Healthy snacks for lockdown: Easy & simple recipes of wheat khakra, poha laddoo & others

Amid coronavirus breakdown, every country around globe has eir imposed lockdown or strict curfew rules. In such a situation as everyone is cooped at home, people tend to binge on unhealthy and junk snacks. Even though outside food is off-limits due to safety measures but re is doubt that with packed foods, chips and odles lying in pantries, eating habits aren’t exactly healthy right w. So what better than a healthy snack made at home? Here are some simple and easy recipes of healthy snacks for lockdown, check out - 

Wheat Khakra 

Khakra is a special Gujarati snack that can be easily made at home. According to chef Ranveer Brar, Khakra is perfect comfort food. Wheat Khakra takes thing but 30 mins for preparation and 25 minutes to cook, with 2 cups – Wheat flour + 1 cup for dusting, 1 tbsp – Kasuri methi (optional) and salt to taste. 

Recipe: 

• Mix wheat flour, salt and Kasuri methi in a bowl. 
• Knead it into a dough and let it set aside for 15-20 minutes, keep it covered with a muslin cloth.
• Divide dough in small balls and roll m into a thin disc. 
• Heat a nstick pan on low flame and put rolled roti on it. Roast it for 20-30 seconds on 1 side n flip it over.
• After it's cooked and roasted and becomes crisp, set aside to cool on room temperature for 15-20 minutes.

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Poha Laddoo

Poha Laddoo is also kwn as Aval Laddoo. It is a snack specially made during Krishna Janmashtami. It takes 5 minutes to prepare and 20 minutes to cook. Ingredients needed are 1 cup – Poha, ⅓ cup – Jaggery, grated, 4 tbsp – Ghee, ¼ cup – Cashew nuts, ¼ cup – Raisins, 1 tbsp – Milk and ¼ tsp – Cardamom powder. 

Recipe: 

• Roast poha in a dry pan, until is golden brown and crisped.
• n, blend poha with grated jaggery, blend it till you get a grainy mixture. 
• Heat ghee in a pan and add cashew nuts, fry till y turn golden brown n add raisins and cardamom powder.
• Later, add poha and jaggery mixture to it.
• Transfer mixture to a plate and quickly shape m into ladoos.
• Don’t let mixture cool down or it will harden and ladoos won’t shape well.

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Sweet Potato Fries 

Potato fries might sound junk and fats to you but Sweet Potato fries are healthy. To prepare se fries, you need 1 kg sweet potatoes, 100 gm cornflour. Spice mix: 5 gm black pepper, 5 gm rock salt, 2 gm red chilly powder and 2 gm cumin powder. Check out recipe below. 

Recipe 

• Chop potatoes into shape of fries and soak in hot water for two minutes.
• Drain water and spread on baking tray evenly. Add cornflour and mix m well. 
• Preheat oven at 200°C. You can also fry m with low-fat oil. 
• Evenly spread sweet potatoes on tray leaving good between fries. 
• Bake m for good 30 minutes. And on gas, fry m until crisped and cooked.   
• Remove m in a mixing bowl and add prepared mix spices. 

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Peanut chaat

Most of us might be missing street food like bhel, chaat and similar dishes. Well, you can make a similar healthy chaat at home that requires minimal effort. All you need is peanuts, tomato, onion, red chilli pepper, fresh cilantro, lemon juice and chaat masala. 

Recipe: 

• Finely chop up all vegetables mentioned in ingredients. 
• Put m in a bowl and squeeze whole lemon.
• Add peanuts in bowl, you can also use dry roasted peanuts.
• Mix all vegetables, lemon juice and peanuts well.
• Sprinkle chaat masala on top as per your taste buds. 

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