Adding nuts to your daily diet can improve health. Here are some nutritious delights with the goodness of almonds and walnuts. Celebrity chef Vicky Ratnani suggests almond recipes:
‘Eating nuts can help reduce risk factors for many chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.’
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Makhnee Masala Almonds: Serves 3
Ingredients:
- Almonds - 60g
- Salt - to taste
- Olive oil- 5ml
- Makhnee Gravy Masala (dry) 1 and a half tsp
Rasam Spiked Almonds
Ingredients
- Almonds - 60g
- Sea Salt- 1tsp
- Olive oil- 5ml
- Coriander seeds - 1tbsp
- Dry red chilies- 2
- Toor (arhar) dal- 1 tbsp
- Bengal gram(channa dal) - 1tbsp
- Black peppercorns - 1 tbsp
- Cumin seeds (jeera) - 1 tbsp
- Toast the almonds with sea salt and olive oil. Set aside.
- In the same pan, dry roast the red chilli, channa dal and toor dal on a medium flame until the dals are golden in colour.
- Transfer to a plate to cool.
- Roast the coriander seeds and pepper until fragrant. Add the jeera at the end, and roast it till it starts popping. Let all the ingredients cool completely.
- Powder them to a fine powder in a mixer and it to the almonds and then store in an airtight container.
Celebrity Chef Sabyasachi Gorai, on behalf of California Walnuts, has curated walnut recipes:
Tropical mango, walnut and turmeric smoothie bowl
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- Flesh from half a mango (reserving a few slices to garnish)
- 1 small piece of fresh turmeric
- Half a banana
- 200 ml coconut milk
- 8 walnut halves
- 1 passion fruit
- 1 tbsp of coconut flakes
- A handful of raspberries and blueberries
- Squeeze of lime juice (plus a little zest to garnish)
- Place the mango, turmeric, banana and coconut milk into a blender and blitz until smooth
- Add lime juice to taste and blend again until combined.
- Pour the smoothie into a bowl and garnish with the reserved mango, berries, walnuts, passion fruit, lime zest and coconut flakes.
Ingredients
- 300 g of the flesh of a mango
- 800 g of natural, sugar-free yogurt
- 40 ml of milk
- 4 ice cubes
- 1/4 teaspoon of cardamom
- 60 g walnuts
- Grind the mango together with half of walnuts, the yogurt, the milk, the ice cubes and the ground cardamom.
- If the mixture is too thick, can add water or milk until the desired consistency is achieved.
- Pour the mango lassi into four bowls and decorate with the rest of the California walnuts, some of them grated, grated cocoa, sheets of mango and ground cardamom.
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