Category: Winter tonic food

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Health Drinks Home remedies Hot Drinks Winter tonic food

(259)Ukalo

Milk Kadha

Ingredients

Method

  1. Wash and pluck holy basil leaves and mint leaves from its stalk and keep aside.
  2. Wash lemongrass leaf and cut it into small pieces and keep aside.
  3. Wash and grate ginger and keep aside.
  4. In mortar mortar and pestle break all dry ingredients into small pieces.
  5. In a saucepan boil water with dry as well as green ingredients for 5 minutes on slow flame. If you have ukalo ready mix powder then use 1 tsp. ready mix powder in 2 cups along with green ingredients like Basil, Lemongrass and Phudina and do not use ginger with ready mix as it contains Ginger powder.
  6. After 5 minutes add milk and sugar and again give 4- 5 boils on slow flame.
  7. Serve hot with dry snacks like namakpare, sakkarpara or as you wish

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Healthy food Rejuvenating food Winter tonic food

(47) Chavanprash

Ingredients:

  • 1kg Amla.
  • 1 kg Sugar or Jeggary or 500 gms Jeggary and 500 gms date’s pulp.
  • Spice powder.
  • 1cup Basil leaves.
  • 1 cup ghee.

Ingredients for spice powder:

  • 2 Bay leaves(tej patta).
  • 2 inches Cinnamon Stick (Dalchini)
  • 20 gms. Dry Ginger powder (Sunth).
  • 20 gms. Bamboo silica( Vanshlochan).
  • 20 gms. Long peppers ( Pipri).
  • 10 gms. Naag kesar.
  • 10 gms. Nutmeg (Jaiphal).
  • 15 pcs. Green cardamom ( Choti elaichi).
  • 10 gms. Black pepper ( kalamiri)
  • 10 gms. Cloves (lavang).
  • 10 gms. Brahmin powder.
  • 2tbsp. Cumin( jeera)
  • 2 tbsp. Fennel( Saunf).
  • 10 gms. Shatavari powder.
  • 10 gms. Punarnava powder.
  • 10 gms Ashvagandha powder.

All dry ingredients you will get either from grocery shop or from Ayurvedic store.

Method:

  1. Make a smooth paste of Basil leaves and keep aside.All dry ingredients except which are in powder form, grind it into fine powder. Sieves all dry ingredients and keep aside.
  2. Wash and wipe good quality Amlas .
  3. Keep all Amlas in pressure cooker and pour 2 cups of water in it.
  4. Cooks up to 3 whistles.
  5. Pressure releases ,open cooker and strain water from the cooker. Preserve this water for making Amla squash ( sharbat)
  6. Deseed them and make pulp in mixture.
  7. Melt ghee in thick deep sauce pan on slow flame and mix amla pulp and Basil pulp .Stir continuously for 2-3 mins.on high flame.
  8. Add Sugar or finely chopped Jeggary or mixture of jaggery and date’s pulp and mix thoroughly .
  9. On high flame ,stir continuously for 10 mins.
  10. Add spice Powder and continue stir for 5 more mins. on slow flame.
  11. Chavanprash is ready now.
  12. Improve your immunity by having one teaspoon of chavanprash every morning with hot plain milk, masala milk or turmeric milk
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Sweets Winter tonic food

(46) Golpapdi

Sukhadi

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup tightly filled wheat flour
  • ¾ cup melted ghee.
  • ½ cup finely chopped jaggery.
  • 1 tbsp white sesame seeds.
  • Ghee for greasing plate.

Method:

  1. Grease the 9 inches plate well with ghee to set the golpapdi.
  2. Heat non-stick kadhai or thick sauce pan with ghee on slow flame.
  3. Once ghee slightly hot,add flour and mix with spatula. It will be like thick lumpy paste.
  4. Roast flour on slow flame till it becomes airy and light with two shade darker then flour and aromatic.
  5. As soon as flour is roasted ,turn off the flame and add sesame seeds and jaggery .
  6. It will melt , quickly mix it and pour into greased plate.
  7. Spread quickly and even out the surface by gliding movement with the help of small steel dish .
  8. Let it cool down slightly,While it is still warm slice into desire shape ( square or dimond) and size.
  9. Remove each piece very gently and serves either warm or cold.
Golpapdi

In winter for making simplest winter tonic food add 1 tbsp.dry ginger powder and 1 cup mixed dryfruit powder like Almond, Cashew, Pistachio and walnut. Add ½ cup extra finely chopped Jaggery and ¼ cup melted ghee or as required. At the time of mixing jaggery after swich off flame add all above ingredients.