With taste comes our concern for health. What appeals to the mouth must do well for the tummy too. Here are a few recipes from Good Food Cafe at Pitampura in New Delhi that health freaks can try out using easy available ingredients.

COUSCOUS AND PEARL BARLEY SALAD

Ingredients:

• Couscous- 100 gm
• Garlic - 5 gm
• Water - 100 ml
• Barley -50 gm
• Baby spinach - a few leaves
• Snow peas - 25 gm
• Broccoli - 25 gm
• Anardana - 5 gm
• Bajra puff - 5 gm
• Oil - 30 ml
• Lemon juice - 5 ml
• White pepper - 2.5 ml
• Salt - as per taste
• Caster sugar- 5 ml
• French mustard - 5 ml

Method:

• Soak barley overnight and boil for 30 minutes.
• Heat oil in a pan, add garlic, sauté and then add couscous and water, cook for 5-6 minutes chill, keep aside.
• Blanch snow peas and broccoli in hot water for 2 minutes, cool , keep aside.
• Add olive oil, salt, pepper, sugar, mustard, lemon juice in a mixing bowl and stir well.
• Add all the ingredients in to this dressing.
• Top with bajra puff & pomegranate.
• Serve chilled.

MIX FRUIT SHAKE

Ingredients

• Fresh fruits - 1½ spoon
• Ice cubes - 2 or 3
• Crushed strawberry -25ml
• Crushed orange - 20ml
• Milk - 150ml

Method
Add fresh fruits, crushed strawberry, orange, ice cubes and milk in a mixing jar.
Mix well and serve chilled.

CUCUMBER POMEGRANATE SALAD

Ingredients

• Diced cucumber - 300gm
• Pomegranate - 40gm
• Yogurt - 60gm
• Flax seeds - 5gm
• Salt - 2gm
• White pepper - 1gm
• Honey - 20 ml
• Pomegranate syrup - 10 ml
• Panini bread
• Butter on bread

Dressing
Add honey, pomegranate syrup, hung curd with salt and pepper.

Method

• Put dressing in a bowl and toss it well with diced. cucumber and pomegranate.
• Mix it well and add flax seeds on top.
• Serve salad along with Panini bread.

SLIMMER’S OLIVE SALAD (VEG.)

Ingredients

• Carrot - 40gm
• Broccoli - 45gm
• Spring onion - 15gm
• Green peas - 25gm
• Beans - 34gm
• Red cabbage - 30gm
• Lettuce ice burg - 35gm
• Tomato dice - 35gm
• Black olive - 20gm
• Salt - 2gm
• Pepper - 2gm
• French dressing - 30g

Method
Take a mixing bowl and put all the vegetable and mix it well with French dressing and serve it along with Panini bread.

ANTI-POLLUTION DRINK

• Pinch of activated charcoal
• Lemonade masala - 1½ tablespoon
• Lemon juice     -   20ml
• Soda                 -  120ml

Method

• Pour soda and add lemon juice, lemonade masala and a pinch of activated charcoal into a cup.
• Mix it well and serve chilled.