Healthy living

I hope you all liked Shobana Rao's Lobia Suva Bhaji Subzi last week! My guest today is a young, dynamic & bubbly person who is a die-hard foodie, Shaheen Ali! She hails from a gastronomic family and started her blog Spoonfork&food in 2014 to document and share her experiences with food. Her amazing photography skill makes her blog a visual treat! Her blog recently celebrated it's second anniversary and even better, it just moved to it's new abode! Now that is what I call growth! Shaheen is a young mother with one son. She lives in India with her family. Like me, she is a physical therapist by profession and understands the importance of eating healthy! Today, she is sharing with us a popular snack from Uttar Pradesh ( a Northern Indian state), Besan ki Phulki. This is a gluten-free snack made with chick-pea flour and served with a spiced, tangy yogurt-based sauce. Shaheen has made this traditionally fried snack healthier by cooking it in the appe pan. Do check th...

    Hope you all found Ashwini Kamath's Piyava tambali very useful last week. This week my guest is another senior blogger whom I hold in high esteem. She is respected by all and much liked in the blogging community. She is very humble, helpful and resourceful. It is my pleasure to introduce to you Shobana Rao . She blogs @ Cooking with Shobana. Her blog has a plethora of recipes that are traditional Konkani as well as several fusion recipes. She resides in Bangalore, India.  I am honored to have her write a guest post for me. Today, she has brought us Lobia Suva Subzi which is essentially a dish in which black-eyed peas have been cooked with Dill leaves and spices in a very flavorful manner. Do check her blog "Cooking with Shobana" for more healthy and delicious recipes. This healthy dish of legume and greens is made as a Guest Post for my friend, Suchitra Kamath who has an interesting blog full of healthy recipes called," Su's Healthy Living. ...

I am big fan of quinoa. I make quinoa-black bean salad, quinoa-avocado salad, quinoa dosa, quinoa idlis, quinoa cutlets. However, unlike many people, I cannot substitute rice with quinoa. I love my rice. You see, I am South-Indian and we South-Indians love our rice! Being  that I am always looking for novel ways to incorporate quinoa into my diet, I experimented making a pilaf using it. I mixed it with rice in the ratio of 1:1. I loved it! Even my picky kids ate without any fuss ( or even realizing), which to me was very encouraging. Since then, I became even more adventurous and made quinoa-methi pulao. This one came  out perfect and my husband almost didn't realize that anything was different. I think this is a technique that all those who want to incorporate quinoa in their meals should use until they are habituated to quinoa. Methi pulao is one of my favorite dishes. It is simple and easy to make one-pot meal. Servings: 3-4 Ingredients : Basmati rice: 1 cup Quinoa: 1/2 cup...

Last week we all enjoyed seasoned blogger Radha Natarajan's amazing one-pot quick sambar! This week we have another very simple and humble recipe that is absolutely delicious! Piyava Tambali ( a spicy, tangy coconut based sauce with onions in it). This is a traditional Konkani side-dish that has been brought to us by a young, dynamic, enthusiastic and relatively new blogger, Ashwini Kamath. Ashwini is a mother of two children and a home-maker. She loves cooking dishes that are simple, easy, quick and healthy! Now you see why I invited her over! She started her blog "Cook with Ashu" one year back so that the easy and quick recipes from her kitchen reaches people who want to savor authentic and traditional Konkani food. Do visit Ashwini's blog & Facebook page " Cook with Ashu " in which she has shared not only lots of easy and quick recipes for veg and non veg dishes but also tips and information about food. I am very much thankful to Suchitra for beli...

It is that time of the month again when we share with you amazing, drool-worthy, diabetic-friendly and weight-watcher friendly recipes! Celebrate the month of May with Team DFT, indulging on some delicious and hearty wraps that are diabetic friendly and weight watchers friendly.                        Creating Recipes with a Cause! I am a proud DFT blogger.                                          To learn about DFT,  Read this Link !                                          To  view more DFT recipes,  Click here ! When the team decided on this month's theme as  "wraps", I wanted to bring to you all a wrap that could cater to all taste-buds and preferences , yet be healthy and easy to make with simple ...