Carrot Paruppu usili

Ingredients

Toor dal     -  2 cups
Carrot         - 1  cup
Green chillies    - 5
Red chillies      - 2
Salt
Asafotida
Oil
Mustard
Curry leaves 
Turmeric powder 

Method

Soak toor dal for 1 hour.
Drain and grind coarsely with green chillies and salt.
Steam cook the ground dal or microwave it for 5 mins and crumble it with hands without any lumps.
Wash & finely chop the carrot and microwave it for 5 minutes with little salt .
Heat oil in a kadai then put mustard ,curry leaves, red chillies and asafoetida.
Then add crumbled dal and cooked carrot combine well.
Add salt if required.  
Serve hot . 
Enjoy

Lettuce ,Cucumber ,Apple Sandwich

Ingredients

Bread slices        :  2 nos
Lettuce                : 2 pieces
Cucumber           : 4 (sliced):
Tomato                : 1 no (sliced)
Apple                   : 1 piece
Pepper powder     : a pinch
Salt

Method

Take a bread slice & put Lettuce,cucumber slices, tomato slice,apple.
Sprinkle pepper powder,salt .
Apply mayonnaise on other bread slice and put this on top of vegetable bread and toast it for 3 to 4 minutes .
Serve hot...

Spinach & Carrot Paratha - School lunch box recipes

Ingredients

Wheat flour         : 1 cup
Spinach               :  1/2 cup 
Carrot                  : 2 nos
Cumin seeds        : 1/4 tsp
Grated  ginger      : 1/2 pinch 
Salt
Oil for cooking

Method

Wash and finely chop the spinach.
Grate the carrot. 
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and knead into a soft dough using water.
Keep the dough aside for 10 minutes.
Divide the dough into 8 equal portions and roll out each portion into a circle.

Dust little wheat flour to prevent sticking while rolling. 

Heat a pan,drizzle little oil, cook the parathas both sides in medium flame till golden brown.

Serve hot with any sidedish..

Enjoy....

Oats & Wheat flour dosa

Ingredients

Oats             : 1 cup
Wheat flour  : 1 cup
Rice flour       : 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds   : 1 tsp
Whole pepper  : 1 tsp
Curry leaves
Salt
Oil

Method

Dry roast oats for few minutes , let it cool and powder it.
Mix oats flour,wheat flour,rice flour,cumin seeds, peeper,curry leaves , salt with required water and make dosa batter .
Keep aside for 5 minutes.
Heat a non stick pan, rub some oil , drizzle a ladle of batter on to the hot tawa.

 Pour some oil around the corners, let it cook till the edges turn brown.
Flip over and let the other side cook.

Serve hot with any chutney...