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Zucchini Chutney Recipe |Vegan, gluten free chutney

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Zucchini chutney recipe I Vegan and gluten free zucchini chutney recipe
Zucchini chutney tastes good with rice, rotti, idli, chapathi ..
Zucchini is one of the summer squashes. It looks like cucumber but tastes more like ridge gourd/heerekayi. We can use the zucchini in place of ridge gourd. We can make zucchini rice, zucchini raita. We can add this to rotti as well. It is a very low calorie vegetable, good source of dietary fiber. Also zucchini is a very good source of potassium.
Almost 22 years ago my good friend taught me this zucchini chutney . I have made some changes over the years and been doing this recipe since then.
Try other recipes using Zucchini
Zucchini rice
Zucchini raita
Other Chutney recipes HERE
Breakfast recipes HERE

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Cauliflower masala rice Bhath

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Cauliflower rice bhath is an easy and tasty rice dish, Perfect for lunchbox as well.
Here in this recipe I am using cauliflower as main vegetables along with fresh/frozen peas and carrots. . You can use different vegetables like beans, cabbage, kohlrabi …
This is gluten free, vegan , no onion, no garlic rice recipe.

ALso check these rice dishes such as cilantro rice, mint/pudina pulao and more Rice dishes CLICK HERE

Utensils used in this recipe:

Prestige Pressure cooker (BUY HERE)

stainless steel utensils (BUY HERE

Spiced Buttermilk | Healthy Buttermilk drink

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Buttermilk, a product of naturally fermented milk, is the liquid left over after removing the fat in the form of butter from churned curd or yogurt tasting slightly acidic and sour in flavor. Traditionally, buttermilk is consumed mixed with rice at the end of the meal in Southern Indian households .In summer, drinking a large glass of buttermilk offers the simplest and surest way to overcome dehydration as it contains electrolytes like, potassium, calcium, and traces of phosphorus and water. For vegetarians, buttermilk is the best source of Vitamin B12 helping to fight anaemia and stress. Drinking the buttermilk / majjige is very good during pregnancy as well.
To know about the benefits of this buttermilk please read the article about this super probiotic by Dr.Shivashankar.
Here is how to prepare buttermilk at home from the cream we collect and the curd. Using this buttermilk we have 2 awesome delicious masala majjige or masala spicy buttermilk recipe.

Read this article about benefits of  probiotics by Dr. Shivashankar

CLICK HERE for how to make home made Yogurt / Curd 

Cucumber Gojju | Southekayi Gojju | Karnataka Recipes

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Cucumber Gojju or Southekayi hasi gojju is very tasty and easy to make side dish for rotii, rotis and rice. This is Hasi means Raw, here we use all raw ingredients except the chillies, we just fry the green chillies for better taste, but you can add raw green chillies as well.
Cucumber is a low calorie, high water content, vitamin B rich vegetable. It is an excellent source of silica which helps for joint health and weight loss.

This is Vegan, and Gluten free dish. For Gluten free option use this gluten free hing

Try these other cucumber recipes as well.

 Cucumber salad, Cucumber hasi majjige huLi

cucumber dosa, 

Cucumber chaat