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Carrot Kheer using Jaggery || Carrot Payasam with Jaggery

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 Carrots has a bright colour and it looks more attractive when we prepare any recipes using them. Carrots are naturally sweet in taste and kids would love to have them in any kind of recipes. But some kids may not like the taste. So mommies! Learn and cook some delicious meals using bright carrots so that your kids enjoy the taste.  If you skip adding carrots to the diet, one can miss its numerous advantages. Carrots are excellent source of beta-carotene and it improves eye sight. It helps to combat with Vitamin A deficiency when consumed regularly. The dietary fiber present in them cleanses the body and it helps to relieve from constipation. The recipe I made here is very delicious and healthy too since I used jaggery as a sweetener instead of regular sugar. The taste will be similar to the normal one made with sugar. But I prefer to replace regular white sugar with rock sugar or jaggery. You can also use date syrup instead of jaggery in order to make it more healthy. I also added han
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Whole wheat Pizza Recipe || Mushroom Bell Pepper Pizza

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We know that including whole grains in your food would be an advantage to your meal. So have you ever pizza recipe (I mean the base) at home using whole wheat flour? It tastes equally good besides the regular pizza available at shops. The recipe that I shared here is Pizza recipe including how to make base, pizza sauce and I made Mushroom and green pepper pizza. You can add any toppings that you wish to have. Now let's go through the process. Ingredients: For making base Whole wheat flour - 2 cups Sugar - 1 teaspoon Salt - as required (as per your taste) Active dry yeast - 1/2 teaspoon Water - 3/4 cup For making sauce Ripened tomatoes - 6 to 8 medium size Salt - as per your taste Butter or oil - 1 teaspoon Garlic finely chopped - 6 to 8 cloves Green bell pepper - few pieces(optional) Onion - half finely chopped Mixed herbs seasoning - 1 teaspoon For toppings Mushrooms - 6 to 8 Green bell pepper - 1 sliced Onion - half sliced Tomato - 1 thinly sliced Procedure: To make pizza dough F
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Whole wheat Pasta with Red sauce

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Pasta is one of the favorite foods and most of our little kids love to have them. So instead of making pasta made using with refined flour, use whole wheat pasta. Including whole grains in your diet is very essential because it will allow us to intake some dietary fiber for better digestion.  Now-a-days we can find many healthy alternatives in the market which were made with millets too. If available, try to use them instead of regular pasta.  The recipe that I made here contains Whole wheat Pasta recipe including Pasta sauce(Red sauce) recipe. Let's go through the recipe Ingredients: For pasta sauce Tomatoes medium size -6 Butter - 1 teaspoon Onion - 1 small Chilli - 1 small (optional) Garlic - 6 to 8 cloves Pasta seasoning - 1 teaspoon Pepper powder - 1 teaspoon Salt - 1 teaspoon or as per your taste For pasta recipe Whole wheat Pasta -  1 cup Water- as required (for boiling pasta) ButterCarrot - 1 medium size French Beans - handful (10-15) Garlic - 2 chopped (optiona
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Millet Idli with Sprouted Pearl millets/ Sajjalu Idli with Coconut Chutney recipe

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 Pearl Millet is highly nutritious and is highly recommended for people with different age groups. It can be also given for infants as weaning food and is also good for lactating mothers as well.  It contains good amount of iron and zinc and soaking, fermentation helps to increase its absorption capacity of the body. I used Sprouted Pearl millets to prepare idlis because sprouting will double the health benefits. So try to use Sprouted grains in cooking recipes whenever you can. This recipe also contains urad dal which is power packed with protein and different minerals. It is ideal for breakfast for toddlers and for younger kids and gives good amount of energy. Now let us go through the recipe details, Ingredients: Urad dal - 1 cup Pearl Millet - 1 cup Salt - as per your taste Water - as required  Process: 1. For sprouting pearl millet: Wash the pearl millet twice with plain water and soak them in enough water for a minimum of 12 hours or overnight. Then transfer the millets into a cl
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