Winters mean hot chocolate, lots of chai and coffeeand snacks to go along with these.
This also leads to gaining of those unwanted pounds, OZiva, a leading clean, plant-based nutrition and wellness brand gets their their in-house dietician and nutritionist, Nidhi Shah, to share a few guilt free recipes to keep you warm this season.
Sugar Free Til Laddoo
Ingredients:
1 cup sesame seeds
1 cup walnuts
13-14 almonds
3 tbsp pumpkin seeds
3 tbsp flax seeds
½ cup soaked chia seeds
5-6 dates
2 tbsp raisins
1 tsp cardamom powder
½ tsp cinnamon powder
½ scoop OZiva Organic Plant Protein
Method:
- Soak chia seeds in water for about 20-30 mins
- Soak raisin and dates for about 15-20 mins
- Strain water and blend soaked chia seeds, dates and raisin into fine paste
- Dry roast sesame seeds until the color changes to light brown
- In another pan dry roast almonds + walnuts + pumpkin seeds
- Separately dry roast flax seeds
- Let them cool and blend all roasted nuts and seeds into a powder
- Mix the paste, nuts powder and sesame seeds together
- Add cardamom powder, cinnamon powder and OZiva Organic Plant Protein
- Mix well and bind into ladoos in small portions
- Cool for 10 mins in refrigerator
Hot Chocolate
Ingredients:
4 cup milk
Powdered jaggery as per taste
3 tbsp cocoa powder
50g dark chocolate
Method:
- Pour milk to the pan on low flame and add cocoa powder
- Still until there are no lumps
- Heat for 1 minute
- Add jaggery powder
- Add cinnamon powder (if wish to)
- Mix well and add dark chocolate pieces
- Keep stirring until ready
Ragi Idli
Ingredients:
1 cup Ragi flour
½ cup urad dal
1 cup rawa
1 inch of ginger
1 green chili
1 tsp mustard seed
10-12 curry leaves
Salt, to taste
1 tsp OZiva Organic Plant Protein
A pinch of baking soda
Method:
- Rinse urad dal and soak it for 4-5 hours
- Soak rawa in a separate bowl for 4 hours
- Strain water from both dal and rawa
- Blend and make a smooth bater of the soaked dal
- Add soaked rawa in the bater
- Add raki flour
- Mix and aerate
- Ferment for 8-9 hours or overnight
- Mix the barter well
- Heat ghee in a pan
- Add mustard seeds and curry leaves
- Add crushed ginger and green chillies
- Add a little water and let it cook
- Add it to the barter
- Add pinch of baking soda and OZiva Organic Plant Protein
- Grease the idli mold
- Fill the bater in the mold and let it steam for 12-15mins