Poha and Thopa Low Oil Indian Gujarati recipes.

Oil is much bad for any body’s health. However, it is very much difficult for anyone to cook recipes with low oil or zero oil.  In this article you will get some oil free or zero oil recipes which are good for your health. Among other recipes poha is the one item which is very much popular in the west and central India (India). It is very easy to cook and takes less time. Keeping in mind the health concerns, the best part of the recipe is that it uses less oil while cooking.  So you can prepare Poha for the breakfast today.

Recipe 1: Poha

Ingredients

• Poha - 200 gms.
• Sugar - 1 table spoon.
• Salt - 3/4 tea spoon.
• Oil - 1 table spoon.
• Mustard Oil - 1/2 tea spoon.
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tea spoon.
• Potato - 1 (boiled)
• Green chilli - 2
• Peanuts or Peas - 1/2 small cup.
• Lemon - 1
• Coriander leaves -  1 table spoon (chopped)
• Raisins - 20-25
• Sev made with gram flour - 1 small bowl.
• Peanuts - 1 small bowl (fried)

Preparations

1. First of all you must wash the poha with water and instantly strain the water from it. Put 1 spoon sugar and 1/2 spoon salt into it and leave for 15 minutes.
2. Next peel the boiled potatoes and cut into small pieces.
3. You should separate the stems from the green chilli and chop.
4. Chop 1/2 bowl peas and coriander leaves also and keep them in a bowl.
5. You should take a bowl of bikaner sev and keep it aside.
6. Now take 1 bowl of roasted peanuts for garnishing the poha.
7. You should heat the oil in a pan and tamper some mustard seeds into it. 
8. Now add green chilli, turmeric powder, peas, chopped potato to it and roast well. 
9. Put poha into it and mix well with the masala. 
10. Turn off the flame once the poha is completely mixed with the masala and add lemon juice to it.
11. At last garnish the poha with coriander leaves, roasted peanuts and bikaner sev after transferring it to the serving bowl and enjoy it hot.

Recipe 2: Thopa

This is also a recipe with low oil and it is very popular in Uttar Pradesh and regions around Rajasthan (India). You can try out this recipe for breakfast on Sunday. This recipe is for 4 people and it takes 50 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients

• Gram flour - 200 gms.
• Salt - less than 1 tea spoon (according to the taste)
• Oil - 2 table spoon.
• Heeng - 1-2 pinch.
• Cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon.
• Green chilli - 1-2
• Ginger - 1 inch long piece.
• Coriander leaves - 1 table spoon (chopped)

Preparations

1. First sieve the flour in a bowl. Then wash the green chilli and chop them and then separate the seeds. 
2. Now peel the ginger, wash and chop into think long slices. Grease a plate with ghee and keep it aside.
3. Then heat 1 tablespoon oil in a pan and roast the flour into it until it turns brown in colour. After that turn off the flame.
4. Now add 3 times the water of the flour into the roasted flour to make a batter. Pour little little water into the flour and continue to stir it. You must make sure that the lumps are not formed in the batter. Now you canadd salt to it and mix well. 
5. Again heat oil in a pan to make thopa and tamper the cumin seeds and heeng into it. Once the cumin seeds get roasted then you can add green chilli and ginger into it and againroast them. 
6. Now pour the flour batter into the roasted masala and cook it on a medium flame. You should stir the mixture continuously till it becomes thick in consistency. You can see that within 10-12 minutes the mixture becomes thick and you should turn off the flame.
7. You should pour the hot mixture into the greased plate and spread evenly with 1/2 cm depth.
8. Next leave the tray open for 1/2 an hour in an open air.
9. At last cut the mixture into any shape and keep them on a plate and Thopa is ready. 
10. You can even garnish it with coriander leaves and serve with green chutney and curd.