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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 its 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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