Christmas 2020: This healthy fruit cake is rich in protein and fiber, and contains no refined sugars
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- Celebrate Christmas with these healthy recipes
- They are rich in nutrients and do not contain refined sugars
- Healthy sugar alternatives such as date syrup and coconut sugar are used
We wish you all a Merry Christmas! At this happy time, we can’t help but talk about a few sweet flavors, which have the right amount of health and nutrition in them. Helping us with this concern is none other than actress and fitness enthusiast Shilpa Shetty Kundra, who shared two of her favorite Christmas recipes in her recent Insta posts. Kalkals bakte and healthy fruit cake are the two favorite foods to prepare around Christmas. We’ll see how you can make them, here.
December 2020: Healthy fruit cake by Shilpa Shetty Kundra
Celebrating Christmas is just endless without a cake. And imagine as you might, making a healthy cake is not a child’s play. But fret not how Kundra has the right solution to this. She shares the recipe of healthy wheat fruit cake, which you can be innocent at the special time of Christmas.
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To prepare this cake, marinate a mixture of nuts and dried fruit in orange juice.
Dry ingredients
Take a large mixing bowl and sieve one cup of whole wheat flour (aata), add one cup of semolina (sooji), ginger powder (1 tsp), cinnamon powder (1 tsp), baking soda (1 tsp) and baking powder (1 tsp).
Wet ingredients
Take a bowl and add one cup yogurt (an alternative to eggs), date syrups (you can prepare this at home or use the readymade version), vegetable oil (100 gms). Mix them all well with whiskey. Now add the marinated nuts and dried fruits to this mixture. Add your dry ingredients to this mixture and mix well.
Take an aluminum baking tray. Grip it with oil and dust it with aata. Press the cake mixture into the tray. Top it with a little almond and walnut. Bake for 45 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius.
In the meantime, you can prepare a sauce to pour over the cake. Take one cup of straw jam without reconstituted sugar. Add 1/2 cup fresh cream and whisk together.
Once the cake is done, let it cool down for a bit. Cut into cake slices and pour the jam sauce over them.
With ingredients like dates, nuts and dried fruit, this cake can give you good protein and fat, and no refined sugar! Now isn’t this the perfect way to make your Christmas as happy as it can be?
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December 2020: Kalkals bake
Kundra explains that this recipe makes it pretty ridiculous. He takes her back to her grandmother’s home, where they were always surrounded by Goan neighbors. “I have fond memories of doing kalkals with them, for Christmas,” she says in the YouTube video.
To prepare these kalkals, Kundra uses one cup of wheat flour (aata), instead of mahogany or whole-grain flour. She adds 3 teaspoons of roasted semolina (sooji); 1/2 tsp of cinnamon powder (optional); 5 teaspoons coconut sugar, 4 teaspoons ghee and 1/4 cup milk. Mix all the ingredients and rub the dough well.
While wheat flour gives you a lot of fiber, milk gives you calcium, vitamin b12 and riboflavin; coconut sugar has low fructose and low glycemic index. Ghee is one of the healthiest sources of good fat, which a nutritionist recommends as part of your daily diet.
Take small pieces out of the dough, place it behind a fork, spread it out and then roll it out. Do several pieces like this. Preheat oven for 15 minutes and bake the kalkals at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
According to Kundra, this delicious snack can help you feel healthy, maintain a healthy colon and also enable good bone health. You can store them in an air box for about 15 days. They’re perfect for serving at Christmas time, and can also be great tea treats!
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Merry Christmas to all our readers!
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