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Healthy Recipes, Ingredients, Traditional Recipes, Vegetables

Kothimbir Wadi made with Sorghum/Jowar recipe

millet

Kothimbir Wadi is a Maharashtrian delicacy made from fresh coriander and besan (gram flour).It is consumed in steamed, shallow-fried, baked, or deep-fried form with food and even as a snack.

Breakfast recipes, Gluten Free, Healthy Recipes, Ingredients, Recipes, Superfoods

Healthy and Wholesome Quinoa Upma Recipe

Quinoa recipe

Quinoa ( pronounced as Keen-wah) is a superfood because of its nutritional profile. Commercially, it is mainly classified as black, red, and white/ivory quinoa with each having its distinct color, flavor, and taste.

Gluten Free, Ingredients, Superfoods

Quinoa: Its Nutrition, and Culinary usage.

Quinoa

Quinoa also pronounced as “Keen-wah” is an old plant and hence also commonly known as an “ancient grain”. It is a seed and not a grain/cereal but it can be used as a cereal hence it is known as a pseudocereal or pseudo-grain.

Fruits, Ingredients

Pomelo/Indian Grapefruit and its Nutritional benefit

Pomelo

Pomelo tree grows right in front of my house in my hometown in Kokan. It is a huge tree and bears equally huge fruits. As a kid, it always made me wonder as to how the Pomelo/papnus could stay up there hanging on a single thin stem. Also, why the only person who would be …

Breakfast recipes, Gluten Free, Healthy Recipes, Ingredients, Recipes, Traditional Recipes

Poha/Rice Flakes: Types, availability, and recipe.

red poha

Ask a Maharashtrian what’s for breakfast and you will usually get to hear its-Pohe ( Pohe is a traditional breakfast recipe made with poha/Flattened rice).

Healthy Recipes, Ingredients

Wheatgrass: Benefits, cultivation and consumption

wheatgrass

Wheatgrass is the young grass of wheat plant-Triticum aestivum belonging to the family of Gramineae. Delicate and lush green, Wheatgrass is a powerhouse of nutrients and also considered as a complete food by many. It contains many essential and non-essential amino acids, vitamin-A, E, K, B Complexes, and minerals like iron, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, copper …