Dieter's Delight - Sprouts Tikki

I've been a good girl this past week, haven't eaten out, stuck to my workout regime, and most importantly curbed my sweet craving. and I decided to give myself a little treat, something that was tasty, yet healthy!

So this could actually pass off as a dieter's delight.

Here's your recipe!

Step 1: Grind to a coarse paste (almost like that of paruppu vadai) the following

1 cup sprouts
1 green chili
1" ginger
half an onion
salt to taste

Note: add very little water

Step 2: Transfer to a bowl. Add half a chopped onion, finely chopped coriander and mint, a pinch of garam masala and mix well.

Step 3: Make into tikkis (make a ball of this paste in your hand, and flatten it). Roll these over some rice flour to hold them together.

Step 4: Heat a griddle, add few drops of oil, place a few tikkis, and cook until brown. Turn over to the other side and repeat process.

Step 5: Serve with mint walnut chutney - recipe from Ammee's Kitchen.

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What's for lunch

It's a question that stumps me every day. I'm decent at decision making, especially at work,  but when it comes deciding clothes or menu, I am stuck. I look up to S or R for support, and then have never failed me.

Today was one of those days when I was just so exhausted and despite having a fully stocked fridge, was just not able to get myself to make an interesting dabba. As I rummaged through the fridge, I did find a bowl of left over sprouts salad.

The sprouts salad was made by tossing together 100 gm of boiled sprouts, 1/2 finely chopped onion, 1/4 finely chopped capsicum, lots of coriander and a little salt.

This was very easily converted into sabzi, by simply heating oil, seasoning with jeera, 1 finely chopped tomato, 1/2 tsp ginger garlic paste, and dumping the salad into the kadai, and cook covered for about 10 minutes !

Squeeze a few drops of lemon and we now have a good healthy sabzi to eat with hot soft chapatis. I don't have a picture of this, as I was too lazy to do one, when I finished cooking. So may be another day !

Happy lunch-boxing !

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