Healthy & Tasty

In today’s rat race one hardly gets time to exercise or eat right. However, for a good lifestyle one has to work out and consume nutritious food. The Executive Chef at Sheraton Hyderabad Hotel, Kapil Dubey has whipped up some fantastic dishes made from Tofu that can be prepared in three minutes and are extremely healthy

Tofu and banana oatmeal with soy milk and dates

Ingredients:
Oats 200 grm
Soy milk 500 ml
Ripe banana 1 nos
Tofu -diced 100 grm
Dates 25 grm
Honey To taste

Method:

• Heat the soy milk.
• Add the oatmeal at one go and cook the oatmeal over a simmering flame, stirring constantly, till the time the porridge thickens and coats the back of the spoon.
• Add chopped banana and cook for few minutes.
• Add tofu dices and bring to boil.
• Serve hot with garnished with dates and honey.
• Serving – 4 portions.

Tofu and Tomato Upma

Ingredients:
Semolina (Rava) 100 grm
Ghee 25 gml
Black mustard seeds 1 nos
Dry red chili 1 grm
Fresh tomato 50 grm
Tofu 100 gms
Turmeric powder 2 gms
Fresh coriander 15gms
Salt to taste

Method:

• Dry roast the semolina on a low flame until it turns slightly brown in colour. Keep aside.
• Cut tofu and tomato into small dices and keep aside.
• Heat the ghee in a wok and add the tempering of mustard seeds, red chillies and curry leaves.
• Once they begin to splutter add the tomatoes and saute for a few minutes.
• Now add the turmeric powder.
• Add around 200 ml of water.
• Mix in the broiled semolina in a thin stream mixing continuously taking care to avoid the formation of lumps.
• Cook till the upma begins to splutter. This would take around 10 minutes on a medium flame.
• Add diced tofu and mix well.
• Finish with salt and chopped coriander.
• Serving – 4 portions.

Raspberry and tofu muffins

Ingredients:
Butter 700 grm
Sugar 900 grm
Egg 5 nos
Flour 250 grm
Baking powder 5 grm
Vanilla essence 2 drops

Method:

• Beat butter and sugar together.
• Gradually add one egg after another and beat well.
• Mix the flour with baking powder and add it to the batter.
• Pour the mixture on muffin moulds and top up with tofu and raspberry
• Bake at 175 oC for 15 mins.
• Serving – 30 nos.