Healthy Menu

A healthy living starts with a healthy diet…….. There is always a trade off between taste and a healthy recipe. Even then we can find recipes that tastes wonderful with healthy ingredients and preparation styles. My interest is always look for tasty and healthy recipes to my family and to my blog, that intention I believe is justified by the recipe count in this category ….

Spinach Thoran

Spinach Thoran

Spinach is well known across the world for generations for its nutritious benefits. This leafy vegetable is an excellent source of Vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber and much more.You can see multiple ways to make use of spinach in diet, in cakes, salads, sweets, pies etc. Here is spinach preparation in ...
Broccoli Cabbage Thoran

Broccoli Cabbage Thoran

A tasty blend of two healthy vegetables, prepared in Kerala thoran (dry vegetable side dish) style. Finely chopped Cabbage and Broccoli is cooked with masala prepared of grated coconut. Consider this preparation to be mixed with boiled rice or even as a side dish to the rice in conventional manner. ...
Asparagus  Stir Fry

Asparagus Stir Fry

A healthy Indian style recipe to welcome the Asparagus season. The fleshy green spears of asparagus are both juicy and tender and have been considered a delicacy since ancient times. I am planning to do more preparation styles with asparagus in the coming days, but here is the start. ...
Papaya Chia-seed Smoothie 

Papaya Chia-seed Smoothie 

Here is the recipe of an excellent blend of words two most nutritious natural ingredients, in the form of a delicious smoothie!!. Papaya is well known for its numerous health benefiting nutrients and is one of the favorites of fruit lovers for its nutritional, digestive, and medicinal properties. Chia seeds ...
Oats Vilayichatu 

Oats Vilayichatu 

A healthy recipe variant of Oats, fried and sweetened with jiggery (palm sugar) to make it more attractive to children. The inspiration of this recipe is from the recipe “Aval Vilayichathu” which is a traditional snack dish from Kerala cuisines, prepared with aval (rice flakes). ...
Aval Laddu

Aval Laddu

A relatively easy laddu/ladu (ലഡ്ഡു) recipe, made of aval (അവൽ) /rice-flakes, still tasting to its name. These can quickly be prepared for serving for family gatherings and festivals.  It can be preserved in normal temperature for 3-4 days. Using jiggery (ശർക്കര) for sweetening makes these laddus a healthy snack option ...
Spinach n Fruit Smoothie

Spinach n Fruit Smoothie

Here is a quick recipe to start a healthy day!. Smoothies are great option to have a balanced one dish meal especially when you are in dieting mood, still enjoying the natural taste of the ingredient fruits. Its can digest quickly. It’s an alternate way to feed your kids natural ...
Salmon with Thyme and Lemon

Salmon with Thyme and Lemon

I have shared a few salmon recipes in my previous blogs, which you can refer here.  Salmon -is packed with omega-3s is easily available in fillet form from food markets. It is a quick option to prepare healthy and tasty recipes to go for the Indian and international recipe dishes. ...
Kanjiyum payarum

Kanjiyum payarum

“Kanji” – well cooked rice served in thick salted rice juice used to be the traditional energy boosted to the working class in Kerala. Kanjiyum Payarum an enrichment for the “kanji” is the simplest and balanced dinner course for Keralites. The preparation is very common as a dinner serving for ...