Plantain meals on plantain leaves

How to prepare?

Pluck enough plantains from your banana bunch. I prefer the homegrown fresh harvested bunch.

Peel the plantain, wash it and boil cook with turmeric and salt to taste. 

Serve it on banana leaves with the side dishes of veggies and non vegetable. It balances the nutrients in the lunch. I served with chicken curry, egg omelette, moringa leaves stir fry, dried fish chutney, chilli onion chutney and a bowl of yogurt. Also kept some rice for rice lovers. That’s it. 

Less carbs lunch idea worked out.

If you are having plantains with you , go for it.

So simple and very healthy. Of course delicious and a total change of taste.  

Plantain Chicken Biriyani

Chicken 500 gm., cleaned and chopped, marinate the chicken with ginger garlic paste, salt to taste and 1 tsp. pepper powder.

Onion 1, green chilli 7, garlic cloves 5, ginger 1 inch piece, all thinly sliced,

Coconut oil 2 tbsp., biriyani masala 1 tbsp., chopped cilantro leaves, curry leaf a sprig.

Prepare the chicken in a shallow pan, by heating the oil, sautéing the onion etc., add the biriyani masala, and cook the chicken in medium flame.

If you prefer pressure cooker cook for a whistle. Chicken roast is ready for the biriyani.

Plantain cooking 

Plantain 3-4, wash and clean, peel, cut into chunks and cook with turmeric powder and salt to taste.

Combine both the chicken and plantain together, add cilantro and curry leaves, mix well. Ready to serve.

Healthy and delicious.

 

Steam cooked plantain and onion chutney

 Homegrown produces are so good in quality.

Raw bananas 2, washed, and cut into desirable pieces.

Wash it again, add 1/2 cup water, little turmeric powder and salt to taste. Cook in a pressure cooker for a while. 

Allow to form the pressure, off the flame and take it out when the pressure is gone.

Onion chilli chutney 

Dried red chilli 20,

Shallots 12, garlic 2 cloves, ginger 1 inch piece, both chopped, tamarind a little as required, curry leaves 3-4, salt to taste and coconut oil 1 tbsp.

Dry fry the chillies, keep aside, in the same pan, dry sauté the other ingredients except salt and coconut oil.

Grind these ingredients in a mixer bowl along with salt.

Transfer into a serving bowl, add coconut oil and combine. Ready to serve. Those who wish to avoid rice have this delicious dish for dinner. The side dish you can choose as you like fish, chicken egg or vegetable curry.

Semiya spinach egg stir fry

So simple to prepare this dish. I made it for dinner. For Onam Festival made semiya kheer. Balance semiya turned out to the nutritious meal. 

Finally garnish with fried salted red chilli flakes in sesame oil.

Preparation 

Semiya 1 cup, cooked in boiling water, strained and kept aside.

Ceylon spinach 2 handful bunches, cleaned, onion 1, garlic cloves 6, ginger 2 inch piece, all thinly sliced, green chilli 6, silted, eggs 2, salt to taste, sesame oil 1 tbsp., soy sauce 2 tsp.

Heat the oil in a shallow pan, drop in onion, garlic and ginger, sauté till tender, add green chilli and salt, combine well, break in the eggs and stir fry, finally add the cooked semiya, soy sauce and combine well. Dish is ready. Healthy with greens and eggs.
 

Broken wheat Dosai

I am not so fond of broken wheat. In the free ration of pandemic Covid 19 situation I got it. Tried sweet balls, upma, puttu and kadai baked cake.

This time I made dosai. It came out thin, crispy and tasty.

Ingredients 

Broken wheat 2 cups,

Urd dal 1/2 cup,

Fenugreek seeds 1 tbsp.

Take the ingredients in a bowl, wash it thoroughly thrice. Soak it for 4-6 hours.

How to prepare the batter?

Grind it in a mixie, add 1/2 cup of cooked rice and grind it into a smooth batter. 

Allow to ferment for 4-5 hours. Add salt to taste and combine well.

Heat the dosa pan, take a ladleful batter, pour on the pan, circle it from inside out thinly. When the bubbles settle down, sprinkle sesame oil, flip over and cook the other side. Serve hot with coconut or tomato chutney.

Broken wheat dosai is having more fibre.

Broken wheat dosai is a healthier version of dosai.