Healthy Food Recipes - Ragi balls
Posted on: 07/Nov/2014 4:46:05 PM
Ingredients:
- Ragi flour – 150 gm
- Broken rice (Noi arisi) – 50 gm
- Salt – as required
Method:
(Soak rice in water for about half an hour)
- Take a thick-bottomed pan and heat some water
- For a cup of Ragi flour, the required amount of water is 2.5 cups
- Once the water boils, put in the soaked rice and add salt as required
- After five minutes, place a wooden whisk at the centre of the pan and start adding Ragi flour slowly
- Do not mix it. Close it with a lid and let the content of the pan get cooked for ten minutes
- After ten minutes, take the pan off the stove and mix the water and Ragi flour together with the use of wooden whisk. Make sure that you mix in such a way that no dumpling gets formed in between
- Make it into small balls and serve hot
Note:
- This dish goes good with Fish curry, Greens curry, and Groundnut chutney
- This recipe can be prepared in a maximum cooking time of 10 to 15 minutes. This is ideal for morning breakfast
- If you do not have time to soak rice for half an hour, it can be replaced with boiled rice
Benefits:
- Rich in calcium content
- People from all ages can consume this – from little kids to aged people, anyone can eat and it’s good for all
- Those wanting to shed kilos can opt this food instead of regular rice
- Ragi flour can also be used to prepare Dhosai, Adai, Kanji and more
- Ragi flour is rich in calcium, protein, iron, and fiber
- Ragi is one of the healthy grains on earth
- This dish helps increase levels of oxalic acid in our body. Hence patients suffering from kidney stones are requested not to consume this food
- Compared to rice, grains like Ragi is healthier. These are recommended for daily consumption
- Diabetics can take this food in the early morning
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
