Veggie Murmure Stirfry

All last week my food mainly consisted of carbs and fats with very less fruits and somedays with no fruits at all. I was badly in need of some nutritious vegetables and I came up with this one. Didn't want to add rice to it but added a cup of murmure (puffed rice) and this was quite crunchy and tasty. And a cup of orange juice with this bowl of vegetables made me full.

You need...

2 cups of frozen mixed vegetables (add as many veggies as you like)
1 cup murmure/puffed rice (put these in the colander, sprinkle some water and remove)
1/2 onion, chopped
1 roma tomato, chopped into big chunks
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
1 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp sugar (optional)
1 tsp of lemon juice
salt to taste
sev and cilantro for garnishing

1. Heat oil in a pan. Fry onions for a minute.
2. Add veggies and stir fry for 3-4 mins.
3. Add tomato chunks and stiry fry for another minute.
4. Add tumeric, chilli powder, garam masala and mix.
5. Add murmure, salt and sugar and cook everything for 2 mins. Add some lemon juice to it and remove.
6. Sprinkle both sev and cilantro and serve hot.

Moong Sprouts Bhel

I guess I will dedicate this to my friend Ravi A(Sunray-as he is called), who has been asking me to make some protein dishes. This one provides good amount of protein and you can eat this either for breakfast or dinner with a glass of orange juice.

Sprouts have been described as power foods and a boon to mankind from ancient days. Sprouts bear the largest relative amount of nutrients per unit of intake of any food known to man. They have enough first - quality proteins to be classified as "complete". More importantly, sprouts are totally chemical-free, leave no waste, are delicious when raw and are super low in calories.

You need...

2 cups of moong/green gram sprouts
1 cup murmura (optional)
1/2 onion, chopped
2 green chillies, optional
2 tbsp oil
1 tbsp jeera
1 tbsp green chutney
1 tbsp saunf (fennel seeds)
a pinch of ginger powder
1/2 tbsp chat masala
1/2 cup yogurt, sweetend
red chutney, as needed

1. Heat oil in a pan.


2. Add jeera, saunf to the oil and let them splutter.


3. Add chopped onions and cook them until light brown.


4. Add green chillies, moong sprouts and cook them for a minute or two. If you cook more, they will become hard to eat.


5. Soak murmura in water for a minute and add them to the above mixture.


6. Add green chutney, ginger, chat masala and salt and cook everything together for a minute. Remove from heat.

To serve, you can either eat them as it is or you can make behl this way by arranging the cooked moong in a plate, add red chutney and sweetned yogurt (add sugar to yogurt). Garnish with both coriander and sev.

Sprouts are the best "living food". In fact, they are so alive that they are still growing when you eat them.

Our Sunday's breakfast

Source: http://www.healthandyoga.com/html/food/sprout.html