wash ,  then  in a pressure cooker cook for 5 whistles , keep a side

 Chop all veggies

 Now drop chopped vegetables in to pressure cooker (This makes your cooking time faster)

Now add salt , turmeric and red chilli powder 

Now  goes in tamarind water

Quickly coriander  , curry leaves and jaggery now close lid 

 Keeping flame on medium cook for 1 whistle (If it keep flame on high you can wait for 2 whistles). Now switch off the flame and wait for lid to fall down

Vegetables are cooked perfectly

Keeping flame on medium high , Take a thick bottomed pan and place on the stove now add ghee and let ghee gets heated after heating tamper with dry chilli , curry leaves , jeera , mustered , hing and lastly curry leaves

When seasoning is done immediately transfer cooked veggies in to the seasoning

 Now add Sambar powder and cook for a minute

 After a minute transfer cooked rice and dal into vegetable mixture

Mix nicely till rice completely mixes with sambar

If rice is too thick u can add 1 cup of water (u can skip this If it is runny)

Top with ghee

Now feep flame on simmer ,Close with lid and cook for 5 mins

 Done , look at the beautiful color of rice because of beet root I added , serve hot😊

Beetròot rasam

Beetroots firstly I like velvety pink color of this vegetable , beetroots are rich in folate , vitamins  minerals and also fiber which helps in weight loss. Beetroot has beauty benefits too , this works with in and on the surface of skin too . Drinking a glass of juice removes toxins and leaving you healthy and glowing skin. Applying on the surface will remove dead cells and make you look younger and glowing.

 Ingredients I used

Beetroot - 1 big
Curry leaves - 3 to 4 strings
Coriander leaves - hand full
Rasam powder - 2 tbs
Salt - according to taste
Lemon - 2
Hing - a pinch
Water - 3 big glasses
Pressed garlic - 5pods
Mustard , jeera and dry chilli for tampering

Method
Wash peal and grate beetroot . Now transfer grated beetroot in to thick bottomed vessel , to this add curry leaves, chopped Coriander leaves , rasam powder and salt

Add water and turmeric

Keeping flame on medium , place on stove

Let rasam bring to boil (do not over cook)

Take out of  the stove and strain the pulp

Extracted beetroot water , keep a side

Rince same vessel under tap , keeping flame on medium place the vessel on stove  and add 2 tbs of oil, when oil gets heated tamper , when you hear splattering sound add pressed garlic curry leaves and coriander leaves and  hing ,fry for 30sec .

When tampering releases nice aroma it's time to add beetroot water now immediately switch the flame , keep aside and let rasam cool for a while

After 10mins squeeze lemon in to rasam , taste it and adjust taste by adding salt and lemon (if required). Now your rasam is done.

Serve hot with rice😊 . This is so tasty and u don't taste and feel any beetroot flavour. It's super healthy, give this a try and let me know how you like .

Chicken biryani with leftover chicken curry

Today my daughter asked me to prepare some thing special for lunch,I opened my fridge and was thinking about the possibilities I could make easily with less ingredients, with less effort and that should be her favourite so got an idea and took out Sundays left over chicken curry and started making , it was so easy and turned out so tasty 

Ingredients I used 

Left over chicken curry (May be 250gms)

Curd - 1cup

Red chilli powder - 2tbs 

Turmeric powder - 1tbs

Biryani Masala powder - 1tbs

Pudina leaves 

Fried onion

Rice - 3 cups

Ghee and oil

Method

Firstly I chopped 3 onions and fried till golden brown mean while  I soaked rice(I used regular rice u can use basmati rice also) and cook on high flame till half boiled and strained and kept a side . 

Take curd in a bowl , to it add turmeric,  red chilli powder, salt, biryani Masala, fried onion and chopped Coriander leaves and now mix everything nicely

To this add chicken curry

Now take a thick bottomed pan and now keep flame on medium and add ghee into the pan

Now transfer marinated chicken curry in to heated pan and let curry cook for 5mins

After 5mins marinated chicken will turn to rich thick gravy now it's time to add half boiled rice

Now keep flame on simmer and Mix curry and rice together nicely and top up with fresh mint leaves , fried onion and ghee

Cover the pot and place on a tawa now keep flame on simmer and cook for 30mins

After 30mins open lid it's done 

Note

U can add basmati rice instead of normal rice

Be careful while addind salt because curry has already salt

U can squeeze a lemon while marination

Carrot rice

Carrot rice is my family favourite rice item , I make it on and off. As today is our 70th Republic day remembered our flag colors and wanted to make this color ful nutrition rich , tasty recipie

 Ingredients I used

 Cooked rice - 3 cup
Green peas - 1/2 cup
 Carrots (big) - 3
Green chilli - 4
Onion - 2
 Chopped coriander leaves - fist full
 Ginger garlic paste - 1tbs
 FRIED cashew
Whole biryani Masala
Salt
Turmeric powder
Red chilli powder
Oil and ghee for tampering

 Method

 Firstly I cooked rice along with 1 tbs of salt , green peas and whole garam Masala tied in a cotton cloth 

Keep flame on medium low and Heat a thick bottomed pan and add ghee and oil when heated add onions and chilli

Fry till onions turn brown 

Now add grated carrots

Mix every thing well and cover and cook till carrots are cooked and reduce its size stirring in between 

Now add cooked rice to fried carrots and mix every thing nicely 

To this add chopped Coriander leaves and mix well

 
 Now cover and cook till nice aroma and steam is released

Done top up with fried cashew 

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY