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Pizza with its creamy layer of cheese and lots of different toppings on top is a favorite among children and adults, while momos is also one of the most popular street food. There is a huge crowd in their stalls and restaurants all the time, but due to the flour and some ingredients used in them, they become high in calories, hence excessive consumption not only harms your digestion, but it also increases the chances of weight gain manifold. You can make it at home in a tasty as well as healthy way. You will learn its recipe in this story.
Momos is considered a Tibetan recipe and it gradually became popular in India too, but during this time many changes took place according to the local taste. Like fried momos, tandoori momos, many types of toppings are also made. Similarly, pizza is also a recipe prepared with food inspiration from many places, in which changes kept happening. Let us know the recipe of healthy pizza and momos.
Ingredients of Healthy Momos
If you want to make momos healthy, then you can use semolina instead of flour or you can prepare it with multigrain flour. Apart from this, you will need crushed soya chunks. If you want to increase protein intake along with different types of vegetables like carrots, capsicum, onion, cabbage, broccoli, then add cheese. Momos can also be made only with paneer. Apart from this, you will need some basic things like onion, salt, chilli, garam masala, finely chopped or grated ginger (optional).
Momos recipe
First of all, knead semolina or multigrain flour with lukewarm water and wrap it in a clean cloth with light moisture. After this, wash all the vegetables and chop them finely. For this you can use handy chopper. Soak the soya chunks in water and squeeze them after they swell. Mash the cheese also. Now add some oil in the pan and fry finely chopped garlic and ginger. After this, add all the vegetables, add salt, chilli, garam masala and cook well. When the vegetables become soft, add soya chunks and cook until the moisture dries up. Turn off the gas and let the mixture cool.
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Knead the prepared dough again a little and then make small balls and keep rolling them. Prepare momos by filling the prepared mixture. You can heat water in a big pan and place a mesh plate on it and steam the momos or steam them in a steamer. You can serve it with Schezwan chutney or you can make less spicy chutney at home to suit children.
How to make healthy pizza?
The recipe of pizza remains the same, you just have to use some other ingredient for the base instead of flour. Apart from this, increase the quantity of vegetables and keep the quantity of cheese less. So let’s know the recipe.
These will be the ingredients required
For this you will need half a cup of semolina, one fourth cup of curd and salt as per taste, mix these three things and prepare a thick batter by adding little water. Leave it covered for some time and if it becomes too thick then adjust it by adding a little water. Add eno fruit salt to it and mix. Take a thick bottom pan. Grease it with a little oil brush, now add the batter and spread it thickly, which will become the pizza base. It has to be covered and cooked on very low flame. After this, turn it over and after applying pizza sauce, add a little cheese, after this add lots of vegetables, tomatoes, different colored capsicum, corn. Add grated cheese on top. Add oregano, chilli flakes and cover and cook for at least 10 minutes. In this way your pizza without flour will be ready.