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Women’s Day Special recipes

March 8this celebrated annually as Woman’s Day throughout the globe. This day is dedicated to honouring women for their contribution to their personal and professional lives. They dote on their children, run a household like a queen, and lead teams as bosses at work! There is no concept of a ‘time-out’ for them. Let’s treat them like the queens they truly are. Brothers, Fathers, Husbands, Kids and family alike can join hands and cook up a storm for the women in their lives.

Women’s Day Special recipes

Some of these quick and fun recipes include:

Macaroni with Creamy Corn and Nachos

Macaroni with Creamy Corn and Nachos, women's day special recipes

Serving: 2

Ingredients:

1 tbsp Olive Oil

3 Garlic Cloves (Chopped)

1 Onion (small. Chopped)

50 g Corns

Salt

1 tsp Black Pepper Powder

100 ml Hot Pasta Stock

60 g Dr. Oetker FunFoods Mayonnaise Veg (4 Tbsp)

120 g Macaroni (Boiled)

20 – 25 g Nachos (8-10 pcs., Jalapeno flavour)

50 g Cheese (Processed, grated)

Directions:

Heat oil in a nonstick pan (low flame) add garlic, onion and cook for 30 seconds or until onion, gets caramelize. Add corn and sauté for 1 minute. Season it with salt and pepper.
Add pasta stock to above vegetables and stir. Take the pan away from flame, add mayonnaise and stir well. Bring it back to flame and let it simmer for 1 minute or until sauce thickens.
Add pasta to above sauce and toss well.
For Assembling- Place nachos around the plate, add above pasta in the middle and sprinkle cheese on top. Serve.

Level: Beginner

Preparation time: 15 Minutes

Spicy Mexican Style Wraps

Spicy Mexican Style Wraps, Women's day special recipes

Serving: 6

Ingredients:

6 Portion Chapattis

30g Butter (2 tbsp.)

150g Onions (2 small, finely chopped)

100g Green Bell Peppers (1 medium, finely chopped)

150g Tomatoes (2 small, finely chopped)

45g Dr. Oetker FunFoods Salsa (3 tbsp.)

Directions:

In a non-stick pan shallow fry the chapatis in butter from both sides until they are crispy.Make medium size balls from above mixture and keep them aside.
In a bowl add salsa, capsicum, onion and tomato. Mix well.
Spread the above mixture on the chapattis. Roll up. Serve hot.

Level: Intermediate

Preparation time: 5 Minutes

Cooking Time: 15 Minutes

Peanut Butter Cake

Peanut Butter Cake, Women's day special recipes

Serving: 4

Ingredients:

100g Dr. Oetker FunFoods Eggless Cake Mix Chocolate

150g Butter (melted)

100ml Water

100g Dr. Oetker FunFoods Peanut Butter Crunchy

Directions:

Preheat oven to 180°C.
Mix melted butter, bake mix and water.
Grease and flour a 7 inch (18cm) dia. baking pan and pour batter in.
Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes until a toothpick, inserted in the centre, comes out clean.
Leave to cool for 15 minutes and place cake on serving plate. Spread peanut butter and cut as per choice. Serve

Level: Beginner

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Recipes curated by Gaurav Chadha, in-house Chef Dr. Oetker India are sure to strike the right chord!

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2 Recipes to try before the end of the year

The year is coming to an end, so let’s make December special! The year-end always brings back memories of the year gone by.. and also a fresh hope for a better future. Food has always been a comforting element all our lives, so why should this time be any different? Let family and friends take the forefront, and celebrate December and the beginning of the new year. Coupled with a few exceptional recipes courtesy Gaurav Chadha, in-house Chef Dr. Oetker India, it is sure to be unforgettable!

Some of these exciting recipes include:

Hawaiian Veggie Burger
Chocolate Mousse

Hawaiian Veggie Burger

Serving: 1

Ingredients:

1 tsp Butter

2 rings canned Pineapple

½ medium Onion, rings

50 (3 tbsp) Dr. Oetker FunFoods Veg Mayonnaise Burger

1 Burger Buns cut horizontally into two halves

1 Lettuce Leaf

1 Veg Burger Patty, deep fried

Directions:

Heat butter in a griddle pan (medium flame). Grill the rings of pineapple and onion until caramelized and there are nice grill marks on both sides.
Spread 1 tbsp burger mayonnaise on each half of burger bun.
On the bottom, half of burger bun place lettuce leaf, followed by burger patty, onion rings, pineapple (a dollop of mayonnaise on pineapple) and top it up with another half of the bun. Serve

Level: Beginner

Preparation time: 15 Minutes

Cooking Time: 20 Minutes

Chocolate Mousse

Serving: 3

Ingredients:

2 tbsp Dr. Oetker FunFoods Dessert Topping Chocolate (30g)

4 tbsp Whipped Cream (60g)

1 tsp Veg Gelatine (5g)

Directions:

Soak gelatine in chilled water for 4-5 minutes then warm on low heat for 1 minute until all the granules melt.
In a bowl, add whipped cream, dessert topping chocolate, gelatine and mix well.
Pour into 3 glasses. Leave in a refrigerator for 30 minutes to set. Serve.

Level: Medium

Preparation time: 10 Minutes

Cooking Time: 20 Minutes

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all in advance

December 20, 2017Food

Having Healthy Christmas Holidays

Festivals, particularly Christmas, is a time to rejoice with family and friends. What can be better than feasting with your loved ones surrounded on the dinner table on Christmas Eve?

