Soya Nugget - Lauki Sabji For the Potluck Party

Soya nuggets is a very rich source of protiens and so often used by vegetarian people to make up for the absence of  fish and eggs from their diet.

Soya nuggets or nutrella is very versatile and can be used as fillings for cutlets or samosas to make delicious snacks too.

Today I have made this healthy and nutritious vegetbale dish prepared by my this months partner  Nupur  from uk-rasoi  as I was paired with her and was supposed to post her recipe for the potluck-party.

I thoroughly enjoyed making it .

Ingredients : 

1 cup ..............Soya nuggets
1 cup..............lauki peeled and cubed ( bottle gourd)
1 ...................onion  ( finely chopped)
1....................tomato ( finely chopped)
2...................green chillies
1 tsp...............cumin seeds
1 tbsp..............oil
salt




Method :

Boil water in a vessel and soak soya nuggets for half an hour.
Squeeze out the water and use these soft nuggets in the vegetable preparations.
Add oil and when hot add cumin .
Add slit chillies and onions and saute till golden.
Add tomatoes and saute for 5 more minutes.
Now add the cubed lauki and soya nuggets and saute.
Add 1 cup water and cook till lauki is soft.
Garnish with coriander leaves.
Serve with rotis or it tastes yummy with plain rice too .

Gajar - Dudhi Icecream ( Carrot - Bottle Gourd Icecream )

We all love ice - creams but at times are hesistant to enjoy it due to its sugary content and high calories . But what if you a get a healthy ice - cream which along with satistying your taste buds , works wonders for your body too. Definitely all will crave for such a treat, and you can give it to your kids also regularly.

In this vegetable  ice - cream I also  havent thickened the milk as thickening milk makes it less nutritious and deprives it of the calcium and protiens which also burn out during the process. Instead I have used milk powder and fresh cream ( not store bought ) but the one which collects over the boiled milk at home.

Also you can try this ice cream with other vegetables like beetroot or pumpkin and let your kids enjoy these vegetables in form of this delicious ice - cream.

So what are you waiting for ??? Go ahead and make this most simple and healthy ice - cream today itself.

Ingredients :

1 cup..................grated gajar ( carrot )
1 cup .................grated dudhi ( bottle gourd )
1 n 1/2 cups ......sugar
1 cup.................milk
1 cup.................milk powder
1cup.................fresh cream
1 tbsp...............gelatine ( soaked in 1/4 cup warm water )
2 tbsp...............cashew and almonds ( coarsely powdered)

Method : 

Steam the grated carrrots and bottlegourd in a pressure cooker just till 2 whistles.
Cool it completely.
Blend milk, milk powder and sugar in a blender.
Add gelatine and blend it well again.
Add whipped fresh cream and keep the mixture in fridge for 1 hour.
Now add the cooled carrot and dudhi and mix well with a fork.
Also add the kaju- badam powder.
Deep freeze it till just hard.
Take it out and beat it with a fork to break the ice crystals formed.
Keep the ice- cream in deep freezer and again after 3 hours beat it with fork to break the ice crystals.
This ensures that the ice cream remains soft .
Enjoy your healthy treat with all.


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Best Out Of Waste ( Bottle Gourd Skin Chutney )

We all know that the outer skin of the fruits and vegetables are richest in the nutrients and still sometimes we are helpless and have to throw the skin which we think are not edible. But believe me 95 % of times we can  make use of these peels  in some form or the other and prepare tasty dishes out of them . One such simple dish is this chutney make out of the Bottle gourd (Dudhi )skin . You can make similar chutneys using the peeled skins of pumpkin, ash gourd, ridge gourd etc.



Ingredients :

The peeled skin of Bottle gourd - 1 cup
Roasted groundnuts - 2 to 3 tbsp
Grated coconut - 2 to 3 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Pepper corns - 1 tsp
Green chillies - 4 to 5
Tamarind - size of half a small lemon
Ghee - 1 tsp
Salt
Sugar


Method :

Heat the ghee and add cumin seeds and peppercorns.
When they splutter add the peeled and washed  skin of bottle gourd and stir till it becomes  little soft.
Now combine all the ingredients and grind in the mixer.
This chutney tastes good as it is .
But if you want you can also temper it .

Tempering :

Heat 2 tsp ghee.
When hot add 1/2 tsp mustard seeds, broken pieces of 1 dry red chilly, some curry leaves and hing1/4 tsp.
Add this tempering to the chutney.