Tuesday, January 20, 2015

multi grain flour

Multi grain flour is very nutritious and tasty. its easy to prepare variety of dishes makes it versatile in usage. First the list of grain flours to be mixed.
  1. Wheat flour with bran
  2. Oats flour
  3. Bajra flour
  4. Barley flour
  5. Arrowroot flour
  6. Soya flour
  7. Yellow corn meal or flour
  8. Ragi flour
  9. Red rice flour
  10. Sorghum flour
  11. Almond flour
  12. Flax seed flour
  13. Black Urad dhall flour
  14. Black gram flour
  15. Green millet flour
  16. Singadha
  17. Rajagira
  18. Kuttu atta
The list is endless,
Multi grain usage is versatile.

1. Porridge or kanji whatever you wanna call is as healthy as it sounds.
Just take a scoop of this flour add water to dissolve simmer for 5-8 mins constantly stirring, until totally boiled and cooked. add milk & sugar/honey, buttermilk & salt, anything that you like with it. adjust water or milk quantity based on how thin or thick you want to make the porridge.

2. Rotti/ Chappathi/ Naan/ Kulcha etc add this multi grain along with the regular flour as how much quantity preferred according to your taste and diet need. Knead the dough and make flavourful rottis serve with the family favourite side dish to meet the everyday nutrition recommendation.

3. Baking. Try baking cookies, cakes, pies etc alternating with this multigrain and honey or brown sugar which is much healthy desert (as compared to white sugar that has chemical whitener).

4. Fritters. While frying fritters like bajji, pakoda, samosa, etc mix a little multigrain along with besan flour to add the touch of nutrition packed dish not feeling guilty about.

5. Dosa. The all time favourite ghee dosa can be now in different colour with a healthy touch. Mix the multi grain a scoop to the regular batter or exclusively with the multigrain alone served with mint, tomato, cilantro, coconut any variety chutney or sambar, is a quick sweep on the dinner table.

6. Tiffen. More tiffen items like string hoppers (iddiyappam), panniyaram can be also made with multi grain.

7. Soups / Sauces. Add little multi grain to thicken the soup or sauce instead of white corn flour which is hardly of no nutrition except carbs. beware on what you add as thickening agents.

Hints:
Whatever be the dish you want to prepare before mixing do note the flour texture and according to the recipe or preference since some types of flour helps in binding well, while the other aids in crispiness.

Follow the labels to know more about the nutrition details of each flour and health benefits. 

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