Nutritious BreakFast/Sprouts-Bean Patties

        I love patties a lot because they are nutritious,delicious (fibre,iron ,vitamins etc),easy to make and good to store in refrigerator for sometime .This Sprouts-Bean patty is one such Nutritious Breakfast .At  lazy mornings you can just get them out of refrigerator and heat it in oven/stove and have it with bread .When your  kids are hungry ,this is the best nutritious breakfast they will have.
      Adding of breadcrumbs give a crunch to the outer layer of the patties.If you don't have crumbs its fine to omit it as well .You can bake Cutlets in oven if you wish or just searing them will give a perfect texture to the patties .

My love for patties got extended with other patty recipes like

1. Sweet potato Patty
2. Potato patty
3. Black bean patty

Preparation time: 10 min(apart from 8 hours soaking and 20 min Pressure cooking time)
Cooking time:15 min

Pasipayaru Sundal/Easy Snack

Very soon navarathri celebrations are starting .So you can see recipes for neivedhyams/prasad in my up coming posts.

 Lets look at "navarathri":

         "Nava" means 9   ,"rathri " means nights .So nine nights pooja and fasting to pray "durga,badrakali,ambal,annapooorna,jagathamba,chandikha,lalitha,bhavani,mookambhika    " to get her blessings .10th day is called "vijayadashami".

There are totally 5  navaratris celebrated year around.  This is what  Wikipedia says

1. "vasantha" celebrated during vasantha kalam "march -April" spring season.
2. "Ashad" celebrated during "June-July"
3. "sharad "celebrated during "September -October" Most important navarathris of all its the starting of winter season.
4. "pusha" celebrated during tarishi "December-January "
5. "magha "  celebrated during "January-February"

       In tamilnadu temples ,idols are decorated in different form of durga for this 9 days .In houses people do "golu " and cook prasad /neivedhyams for god and distribute it to the people who visits their house.Women's share bhindi "manjal .kunkumam " for longavity of their husbands life .
    Sundal which is a easy snack plays a major role in navarathri neivedhyams.There are many varieties of sundal but this pasipayaru sundal is very nutritious ,it can be made as a evening snack for kids.Its very easy and kids and adults would love it for sure.

Cooking time:15  min

Serves:2-3

Green gram dal and purple cabbage burrito

In my fridge you will always find corn tortillas. I use them to make tacos and burritos. I make veggie burritos by stuffing tortillas with fresh grilled veggies and black beans. Its a quick and healthy week day dinner.
I had some sprouted green gram dal left over and I used them instead of black beans in the burrito. It came out well. I wanted to share the recipe with you all..

Preparation time:5 min

Cooking time:10 min

Serves:1-2

Pesarattu|Moong Dal Dosa

       Pesarattu is a Dosa  unique to Telugu cuisine/Andhra.Pesarattu is made out of Green moong/Moong dal but unlike a dosa, it does not contain Urad dal.Its green colour attracts kids more so you can put this moong dal dosa in their mouth without much fuss.You can also make pesarattu paniyaram or small pesarattu dosa along with grated carrot and nuts with the same moong dal batter.

        I love this pesarattu because it is healthy and it tastes wonderful.Making pesarattu with sprouted moong dal makes your breakfast even more healthier.In andhra pesarattu is served with upma,or onions in the middle .I instead added finely chopped onions to the dosa batter.To make the dosa crispier you can add rice flour to the batter andcan  oil to the bottom while making dosa.

Whitepumpkin and GreenGram Kootu

A Traditional Tamil lunch usually has a Kootu (கூட்டு) and a Porial (பொறியல் ) as side dishes.

Kootu usually has a vegetable and a Dal simmered together. This particular recipe uses green gram instead of dal and it also uses coconut.

Nagarathar's were renowned traders. They had businesses in South East Asia including Burma, Malaysia and Singapore. The use of coconut and exotic spices in Chettinad cuisine is due to the Burmese influence.

Preparation time:5 min

Cooking time:10-15 min

Serves:2