For those who enjoy a snack with their evening tea or for those young kids running around in your home. These healthy alternatives will be loved by kids and adults!

Festive/Snacks

Bajra Omapodi/Sev

Posted on by Vijaya Venkatesh
Cooks in: 20 Minutes Serves: 2 People

Omapodi is a delicious snack with the goodness of carom seeds/ajwain/omam. Rice flour and besan are generally used to make this thin sev variety. Since Janmashtami is fast approaching, I thought of sharing this recipe using bajra flour. Millets absorb less oil and stay crisp for a long time. 

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Snacks

Ela Ada/Ilai Adai

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Cooks in : 40 min Serves: 2 people

Ela Ada is a Kerala delicacy, consisting of parcels made out of rice flour dough with sweet fillings, steamed in banana leaf and generally served as a snack or breakfast item. Replacing the rice flour with millet flour makes it more nutritious. I used sorghum/jowar flour for this recipe.
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Snacks

Masala Papad

Posted on by Vijaya Venkatesh
Cooks in: 10 Minutes Serves: 2 People

Masala Papad is a popular fast food across India. Roasted papads are topped with onion, tomatoes, and spices and finally deep fried namkeen is sprinkled on top. In this recipe, I used roasted bajra puffs as toping and made the dish completely oil free. A healthy, nutritious guilt free snack is ready within minutes! This is served as a starter in many restaurants. 

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Snacks

Ragi Khakra

Posted on by Vijaya Venkatesh
Cooks in: 20 Minutes Serves: 2 People

Khakra is a thin cracker common in the Gujarathi and Rajasthani cuisines. No fancy ingredients are required for making khakras. Wheat flour and moth bean flour are mixed with spices, rolled and roasted on a tawa until crisp. I used ragi flour for this recipe and it turned out very crisp and tasted so good the next day!

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Snacks

Instant Jowar Bonda

Posted on by Vijaya Venkatesh
Cooks in: 20 Minutes Serves: 2 People

Mysore Bonda is one of the popular fried snack of South India. Generally, spiced urad dal batter is used. In Telugu cuisine, spiced maida batter is used to make instant bondas. For this recipe I have used sorghum/Jowar flour and it turned out so well. Try this recipe which doesn't require any grinding and can be made easily. 

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