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Recipes to keep you warm this winter season

RAGI IDLI

Snack and sip guilt free

ByIANSlife

January 24, 2022 (IANSlife) Winters mean hot chocolate, lots of chai and coffee... and snacks to go along with these. This also leads to gaining of those unwanted pounds...,  OZiva, a leading clean, plant-based nutrition and wellness brand gets their their in-house dietician and nutritionist, Nidhi Shah, to share a few guilt free recipes to keep you warm this season.
 

Sugar Free Til Laddoo 

Til Laddoo

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup sesame seeds
  • ⅛ cup walnuts
  • 13-14 almonds 
  • 3 tbsp pumpkin seeds
  • 3 tbsp flax seeds
  • ½ cup soaked chia seeds
  • 5-6 dates
  • 2 tbsp raisins
  • 1 tsp cardamom powder
  • ¼ tsp cinnamon powder
  • ½ scoop OZiva Organic Plant Protein

Method:

  • Soak chia seeds in water for about 20-30 mins
  • Soak raisin and dates for about 15-20 mins
  • Strain water and blend soaked chia seeds, dates and raisin into fine paste
  • Dry roast sesame seeds until the color changes to light brown
  • In another pan dry roast almonds + walnuts + pumpkin seeds
  • Separately dry roast flax seeds
  • Let them cool and blend all roasted nuts and seeds into a powder
  • Mix the paste, nuts powder and sesame seeds together
  • Add cardamom powder, cinnamon powder and OZiva Organic Plant Protein
  • Mix well and bind into ladoos in small portions
  • Cool for 10 mins in refrigerator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCulUl3EqM 

 

Hot Chocolate
HOT CHOCOLATE

Ingredients:

  • 4 cup milk
  • Powdered jaggery as per taste
  • 3 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 50g dark chocolate

Method:

  • Pour milk to the pan on low flame and add cocoa powder
  • Still until there are no lumps
  • Heat for 1 minute
  • Add jaggery powder
  • Add cinnamon powder (if wish to)
  • Mix well and add dark chocolate pieces
  • Keep stirring until ready

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnugAToI220 

 

Ragi Idli
RAGI IDLI

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup Ragi flour
  • ½ cup urad dal
  • 1 cup rawa
  • 1 inch of ginger
  • 1 green chili
  • 1 tsp mustard seed
  • 10-12 curry leaves
  • Salt, to taste
  • 1 tsp OZiva Organic Plant Protein 
  • A pinch of baking soda

Method:

  • Rinse urad dal and soak it for 4-5 hours
  • Soak rawa in a separate bowl for 4 hours
  • Strain water from both dal and rawa
  • Blend and make a smooth bater of the soaked dal
  • Add soaked rawa in the bater
  • Add raki flour
  • Mix and aerate
  • Ferment for 8-9 hours or overnight
  • Mix the barter well
  • Heat ghee in a pan
  • Add mustard seeds and curry leaves
  • Add crushed ginger and green chillies
  • Add a little water and let it cook
  • Add it to the barter
  • Add pinch of baking soda and OZiva Organic Plant Protein 
  • Grease the idli mold
  • Fill the bater in the mold and let it steam for 12-15mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qOP_CK7duk 

 

 

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