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VEGETABLE OMLETTE

This is the favourite dish of my family for breakfast. Very easily prepared , and the ingredients are also almost all the time available at home. its a complete food with all the nutrients....protein( gram flour) and vitamins (vegetables). Ingredients:----- Gram flour( besan ) 250 gm. 1 carrot grated 1 radish grated a bunch of spinach leaves chopped finely. 2 green chilli finely chopped. salt to taste. oil to saute or shallow fry make a thick batter of gram flour adding water. Add al the ingredients..now it must be of flowing consistency. Now heat a tawa or pan. Spread 1 tsp. oil and spread 2 tbsp. batter at a time . shallow fry it just like Dosa , but both the sides. Enjoy it with curd and chatney . As a variation you may add any other vegetable also, like cabbage, onions. For making it more nutritious for kids, you may mix the fortified flour..multi grain flour....make it 50-50

BESAN KA LADDO

laddoo with wheat flour.... This was the most favourite dish of my children, when they used to go to the hostel, they always wanted to take it with them. so I learnt making it INGREDIENTS; Besan ...3 cups Desi ghee..3/4 cup Sugar..2 cups(grind it finely), this is the general choice, I put 1 and 1/2 cup, as i like a little less. Cardamom powder.1 tbsp. 2 tbsp.. cashewnuts 2 tbsp almonds for garnishing..... 4 big cardamom-grind them 2 tbsp. coconut powder. Take a saucepan, and put besan and Ghee and roast on medium fire, stirring all the time. When it is done it leaves the ghee., then add chopped almond and cashew nuts . While you are roasting..its sort of solid mass, but when its roasted..it starts becoming a little liquid and give an aroma. Now add cardamom powder and take it off the heat. let it cool for a 3-4 minutes. now add sugar and make balls. While making the balls take some stuff and rub it between two hands, then round them. spread cardamom and coconut powder in a plate. Pu...