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Foxtail Millet Salad – An old grain in a new avatar

February 3, 2023

Foxtail Millet is a healthy ancient grain. Get a recipe on how to use foxtail millet in a healthy salad. Naturally vegan and gluten free too!

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Diabetic friendly, easy, Easy Indian Cooking, gluten free, Glutenfree, Healthy, Lentils, Millet Recipes, Monsoon, One Pot Cooking, Pressure Cooker Recipes, Winter

Pearl Millet Recipes | Savoury Pearl Millet Porridge | Bajra Khichdi

July 24, 2019

This pearl millet recipe needs overnight prep in terms of soaking. That apart, this gluten free grain combined with mung dal and vegetables, makes a wholesome healthy meal. It is also an excellent recipe for… [Continue Reading]

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beginner, Calorie counted, Diabetic friendly, Fast Day recipes, Gardening, Global Vegetarian, gluten free, Glutenfree, Greens, Healthy, Lunch, Millet Recipes, Pressure Cooker Recipes, Salads, Superfood, Vegan, Vegetables, VegProtein

Healthy Lunch Salad – Chickpeas, Kale and Millet {vegan and gluten free}

June 8, 2018

Recipe for an incredibly filling healthy lunch salad – Chickpeas, kale and millet salad Do you wonder how to pack a good salad for your lunchbox? Something that won’t get soggy or need laborious prep… [Continue Reading]

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Diabetic friendly, Easy Indian Cooking, Glutenfree, Millet Recipes, Winter

Methi na Dhebra – a Rustic Gluten Free Bread from Gujarat

February 3, 2017

Methi na dhebra is a gluten-free flatbread made using sorghum and pearl millet flour, fresh fenugreek leaves. This is a popular recipe from Gujarat, a state in Western India. A couple of months ago, I happened… [Continue Reading]

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Diabetic friendly, Glutenfree, Healthy, Millet Recipes, Nutrition

All You Want To Know About Cooking with Millets | Thinai Recipes

November 20, 2016

This is your guide on how to cook millets by various methods, health benefits, where to buy them and a variety of recipes that you can make using millet.

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beginner, Breakfast, Coconut Recipes, Diabetic friendly, Easy Indian Cooking, Glutenfree, Healthy, Millet Recipes, Nutrition, Vegan

Millet Upma – Thinai Recipes

June 18, 2016

A South Indian Upma made healthier and filling with the use of Millets instead of rava/semolina. Naturally gluten-free and vegan too, if you use coconut oil.

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beginner, Breakfast, Diabetic friendly, Easy Indian Cooking, Glutenfree, Healthy, Millet Recipes, Vegan, vegetarian, VegProtein

Healthy Sabudana Khichdi with Quinoa

June 9, 2016

Recipe for a quinoa ‘sabudana’ khichdi – a healthier version of the traditional Sabudana Khichdi, with all of the taste, and better nutrition value!

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Paneer, Millet and Dudhi Koftas – Airfryer Recipe

November 12, 2015

Leftover millets, paneer and bottle gourd come together to make a delicious snack, perfect for the cold weather days.

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Healthy Veg Curry Bowl

July 31, 2015

Curry bowls are quite the rage these days. Open Pinterest or any food websites, and I’m quite sure you will find some of these gorgeous bowls loaded with healthy ingredients staring back at you. When I first read about curry bowls, I went hmphhh and said to myself, “this is how I eat my sambar, rice and veggies in one bowl on most weekdays for lunch”. But smirks and jokes apart, they are much more than just mixing a dal, rice and veggies in a bowl, even though that also well qualifies to be a ‘curry bowl’ 😀

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Diabetic friendly, easy, Global Vegetarian, gluten free, Glutenfree, Meals in Bowls, Millet Recipes, Nutrition, Salads, Summer, Superfood, vegetarian, VegProtein

All about Quinoa | Quinoa Vs Millets | Recipe for Quinoa Salad

July 14, 2015

Quinoa has been rapidly climbing the popularity charts among superfoods. Once unheard of in India, it has now become a household name and I’m sure even my grandma is aware of this now 🙂 A funny thing about Quinoa is that it quite the mispronounced food – often called “Queen-o-wa” and what not . A

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Super Healthy Vegan Brownie

March 5, 2014

2014 has taken off and how! Other than the workshops at Saffron Trail Kitchen, I was called in for some corporate workshops on healthy cooking in Feb, in which I had a lot of fun, interacting with a variety of audiences. Pic courtesy: Harsha Priolkar March started off with me having a stall selling

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Ragi Ginger Cookies – Healthy Ginger Cookies

August 31, 2013

Ragi, flaxseed, jaggery, ginger, sesame seeds – you might wonder what these utterly healthy ingredients are doing in a cookie! You might even think it’s a complete madhouse of an idea. Ragi / nachni / mandwa / finger millets have been an Indian superfood well before everyone and their uncle started

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