Some Cheap Healthy Recipe Ideas To Be Made At Home By Busy People

Let’s face it, we are all busy, over extended, tired. Whether you are working your way through school, providing for a family, a single mother, or a working couple your life and your time are very taxed. Companies like the fast food giants, know this and they exploit it. They are aware that the idea of slaving over a kitchen stove after a long day, while the kids run around screaming is a dread that most people live with everyday, and as such offer you a cheap alternative, the 5 min $10 meal with no cleaning or preparation involved.

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Quick and Easy Southern Pecan Bars

Winter time is the perfect time to try new recipes. Besides the traditional cakes and pies during the holidays, pecan bars are a wonderful change and very easy to make for the entire family. This is also a good recipe to let the kids try out on the weekend.

This recipe remind me of growing up in Tennessee where my family grew pecan trees in our backyard. My grandmother Mamie, always picked pecans from the tree, then made her specialty homemade pecan pie. This recipe taste very similar to that but in a more quick and easy format.

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10 Popular Potato Recipes in India

Potato is the most popular starchy root vegetable and is one of the cheapest used staple food ingredients consumed all over the world. It is a nutritious vegetable even the Children often refuse to eat vegetables but they like potatoes. Potatoes are an excellent source of potassium, fiber and vitamins B6 and C, which makes them a top choice in food dishes for people looking for healthy food.

The following list of popular potato recipes in India:

1. Aloo ka Parantha

Aloo ka Paratha is one of the most popular breakfast dish in all over the country. It is usually served with butter, chutney, curd or mango pickle.

2. Chilli Potato

Chilli Potato is Indo-Chineese cuisine which is very easy to make and can be served as a side dish with fried rice. To make this recipe simply potatoes need to be fried and then tossed in sweet sour chilli sauce. Kids like this recipe very much. Chilly potato can be made in two ways… with gravy or without gravy. If you prefer eating spicy food then dry or chilly potato without gravy will be your choice.

3. Aloo Matar

Another Potato recipe which is cooked in every household. Aloo mattar (matar) is a punjabi dish consisting of potatoes (Aloo) and peas (matter) cooked together in rich gravy made of onions, tomatoes, garlic, ginger cumin seeds and other spices. This dish is a hot favorite among all age groups and is served with roti or steamed rice.

4. Vada Pav

Vada Pav is the most popular Mumbai roadside snack. It is available on every street corner in Mumbai. You will find shops selling vada pav all over mumbai and even outside schools and colleges. It is a ball of boiled and mashed potatoes, spiced up with aromatic masalas, dipped in gram flour batter and deep fried. The golden brown fried ball is served wrapped in fresh bun, along with hot and spicy garlic chutney.

5. Baigan Aloo

Aloo Banigan is an amazing combination and make a delicious flavorful side dish when they cooked together with onion, tomatoes and flavored with aromatic spices. Aloo baingan is a delicious dish when served with hot chapatis or steamed rice.

6. Capsicum Stuffed with Potatoes

A dish having unique and delicious taste is capsicum stuffed with potatoes. Bharwan shimla mirch recipe is created with a mixture of boiled mashed potato, crumbled paneer, onions is stuffed in the bell peppers and cooked by baking, roasting or steaming. These Stuffed capsicum are filled with goodness of protein, vitamins,veggies and yummy ingredients creating a balanced food for everyone.

7. Dum Aloo

Kashmiri dum aloo is the crowning jewel of the potato recipes in India. Potato vegetable has its own distinct taste. But Kashmiri Dum aloo taste is slightly different from normal potato cuisine. It is cooked using small sized potatoes which are deep fried and then added to rich paste of tomatoes and onions, which is flavored with traditional Kashmiri spices such as ginger powder and fennel. You can make a potato dish on festivals or special occasions. You can serve it with Tandoori Roti and Lacha Parantha too.

8. Aloo Pudding (Halwa)

Potatoes are commonly used integrient in fasting food. You would have made potato chips, chat for fasting, but have you tried potato halwa. It is most popular and yummy dessert from Uttar Pradesh and is usually made during the festive season of Navratri. It is prepared from the mix of mashed potatoes, ghee, dryfruits and sugar. This halwa is delicious as well as can be cooked easily in a very short time.

9. Dilli ki Fried Aloo Chaat

Aloo Chat is a mouth-watering street food that is available at every street corner in and around Delhi. This chaat is made by boiling and deep frying few potatoes that is sprinkled over with some exotic, spicy, flavorful freshly ground chaat masala spices, finely chopped colorful tomatoes, onions, green chillies, added with little awesome sweet, sour and tangy chutneys like sweet chutney, mint chutney, red chilli powder, coriander leaves and lemon juice.

10. Aloo Gobi

Aloo gobi (potatoes & cauliflower) is a popular dry Indian dish made with potatoes and cauliflower mixed with aromatic spices and stir fried. This dish can be made in several ways, you can make it with only onions or tomatoes or use no onion-tomato at all. A delicious aloo gobi mutter made of potatoes, cauliflower and green peas mixed with the spices. Serve with hot puris or rotis. Aloo Gobi is a traditional north Indian delicacy and a staple dish in Punjab and popular across the globe.

