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Split Moong Daal Sambhar

» by redchillies August 27th, 2010 at 9:41 am » Comments (25)

We usually do our Indian grocery shopping once a fortnight and time permitting, we go to different groceries each time. During one such trip, I found these husked split moong daal in the lentil aisle. Since I had not used them before, I was skeptical but knowing their nutritional value I decided to buy them [...]

Methi Moong Daal Recipe

» by redchillies February 5th, 2010 at 2:57 pm » Comments (24)

Ever since I read on Sandeepa’s blog about green whole moong’s ability to get rid of the toxins from our body, I have been thinking of ways to incorporate more of these beans in our diet.
Here is what one source says about these small green beans. “They are very nourishing, while being relatively easy to [...]

Malabar Spinach Coconut Curry (Vaali Ambat)

» by redchillies September 18th, 2009 at 9:16 pm » Comments (21)

Malabar Spinach is also referred to Indian Spinach, Ceylon Spinach. It is called as pui shak in Bengali, Vaali bhaaji in Konkani, basale soppu in Kannada and as bachhali in Telugu. Typical of leaf vegetables, it is high in vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, and calcium. It is low in calories by volume, and high in [...]

Coconut Beetroot Curry/ Beetroot Kootu Curry

» by redchillies August 12th, 2009 at 11:18 am » Comments (22)

The health benefits of Beets are immense. They provide protection against Heart Disease, Beets’ Betaine Helps Lessen Inflammation, increases stamina, reduced blood pressure etc. June through October is the best season for finding beets and sure enough, we are finding beautiful beets along with its leaves in our grocery store.
In our house we are fond [...]

Beetroot Rasam Rice

» by redchillies June 15th, 2009 at 10:51 am » Comments (27)

Growing up I don’t remember being fond of Rasam. In fact, nobody in my family had inclination towards it and so my mother hardly prepared it. The only ones we had were at restaurants or at some functions.

But then after marriage things changed and now I make it pretty often as DH is very [...]

Nutritious Eggplant, Spinach Daal

» by redchillies June 10th, 2009 at 9:39 am » Comments (31)

Yet another crazy week for me at work and cannot wait for the weekend to come by. For dinner I made this easy and nutritious daal yesterday inspired by this previously posted recipe here. It has a combination of lentils, greens, vegetables along with the goodness of ginger, garlic. I made this in a thicker [...]