Beetroot Halwa ( Beetroot Dessert )
Yet another delicious, tasty and healthy sweet dish for you! Beetroot halwa is made from red beetroot and sugar, whereas I am using organic jaggary instead of sugar. Beetroot halwa is not much popular. Who ever is not familiar with this sweet dish, can try once. This is very healthy and tasty. At first instance, beetroots look rough and dusty, you may be surprised by how sweet it tastes. In fact, beetroots contain highest natural sugar content of all vegetables, that is why this sweet dish requires very less quantity of jaggary (or sugar). Beetroots have got a number of essential nutrients which help in improving heart health, lowers the risk of diabetes complications keeps you healthy. If we eat beets raw,it is crunchy, but turns soft when it is cooked. You can enjoy beets raw in the form of salad or sliced and as well as you can enjoy beets cooked or steamed. In all forms it taste grate and provides vitamins and minerals required to the body, making them a healthy addition to your diet may result in amazing improvement in health. Whenever you try new things in cooking, it is better to prepare it in smaller quantity. Once you feel you are good at preparing the dish, you can prepare in larger quantity. You can try this, I am sure you will succeed. Let’s see the preparation of tasty, healthy and delecious Beetroot halwa. Continue reading →
Beetroot Rice
This is an another rice recipe, prepared from beetroot and rice. Cooking with rice is really easy for South Indians, because rice is the regular part of South Indian diet. This is an another lunch box idea. My husband likes different types of rice in lunch box, that is why I, always, try something new and less time consuming rice items. This is served for breakfast as well. This is healthy and delicious too. Beetroot is an interesting vegetable to be added to rice, it gives rice its natural colour and a natural sweetness to the rice and that makes this dish really tasty and unique. And more over beetroot is low in fat, full of vitamins and minerals and packed with powerful antioxidants. This is a very simple recipe, can be prepared in less than 30 minutes.A perfect dish for lunch box. Continue reading →
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