Current Category: side dishes and snacks

Servings: 6
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
Butter – fat free – 1/4cup
Asparagus cut into 1 inch pieces – 1 lb
Minced onion – 1 tbsp
Garlic – minced – 1 clove
Minced parsley – 3 tbsp
Dry breadcrumbs – 2 tbsp
Stewed tomatoes – 1 can
Dried oregano – 1/2tsp
Salt – ½ tsp
Pepper – ½ tsp
Dried thyme - ¼ [...]

Servings: 4
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 2 hours
Ingredients
Beets – 8 no
Olive oil – 1 tbsp
Red wine vinegar – 11/2 tsp
Salt and pepper - to taste
Sour cream – fat free – ¼ cup
Zest of one orange, minced
Preparation
Set oven at 400° F. Place washed and trimmed beets on sheet of aluminum foil. Fold and seal [...]

Servings: 6
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
Brown beans – 2 cups
Corn meal – 4 cups
Flour – ½ cup
Soda – 1 tsp
Preparation
Boil the beans in water till it becomes soft. Then put corn meal, flour and soda in a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly. Now add boiling beans and [...]

Servings: 8
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
Thin asparagus – 24
Baby carrot – 24
Small red grape tomatoes - 12
Small yellow grape tomatoes - 12
Thin whole scallions - 12
Small button mushrooms - 24
Small broccoli florets - 24
Small cauliflower florets - 24
Preparation
Wash and dry all of the vegetables. Boil a pot of salted water [...]

Servings: 6
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
8inch flour tortillas – 16
Sour cream – ½ cup
Cilantro – finely chopped – 1 cup
Onion – chopped – 1 no
Zucchini – 1 no
Carrot – shredded – ½ cup
Ground cumin – 11/2 tsp
Oil – 1 tsp
Pinto beans – rinsed and drained – one 15 oz can
Diced green chili [...]

Servings: 2
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
Toasted wheat germ – 1 cup
Soy flour – 1 cup
Potatoes, boiled and mashed well – 2 no
Spinach finely chopped – 1 bunch
Bottle gourd grated – ½
Carrot grated – 1 no
Onion finely chopped – 1 no
Ginger crushed – 1 small piece
Garlic flakes crushed – 6 flakes
Pepper powder – 1 [...]

Servings: 4
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
Potato – mashed- 3 cup
Onion – chopped – 1 no
Green chilly – chopped - 1 no
Ginger – chopped – ½ inch piece
Scraped Coconut – ½ cup
Salt – to taste
Egg white – of two eggs
Bread crumbs – 1 cup
Preparation
Mix all the ingredients together and roll into the required shape. [...]

Servings: 2
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients
Banana- 5 no
Sugar – ¼ cup
Powdered Cardamom – 1 pinch
Butter – ½ tsp
Water – ½ cup
Preparation
Pressure-cook the bananas and peel. Mash it well and keep aside. In a saucepan, boil the water and add sugar. When it thickens, add mashed bananas, butter and powdered cardamom and keep [...]

Servings: 2
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
Splenda – 2 cups
Soy flour – 2 cups
Vegetable oil – 1 cup
Salt – 1tsp
Baking soda – 2tsp
Cinnamon – 1tbsp
Nutmeg – 1tsp
Pumpkin – 1 can
Preparation
Combine and mix all ingredients, and pour into one or two loaf pans or a tube cake pan. Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.
Note: [...]

Servings: 6
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
Baby corn- 200 gm
Green chilly (finely chopped) - 1 no
Ginger (finely chopped) – 11/2 tsp
Garlic (finely chopped) – 11/2 tsp
Soya sauce -1tsp
Tomato-chilly sauce – 2 tsp
Corn flour -1tsp
Capsicum – chopped -2 tbsp
Oil – 1 tsp
Salt and pepper - to taste
Preparation
Mix together soy sauce, tomato-chilly sauce and corn flour [...]