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Indo-italian Pasta with bottle gourd/lauki
About:
In this recipe pasta is cooked in tomato-onion gravy with Indian spices and Italian herbs. Bottle gourd, spinach and capsicum combination of veggies are used. Spices and vegetables combination can be personalised as per the taste.
Health benefits:
Bottle gourds are one of the favourite vegetables of Indians and have numerous health benefits.
- Ayurveda recommends cooked lauki or bottle gourd for better digestion. It is cooling, calming, diuretic and anti-bilious.
- Like cranberries, bottle gourd or lauki supports the urinary system of our body by reducing burning sensation from high acidic urination. It also reduces the chances of urinary infection because it is alkalizing and has a diuretic effect.
- It is extremely popular for weight loss in the form of juice.
- Bottle gourd is extremely popular for reducing high blood pressure and keeping your heart healthy
So enjoy this dairy free Indo-Italian pasta for lunch/dinner.
Serves: 2-3
Preparation time: 15mins
Cooking time: 30mins
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Oatmeal-whole wheat pizza
About:
Oatmeal, whole wheat, flax seed pizza is a wholesome recipe and you will have no guilt of having a pizza again. This is a multigrain crust pizza with tomato basil homemade pizza sauce and topped with greens, sun-dried tomatoes, jalapenos, mushrooms.
Using dill leaves as a topping gave a very mild and warm flavour similar to that of anise.
Health Benefits:
Sun dried tomatoes are rich in nutrients, low in calorie, low in fat but high in sugar so despite of health benefits of eating sun dried tomatoes just the one with diabetes should be careful to budget this into their daily sugar intake before adding tomatoes to their diet.
So top with any toppings of your choice and enjoy with this wholesome pizza.
Yields: 2 medium Pizza
Preparation time: 20mins
Baking time: 13-15mins
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