Healthy Vegetarian Snacks Recipes

Fond of French fries switch from deep fried conventional French fries to low fat baked sweet potato French fries

•  Total Time: 30-40 minutes
•  Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon (tbsp) olive oil and 1/2 tbsp sesame oil (mix both oil)
• 1/2 tsp paprika (optional)
• 4 medium sized sweet potatoes - peeled and sliced in long 1/4 inch wide strips and 1/2 inch long slices.

For seasoning:

• 1 tea spoon (tsp) salt
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 tsp garlic paste (optional)
• 1/2 tsp Rock salt
• 1/4 tsp sugar powder
• Mix all the above ingredients

Procedure:

• Pre heat oven to 450 degrees F.
• Place a bakery paper (parchment paper) in a oven tray.
• Toss the sweet potatoes in a large bowl with the olive oil and sesame oil.
• Sprinkle the seasoning mixture and paprika over the sweet potato.
• Spread sweet potato in the oven tray; make sure it is spread in a single layer.
• Occasionally turn the sweet potato and bake till it is golden brown in color.
• The baking process would take about 14-20 minutes.
• Serve warm.

Tentative Nutrition content per serving

• Calories: 246
• Carbs: 41
• Fat: 8 gm
• Saturated fat: 0.7 gm
• Proteins: 3 gm
• Sodium: 1000 mg
• Cholesterol: 0gm
• Sugar: 10 gm
• Fiber: 10 gm

Love crunchy fried Indian snacks tries these healthy bakes crunchy puris.

•  Total Time: 40-60 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 cup chopped Spinach / 2 cup chopped Fenugreek leaves / 1 cup chopped Spinach and 1 cup chopped Fenugreek leaves (depending on which Puri you want to make)
• 1/4 cup coriander leaves
• 1/2 cup Jowar flour (white millet)
• 1/2 cup Bajra Flour (Finger millet flour)
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 cup curd
• 1 tsp green paste - (ginger, green chilies, cumin seeds)
• 3 tsp oil
• Salt to taste.

Procedure:

• Pre heat oven at 360 degree F.
• Mix chopped coriander leaves with Spinach or Fenugreek leaves or both. Add salt and let it rest for 10 minutes.
• The water from the vegetable will be released.
• In one big bowl mix all the flours, green paste and coriander spinach mixture along with the released water.
• Add curd and knead a firm dough, add water if required.
• Roll out small thin circle of about 2 inch diameter.
• Place them in the oven tray in single layer.
• Occasionally turn the puri and bake till golden brown in color.
• Will take about 15 minutes.
• Store them in an air tight container.

Tentative Nutrition content per puri

• Calories: 28
• Carbs: 4.4 gm
• Fat: 1.2 gm
• Saturated fat: 0 gm
• Proteins: 1 gm
• Sodium: 40 mg
• Cholesterol: 0gm
• Sugar: 5 gm
• Fiber: 8 gm
• Iron: 0.5 gm
• Vitamin A: 180 mcg