Soft and healthy chow chow/Chayote chapathi in 5 easy steps

Chow chow/Chayote vegetable is a good source of Vitamin ‘C’, Fiber. It is mainly found in southern part of India. It is considered good for health.

Some of the health benefits of chow chow are

• It helps in reducing weight, 
• Preventing kidney stones, anemia, constipation
• Have anti-aging properties
• Helps reducing blood pressure
• It is considered good for heart health, thyroid 

Ingredients: 1 Chow chow/Chayote, Wheat flour, half cup milk, oil, salt

Process to prepare
Step 1: Peel the skin of chow chow and grate it.
Step 2: Now put the grated chow chow in pan and fry it with oil for 5 minutes/ raw smell goes off
Step 3: Grind the pried chow chow to a fine smooth paste adding half a cup of milk
Step 4: Mix prepared paste with wheat flour, add a spoon of salt, knead the dough and keep the dough for 30 minutes
Step 5: Prepare chapathi

Delicious Dry Poha recipe

 Ingradients for making 250 Gm of dry paper poha

• Roasted groundnut - 150 gm
• Roasted channa - 20 gm
• Cumin seeds - 1 tbs
• Mustard seeds - 1 tbs
• Green chilli - 4 - 5
• Garlic - 1 small pod
• Coriander powder - 1 tbs
• Curry leaves
• Hing
• oil - 3 tbs
• Turmeric powder
• Sugar powder - 2tbs
• Ghee - 2 tbs
• Salt - 1 tbs
• Sev optional

Steps to prepare

1. Roast paper poha with oil and ghee on low flame for 5 minutes till paper poha changes colour to slight brown and keep it aside.
2. Grind garlic, ginger, green chilli, cumin seeds and curry leaves together into paste.
3. To prepare masala - Put oil in a pan add mustard and cumin seeds, when they start to splutter add curry leaves, roasted groundnuts, roasted channa, clilli paste, coriander powder, salt, hing, turmeric powder and mix well. 
4. Add roasted poha to the masala and mix well on slow flame. 
5. Add sev in the end.