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Stevia Recipes,
Cooking and Baking with Stevia
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Iced Lemon /
Ginger Tea
Ginger Tea
Iced Lemon / Ginger Tea Ingredients
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¼ tea spoon stevia
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2 tea bags
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½ litre water
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juice of 2 large lemons
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2 table spoon fresh ginger juice
Serving Size 3 portions
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Bring water to boil in a pot
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Add tea bags
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Let it cool and remove tea bags
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Add citrus juice
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Grate a chunk of
fresh ginger.
Gather the
gratings in your
fist and squeeze
the juice into
the pot
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Refrigerate for
at least one
hour to allow
flavours to meld
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Banana Muffins
Ingredients
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½ cup oil
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2 eggs
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1/3 cup yogurt
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1 large ripe banana (mashed)
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2 tea spoon stevia extract
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½ tea spoon vanilla essence
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1 ½ cup flour (maida)
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½ tea spoon baking soda
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1 tea spoon baking powder
Serves 12 muffins
Method :
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Oil muffins tins.
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Beat the oil and eggs in a mixing bowl,
add yogurt, mashed banana, stevia and
vanilla essence.
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Sift flour, baking soda & baking powder,
add to the liquid mixture and beat until
smooth.
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Spoon into muffins tins and bake for 30
minutes.
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Gajar Ka Halwa
Gajar Ka Halwa
Ingredients
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2 kg Carrots
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1 ¼ spoon stevia
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2 table spoon raisins
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2 table spoon crushed cashew
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250g khoya
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1 table spoon ghee
Serves 8
Method :
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Grate 2kg pre washed and peeled carrots
and put them in the cooker to boil, do
not add any water as carrots have a lot
of natural water.
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Give two whistles in the cooker and
remove them from heating and put the
carrots in the karhai.
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Let the natural water in carrots
evaporate, thus process would take 15-20
minutes. Once all the water in carrots
has evaporated add a table spoon of ghee
and let the carrots remain on heat for
another 5 minutes so that carrots do not
stick to the karhai anymore.
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Take khoya divide it into 2 parts and
grate one part and add to the carrots.
Add stevia and keep on heating and
sifting for at least 5 minutes.
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Then remove from heat and add the rest
of khoya crumbled into pieces. Let the
chunks of the second half of khoya
remain in the halwa.
Serve hot.
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Sweet and Sour
Vegetables
Sweet and Sour Vegetables
Ingredients
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8-10 tomatoes
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2 carrots diced
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1 large capsicum
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100g beans
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100g cauliflower
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100g balry corn
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100g broccoli
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½ tea spoon stevia
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2 table spoon white vinegar
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1 tea spoon soya sauce
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½ tea spoon chilli sauce
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Salt to taste
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Crushed pepper to taste
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2 tea spoon cornflour
Serves 8
Method:
Boil 8-10 large tomatoes, blend them and
sieve them. Make smooth puree out of it.
Cut capsicum into 1 inch by one inch
pieces, beans into one inch long pieces,
cauliflower into small floweret's. Cut
each baby corn into half and then into
pieces of one inch each, broccoli into
small flowerets & dice carrots. Put the
cut vegetables into the puree and give
one whistle in the cooker and
immediately take the steam off the
cooker and let them be on heat without
the lid.
Add stevia, salt, pepper vinegar, soya
sauce, chilli sauce to it. Make a paste
of cornflour in water and add it to the
above mixture and keep stirring it for 5
minutes. Then remove it from heat and
serve hot.
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Apple Crunch
Ingredients
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4 medium sized apples (½ kg)
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2 tea spoon stevia
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½ tea spoon cinnamon (dalchini) powder
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1 table spoon lemon
Topping
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4 slices bread
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1 table spoon butter
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¾ tea spoon stevia
Method:
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Peel, core and thinly slice the apples.
Sprinkle 1 tea spoon stevia, cinnamon
and lemon juice and mix gently.
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Place the apples in a greased, shallow
oven proof dish.
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For the topping, remove the side crust
from the bread slices and break into
pieces. Place the broken slices in a
mixer and grind to get fine crumbs.
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Melt butter in a non stick pan and add
the fresh bread crumbs and cook on
medium flame till crisp and golden.
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Cover the apples with these crisp
crumbs.
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Sprinkle 1 tea spoon stevia over the
crumbs.
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Cover the dish with aluminum foil and
bake in a preheated oven 200°C for 15
minutes.
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Remove the foil and bake again for 10
minutes.
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Rabri
Ingredients
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1 kg toned milk
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1 slice bread - sides removed & ground
to crumbs in a mixer
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1 ½ tea spoon stevia
Method:
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Place milk in a non stick pan or kadhai
and simmer till reduced to half.
