Healthy Chutney Sandwich (without butter)

I am giving you a low calorie version i.e. without butter healthy & delicious chutney sandwich.


Ingridients :-

1. Whole Wheat Bread
2. Boiled potato slices
3. Boiled beetroot slices
4. Onion roundels
5. capsicum slices

 for chutney :

1. Coriander leaves - 3 tbsp
2. Pudina leaves (optional) - 1 tsp
3. Garlic pods - 2 nos
4. Ginger - 1" piece
5. sugar - 1/4 tsp
6. lemon juice - 1/4 tsp
7. salt and green chilli to taste
8. Chutney (putana) dhal - 1 tbsp

• Grind putana dhal, green chilli, ginger and garlic pods. then add chopped coriander leaves. add lemon juice, salt, sugar and little water and grind to smooth paste. transfer it to a bowl.
• Toasting is optional. 
• In a pop-up toaster toast two slices of bread.
• Apply the chutney on one side of both the slices
• Arrange the potato, beetroot, onion and capsicum slices. cover with another bread slice
• Healthy, Aromatic, Delicious chutney sandwich is ready.

PS : You can store this chutney in freezer and take & use as and when required.

Variation :-

1. You can apply butter to the breads and then toast them in a griller or in a manual sandwich toaster.
2. Vary the ingridients with tomato, cucumber slices or par boiled spinach / carrot slices

Fabric Painting - cloth preparation

1. First starch should be removed otherwise the paint will not be absorbed properly. 
2. Hence Wash the cloth and dry it.
3. The Iron it.
4. Fix the embroidery ring
5. Trace the design 
6. Colour using fabric paint (after you dip the brush in water, dry it completely then dip in paint otherwise the work will uneven)
7. Let it dry for 24 hours
8. Iron on the reverse side

Padi kolams / Maakolam/Naalu moolai Kolam designs - friday special

Design-19

To know about why maavilaku is offered, please click here :- 


To make maavilaku, you may need :-

1. Rice - 1  cup
2. Jaggery - 3/4 cup
3. Elachi powder - 1/2 tsp
4. Cotton wick
5. Ghee (fuel for lamp)

Wash and soak rice for 10 minutes. Drain. Then in a clean cloth spread it under fan to dry. In a mixer, powder it nicely.

Take a plate, put the rice flour, elachi powder and 1/2 jaggery and mix it well with hands. Till you get the dough firm, keep kneading. The remaining jaggery add as per requirement as while kneading it will melt and the dough should be firm to hold the ghee when we light the lamp.

Divide the dough into two equal parts. Shape them into smooth balls and press it slightly flat. Place them on a plaintain leaf or on a clean greased plate.  Make a hollow in the centre, place a cotton wick, pour melted ghee and grease the tip of the wick. Make very little vermillion dots on both sides of the lamp (As an auspicious sign) where the wick is placed.  Place it before the pooja shelf or in pooja room before the deities and light it.

While distributing the prashad, Offer some betel leaves with betel nuts, whole turmeric, flowers, banana, coconut slices and a small portion of the vilakku dough.

When eaten with coconut, it tastes very delicious.

(ps : Maavilakku is a traditional light offered to the goddess in the tamizh month of Aadi on Fridays and Tuesdays)

Jai Ma Ambe!