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Make your weekend more interesting by trying your hand at finger-licking recipes suggested by Pavithra. N. Raj, Chief Dietician, Columbia Asia Referral Hospital Yeshwanthpur. Enjoy your weekend!
1: Spiced sweet potatoes
Ingredients:
Take cup oil
1 teaspoon of fennel, cumin, fenugreek and mustard seeds
1 dried red chilli
2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut
teaspoon turmeric
Salt to taste
Method:
You should heat the oil in medium pan.
Add fennel, cumin, fenugreek and mustard seeds and cover it with the lid until they crackle.
You should add dried chillies and cook.
Add the sweet potatoes, cook and stir.
Add turmeric and season with salt. Cover and cook until the sweet potatoes turn brown.
Serve!
Why you should opt for this recipe?
Sweet potatoes are loaded with fibre and potassium and can help you to deal with constipation, they cut down your risk of heart ailments and improve your overall well-being.
They contain beta-carotene and can help you to keep prostate cancer at bay.
2: Spiced millet stew with onions
Ingredients:
1 cup millet
3 tablespoons oil
teaspoon cumin seeds
3 medium onions, finely chopped
1 tablespoon minced garlic
3 cups water
1 cup plain whole-milk yoghurt
2 teaspoons ground coriander
teaspoon turmeric
teaspoon crushed red pepper
Salt
1 green chilli, seeded and chopped
Chopped coriander
Method:
You should toast the millet in a large pan. Then, transfer to a large plate to cool.
In a large saucepan, heat the vegetable oil and add cumin seeds and toast them.
Add onions and cook. You should stir occasionally. Add garlic and cook until it turns brown.
Add millet and water and boil.
Cook until millet becomes tender.
Stir in the yoghurt, coriander, turmeric, crushed red pepper and salt and cook till it becomes thick.
You can transfer to a bowl, garnish it with chilli and coriander and serve.
Why you should opt for this recipe?
Millet is abundant in nutrients, vitamins and minerals, and can be beneficial for your respiratory health, can help you to strengthen your immunity and muscles.
It contains fibre and can help you to ease your digestion.