If you are trying to shed those extra pounds, you are surely looking for the healthier version of some popular dishes. With healthier version, we mean the oil-free version. We don't want you to compromise even a little bit with your tastes buds thus we have come up 10 different oil-free recipes for you. Keep reading to know more about each of them in detail.
Chicken Masala
Chicken is almost everyone's favorite and chicken masala is one of the most popular Indian chicken curries. The gravy is cooked with a blend of different Indian spices making it taste like heaven. Did you know that chicken curry can also be cooked without oil at all? No, right? Well, you can. Try making the dish without even a dash of oil and you will surely love it.
Oats Dhokla
Dhokla is the staple food of Gujarat and almost every Gujarati knows how to prepare it. The regular dhokla is not healthy and requires oil and besan. Both oil and besan are not good for our health thus we must try to skin them. Substitute the besan or gram flour with powdered oats and skip the oil.
Mixed Vegetable Raita
Raita is a very popular Indian side dish and people enjoy raita with mostly any rice dish. Preparing raita requires no oil. Simply chop some vegetables and put them into a bowl of beaten yoghurt or curd.
Soup
Preparing soup is not easy but it also requires no or very less amount of oil. Most soups do not require oil at all. Spinach soup, carrot soup and tomato soup are very healthy and tasty at the same time. If you don't like veg soup you can also add chunks of chicken into your soup and make it taste even better.
Chicken malaiwala
Eating healthy doesn't mean that you will have to ditch all the tasty foods that are available. Chicken malaiwala is an amazing food item and can be teamed up with roti or naan. This recipe requires no oil and the gravy is made up of milk and cashew nuts.
Milkshakes and smoothies
Milkshakes or smoothies not only taste good, they are filling at the same time as well. You can make a wide variety of them with whatever is present in your home. Simply blend the fruits that you like with milk and a little amount of honey in a blender and you are done.
Momo
Served with chutney and soup, momos are favourite food items for people living mostly in the north-east part of India. Momos are steamed dumplings and they require no oil. The dumplings are filled with the filling of choice. One can go for either vegetable as well as chicken momo. Momos are available at a cheap rate and at a high rate as well.
Tangy Bengal gram chaat
Bengal grams when mixed with various vegetables like onion, tomato and cucumber taste heavenly. Adding a little amount of lemon juice to the mixture enhances the taste even more. This is a very popular roadside snack and can be spotted at every market.
Chicken Poppers
There's no doubt that chicken poppers are tasty and are a treat for your taste buds. But we often have an idea that they cannot be prepared without oil. Chicken poppers can always be prepared without oil and for that, all you have to do is use an air fryer instead of normal frying pan filled with oil to fry the poppers.BUT
Idli
South Indian famous dish Idli requires no oil. Idli is simply steamed rice. Idlis are served with chutney and sambar and are consumed by people living in every part of the country. Preparing idli is very simple and fast as well.
These are some delicious oil free recipes for maintaining a ‘healthy you’.
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