Spinach Sprout Raita

Ingredients:

• 1 cup chopped spinach
• ½ cup boiled sprouts (any type)
• ½ teaspoon finely chopped ginger
• 1 cup yogurt
• Black salt to taste
• ½ tablespoon sugar

For tempering:

• 2 tablespoon oil
• ½ teaspoon urad dal
• ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
• Pinch of asafoetida
• 2-3 dry red chillies

Method:

1. Whisk the yogurt and add ginger, black salt and sugar to it.
2. Add spinach and sprouts. Stir well and keep it aside.
3. For tempering, heat the oil, add urad dal and mustard seeds.
4. When mustard seeds start to crackle, add asafoeida and dry red chillies and fry it.
5. Pour this tempering on yogurt mixture.
6. Transfer it to a serving bowl and serve it with rice, biryani or roti.

Nutritious Laddu

Ingredients:

• 1 cup whole wheat
• ¼ cup ragi (Finger millet)
• ¼ cup moong dal
• ¼ cup urad dal
• ¼ cup soyabean
• 2 cups powdered Suagar
• 1 tablespoon cardamom powder
• ¼ cup dryfruits (any of your choice)
• Ghee/Butter

Method:

1. Dry roast wheat, moong dal, urad dal, soyabean and ragi separately. Cool them to room temperature and grind them together in a grinder.
2. Mix the above flour in a big and flat vessel with equal amount of powdered sugar. Adjust the sugar as per your taste.
3. Add dry fruits and cardamom powder to the mixture.
4. Add melted ghee little at a time. Mix it and roll it in lemon size balls or laddoo.
5. Adjust the amount of ghee as per requirement. The mixture should be neither too dry nor to sticky. Ladoos are ready to serve!!