Healthy Gopalkala for Janmashtami

Hello all you smiley faces. I hope you all are doing great. Janmashtami is just around the corner so today I am going to share with you a very simple and quick recipe to welcome Lord Krishna. The best thing about this recipe is that it requires no cooking at all. So let’s get started, shall we?

   

Ingredients:

1. 3 cups of Jowar Lahi

2. ½ cup poha

3. ¼ - 1/3 cup apple (diced)

4. ¼ - 1/3 cup cucumber (diced)

5. ¼ - 1/3 cup pomegranate seeds

6. 2-3 medium sized green chillies (finely chopped)

7. 1 tsp. chana dal (soaked for 3-4 hours)

8. 6-7 tbsp. yogurt

9. Salt to taste

Procedure:

1. Mix lahi and poha in a large bowl.

2. Add in apple, cucumber and pomegranate seeds.

3. Add chana dal and chopped green chillies.

4. Add salt to taste and mix well.

5. Add yogurt, 1 tbsp. at a time and keep on mixing the gopalkala. Adjust the consistency as per your taste. The gopalkala shouldn’t be too dry and it should not have too much yogurt either.

6. You can serve it just like that or keep it in the refrigerator for half an hour before serving it.

I just love this sweet and sour recipe. It is a very healthy, yummy and colourful power packed snack. Jowar lahi has lots of carbohydrates and proteins whereas Poha is a very good source of iron. Yogurt, a different form of Lord Krishna’s favourite makkhan, is a great source of protein. Pomegranate is a great source of vitamin C whereas my favourite cucumber is a low fat vegetable packed with many types of vitamins as well as iron, potassium, calcium, etc. Do I really need to say anything about apple, the fruit that keeps doctor away? :D

Friends, I really hope you give this healthy version of gopalkala, a try. Let me know in the comments whether you like it or not. Goodbye my dear friends and I will see you soon. Until then Keep Smiling. Please do follow my blog, like the facebook page. (https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Happy-Girl/292903830872974?ref_type=bookmark) and follow me on twitter (https://twitter.com/A_Happy_Girl2). If you have any suggestions or questions, please comment below.