Lowfat & less carbs reciepes - Page 2

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Recipe - Cold Sandwiches with Vegenaise.

Summary:
Would like to provide a healthy sandwich to your kids and which your kids will love eating without a fuss? Well here is a recipe that my kids love. It takes less than five minutes to make them. My 7 year old has never brought her lunch back home from school when these sandwiches were in her lunch box. I also pack them as travel lunches. For the cheese lovers, cream cheese can be used to replace vegenaise (a mayo replacement without eggs).

Ingredients:

* Vegenaise - 1 tablespoon
* Carrots - 1 teaspoon (grated)
* Tomatoes - 1 teaspoon (thin cut)
* Cucumber - 1 teaspoon (thin cut)
* Bread - 2 slices



Process:
Mix all the vegetables and vegenaise together into a spread. Spread it on one side of the bread.

Cut it into desired shapes triangles or square.

Preparation time: 5 minutes.
Servings - 1

Tips:
Coleslaw (salad of shredded, raw cabbage,and shredded carrots), to minimize the cutting time.
Smoked tofu can be used to make it little protein rich.
Salt and Pepper is optional (salt makes the sandwich soggy if kept for a long time), use French bread. These were made for my daughter's birthday. They were a big hit among children and adults :-)

thanks for these all...will try some.

Recipe - Bharwaan Tindora (Dondakaya kura/Kovakkai/ Kundru sabzi)

Ivy gourd or Little gourd stir fry
Summary
Tindora/little gourd has low glycemic index which is good for people who are diabetic, helps regulates blood glucose. It is high in beta-carotene. Thanks to Wikipedia, I leant, dondakaya is also known as gentleman's toes (compare lady's fingers/okra ). Source: Wikipedia.

Tindora/dondakaya is very popular vegetable in south India. Dondakaya can be eaten as a curry or chutney. I make stuffed tindora/dondakaya for small gatherings. I live in a multi cultural community. Dishes like stuffed tindora is like a delicacy, considering its look and presentation. If I am in a hurry I just chop tindora into vertical slices and add the spices on top of them and make it a stir-fry. Tastes almost the same but looks different :-)

Ingredients:

* Tindora - 45 - 50 pieces

Stuffing:

* Coconut - 2 tablespoons (optional)
* Chickpea flour/Besan - 3 tablespoons (roasted)
* Red chilli powder - 2 teaspoons
* Salt - 1 and 1/2 teaspoons
* Turmeric - 1/4 teaspoon
* Oil - 2 tablespoons


Process:
Wash and clean tindora, slit tindora veritcally, making four slits. Make sure one edge of the tindora is entact. Mix all the spices together with with 2 teaspoons of oil. Stuff tindora with the stuffing mix.

Preheat an open skillet with oil on medium heat, add the stuffed tindora's slowly to the pan in a single layer.

Cook/roast them well on all the sides on medium temperature, make sure not to cover the dish.

Preparation time 30 - 45 minutes (takes longer to stuff :-))
# Servings: 4 - 6

Tips:
From one of my readers: Thank you Jen!!

* To cook Kovaikkai/Tindora/Dondakaya faster with a little less use of oil, microwave the slit Kovaikkais about 20 of them (on a plate with a little bit of water) and then stuffed them and placed them in a single layer in little oil.
* The rest of the Kovaikkai slit vertically (To hasten the cooking process, cooked them in the microwave first and then followed the rest of your recipe, turns out awesome.
* To cut the stuffing process short, slice tindoras thin (10 minutes can be saved). Cutting tindoras is also a chore ;-)


Preheat oil in a skillet, add cumin seeds. Let them splutter add chopped tindora, turmeric. Let them cook for 10- 15 minutes.

Add red chilli powder, salt and chick pea flour, sautee till the desired crispness is aquaired.

Serve it hot with roti or rice.

Recipe - Lentil Soup with celery and vegetables
Summary:
Lentils have high level of protein, minerals and dietary fiber. The soluble fiber helps stabilize the blood sugar level and lower risk of heart disease. Source: Wikipedia

Vegetable soup with bread butter sandwich is among one of my kids favorite lunch items to school. I get them to eat their veggies and protein in one meal. It helps them eat warm lunches during cold winter. Makes a very nutrious dinner with some salad or pasta in the side.

Ingredients:

* Lentils - 1/2 cup
* Onion - 1/4 cup
* Celery - 1/2 cup
* Bell pepper - 1/2 cup
* Yam - 1/2 cup
* Zucchini - 1/2 cup
* Green beans - 1/2 cup
* Tomato - 1 cup (1 large tomato)
* Spinach - 1/2 cup (frozen or any fresh greens)
* Garlic - 2 or 3 cloves (according to taste)
* Bay Leaf - 1 small
* Whole Cumin - 1/2 teaspoon
* Water - 4 cups
* Salt - 3/4 teaspoon
* Black Pepper - 1/4 teaspoon
* Ground Cumin - 1/2 teaspoon
* Butter/Ghee/Olive Oil - 1 teaspoon
* Lemon Juice - according to taste (optional)



Process
Preheat butter or olive oil in a soup pot or pressure cooker, splutter whole cumin seeds, add bay leaf. Add finely cut onions, celery and garlic and stir till aromatic.

Add all the veggies, tomatoes, lentils, ground cumin, black pepper and salt.

Add 4 cups of water, bring to boil, lower heat and cover the dish, let it cook until lentils are cooked (20minutes). Turn off the heat.

Add little lemon juice (optional). Serve hot.

Preparation time 30 minutes
# Servings: 4 - 6