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For day 3 of the theme guilt free indulgence,sharing a simple and healthy salad with black eye peas.Though salads are not regular in my house,I rarely make some kind of salad/chaat with the legumes for evening snack. While cleaning the pantry,found out a packet of black eye peas,so wanted to try a salad how I normally make with black chickpeas.For my surprise it came out so good,the addition of peanuts and almonds make it crunchy.Try this yummy and filling salad.............................                                                                 Black eye  Peas Salad      Basic Information     Preparation time 10 minutes     Soaking time 30 minutes     Cooking time 12 minutes     Serves  2          Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Black eye peas/vellai karamani 1/2 cup Onion (finely chopped) 1/4 cup Carrot (finely chopped) 2-3 tbs Green chilly/pachamilagai 2 (finely chopped) Tomato(deseeded) 2 tbs Peanuts/verkadalai (r

Coming to the day 2 recipe under the theme guilt free indulgence,I am sharing you a healthy soup made with quinoa and mixed veggies. Quinoa is a gluten free grain which has high protein content and low glycemic index also rich source of B complex vitamins. I made this soup in Indian way and added some rice flakes along with quinoa to give a nice consistency to the soup.The soup is on the thicker side and so filling along with some toast.We relished this soup along with some multi grain toast for our dinner.Lets move on to the recipe....................                                                                  Quinoa Soup     Basic Information    Preparation time 10 minutes    Cooking time 25 -30 minutes    Serves  2(generously)          Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Quinoa 1/3 cup Rice flakes/aval/flattened rice 2 tbs Mixed veggies(carrot,beans,peas) 1/2-3/4 cup(chopped) Onion(finely chopped) 1

Entering the first week of 53rd edition of Blogging Marathon and this week theme is going to be Guilt free indulgence. As these days everybody is changing their food habits to lead a healthy life.One such thing is substituting the whole grains and millets in traditional recipes. Idly is a common healthy breakfast made with rice and lentil in almost every South Indian house hold.The regular rice idly needs grinding as well as fermentation and the amount of carbohydrate is considerably more due to the amount of rice used.People who wants reduce their carbohydrate intake can substitute with whole grains and millets. Coming to the recipe,I used the broken wheat to make this idly,you can also add 1/4 cup of oats along with broken wheat.This is an instant version and doesn't need fermentation.I  paired up the idly with two varieties of chutney and its a filling and balanced meal if its served along with a bowl of sambar.With no further delay lets move on to the recipe.........