If you are a glowing mom-to-be and thinking of low-cal and healthy ways to fulfill your pregnancy cravings, you have come to the right place. We have every option from veg to non-veg, spicy to sweet. We have devised a plan to entice you with apple crisps, crispy chicken, sprouts cutlets and more. Stop drooling and read on... Don't Miss! 10 Indian Appetisers for a Crunchy Evenining Read iDiva for the latest in Bollywood, fashion looks, beauty and lifestyle news.
Apple Cinnamon Crisps Ingredients: 2 apples, deseeded and thinly sliced Method: 1. Soak the apple slices in lime juice.
100 ml lime juice
½ tsp cinnamon powder
2. Sprinkle the cinnamon powder on the apple slices.
3. Preheat the Philips Air Fryer at 120 degree Celsius.
4. Place the apple slices in the Fryer’s basket.
5. Let them cook for five-seven minutes and then check. If they have browned and turned crispy, they are ready to be served. If not, let them cook for another three-five minutes.
6. Keep them stored in an air tight container.
Sprouts Cutlet Ingredients: 2 medium-sized potatoes, peeled and boiled Method: 1. Mash the potatoes and add sprouts, fresh coriander, salt, cashews and corn flour. Mix well.
100 gms sprouts
Handful of fresh coriander, chopped
Salt to taste
8-10 cashews, coarsely chopped
1 tbsp corn flour
100 gms bread crumbs
Cooking oil as per requirement.
2. Now make small balls and gently press them to form cutlets that are around one inch in length and half centimeter in thickness.
3. Keep the bread crumbs in a bowl and gently coat the cutlets with the crumbs. Brush some oil on the cutlets.
4. Preheat the Philips Air Fryer at 180 degree Celsius.
5. Place the cutlets in the basket and let them cook for 10-15 minutes till they turn a lovely golden brown.
6. Serve with tomato ketchup.
Chicken Toast Sandwich Ingredients: 150 gms chicken breast, boiled and shredded Method: 1. Put the chicken pieces in a bowl.
1 green capsicum, finely chopped
½ onion, finely chopped
Mayonnaise as required
Bread slices of your choice
Butter
Salt and pepper to taste
Toothpick
2. Add onion, capsicum, salt, pepper and two teaspoons of mayonnaise. You can add more or less mayonnaise. It is required to bind these ingredients.
3. Spread butter on the bread slices and place the chicken mix to make sandwiches.
4. Now insert a toothpick on each sandwich so that they stand steady. Apply some more butter on the bread.
5. Preheat the Airfryer at 180 degree Celsius.
6. Place the sandwiches in the basket and let them cook for five minutes.
7. Serve with ketchup.
Stuffed Button Mushrooms Ingredients: 200 gms mushroom Method: 1. Separate the stems from mushrooms.
30 gms butter
20 gms garlic
20 gms coriander Leaves
1 egg, beaten
50 gms breadcrumbs
Olive oil for brushing
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Toothpicks a few
2. To the butter add finely chopped coriander, finely chopped garlic, finely chopped mushroom stems, salt and pepper. Mix well.
3. Stuff the mushroom caps with this mixture. Join two caps together and secure with a tooth pick.
4. Dip each piece in beaten egg and roll them in breadcrumbs.
5. Preheat the Airfryer at 200 degree Celsius. Brush the coated mushrooms with oil and cook for 8-10 minutes at 180 degree Celsius.
6. Serve hot.
Avacado Egg Ingredients: 2 medium sized avocados, halved and deseeded Method: 1. Deseed the avocados and you might want to scrape out a little more of the flesh so that the cracked egg fits in.
1/2 tsp oregano
Salt and pepper to taste
2 eggs
2. Crack the eggs to fit into the pitted avocados.
3. Sprinkle oregano, salt and pepper
4. Preheat the airfryer at 180 degree and cook the avocados with eggs for eight to 10 minutes.
Crispy Sesame Babycorn Ingredients: 6-8 babycorn, boiled Method: 1. In a bowl, mix the tomato puree with onion paste, soya sauce, finely chopped spring onion, corn flour, salt and pepper.
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp white sesame seeds, roasted
1 tomato, pureed
1 onion, ground to a fine paste
2 tsp corn flour
2-3 spring onion greens, finely chopped
1 tsp soya sauce
2. Dip the baby corn in this mixture
3. Take the sesame seeds on a plate and roll each babycorn on these seeds so that they are well coated.
4. Preheat the airfryer at 180 degree and cook the babycorn for 10-15 minutes.
5. Serve with ketchup.
Crispy Chicken Ingredients: 250 gms chicken breasts, boiled cut into roughly one-inch squares Method: 1. In a bowl, mix the honey with lime juice, paprika, salt and pepper. Taste to see if the mixture is too tangy or two sweet. Adjust with lime juice or honey accordingly.
50 gms honey
Juice of one lime
1 tsp paprika
Salt and pepper to taste
50 gms poppy seeds
Toothpicks
2. Marinate the chicken in this mixture for an hour.
3. Insert toothpick into each chicken piece and coat each piece with poppy seeds.
4. Preheat the airfryer at 180 degree and cook the chicken pieces for 10 minutes.
5. Serve hot.
Brocolli Fritters Ingredients: 200 gms broccoli, boiled and finely chopped Method: 1. Take a bowl and put the broccoli, chopped onion, besan powder, red chilli powder, baking powder, coriander and salt.
1 medium-sized onion, finely chopped
100 gms besan powder
½ tsp aamchur powder
½ red chilli powder
½ tsp baking powder
50 gms fresh coriander, finely chopped
Salt to taste
50 ml water
Oil for brushing
2. Add some water and mix. Make sure that the flour binds all the ingredients without being of a pasty consistency. When you lift a small amount of the mixture, the flour shouldn’t drip.
3. Preheat the airfryer at 180 degree and place a foil. Break the mixture into small pieces like pakoras and place them in the basket on the foil. Brush oil on each and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Serve hot.
Masala Sweet Potato Ingredients: 2 medium-sized sweet potato, peeled and cut into wedges Method: 1. Make sure the potato wedges have been dried well so that that they absorb the oil.
Sea salt for taste
Olive oil for brushing
Coarsely ground black pepper
Salt and pepper to taste
2. Coat them with sea salt and pepper as per taste.
3. Preheat the Airfryer at 180 degree celcius.
4. Place a foil in the basket and put the potato wedges on the foil.
5. Brush with olive oil and cook for 10 minutes.
6. Serve with ketchup.
Strawberry Sticks Ingredients: 250 gms strawberries, chopped into halves Method: 1. Mix the honey and cinnamon. More On >> Healthy Recipes
½ tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp honey
2 tbsp desiccated coconut
Toothpicks
2. Insert a toothpick into a strawberry piece and dip it into the honey mix.
3. Roll it over the desiccated coconut.
4. Keep it on a foil and repeat with the remaining.
5. Preheat the Airfryer at 180 degree celcius
6. Place the foil full of strawberries in the basket and let it cook for 5 minutes of till the coconut turns slightly brown.
7. Serve with chocolate sauce.
If you are a glowing mom-to-be and thinking of low-cal and healthy ways to fulfill your pregnancy cravings, you have come to the right place. We have every option from veg to non-veg, spicy to sweet. We have devised a plan to entice you with apple crisps, crispy chicken, sprouts cutlets and more. Stop drooling and read on...
Don't Miss! 10 Indian Appetisers for a Crunchy Evenining
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