Char-grilled Mixed Veg Salad

Lazy lunchtime but you feel like enjoying a tasty, warm, healthy, tongue tickling kind of meal? Sounds almost impossible to achieve when the mood is lazy right? Wrong. Here's a salad sure to bring a smile as it's possibly one of the easiest cooked meals you can make!

Open the fridge and grab a few easy to chop veggies, some bread and you're ready to create! This yummy salad is one we enjoy on lazy Sundays and is especially great in Summer when you want to keep cooking to minimal.

Ingredients: two or three veggies of your choice (I like pumpkin, carrot, zucchini) chopped into large pieces, few rolls/slices of bread chopped up, chilli flakes, salt, olive oil.

Make: In a wide base pan, start with olive oil and chilli flakes. When chilli flakes heat up add the veggies, bread pieces and salt to taste and cook in high flame for 4-5 minutes until they look char-grilled. Sprinkle pepper on top if desired. Decorate with fresh and healthy spinach leaves/parsley/corriander. 
Enjoy your delicious lazy day healthy veggie salad! 

Coconut Badam Ladoo

Back to blog after a little break...and after the Diwali festive season amongst very busy times, I have some new quick treats to share! 

This sweet treat is sure to be a winner not just for the tasters but also with the makers :) It's my version of the very popular microwave recipe - Coconut Badam Ladoo (Coconut almond balls).

Best part of this is that it takes no more than 15 minutes to make and can be enjoyed for upto a week. Here they are :)

Ingredients: 1 can sweetened condensed milk, 2 cups desiccated coconut, 2 tablespoons almond meal (powdered roast almonds), 1 teaspoon caradom powder, 2 spoons "Badam milk powder" and butter/ghee to roll ladoos.

Make: In a microwave dish pour in the condensed milk, 1 and 3/4 cups coconut and cardamon powder. Mix well and cook in microwave on high for 2 minutes. Remove and mix well again. This time add the almond powder and "badam milk powder". Again cook in the microwave for 2 minutes. Remove and mix - you should see it forming a clump and easily leave the sides of the dish. Cook again for 1 minute and repeat process until you have a firm clump. Let cool for a few minutes then with butter/ghee on your hands, roll into balls. Roll these in a plate of dessicated coconut to coat it as shown in photo. 

After about an hour it should be cool and ready to enjoy!