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Healthy Snacks and Recipes - Weekly Meal Plan with Nine different Whole Grains

11/7/2013

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Day by day I have started to feel the importance of our age old food habits and their medicinal benefits. We have totally forgotten about our grandmom's home remedies and we are heading to the Hospital everytime ending up having a big hole in our pockets!! Someday I would want to make a collection of these age old Indian Ayurveda and Vedic remedies to common ailments and even modern diseases. The ancient scripts which mention these remedies are not less than 1000 years old...!!!! They are the real jackpot we should aim for!!

So How many of us have heard about Navadhaniyam (Tamil word) or the Nine Cereals (Nava means Nine and Dhanya means grains)? It is mentioned in the ancient vedas, and is still used in India for all auspicious rituals. But we do not know the real importance of these cereals, it was supposed to be used as our staple food for leading a healthy life.

We are either having more rice or wheat in India now... South indians started having a lot of Wheat thinking it is better than having carbohydrates in Rice. But that's not true!! Wheat has gluten (Glue-like property) which is hard to digest. Another point Wheat will never suit South Indians... Having lots of wheat will create heat inside the body, which is only required to those who live in extremely cold places. And we have also started having a lot of Maida/flour nowadays in the form of Pizza, Paratha, Bread, etc. We have totally forgotten about the other healthy options!!

What are the Nine Differet Grains or Cereals?
Pigeon Peas (Toor dal/Thuvarai)
Wheat
Horse Gram (Kollu)
Green Gram (Moong Dal)
Paddy/Rice
White Beans (White rajma/Avarai kai)
Black Sesame (Til/Ellu)
Chickpeas (Channa/Konda kadalai)
Black gram (Urad dal/ Ulundu)

Auspicious Significance of the Nine Grains:
Each of these grains represents one of the nine planets, and hence they are used in performing Hindu rituals like Grahapravesham or House Warming Pooja, Navaratri Pooja, etc.

Suriyan (Sun) – Wheat
Chandiran (Moon) -  Paddy/Rice 
Chevvai (Mars) - Tuvarai (Toor)
Bhudhan (Mercury) - Greengram (Moong)
Guru (Jupitor) - Chickpeas (Channa) 
Sukiran (Venus) - White Beans (White Rajma or Motchai or Avarai seeds) 
Sani(Saturn) -  Black Sesame (Til)
Rahu – Black gram (Ulundu or Urad) 
Kethu – Horse gram (Kollu)
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Navadhaniyam - Nine whole grains

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100 Indian Tiffin recipes for Breakfast or Dinner - to make your meal planning easy!!

7/11/2013

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Thinking of what to cook for breakfast or dinner is the most toughest job for me in this world!! And I find it's a common problem for everybody else too... People at home get bored of the usual items if repeated too often. The moment breakfast is served, Sandy will ask what's for lunch and when lunch is served, "what's for dinner today?". I would be like "Somebody please do the meal plan for me!!".

I can manage to decide to cook something for lunch, depending on the vegetables available at home but not for breakfast! In this case I envy north indians because they don't have to think so much... roti and a sabji everyday and for all the three meals. We do cook roti/chapati for dinner, but not everyday. Again thinking of what sabji to make for roti is another problem.

So I am going to have a collection of vegetarian tiffin (light meal) items here, with a link to their recipes. So that we can just bookmark this page and drop by to select an item to cook. Else I would give this list to my hubby and ask him choose everytime based on how long he can wait for me to make it. Half of my tension will be reduced... ooof!!

If you feel that some item is missed out, please comment below so that it is helpful for others like me suffering from this cookingtiffinmania!!

I have tried to group it based on the preparation time and cooking time. Because being a working woman, I don't do much planning ahead of time except for special occassions... like soaking the ingredients overnight, grinding the batter, leaving it to ferment for a while, etc. But I do grind my own dosa/idli batter once in two weeks and stock it in the fridge. Saves me most of the times :)

Recent Recipe Collection: Healthy snacks and recipes with Nine different Whole Grains!! Navadhaniya Recipes!!
I would also do a similar post soon for choosing sidedish/gravy/curry recipe for Roti.

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Green Chutney - Corriander & Mint

3/14/2013

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Green Chutney with Corriander and Mint
Green and Healthy chutney for your dosas and idlis, quick and easy. This is my favorite chutney since childhood, compared to all other chutneys my mom makes. And this is the best way i could add mint and corriander into my diet.
Ingredients:
Small Onions - 10
Green chillies - 2 or 3
Corriander leaves - 1 cup
Mint leaves - 1 cup
Cocunut scrapped - 2 tbsp
Tamarind - a small pinch
Salt

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