This melts in your mouth because they are powdered legumes! Because, do you remember how fluffy it gets for Medhuvadai? I learned about seed cycling when I read more about PCOD, and it made me think a little bit about how I eat sesame seeds closer to menstruation. I reasoned that they had to be…
A minimal Oat Flour Upma – Do you really buy Oat flour from stores? They are nothing but powdered instant oats(if you are thinking about Quick cooking Oat flour). Quaker Oats gave out a recipe book some years back as a compliment and I never got around to using it. I have always loved the…
Palak/Spinach Smooth Pesto For Durum Wheat Penne Pasta Spinach is also known as Palak in Hindi and is considered as one of the superfoods easily available to the Humans. Spinach is full of nutrients like Vitamin A, C, K, Iron, Folate and Potassium. It is said that every 100 grams of Spinach has nearly 2.9…
I vote for Apple+oats more than I will for banana+oats anyday. Ofcourse, I can make Apple taste like banana too. Wanna know how? Try this Apple and Oat foil packet that tastes like Banana recipe. The goal here is to have oatmeal without any sweetener but it should be edible too; not taste like cardboard….
MASALA CHAI SPICE POACHED INDIAN PEARS with sour curd It is always better to eat whole fruits as they are.. but sometimes you get bored of doing so. It would seem like you are living inside a matrix and in dire need of creativity. Generally fruits like apples, pears or peaches are poached in alcohol…
Stir-fry vegetables with rice is easy and effortless to make if you consider stirring vegetables isn’t a chore! The main motto of this recipe was to make stir-fry vegetables. You can hike the rice quantity up to 4 Cups.
Usually we discard the vegetable tidbits while cutting them into wedges or we would let tomato seeds overstay during marination but that’s not going to happen at Brains and Beans. We are certainly discarding the stems though, no doubt in that.
Minimal Banana thincakes are super easy and delicious to make. It is traditionally called as Vazhapazha dosai in Tamil language. We usually make them with White flour, mashed banana and jaggery(Indian sweetener), spiced with cardamom and is served as an evening snack. For that reason, it wasn’t a regularly made in my home.
I love food but not eating, though. I love looking at food pics on the internet. I admire them. I am in awe with them! It must be the drool worthy photography. I don’t really drool after desserts, though! My kind of food is always vibrant, loaded with vegetables and full filling on the stomach!…
Pineapple Tea is something anybody can make if you know how to boil water . It’s going to be raining Pineapples at Brains & Beans this week! yay! Well, that was a slight exaggeration. There will be four variations of Pineapple like: Lassi, smoothie, Cake and Rice. Yes, rice!
