To maintain a healthy body, our diet must have items that are rich in carbohydrates, proteins and iron among other things.

This week’s recipes are as usual easy to make and light on body. Chickpeas kibbah takes care of the carbs that we need, while baked broasted chicken supplies a good amount of proteins. And once in a while, we can indulge in cool banana pudding to tickle our taste buds.

Dinner Option

Chickpeas kibbah

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

One cup Chick peas

One cup Bengal gram (Chana daal)

Half kg chicken boneless cube

Two teaspoon Barbque Shan masala

One Carrot

One small potato

Salt (as required)

Crushed ginger (small piece)

Crushed two whole red chillies

A teaspoon of ginger paste

One cup washed cilantro and mint leaves

Lemon

One cup Roasted sesame seeds

Charcoal dum (take one piece of coal, put it on a direct burner and turn on the flame, burn the coal till it becomes white from all sides, place)

Method:

1) Soak chick peas and gram daal for six hours or over night in one cup of mineral water after washing it with tap water several times.Add a teaspoon of salt too.

2) Wash chicken cube pieces thoroughly and put it in a strainer for half an hour .

3) Saute’ chicken cubes in one teaspoon of olive oil ,add a pinch of salt and crushed garlic and sauté it for two minutes till it starts to turn light brown.keep aside

4) Boil one peeled off carrot and one peeled off potato in half cup of mineral water ,add a pinch of salt and ginger paste in it . Cover the lid of the boiling pan for ten minutes on low flame.Make sure the veggies become soft and tender .Mash them well once they become cool.keep aside

5) Once the chick peas and gram daal are soaked overnight ,boil them or cook in a pressure cooker for an hour till they become soft and tender ,add two tea spoon of barbeque masala and mix well.drain up its water and let it cool down .

6) Now mix the boiled chick peas,gram daal ,chicken cubes and veggies ,all together and chop them together ,add washed cilantro and mint leaves too.

7) Place the mixture in a deep bowl that has an air tight lid with it.

7) Give charcoal dum in the above mixture by placing a piece of foil and a burnt coal over it ,pour olive oil on a burnt coal and immediately cover it with an air tight lid.

8) Open the lid after twenty minutes.

9) Make small balls of the mixture ,it will make approximately 20 balls ,brush sesame seeds over it and bake it in a preheated oven at 180 C for half an hour .

10) Place the baked chickpeas balls in a plain white serving dish ,squeeze lemon over it and enjoy

Your Healthy dinner is ready to be consumed with some fresh salad.

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Baked broasted chicken

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

One kg chicken pieces or boneless pieces

One Maggie cube (soaked in two tablespoons of mineral water)

Crushed black pepper

One tablespoon low fat yoghurt

One teaspoon ginger garlic paste

Few mint and cilantro leaves

Few chopped curry leaves

One green chilli

One lemon

One cup of oats powder

A teaspoon of roasted garam masala.

Make a green chutney by chopping mint, cilantro leaves, curry leaves and green chilli in one teaspoon of curd and keep aside

Method:

1) Wash Chicken pieces and keep in the strainer to eliminate excess water for half an hour & give cuts to it.

2) Marinate it with the above masalas and green chutney and keep it for half an hour.

3) In a deep bowl pour oats powder add salt and pepper to it.

4) One by one, dip chicken pieces in it and place them in a baking dish

5) Bake/roast or air fry it.

Enjoy it with garlic and tomato sauce.

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Banana puding

Serves:3

Preparationtime:15 mins

Ingredients:

Two bananas

Two tablespoon of oats flour or rolled oats

Two eggs

Two table spoon of honey

Two sweetner or Two teasoon of brown sugar

A pinch ofCardamon.powder

A pinch.of flax seeds.

Two table spoon of lowfat milk

METHOD

Blend all the above ingredients in a blender and pour it in a greased ceramic baking dish.

Microwave (+convection) it.for six minutes

and its ready .

Unmold it in a deep serving white dish once it cools down.

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