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A healthy breakfast, lunch box or tiffin recipe.

Ingredients:
1 cup seedless dates (khajur), soaked in milk for 1 hour,
Jaggery as per taste,
Milk as per requirement,
Wheat flour enough to knead dough and roll parathas,
Ghee for frying.

Method:
Grind together dates along with milk and jaggery to form a very smooth paste, there should be no lumps. Then remove this into a bowl and add wheat flour enough to knead a dough. Keep kneading so that you know you have to add more flour. Leave this kneaded dough aside for half and hour.
Divide the dough into small balls, roll each ball into a small puri, spread some ghee on it, fold into a triangle. Dip this into the flour and roll a paratha.
Heat a tava (griddle) spread some ghee, place the paratha on it. Fry from both sides till it is nice golden brown in color.

TIP:
For people watching out for calories, jaggery is a healthy option to sugar. You can also avoid jaggery as dates have natural sugar and are sweet enough to give a taste to the parathas. Also while roasting avoid ghee.

Ingredients:
For the salad-
2 eggs,
Shitake mushrooms,
1/2 cup of chopped scallions (spring onions),
7 Lettuce leaves,
Bell peppers as per taste,
1 apple; diced,
1/2 cup sugar,
Slices of ham as per taste,
Salt and pepper to taste.

For the dressing-
1/2 cup olive oil,
A handful of chopped scallions,
Salt and pepper to taste,
1 tsp lime juice,
1 tbsp Dijon mustard.

Other-
1/2 cup vinegar,
Water.

Method:
Boil water in a deep pan and put 1/2 cup vinegar into it. To poach the eggs, break open an egg in a large deep spoon, season it with salt and pepper. Dip the spoon in the boiling water, poach it and remove. In a pan, add apples and sugar and cook till they caramelize.
Arrange lettuce leaves, scallions, peppers in a salad bowl, place the poached eggs, some ham and the caramelized apples.
For the dressing, heat olive oil in a pan, add spring onions, mushrooms, salt, pepper, lime juice, dijon mustard, mix and pour it on the salad.

Ingredients:(Makes 5 small pancakes)
For Filling-
1 large apple; diced into small pieces,
3/4 cup dates; deseeded and chopped,
1 tsp white sugar,
1 tbsp lemon juice,
3 tbsp water.

For the pancakes-
2 tbsp all-purpose flour (maida),
2 tbsp jaggery or brown sugar,
A pinch of salt,
1 egg; beaten,
Milk or water.

Method:
In a pan, combine apples, sugar, lemon juice and water and cook till apples are soft. Then add dates and again cook for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and let it cool.
Mix all the ingredients for the pancake and prepare a smooth batter of dropping consistency. Heat a griddle, grease it with butter/oil and drop a spoonful of batter on it, spread it and let it cook properly from both sides (at a golden brown color). Spread the filling over it the pancake and serve.

Ingredients:
400gms yogurt (or sweetened yogurt) well beaten,
3 scallions (spring onions), chopped,
2 tsp sugar,
1 pomegranate, arils or seeds separated and juice preserved.

Method:
Leave a tbsp of pomogranate arils for garnishing and chill them until ready to serve. and mix all the other ingredients together. Also add the juice to the raita to get the nice pink color to the raita. Just before serving garnish with the preserved pomogranate arils.

Ingredients:
1 cup diced pineapple,
1 cup diced paneer (cottage cheese),
1 cup chopped bell pepper (capsicum) green, red or yellow as per your choice,
1/2 cup deseeded and chopped tomatoes,
10-12 leaves of Iceberg Lettuce, dip into ice cold water for 15 minutes.
A handful of walnuts.

For the dressing-
2 tbsp Olive oil,
1 tbsp vinegar or lemon juice,
A pinch of sugar,
Salt and Pepper to taste.

Method:
Mix together all the ingredients of dressing.
In a salad bowl, arrange some lettuce leaves to cover the bowl and break the remaining leaves into pieces. Mix all the other ingredients in another bowl along with these broken lettuce leaves and add the dressing to it. Mix well and serve in the bowl with lettuce leaves. Garnish with walnuts.

TIP:
If you are conscious about calories, replace paneer with apples or any other veggie you like, this salad will taste just as good.