Gujarati Methi Muthia

Methi muthia are steamed or fried dumplings made from chickpea flour and fenugreek leaves/methi. There are various ways of making muthia, mainly many people do with chickpea flour only, but can replace or add with whole wheat flour, bajra (pearl millet) or jowar (sorghum) flour.

Methi muthia is great for snack, goes very well with tea/ coffee make it fried, tempered or steamed your choice. Steamed muthias can be made in advance and then added to any veggie dish you make, like in gujarat they add it to undhiyu.

Delicious Pistachio Falooda / Faluda

Basic falooda can be made with just Five ingredients – soaked sabja seeds, rose syrup or rooh afza, falooda noodles (these are vermicelli made from corn starch), chilled milk and scoop of vanilla ice-cream. there is no need to add any sugar as the sweetness of the rose syrup is enough to make the falooda sweet. 

Pistachio falooda has same ingredients just instead of rose syrup, I used pistachio nuts. Soaked and grind into smooth paste. This falooda taste authentic with pistachio ice-cream on top.

Smooth Hummus Recipe

This is simple homemade hummus recipe with tahini. Tahini is paste made from ground, hulled sesame seeds used in North African, Greek, Turkish, and Middle Eastern cuisine.

Making perfect hummus is adding ingredients in sequence to food processor. First tahini and lemon juice goes in food processor, then oil garlic and finally chickpeas with some water. That's it, sound easy? Yes it is.. :)

Whole Moong Bean Dhokla

This dhokla is one healthy and nutritious dhokla that you can make for your family and loved ones. The dhokla has the typical moong bean taste and is savory and sour.

Oatmeal Cookies

These are delicious and easy to follow oatmeal cookies. Original cookie recipe has all purpose flour and white sugar in it. I replaced it with half of all purpose flour, half of oats flour and brown  sugar. You can make these cookies in variation by adding different nuts, protein powder etc. Also can use different flours to make it multi grain oatmeal cookies. Enjoy :-)

Eggless Karachi Tutti Frutti Biscuits

Tutti Frutti Biscuits are easy to make. To make these cookies rich, add chopped cashew nuts to the batter. Prepare the log, freeze it for a couple of hours, cut them, bake and you are done. Tutti Frutti are papaya cubed and candied into various colors like green, red and yellow. Tutti Frutti can be added to any cookies, ice cream cakes to give a vibrant color and taste. 

Quinoa Idli

Quinoa is a edible seeds or pseudocereal which is protien rich and has many other good nutritional value for more information check out my post about Quinoa. Quinoa has a fluffy, creamy, slightly crunchy texture and a somewhat nutty flavor when cooked. For Information on Quinoa click here.

Pleasantly surpised with its taste as it tastes are regular rice idlies. Enjoy this healthy and yummy idlies.