Why a blog on GD?

I thought of writing something on diet for Gestational Diabetes (GD) when my daughter-in-law had GD last year. Being a vegetarian, she had very little choice when it came to American hospital diet. She was admitted in the hospital on the 26th week of gestation with high GD and for about 3 weeks, I had to manage her diet with proper calculation of carbohydrate, protein and fibre.With proper guidance and wonderful cooperation from her dietitian, we could keep her glucose level under control. She delivered a girl baby on her 29th week, and both mother and daughter are doing great today.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Nutritious Laddu

Nutritious Laddu





Ingredients:
1. Groundnut fried                                    1 cup
2. Fried gram(Pottukadalai)                     1 cup
3.White Sesame seed fried                      1 cup
4.Foxtail Millet(Thenai)                           1 cup
5.Little Millet ( Saamai)                           1 cup
6.Cane sugar                                             3 cups
7. Ghee                                                      4 tablespoons
8. Cardamom Powder                               1 tsp
9.Nutmug powder                                     1 tsp 

1.Dry fry Thenai and Saamai separately and keep aside
2. Fry groundnut if raw.
3. No need to fry friedgram.
4. Dry fry sesame seeds and keep aside.
5. First powder fried Thenai and Saamai in the mixer to a fine powder.
6.Then powder sesame seeds and add it to the Thenai and Saamai powder.
7. Grind groundnut and friedgram and mix all the powders together.
8.Take one third of the powder in the mixer, add one cup of cane sugar and one tbsn of ghee and mix them well. Do the same with the remaining powder, cane sugar and ghee and mix all very well in a broad bowl.
9. The mixture by itself will be sticky,then add cardamom and nutmug powders.
10. Take small quantity of the mixture in hand and shape it into a small laddu. Repeat it with the entire mixture making it into small Laddus.
11. Not much ghee or oil is needed and one can make good laddus without trouble.
Note: This Laddu is so nutritious as Thenai is full of protein, fibre and acts as a very good agent against cholestrol.
 Saamai is good in fibre, iron and an excellent anti oxidant.
 Groundnut taken with cane sugar gives good iron and protein.
 Sesame seeds in combination with cane sugar is an excellent source of iron. That is why when girls attain puberty, grandmas used to make sesame urundai and give it to the girls as they need lots of iron at that time.
 Fried gram, though it has some extra carb, still is a very good source of protein and fibre.
Cane sugar is better than jaggary and white sugar.
So as a whole this Laddu is a very good substitute for all junk foods. One or two laddus taken in the evening, after coming back from school will give the kids excellent energy.Try it and enjoy.

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