Month: July 2020

Gluten free cookies

Gluten free cookies

After starting my diet plan I ordered some gluten free cookies from Amazon. Their taste was ok, but I don’t like the choice of ingredients. So thought of baking some gluten free cookies at home.

Here is my version of gluten free cookies sweetened with jaggery, made with love and yes approved by all family members eldest and the youngest!

Ingredients

  • 190gm Oats Flour
  • 90gm Almonds flour
  • 30gms milk powder
  • 1/2 tsp Cream of tartar
  • 1/4tsp baking soda
  • 50gm gram flour
  • 1/2 tbsp cardamom powder
  • Two pinch salt
  • 200gms jaggery ( take less or more 240 gms as per your sweetness requirements )
  • 150gms Ghee ( clarified butter ) It can be reduced to 120gms too.

Tip – 1/2 cup desiccated coconut ( I have made half mix with coconut flavour by adding 1/2 cup coconut in half the mixture, take out two tbsp for coating before bake )

-Add some small pieces of jaggery too it tastes really nice in cookies, it doesn’t melt while baking!

Procedure

  • Shift all the dry ingredients ( Oats Flour, almonds flour, milk powder, Cream of tartar, baking soda, salt, gram flour) in a bowl and mix properly.
  • In another bowl add clarified butter ( Ghee ) and grated jaggery.
  • Now whisk ghee and jaggery to make it fluffy and creamy.
  • Add and mix dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in parts. ( Do not add all in a go ).
  • Make small balls from your dough and keep in baking tray.
  • Now keep it in fridge for 10 minutes, meanwhile pre-heat your oven 170c. ( You can store your dough in Fridge if you don’t want to bake at the same time )
  • Bake your cookies for 12min on 170C ( Keep an eye as temperature settings may be different in all oven )
  • Take our the cookies and let them cool on rack, do not touch until they are cool as they are super soft at this stage.
  • Once properly cooler store them in aur tight container.
  • Enjoy healthy cookies!

Keto flour Pizza crust

These days I keep on trying the healthier version of all recipes. So thought of making pizza with keto flour.

This flour is a mix of many flour that includes nuts and seeds making it more nutritious. It is nutritionally balanced to deliver the right proportion of protein, healthy fats, vitamins and minerals – essential nutrients that a normal diet usually lacks.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups keto flour ( I have used NutriActive keto flour )
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp instant yeast or 1 tbsp sourdough discard
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • Water 100 ml or more as per dough
  • 1 tbsp olive oil

Pizza sause ingredients and procedures you can find here in my  previous blog.

Procedure

  • Add flour in the bowl and add salt in it.
  • Now add yeast and sugar or you can activate your yeast seperately in water with sugar to make sure yeast is active. (Proper process is mentioned here)
  • Add water slowly and knead the dough for atleast 10-12 minutes using strech fold method.

Click here to see the video of this method

  • Now tuck in the dough and keep it for first rise for around an hour or more in a greased bowl and covered properly with cling foil or wet cloth.
  • After first rise punch back the dough and make balls as per pizza base size requirements.
  • Spread the ball in baking tray with the help of fingers.
  • Now poke it with fork and spread some pizza sauce.
  • Add grated cheese with Vegetables of your choice and paneer cubes.

  • Grate more cheese on top and keep it for second rise around for 20 minutes
  • Pre heat your oven @180°C
  • Now bake your Pizza for 20-25min, check the base if you feel it’s still soft then bake 5 more minutes @160°C

Enjoy your healthy pizza by sprinkling some oregano and chilli flakes.

Do let me know how did you like the taste of this pizza

Paneer-Soya-Vegetables cutlet

soya recipe

Being a vegetarian and following particular diet, paneer & soya plays a very important role. I find it difficult to eat the chunks so was trying different versions to make it more appealing . Let’s see the recipe and it’s ingredients.

Nutrition facts for the recipe

Carbs:22gm Protien : 47 gm Fat -11gm

Macros change according to brand, above mentioned macro nutrients information are for Nutrela brand

Ingredients

  • 60 gms soya chunks (Nutrela)
  • 100gms paneer
  • 10 gm olive oil/Ghee
  • Chopped Coriander
  • One onion finely chopped
  • 2-3 green chilies finely chopped
  • Salt as per taste
  • 1 tbsp Red chili flakes
  • Finely chopped/grated vegetables of your choice ( Capsicum, Carrot, cabbage, green chilli, zucchini, red yellow Bell pepper, cucumber)

Procedure

  • Instead of soaking soya we will directly grind it and make aata(fine powder)
  • Make sure there are no big pcs left
  • Add finely chopped onions, green chili, coriander, salt, red chili, ginger garlic paste.
  • Add finely chopped capsicum, carrot.
  • Mix properly until it’s combined to form a dough.
  • Make small equal sized balls and with the help of your palm flaten the top and bottom to form tikki.
  • Take a flat base big pan or tawa and spread one spoon oil on it.
  • Heat it on medium to low flame and put tikki gently on it.
  • Let it cook from one side, it will take around 5 to 10 minutes on low flame.
  • You can now cook without oil too with the help of frying pan foil by Asahi kasei.
  • Flip the tikkis gently and cook the other side.
  • Tikkis are ready to serve with coriander or tomato chatni.