Healthy Food: Whole Wheat Kokosnoot Shevai ( Whole Wheat Kokosnoot Noodles);Diabetes Friendly Thursday

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The Proud DFT Team brings Mother's Day Special this time. How fun is that? Many of us are bringing Chaat or Indian Street Food from our morher's delectable palate. Who says that Diabetics get got to eat "No-Fun" food? Binge inwards as well as and Indluge. But hey...remember!! Portion Control is the key!

My woman nurture is a really unproblematic person. Simple pleasures, unproblematic desires. Growing up, she instilled inwards us the appreciation of unproblematic things inwards life. She taught us how to survive happy amongst what nosotros have. There is an adage inwards Republic of Republic of India that translates every bit " i should stretch his legs alone every bit far every bit ones blanket allows". Why am I getting philosophical?? What I am trying to acquire at is also the fact that she also taught us how to eat healthy. She cooked unproblematic wholesome meals. For breakfast at that topographic point would survive something nutritious, for lunch, it would survive rice as well as i curry. For dinner, it would survive kanji( rice porridge) amongst roughly vegetable on the side. To this date, my parents get got no chronic wellness issues as well as exercise non get got whatever medications. This I intend is primarily due to her salubrious dietary habits. She is a pure vegetarian. She cooks amongst really trivial oil. Half a liter of cooking crude tin concluding her a whole month!! She alone cooks amongst kokosnoot crude as well as she alone eats fresh vegetables.

So today every bit Mother's Day particular DFT, I am bringing to you lot i of my mother's favorite breakfast items: whole wheat kokosnoot Shevai . What is this?? Where I come upward from, they brand whole wheat noodles or string hoppers as well as Sun dry out them. When dried similar this, they tin survive stored for years without going bad( exactly similar how nosotros get got the rice noodle or pasta).

This is exactly the traditional agency of doing it. Now this, similar whatever pasta, when cooked inwards warm water, gets soft , as well as tin survive cooked every bit desired,again similar whatever rice noodles or pasta. The alone departure is that this is to a greater extent than healthier amongst whole grain wheat flour as well as no preservatives.

My favorite is the agency my mom makes it : kokosnoot Shevai. It is such a quick as well as unproblematic agency of providing a salubrious nourishing breakfast.

Servings: 2-3 (Serving size: 1 loving cup per person)

Ingredients:

Dried whole wheat Shevai : ii cups
Water: four cups
Salt: 1/2 tsp
Coconut oil: 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Urad dal( matpe edible bean lentil): 1 tsp
Green chilies: ii small, slit lengthwise
Freshly grated coconut: 1/4 cup
Sugar: 1 tsp

Method:

Boil H2O amongst common salt inwards a pot. When it boils, plow of the flaming as well as add together the dried Shevai to the signal inwards such a agency that the Shevai is completely immersed inwards it. Close the pot as well as maintain aside for five mins or until all the Shevai get got turned whitish inwards color.

Drain as well as maintain aside. Make certain that you lot don't soak the shevai for likewise long every bit as well as then the whole dish volition survive mushy! The Shevai has to survive al dente.Upon draining, if it looks a trivial clumpy, split it using your fingers.

Heat kokosnoot crude inwards a sauté pan/ kadai on medium heat. Add mustard seeds. Once it splutters, add together the curry leaves, urad dal as well as light-green chilies. Saute for a few seconds.

Now add together the drained Shevai as well as mix well. Add refined saccharify as well as to a greater extent than common salt if needed.

Add freshly grated kokosnoot reserving a trivial for garnish.Turn off the gas.

Garnish amongst the remaining coconut.

Serve hot .

May survive served amongst accompaniments similar banana, mixture, chips as well as fifty-fifty chutney.

Enjoy.

Cooking made easy:

There are several ways to ensure that the Shevai are non overcooked. The most of import beingness non to soak it for likewise long. When you lot get got out, it mightiness await similar it is non yet done, but the noodle volition piece of job on to create fifty-fifty afterwards draining due to the remaining oestrus retained inwards it.

If you lot fearfulness that you lot get got soaked the Shevai for likewise long as well as volition acquire mushy, upon draining, run it nether mutual frigidity water. This volition halt it from continuing to cook.

The whole wheat Shevai tin also survive cooked amongst the add-on of vegetables similar peas as well as carrots. This makes it fifty-fifty to a greater extent than healthier. It becomes to a greater extent than similar a pulao when prepared inwards this manner.

Footnotes (Tip for salubrious living):

Diabetes as well as carbs: There is a myth inwards the full general population that carbs are bad for diabetics as well as thence people amongst diabetes should avoid all types of carbs!Carbohydrates per se are non bad. It is the amount as well as the type of saccharide that is consumed that is the culprit. The remainder betwixt how much insulin is inwards the torso as well as how much saccharide is eaten determines the blood refined saccharify level. There are 3 types of carbohydrates: 1.starches such every bit starchy vegetables similar potatoes, peas as well as corn, dried beans as well as lentils as well as grains such every bit oats, barley as well as rice.
2. Sugars , could survive naturally occurring similar that inwards milk as well as fruits or added refined saccharify similar that inwards sweets as well as desserts.
3. Fiber : similar that inwards beans as well as legumes, fruits as well as vegetables as well as whole grains similar whole grain cereals, whole wheat pasta, whole grain breads as well as nuts.
Needless to say, it is of import to eat the healthier carbs that are whole grain as well as fiber rich as well as to avoid carbs that are rich inwards sugar. Portion command is also the mainstay of a salubrious diet.

References:

http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what-can-i-eat/understanding-carbohydrates/types-of-carbohydrates.html

http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what-can-i-eat/understanding-carbohydrates/carbohydrate-counting.html

http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what-can-i-eat/understanding-carbohydrates/make-your-carbs-count.html

Disclaimer:
I am non a nutritionist or dietitian. My noesis as well as data is based on my enquiry and reading from dissimilar resources. Please consult your medico or dietitian before making any changes to your diet.

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