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Add fresh bread crumbs. Cook till rabri
forms. Add stevia and cook for another 5
minutes. Remove from heat.
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Garnish with blanched almonds and
cashews.
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Phirni
Phirni
Ingredients
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½ kg Milk
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3 table spoon basmati rice - soaked for
30 minutes
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1 level tea spoon stevia
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¼ tea spoon cardamom powder
Garnish - 5-6 almonds (soaked in hot
water & peeled and chopped)
Method:
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Soak rice for ½ hour. Drain the water
and blend the rice to smooth paste in a
mixer with 2-3 tbsp milk.
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Boil milk in a heavy bottomed pan.
Remove from heat and add the rice paste,
stirring continuously.
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Return to fire. Cook on low heat for
10-15 minutes till thick.
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Add stevia and cardamom powder and keep
on sun heat for 2-3 minutes.
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Remove from heat and cool.
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Chocolate Mousse
Ingredients
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2 ½ cups toned milk
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2 table spoon cornflour
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3 table spoon cocoa
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1 ½ tea spoons full stevia
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½ teaspoon butter
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2 ½ teaspoon gelatin
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2 cups thick curd - hang for ½ hour in a
muslin cloth and squeeze well to remove
all whey
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1 ½ tea spoon vanilla essence
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2 tea spoon chocolate sauce to garnish
Method:
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Dissolve cornflour in ½ cup warm milk.
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Put cocoa in a heavy bottomed pan. Pour
½ cup water on it and mix. Keep on fire
and stir continuously on low heat, for
about 2 minutes till a dark paste is
ready. Remove from fire.
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Add the rest of the milk to cocoa paste
and mix well using a wire whisk. Mix the
cocoa on the sides of the pan nicely
with the milk.
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Keep on fire. When it starts boiling,
add the dissolved cornflour paste,
stirring continuously. Stir till the
milk turns slightly thick, like custard
and coats the spoon. Add 1 ½ tea spoon
stevia to it heat for another two
minutes and mix in butter. Keep the
chocolate custard aside.
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Sprinkle gelatin on ¼ cup water. Kept in
a small pan, stir on low flame till
gelatin dissolves. Remove from fire and
hot gelatin to the chocolate custard.
Let it cool down.
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Whip the hung curd with a whisk till
smooth. Add essence also.
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Add the curd mix to the cooled chocolate
custard and mix well.
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Check sweetness. If less add ½ spoon
stevia more depending on sourness of
curd.
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Transfer to individual serving cups or a
dish and keep in the fridge for 3-4
hours or till set. Garnish with a swirl
of chocolate sauce.
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Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
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200g flour (maida)
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50g butter
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½ cup water
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1 ¼ teasp baking powder
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1 teaspoon vanilla essence
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40g cocoa
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1 ¼ teaspoon soda
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6 eggs
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3 ½ tea spoon stevia
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100g curd
Method:
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Beat butter stevia & eggs and curd till
light and fluffy.
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Sieve flour, cocoa, baking powder and
soda together.
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Fold into the above mixture.
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Pour into a greased contained and bake
at 200°C for 40 minutes.
COOKING AND BAKING WITH STEVIA
Stevia's excellent stability against pH,
salt and/or high temperature conditions
make it an ideal sugar substitute for
many baking and cooking applications.
The same can not be stated for
aspartame, saccharin and most other
synthetic sweeteners, such as Equal,
NutraSweet and others.
Heat destroys these synthetics, at times
as low as 86° F, or 30° C, leading to
well publicised negative side effects.
This is one of the reasons why the
tastes of artificial sweeteners, once
poured into hot coffee or tea and left
standing, changes significantly. Stevia
is compatible with salts, organic acids
and other natural sweeteners such as
sucrose, molasses, barley malt, honey,
fructose and sorbitol. It does not
ferment, colour or precipitate. It can
be used in appetisers and beverages,
soups, salads and vegetables, breads and
rolls, casseroles, pies and pastries.
However, Stevia does not work well with
yeast breads which need the "body of
sugar" to rise. One should experiment to
find out the right combination of Stevia
(for sweeteners) and sugar (for the
rising effect) to create delicious low
sugar breads and pastries.
COOKING
Sweta is the ideal sugar substitute to
use when cooking and baking, as it is
heat stable to 200 degrees Celsius (392
degrees Fahrenheit) and non-fermentable.
Benefits Sweta-derived product in
one's diet :
* Sugarless with no calories
* Will not effect blood sugar levels like sugar
does
* 100% natural
* 150 times sweeter than sugar?
* Flavour enhancer
* Plaque retardant and prevents cavities
* Recommended for diabetics
* Non Toxic
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