Anshu's Food Odyssey

Idli is one the most popular breakfast options across India. While traditionally, it is made with fermented rice and lentil batter, now-a-days many instant idli variations made with healthy grains are getting popular too. Some of them include the instant oats idli, rava idli and ragi idli. You can find the oats and rava idli on my blog and I make them quite often, however, this time I thought of making the idli with daliya or the broken wheat and to my utter happiness, it came out absolutely perfect and spongy. If you too are looking for instant and healthy breakfast options to try, then I must say, this is the recipe you must go for. Instant Daliya Idli | How to Make Daliya Idli | Healthy Daliya Idli INGREDIENTS (makes 10 to 12 idlis) Daliya/ Broken Wheat - 1 cup Thick yogurt - 1/2 cup Water - about 1 cup Finely chopped green chilies - 1 tsp Finely chopped coriander - 1/4 cup Broken cashews - 8 to 10 Chana dal - 1 tsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Oil - 1 tbsp + grease idli mou

Lauki, also known as Doodhi/ Dudhi, Ghiya and Bottle Gourd happens to be a very underrated vegetable with a high nutritional profile extremely beneficial for our health. Being high in natural fiber as well as water content, it has a lot of cooling properties which help your system soothe and calm down especially in summers. At our home, though this humble vegetable is made in many different forms, however, there is one recipe made with lauki which is always high in demand and is made every other day. Yes! I am talking about Lauki ka Raita , which is not only healthy, refreshing and cooling to the palette but very delicious too. It can be paired along with any vegetable-dal-chapati combination. Also, it goes very well with pulaos and biryanis too. Do try it once and I promise, you are gonna hooked to it. Lauki ka Raita | Dudhi Raita  INGREDIENTS Yogurt, nicely whisked - 2 cups Grated bottle gourd/ ghiya/ lauki - 1 cup Fresh coriander leaves, optional - 1/4 cup Finely chopped