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Indian Food Recipes – Diversity and Features of the Indian Cooking

Around the world, everyone knows about the popularity of the Indian cooking. Wherever you go every corner of the world, you have some fine restaurants that offer some delicious Indian food. Most of the Indian recipes are made with some unique spices like turmeric, cumin, cardamom, chilies and many more. The best part of the Indian cooking involves a just few spice blenders together to make a dish with its distinct flavor. When it comes to the spices used in these recipes, the small amount of spice needed and too many spices using in these recipes will spoil not only its flavor and also texture also. However, there are some fine web sites are offering these Indian recipes preparing and the style of Indian cooking. With the help of these web sites, most of the people around the world are trying in their own homes. There are some fine handy tips in these sites are very much useful in the kitchen. There are so many cultures and religions are there in India that makes India more fusion and in cooking too. There are so many dished in India like Fish curry, prawns and many more popular dishes are available in Indian cooking. And the national good item is the chicken recipe; most of the people are treating this one as a national dish.

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Kenyan Food Recipes

Mahamri is an alternative to bread or tea biscuits. It is sweetened and spiced. Mahamris are a specialty at the Kenyan coast. Coastal women prepare them for breakfast or even as an accompaniment for vegetarian dishes.

WHAT YOU NEED TO PREPARE MAHAMRI

Iliki – Swahili for cardamom
Amira – Swahili for yeast
White flour
fresh milk or coconut milk
Sugar
Eggs- This is optional ·
Warm Water
Salt
Oil

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Easy Vegan Lunch Ideas – Healthy and Easy-To-Prepare Vegan Lunch Foods and Recipes

Week-day lunch for most folk should fulfill two criteria: it must be easy and quick to prepare, and it also should be tasty and enjoyable. For persons on the vegan diet, sometimes they can get a bit exhausted of thinking of new and exciting lunch ideas that are easy to prepare. In actual fact, there are so many tasty ideas and recipes for healthy vegan lunches, it’s all about knowing your options! Below are some fun and delicious ideas for your vegan lunch, as well as some delicious and super easy vegan lunch recipes for you to make.

Crackers With Many Toppings
Vegan food brands have hit the supermarket shelves more than ever, which makes it much easier for the modern (busy) vegan to eat a quick nutritious meal! Choose a variety of vegan crackers and crispbreads, and enjoy them with avocado, soy margarine and sliced tomato, hummus or another homemade dip (or store-bought vegan dip, which you can find if you study the ingredients carefully), vegan peanut butter and jam, or mustard and salad. Continue reading “Easy Vegan Lunch Ideas – Healthy and Easy-To-Prepare Vegan Lunch Foods and Recipes”

Spinach Chow Bor Choy Recipe and Sauteed Broccoli Guy Lon Recipe

Assemble all ingredients before you start. The method is so fast-paced that there’s no time to stop and look around for a missing ingredient. Foods having the same cooking time can, of course, be placed in one bowl, but all others should be separated. Cut everything that is to be cut, measure out seasonings, and blend together whatever needs to be mixed. Most of this can be done ahead of time, and separate little piles of food can be kept at-the-ready in the refrigerator.

The basic recipe for ch’ao in an earlier chapter gave you the general principles. Those that follow show some special ways to transform familiar vegetables into gourmet dishes, and some flavorings for meat that are both surprising and delicious. They also show the usefulness of the stir-fry method for “stretching” a supply of meat. With the addition of rice (or bread), these dishes will serve 4 or 5 persons amply. Continue reading “Spinach Chow Bor Choy Recipe and Sauteed Broccoli Guy Lon Recipe”

Soul Food Recipes – Top 3 Questions On Cooking Healthy Soul Food Recipes

Soul food recipes continue to maintain popularity among consumers. The Great Recession is credited for the growing popularity. Because the dishes have the reputation of sticking to the ribs or having staying power. For example, eating the average soul food meal stays with the average person 2 to 3 hours longer than Chinese food. And it stays up to an hour longer than Italian food, which came in second place in this University of California study.

These recipes have helped many African American families make it through the hardest times in this Nations history. Many medical professionals have questioned the health concerns of traditional this traditional southern cuisine. Why? Because of the high salt, fat and calorie content. But like most cuisines that stand the test of time, It’s adapting to the changing concerns of consumers.

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A Delicious Christmas Recipe To Make Your Mouth Water

I don’t know about you but the one thing I especially look forward to at Christmas time is the food. And I mean really look forward to it. Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not saying Christmas is just about food, the festive season is a great time for bringing families together and celebrating, but hey, like I said, I really do like the food.

Traditions Of A Recipe For Christmas

This goes way back and to most families is the main focal point of their Christmas. Waiting to see what that big juicy Turkey will taste like and how it will be presented on the table. Of course there are many other meals for Christmas with a lot of these recipes having been passed through generations of families. It’s kind of eerie when we think of this; I mean just think, our ancestors were tucking into the same mince pie that we are eating now at our Christmas Soirée. Well, perhaps not the ‘same’ mince pie but certainly the same recipe perhaps. Continue reading “A Delicious Christmas Recipe To Make Your Mouth Water”

Gonzele – The Perfect Recipe For Growing Kids

Kids could be picky in choosing their meals!

At times it becomes hard for us to enable them to make a healthier choice!

In particular, you might have observed that kids do not like leafy greens as such.

So how does one ensure a healthy diet for one’s kids?

Check out the recipe for Golzeme, Turkish pancakes your kids are sure to love. Continue reading “Gonzele – The Perfect Recipe For Growing Kids”