Snacks and Tiffens for Diabetic

Hi ketal,

I took this from "Wikipedia" see this and go through that link. ok?

The common oat plant (Avena sativa) is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other grains). While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed. Oats make up a large part of the diet of horses and are regularly fed to cattle as well. Oats are also used in some brands of dog and chicken feed.

Oat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

one more link is here. so please go through and learn about Oats.

What is Oats?

 

Green gram porridge



Ingredients:

1/2 cup of sprouted green gram
1 small cauliflower
1 small carrot
1/2 cup of green peas
10 12 beans
2 onions
1 teaspoon of butter/ghee
2 green chillies (chop)
1/2 teaspoon of pepper (optional)
3 nos cloves (optional)
2 small pieces of cinnamon (optional)
1 small cup of milk
1 teaspoon of corn flour
salt to taste


Method


Cut onion into small pieces.
Cut cauliflower, carrot and beans.
Boil sprouts along with cauliflower, carrot, beans and peas with enough salt and 1 cup water in the pressure cooker for 5 minutes and set aside.
Put ghee/ butter in a small frying pan.
Add cloves and cinnamon and fry for a min..
Add onion and fry till it becomes brown.
Add chopped green chilly and crushed pepper and fry for a minute.
Add this to the contents in the cooker .
Mix the corn flour with the milk and add this to the contents in the cooker.
Again cook for 2 minutes.
Serve hot along with whole wheat bread.

Note: you can have this porridge alone in the morning. You will fell comfort and filling.

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Sprout Vada

Ingredients:

Green gram sprout - 1 cup
Red chilly - 2 or 3
Asafoetida powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt

Curry leaves(kadi pattha) - few
Coriander leaves - few
Cooking oil - for frying
Cut onion - 1 cup
Gram flour or rice flour - 3 or 4 teaspoon

Method:


Grind sprout, red chilly, asafoetida powder and salt coarsely.
(no need to add water)
Add 2 to 3 teaspoon of basen flour or rice flour (little rice flour you can use now and then) to the ground mixture and stir well.
Add cut onion, curry leaves and coriander leaves to the mixture.
Make vadas and keep aside.

Fry the vadas in oil till they become brown.
Serve hot with any chutney or with sauce.
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Note: instead of basen or rice flour you can add bombay rava ( suji) or jowar flour or millet flour.

 

wheat idly with veg.

Ingredients:

1 cup wheat rava (rost it)
2 tbsp ground udad dal (wet dough)
Salt to taste
1 1/2 cups of water
2 tsp oil
1/2 tsp ginger paste
Few curry leaves
1/4 sp asafoetida
1 tsp pepper and cumin powder
1/4 cup of vegetables (as per your choice)

Method:

In a big vessel, add the roasted wheat rava, salt and remaining water to the ground udad dal.
Allow it to ferment overnight.
Heat the oil, add cumin pepper powder, ginger paste, curry leaves and asafoetida.
Add it to the batter.
Add the vegetables and mix well.
Grease idli plates and steam idlis for 10 minutes.
Serve hot with tomato chutney and sambar.
It is a different kind of tiffen for them.

 

wheat rava dosa


Ingredients:

1 Cup thin wheat rava
1/2 cup rice flour
Salt to taste
1 tsp cumin seeds (optional)
1 sp mustard seeds
2 finely chopped green chillies
Few curry leaves finely chopped
1/2 cup curd
Oil to make dosa.

Mix all the ingredients well and add some water to make it a thin batter.
In a small pan make seasoning with mustard seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves.
Pour thatinthe dosa batter.
Mix well.
Heat tava, pour a big spoon full of batter around it (dont pour in the center).
Dont try to spread it like normal dosa.
Spread some oil around it.
Allow it get brown on one side and then turn it slowly.
Let it cook on the other side too.
Serve hot with chutney and sambhar.

Note: In this recipe, you can add finely chopped onions, carrots or any other greens like mathi leaves or coriander leaves etc., to make small small differences. so that elders will eat them happyly.:thumbsup

 

Oat & Puffed Wheat Bhel - AN EVENING SNACK

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Ingredients

1 cup puffed wheat
1/2 cup toasted rolled oats
1 tbsp. cornflakes
1 onion finely chopped
1 tomato finely chopped
1 small cucumber finely chopped
1 small salted and boiled potato finely chopped
1 tbsp. coriander leaves finely chopped
1 tsp. green all-purpose chutney

1 small green chilly very finely chopped
1/2 tsp. lemon juice
salt to taste


Method

Put all chopped vegetables, and chilly into a large bowl.

Add half coriander leaves, chutneys, salt, lemon juice.

Toss well to blend ingredients.

Just before serving, add puffed wheat and oats

Mix well, transfer into individual serving bowls.

Garnish with crushed cornflakes and remaining coriander.


Note: This snack is very filling and if normal person is going to take this means you can add 1 tbsp. sweet tamarind chutney in your dish.

 

Re: Semolina Squares with Fried gram chutney

NO No, no problem what you are saying is correct. 'Semolina means rava' :thumbsup