Multigrain oats banana bread

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This is something that comes to my mind whenever I see ripening bananas over my kitchen counter. I have made this bread in so many variants that I don't even remember the count! I put this together with whatever ingredients are available in my kitchen and it turns out yum. 

So this is one of the recipes I recently used to bake the bread. I forgot to add oil(yes I did) and realized while putting in for baking so was afraid that it might turn out good. Buy it didn't make any difference so i am skipping oil in the recipe here.

Ingredients:

1 cup oats

1 cup multigrain flour

1 big ripe banana 

2 tablespoon sweetened condensed milk

2 tablespoon milk

1 tablespoon cinnamon powder 

50 grams choclate chips(optional)

1/2 tablespoon baking powder

1 cup dates syrup

Recipe:

Preheat oven to 180 C.

Line a baking pan with aluminium foil and brush with oil.

Mix the flour, oats, cinnamon and baking powder together in a bowl.

Mash bananas using a fork.

In a separate bowl mix add all the wet ingredients. Mix them well.

Now add dry ingredients to the wet mixture. Fold together and pour into the pan. Bake for about an hour. Check if done by inserting a toothpick. If it comes out clean bread is done else bake for a little more time 

Multigrain lavash- salted crackers recipe

First time I saw these crackers at a gourmet food store which sold it at very high price (these days healthy is proportional to price it seems) . I bought them and found good to go with any dips or just have with tea. I tried the recipe and it came out nice. Now I make them and prepare some dips like hummus, salsa or herbed yoghurt.

Its quite simple to make with no fancy ingredients.

Ingredients:

1 cup multigrain or wholewheat flour 

1 cup oats

1 table spoon extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon sesame seeds 

1 tablespoon dried mixed herbs (oregano,basil,thyme,rosemary)

Salt to taste

Recipe:

Grind the oats. Mix oats , flour, salt, sesame seeds, herbs, oil together with hands and make a tight dough using cold water.

Cover and keep in fridge for 10 

minutes . Preheat oven on 180 C. Take the dough and roll like chapati. Keep it thin to make crispy crackers. Cut using knife in triangles. Bake for 10-12 minutes .

Serve with hearty dip.

Schezwan sauce recipe

I love chinese food and who does not 😊 . But the ready to eat sauces we get from market are loaded with way too much sodium and preservatives. I am a little(or say more) skeptical about using these readymade sauces so i give them a miss and always try to make them at home.

I had this craving for schewan noodles for a long time now and finally made this sauce . I made a little extra to keep in refrigerator and use for trying some other recipe s . It came out well and here goes the recipe.

Ingredients:

Garlic cloves - a lot around 30 or so

Ginger about 50 grams

Sesame oil

Any other oil- I used rice bran

Salt

Dried Red chillies - around 20

Soya sauce

Vinegar

Recipe:

First deseed the chillies and soak them in hot water for around 2 hours. Sauce will be too spicy if do not remove the seeds. 

Now finely chop the garlic cloves and ginger.

Remove chillies from water and grind into thick paste . Be careful as the fume while grinding is very sharp and might burn your eyes. Heat 5 table spoon of rice bran and 2 table spoon of sesame oil in a pan. You can also use only the normal or sesame oil but I mixed them. And yes we need a lot of oil here so that it act as preservative and it has longer shelf life. Don't worry too much about oil as you wont be able to eat sauce in large quantities as it will be very hot and adding a little will be enough.

Let the ginger garlic be fried fir 4-5 minutes and then add chilly paste. Cook till oil separates. Add salt to taste, 2 table spoon soya sauce and vinegar. 

Let it cook for 5 minutes. Cool it down and keep in glass jar . You can keep it in fridge and use within a month. It migjt stay longer but I prefer to not use more than a month.

It can served as sides with momos, chops. Use in making fried rice, noodles.

I use it in many other ways and make quich chutneys by just throwing in some tomatoes and spoonful of sauce on grinder.

Do try this and let me know how it turned out. Would love hear you comments and feedback!

Coconut macroons

Some days when you want to eat something warm and sweet without spending much time in kitchen or using a lot of ingredients this recipe comes to rescue!

Can't believe its so simple and yet so tasty. So go ahead and try this for friends or family and enjoy them when they pop fresh from oven. Tastes and smell awesome.

Ingredients:

1 cup dessicated coconut

3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk

1 table spoon white flour

(Yes thats it I havn't forgotten anything!)

Recipe:

Preheat oven to 180 C. Line a baking tray with aluminium foil and brush it lighlty with oil. This makes it easier to remove macrons .Mix everything together and drop with spoon on baking tray covered with foil.

Bake for 10 minutes or until they turn littly golden on top.

Serve them warm.

Ragi oats laddo recipe

I know that ragi is good for health and is a rich source of calcium and iron, but somehow I can't make much use of it and whenever I buy it, it ends up lying in my kitchen waiting for its turn. But I found this great recipe using ragi and oats and making some changes to it I made these laddos. I tried best to keep it healthy so skipped the sugar and used dates instead. They turned out well and not to mention the goodness of dates,oats and ragi.

Here goes the recipe.

Ingredients:
1 cup ragi flour
1 cup oats
50 grams almonds
1 cup dates(seedless)
dessicated coconut - 50 grams
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tablespoon
Ghee - 2 tablespoon
Milk to grind the dates - about 1/4 cup

Recipe:
Soak half of dates in milk for around 30 minutes. Dry roast the oats on a pan for 10 minutes.
Let them cool and then grind in mixer. Heat 1 tablespoon ghee in a pan and roast the ragi flour. Now here you need to be a little patient as this is takes most of the time :). This will take around 15 minutes . Remove the roasted ragi from pan, add 1 table spoon ghee and roast the ground oats for 10 minutes. Crush the almonds and add to oats to roast them.

Grind the soaked dates into a paste. Roughly chop the remaining dates.
Heat the pan again and add the roasted ragi flour, oats, almonds, date paste, cardamom powder, coconut together to mix well. Switch off the gas and let it cool a bit so that you can bind the laddos while its still warm.

Enjoy them guilt free anytime!

Wholewheat oats biscuits recipe

This is a wholegrain recipe and I really love its taste. Definitely better than those cookies sold off market shelves with hazy ingredients and claim to be healthy. The trick is they highlight the healthy ingredients so loudly that we miss the fact it only contributes to a small percentage of overall ingredients. So go ahead and give these a try, they smell heavenly when freshly bakes !

Ingredients :

Wholwheat flour (atta) - 1 cup
Oats - 1 cup
Cardamom powder - 1 pinch
Sugar - 1 cup
Almonds - 1/2 cup
Butter - 50 grams
Milk - to prepare the dough

 Method:

Grind the oats, sugar and almonds in grinder together in mixer.
Mix it with wholewheat flour. Add butter and cardamom powder . Rub with fingers to make it resemble like bread crumbs. Once all the mixture has desired texture, add milk to prepare dough. It should be hard and not soft. Cover it and put in refrigerator for 10 minutes. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 180 C. Take out the dough and roll over like we do for making chapati (a little thicker). Use some cookie cutter or just of lid of a jar to cut in desired shapes. Bake for 12-15 minutes in preheated oven. Cool and keep in air tight container. Enjoy them while still warm from oven !