Madhuram's VegCorner.com | Healthy Vegetarian Recipes

As much as I would love to have soups and salads everyday and limit carbs from rice and other grains, being the true South Indian I am, I cannot simply stop preparing dosas, idlis and other dishes I have been eating all these years. It’s not just food we are talking about. It’s more than that. We are passing our heritage, custom and rituals to our children through food. So I’m very happy that my son loves Indian food as much as he enjoys his pizzas and pastas. But I do have to agree that sometimes it can be boring to eat the same, plain dosa and idli each and every time. So that’s when we have to unleash our creativity to make our meals interesting.

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Over the past couple of months I have been reading Raj’s wonderful blog and have been following his Facebook group and have gained invaluable insight about nutrition and fitness. It’s a long way to go but I’m glad that I have at least found “the” path. I’m gradually incorporating some of his principles in my(our) routine, starting with food. He does advocate eating meat (and at least eggs for vegetarians) which is not an option for our family (although I’m thinking of including eggs for my kids), so I’m trying to stick to his other rules, the most important being including a lot of vegetables, going easy on grains (including whole grains), avoiding unhealthy oils and simply eating real food.

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When I saw the barley dosa recipe in Champa’s blog I decided to try it immediately because we try to incorporate more whole grains and healthy ingredients in our daily meals. I didn’t have whole grain barley so I used pot barley instead. The dosas came out very good and the only one issue I had was that it was a bit sour.

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