Banana-Walnut-Coco powder cake:-
A 171-calorie food, a banana walnut muffin gives you enough energy as a partial meal for breakfast or a snack.
The standard calories in a daily diet equal approximately 2,000 and 171 is approximately 8.5 percent of the total.
Ingredients:
3 Big ripe bananas
125g butter or u can use 2-3 tbsp. Olive Oil (softened)
½ cup golden caster sugar
2 tbsp. coco powder
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
1 cup yogurt or 2 medium eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
50g chopped walnuts
250g flour (sifted)
Pinch of salt
Method:
1. Heat the oven to 180 C. Lightly butter a 25cm/10cm (10in x 4in) loaf tin.
2. Mash bananas to a purée.
3. Mix yogurt or egg, oil, vanilla extract, and sugar with an electric beater until smooth and pale. Now add banana puree in it. Add ½ amount of chopped walnut.
4. Mix flour and salt, baking soda, baking powder, coco powder in separate bowl.
5. Now add dry mixture into wet mixture and fold very lightly.
6. Bake for half an hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool in the tin for 20 minutes before tuning out.
Tip:The good: This food is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C, Potassium and Manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin B6.
The bad: A large portion of the calories in this food come from sugars.
Chaat Item: Dahi-potato-puri:
Boiled Potatoes meshed mixture served on crisp puris topped with chutneys and yogurt
Ingredients:
Yogurt-1 cup
Potatoes, boiled and meshed-2 medium
Puris (use pani-puri puri)-24
Salt to taste
Sugar-1 tablespoon
Green moong sprouts, blanched-1/2 cup
Red chili powder-1 teaspoon
Chaat Masala-1/2 teaspoon
Green chutney-1/4 cup
Sweet tamarind chutney-1/4 cup
Sev as required (made out of bangal fram fried snack item, which you will get ready in any Indian grocery store- product name is MTR, Garden, or Haldiram and so on)
Roasted cumin powder-1 teaspoon
Decoration:
Fresh coriander leaves, chopped-2 tablespoons
Pomegranate seeds Fresh-2 tablespoons
Method:
Add salt and sugar to thick yogurt and whisk till well mixed.
Put the yogurt in a muslin cloth kept over a bowl. Gather the edges and squeeze tight to get a smooth mixture.
Keep it in the refrigerator till use.
Mix boiled potatoes, sprouted moong or boiled black chana, black salt, half teaspoon of red chili powder, Chaat Masala.
Break the puris a little on one side, fill it up with the potato filling, fill the yogurt and place them on a plate.
Add green chutney, sweet tamarind chutney, sev, remaining red chilli powder, roasted cumin powder, coriander leaves, pomegranate pearls over the puris and finally dribble the remaining yogurt on top.
Serve immediately.
Tip:
Yogurt: good source calcium, vitamin B-2, B-12, potassium, and magnesium.
Green Moong: good source of protein also contain useful amounts of fibre, potassium, and B-vitamins. They contain low levels of fat, cholesterol and sodium.
Boiled potato: Good source of Fiber, Potassium, Vitamin B6, Carbohydrates:
Green chutney: Good source of vitamins, minerals, good for eyes.
Black chickpea (chana): Chickpeas are a helpful source of zinc, folate and protein. Chickpeas are low in fat and most of this is polyunsaturated.
