Weight Loss Indian Recipes - Cabbage Curry

This cabbage curry is rich in protein and fiber and so lead to weight loss in a healthy way. Onion, garlic, turmeric and red chillies are great anti-oxidants. All these ingredients burn your extra pounds and protein increases your lean muscle.You can match this cabbage curry to idly, dosa, chappathi and cooked rice. For weight loss purpose I match this curry to cooked brown rice. Now, it is time to prepare cabbage curry..!

Ingredients:
Cabbage - 250 grams (for 2 servings)
Red gram dhal - 150 grams
Carrot (optional) - 2
Onions -3 or shallots - 6
Tomatoes - 2
Green chillies - 3
Red chillies - 3
Garlic - 10 cloves
Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
Sambar powder - 1 tablespoon
Chilly powder (optional) - 1 tablespoon
Oil - 1/2 tablespoon
Mustard seeds - 1/4 teaspoon
Urad dhal - 1/4 teaspoon
Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon
Hing - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt - according to your taste
Coriander and curry leaves

Directions:
Soak red gram dhal for 10 minutes and cook it in a pressure cooker. Chop cabbage, carrot, onions, tomatoes and green chillies. Crush garlic cloves. Tear red chillies.

In a saucepan, heat the oil and fry mustard seeds in medium heat. Once mustard seeds are spluttered, add urad dhal and wait until it become brown. Add torn red chillies, cumin seeds and hing. Add onions, tomatoes, garlic, turmeric powder, sambar powder, chilly powder and salt and stir for just 2 minutes. Add cabbage and carrot and add 250 ml of water. After cabbage is fully cooked add cooked red gram dhal and sprinkle chopped coriander and curry leaves. Loose lid the curry and keep flame in low heat for 3 minutes.

Now your hot cabbage curry is ready to serve..!

Eat and Lose Weight with Sambar

Eating to lose weight is my passion and Sambar is my favorite curry. It will become your favorite too once you know how to prepare it. Sambar is the south Indian recipe and it contains protein, most of the vitamins, loads of anti-oxidants and a good deal of fiber.  For health freak like me, it goes smoothly with cooked brown rice. You can make unlimited varieties of Sambar with your choices of vegetables. Here, I explain ladies finger sambar though, you can replace ladies finger with any other vegetable or any combination of vegetables. For example, drumstick+mango, carrot+beans, carrot+beans+beet+cabbage, bottle gourd, pumpkin - any vegetable will make your sambar delicious with different taste.

Ingredients:
Red Gram Dhal - 200 grams (for 4 servings)
Onions - 3 or shallots - 5
Tomatoes - 2
Green chillies - 5
Red Chillies-5
Garlic - 10 cloves
Brinjal (Eggplant) - 2
Ladies finger (Okra) - 250 grams
Red chilly powder - 1 tablespoon
Sambar powder - 1 tablespoon
Tamarind paste - 1 tablespoon
Oil - 1/2 tablespoon
Mustard seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Hing powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt - to taste
Coriander and curry leaves

Directions:
Cook the red gram dhal until it become tender and mash it. Cut the vegetables and green chillies, crush garlic cloves, chop coriander leaves and tear red chillies.

Add 1 liter of water to the mashed dhal and add chopped onions, tomatoes, brinjal, turmeric powder, garlic, green chillies and chilly powder. Boil this curry until vegetables are half-cooked. Add tamarind paste, sambar powder and salt and let it be cooked in medium flame for 10 minutes. Now, sambar is almost done. Remove it from the stove. Sprinkle chopped coriander leaves.

In a small pan, heat the oil in medium flame and fry mustard seeds. Once mustard is spluttered, add red chillies and hing powder and after they are fried add curry leaves. Add this to sambar and lid the sambar for 5 minutes. Now your ladies finger sambar is ready to devour. You can take this sambar with any Indian dish like idly, dosa, chappathi and cooked rice.

Lose Weight in a Week - Green Grams Evening Snack

This is my favorite evening snack and very easy to prepare. Sometimes, I take it as supper with a glass of milk. This dish contains protein, iron and minerals with a good deal of fiber and so you will feel full for hours.

Ingredients:
Green grams - 250 grams (for 2 servings)
Jaggery or Brown sugar - 100 grams
Grated coconut - 50 grams or half coconut grated
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon

Directions:
Soak Green grams for 30 minutes before cooking. Cook the grams in a pressure cooker or in a open pot until it become tender. Drain the water and mix the grated jaggery, coconut and salt with cooked grams. That's it..!

Eating To Lose Weight - Veggie Brown Rice

Veggie Brown Rice is my own recipe prepared in south Indian style. Everyday I take this as my lunch.

Ingredients:
Short Brown rice - 250 grams (for 2 servings)
Onions -3
Tomatoes - 2
Green chillies - 5
Garlic - 1 head or 20 cloves
Carrot - 100 grams
Cabbage - 100 grams
Green Beans - 100 grams
Oil - 1 tablespoon
Chilly powder (cayenne pepper powder) - 1 tablespoon
Garam masala powder - 1 teaspoon
Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Cumin seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Mustard seeds- 1/4 teaspoon
Hing powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Salt - 2 teaspoons or according to your taste
Coriander and curry leaves


Directions:
Soak brown rice for 30 minutes before cooking. Cook the rice in a pressure cooker for 7 whistles or cook it in a pot for 30 minutes and drain the water, if it is cooked in a pot.

In a large saucepan, heat the oil and fry the mustard and when it is spluttered add cumin seeds, hing powder, garam masala and turmeric powder and stir well. Add sliced onions and tomatoes, crushed garlic cloves, chopped green chillies and salt. Saute them for 2 or 3 minutes until they become half cooked. Add sliced and chopped carrot, cabbage, green beans and chilly powder. Add 250 ml water and cook it for 10 minutes in a medium heat or until cabbage is fully cooked. Now, bring the heat to low and mix the cooked brown rice with this veggie curry. Sprinkle the chopped codiander and curry leaves and loosely lid the pan and keep it for 5 minutes in low flame. Now the dish is ready to eat with Onion Raita.

Onion Raita is nothing, but, finely sliced onions mixed with fresh curd.

How Can I Lose Weight In A Week In A Healthy Way - Part 1

Fiber Rich Diet To Lose Extra Pounds:

A perfect diet should contain not only nutrition, but also fiber. Everyone needs approximately 30 grams of fiber per day. If you are obese and want to lose weight, you must take fiber rich diet and it plays an important role to make you shed down your unwanted extra pounds as it makes you feel full and thus reduce your hunger.

Take fiber dense foods to lead a healthy life. But, if you abruptly increase your fiber intake, you will suffer from cramps, bloating and pain in your abdomen. So, prepare your body to accept it by gradually increasing the fiber intake.

If you take fiber in good amount, it will remove cholesterol from your body and controls your blood pressure. You will automatically lose your extra weight.

Most of the fruits and vegetables are rich in fiber. Dried beans, legumes, sunflower and sesame seeds, dried peas and nuts are also have great deal of fiber in them. Brown rice, barley, sweet potatoes, pears, wheat bread, rye bread and bran muffins are the other fiber dense food items.

In the coming posts of this Blog, I will write some fiber diet recipes so that you can prepare them and can lose weight in a week without starving.