When the long table is laid out with an extensive menu, your self-indulgence is going to dominate your appetite. Once, the holiday season is a passé, all you are left with is your bloated tummy and that extra inch around your waist. Although you do attempt to limit your rendezvous with festive meals, it’s not so easy to control your tempting desire for the mouth-watering appetizers, mains course, desserts, and drinks. The traditional Christmas dinner is a significant part of Christmas celebration. Curbing yourself from eating those treats will impart the feeling of being unfair to yourself. On the other hand, when you over-indulge, you regret ditching your diet plan. Here is a full proof plan to decode the baffling situation.

Christmas feast consists of oven-roasted turkey breast with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and vegetables such as turnip, carrots, parsnips, etc. Desserts ranging from pumpkin or apple pie, raisin pudding, Christmas pudding, or fruitcake are the staple. Other traditional bakes for Christmas goodies are Christmas cookies, butter tarts, and shortbread. All this mounts up to over 5,200 calories just on the day of Christmas Eve. If you are a health freak, this number would definitely make your eyes pop out.

Ways to have a healthy Christmas

Choosing wisely

You are what you eat. So, it’s okay if behave like a fussy eater for just one day on Christmas. You have to wisely decide where you can cut down or make lighter decisions.

Experiment with Food

Instead of having the same monotonous menu each year on Christmas, try something different that has lesser calorie and surprise your family. Even they would appreciate a new delicacy introduced to them.

Take small servings

Pay heed to the signal of satiety and stop eating instantly. You can always get something to eat if you feel hungry later. It is always a smart strategy to eat a healthy amount than to overeat. When filling your plate, take a small serving of low calories and low-fat foods.

Drink Water

Drinking a glass of water half an hour before any meal helps in proper digestion. Drinking fluids between meals dilute the digestive juices. It is a bad idea to drink water within an hour of your meal because water hampers absorption of nutrients.

Calorie Count

For a healthy Christmas, keep a count of your caloric intake during each meal. This way you can keep a track of what you are eating and how much you should be eating. It is an excellent parameter that determines healthful eating. Download the app on your mobile.

Supper

The researcher suggests that the last meal of the day should be eaten early and must be kept light to prevent bloating the next day. It not just optimizes the metabolism but also prevents abdominal obesity.

Deck the hall with boughs of holly- Healthy Christmas — Image credit -https://www.familychristmasonline.com

When you are decking the hall with boughs of holly this Christmas don’t you forget to deck your platter with healthy goodies.

Wishing you all healthy Christmas holidays.

The article is authored by famous Dietitian Sheela Seharawat. She is the founder and chief mentor of Diet Clinic Health Care Pvt. Ltd. Also, she is one of the youngest successful entrepreneurs of India.

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December 14, 2017Food

INTERNATIONAL TEA DAY

A piping hot cup of tea snuggled in the lap of your hands is a tremendous feeling when the weather is bitterly frosty outside and giving you goose bumps. The credit of this comforting cup of tea does not go to the swanky packaged brand names. Instead the respect and admiration should be bestowed upon the tea growers and the labour working in the tea garden estates. To honor their backbreaking efforts, International Tea Day is observed on December 15 every year.

India was the pioneer in initiating the proposal to the United Nations panel for observing an International Tea Day which was supported by various countries. Even The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) and Inter-governmental Group (IGG) welcomed the proposal as a great incentive to shape the lives of the tea growers and laborers. The proposal of India for observing International Tea Day was unanimously supported by countries such as Canada, the United States, European Union, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Kenya and Malawi. Thus, the first International Tea Day was celebrated in New Delhi, India in 2005. Ever since then, it has become a custom to draw worldwide awareness to support the tea growers and workers. In year 2015, the Indian government advocated the expansion of the observance of International Tea Day through the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Apart from India, countries like Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam are the major tea producers of the world. The united efforts of these countries is to build a better tomorrow for the laborers who are working in the tea estate at a negligible wage. The monthly income paid to them is unable to sustain the living standard above the poverty line. They are living in a wretched condition lacking the basic infrastructure to support a healthy and sanitized lifestyle. They dwell in shabby homes exposed to the extreme weather conditions. They lack provision for education, health facilities, hygienic food and clean lavatories.

The International Tea Day celebration is an initiative to sensitize the government and the citizens of the various countries to influence the owners of Tea Estate and Mega brand names to abort unfair trade practices. Global Tea Conferences along with trade union have been organized to reach a commendatory conclusion that benefits the poor tea growers and laborers. The conference’s agenda is to discuss various issues of the global tea industry ranging from the hazardous condition which is inflicting upon the tea growers and laborers, their exposure to chemicals, their pay package, residues, climate change and sustainability of growing tea.

Sipping on a cup of tea- International Tea Day — Sipping on a cup of tea
Image courtesy- pixabay

In every sip of that cup of tea, we should be beholden to the tea growers and planters who slog day and night in harvesting tea. However, just being grateful to them won’t evaporate their woes in thin air. We must together raise our voice as powerful consumers and make a difference in their lives. So, let us come together to provide dignity of life to those who provide us with nerve soothing beverage.

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Women’s Day Special recipes

Women’s Day Special recipes

2 Recipes to try before the end of the year

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all in advance

Having Healthy Christmas Holidays

Festivals, particularly Christmas, is a time to rejoice with family and friends. What can be better than feasting with your loved ones surrounded on the dinner table on Christmas Eve?

Ways to have a healthy Christmas

Wishing you all healthy Christmas holidays.

INTERNATIONAL TEA DAY