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Healthy Food Recipes - Ragi & Murungai Keerai Adai!

Posted on: 26/Dec/2014 12:05:19 PM
Ingredients:
  • Ragi Flour / Finger Millet Flour - 2 cup
  • Murungai Keerai – 1 Cup
  • Onion – 1 nos
  • Red Chilli – 3 nos
  • Salt – To taste
  • Oil – As required
  • Mustard Seed – ½ spoon
  • Urad Dal – 1 spoon
  •  Bengal Gram – 1 spoon
  • Garlic – 10 nos
Method:
  1. Heat the kadai with 3 spoons of oil.
  2. Now add Urad dal, Bengal gram and wait until it turns golden brown colour.
  3. After then add splinted red chillies, mashed garlic, and chopped onion, salt and mix well. Sauté it well for about 2 minutes.



  4. Then wash the drumstick leaves thoroughly and fry it in a kadai for a while until the leaves started shrinking.



  5. In a mixing bowl, add the ragi flour, sautéed onion mix and fried drumstick leaves. Add salt to taste and required quantity of water and mix well.


  6. li>Prepared it to a soft dough and leave it aside for about 15 minutes.
  7. Then make small balls from the dough. 
  8. Spread each ball like poori using hand either on a plastic sheet or banana leaf greased with the oil. 



  9. Then heat a pan and add the rolled dough in the pan and add little oil and cook one side. (As we already used oil for rolling the dough use little oil to cook)



  10. Turn other side and add some oil and cook it. Remove the cooked adai from pan. Repeat the same for the remaining dough.
  11. Serve hot the delicious Ragi & Murungai Keerai Adai along with the coconut chutney! 



Note:
  • Ragi is considered as the queen of the variety of small millets.  
  • Ragi is the rich content of calcium, iron, protein and fibre.
  • In place of rice, consume ragi daily in any form.
  • Drumstick leaves holds many nutritive value and is very healthful in treating the dental ailments.
  • Since it holds both the nutritious contents like ragi and drumstick leaves, consuming this dish very often can serve many health benefits for us.
Benefits of Drumstick Leaves:
  • Serves 7 fold times Vitamin C than an Orange fruit.
  • Serves 3 fold times Potassium than a Banana fruit.
  • Serves 4 fold times Vitamin C than a Carrot.
  • Serves 4 fold times Calcium than a glass of milk.
  • Serves 2 fold times Protein than the milk cream.
Recipe by :                                                                          More Recipes»
Mrs. Lavanya Sampath

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