Bathua is a green leaf vegetable, grown in Northern India as a winter crop. In many parts of the world it is considered a weed and goes by funny name, such as fat hen, goose foot, lamb quarters, pigweed etc. I am sure most of you are familiar with it even if you don’t recognise by name, you might have seen one or two bathua plant popping up in your backyard with dandelions.
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Red lentil and Kale Soup
We had few rain showers this week that ended our glorious summer and I thought about making soup. I never need an excuse for soup, though. Anytime is a good time for soup BUT cooler weather definitely begs for soup to be made. What do you think?
Polenta Upma
There are many reasons to love polenta. I often make a large tray of polenta and freeze the leftover so that it can be used for fries, croutons, tapas snacks and upma. When I did a post on polenta cakes with crunchy cilantro pesto, I said to freeze the scraps that you get from cutting polenta rounds for anther recipe. Upma, was that recipe I was talking about.
Quinoa Salad with Beans, Roasted Corn and Vegetables
This high in protein salad full of fresh and healthy ingredients is pulled together perfectly with a light dressing. Great for packed lunches or a light dinner.
Millet “Berry Shrikhand”
Let me introduce you to a delicious creamy dessert called Shrikhand. It is a simple delicacy of strained yogurt, whipped to cream like consistency, mixed with sugar, flavorings and fruit pulp. As you can tell from the title of the post there is millet in my recipe. It is not only yummy but is virtually guilt free. The only fat here comes from whole milk yogurt cheese.
Zucchini Pesto Pizza
If you haven’t tried any recipe from my blog, I recommend you to try pizza, for sure. Even though the rest of my family is not gluten free but we all love gluten free pizza. I have previously posted meat balls pizza and Kale and curry chicken pizza using the same crust and today I have pesto pizza with zucchini.
Bean Sprouts and Vegetable Salad
If you are on a eating healthy wagon and salad is one of your choice, think wisely. They can be quite deceiving by the amount of ‘goodies’ that we add in the form of cheese, croutons, dressing and the greasy meat.Salads in Indian cuisine are very light and healthy. They are mostly vegetable and bean sprouts based with simple lemon dressing.
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