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soup

(249)Drumstick Soup

Ingredients

  • 2 Drumsticks
  • 8 Almonds
  • 2 Coconut cubes
  • 1 tsp. Salt
  • 1 tsp. Black pepper powder
  • ½ inch Ginger piece.
  • 8-10 Mint leaves (Phudina pan)
  • 3 cups water.

Method

  1. Cut Drumsticks into small pieces. In a pressure cooker gather all ingredients and add 1 cup water.
  2. Pressure cook up to 2 whistles.
  3. When pressure releases open the lid and add the remaining amount of water.
  4. Scrape all drumstick pieces with the help of a spoon and discard skins of it.
  5. Make a paste of soaked Almonds, coconut cubes, Ginger and Mint leaves.
  6. Blend the Drumstick contents with paste of remaining ingredients with the help of the hand blender. Strain the content with the help of the strainer.
  7. Put the content ( Drumstick soup) on high flame and give 2 – 3 boils. Turn off and serve hot with love and smile.

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Home remedies Quick Cooking Tips Spices

(89) Jeera powder

Ingredients

1 cup Cumin seeds (Jeera).

Method

  • Grind jeera into powder.
  • Use this powder for sprinkling in Buttermilk, Curd of dahi vada, Jeera rice etc.
  • Use raw jeera for preparing jeera powder instead of roasted as raw jeera is more healthier than roasted.
  • Generally you will get coarse powder of raw jeera.
  • if you want fine jeera powder than dry roast jeera. wait for cool down and then grind.
Jeera powder
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onepot recipe

(70) Kanki- Ghes

Rice Porridge

Ingredients

  • 1 cup broken rice( kanki)
  • 4 cups water.
  • 2 cups curd ( if sour then 1 cup).
  • Tempering ingredients.
  • 3 tsp salt.

Tempering ingredients

  • 3 tbsp. ghee.
  • 1 tsp. cumin seeds(jeera).
  • 3 cloves( lavang)
  • ½ inch Cinnamon stick (Dalchini).
  • 8-10 curry leaves.
  • 3 less spicy green chilis breaks into two.

Method:

  1. Wash broken rice for one time with gentle hand.( hard and over washing of broken rice looses nutrition). Keep aside for 30 mins.
  2. In deep pot heat ghee for tempering.
  3. Once ghee heat up add cumin and wait for crackling sound. Now add Cloves, Cinnamon, Curry leaves and green chilies.
  4. Add Water in it and wait for one boil.
  5. Add washed broken rice and salt,stir and give one more boil. Now add 1 cup whisked curd and mix thoroughly.
  6. Put this pot in pressure cooker and cover the lid.
  7. Cook rice porridge upto 5 whistles.
  8. Open cooker lid once it cool down and mix remaining cup of curd and serves hot with Celery soup or Tomato soup,Papad and Sweet Lemon Pickle, Gol keri.
  9. Serve with love and smile.
Broken rice – kanki
Rice porridge pot in cooker
Removed green chilies and curry leaves
Rice porridge ( Ghes)
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cold drink Health Drinks

(45) Amla Squash

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp. Amla Murabba.
  • 250 ml. Water.
  • Salt as per taste.
  • 2-3 finely chopped Mint (Phudina) leaves.
  • 2 tbsp. ice crystals.
  • 1 tsp.lemon juice( optional)

Method:

  1. In one glass add crushed ice and Mint leaves.
  2. Add amla Murabba ,salt and water and mix it.
  3. Enjoy Amla Squash as it is or you can strain and use.
  4. If you want tangy taste then add lemon juice.
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Healthy food Quick Cooking Tips Rejuvenating food

(35) Amla Murabba

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg. Amla.
  • 1 kg. Sugar or 1 kg finely chopped Jeggary.
  • 15-20 Saffron strands.
  • 5-7 Cloves.
  • 5-7 Cinnamon sticks ½ inches long.
  • ½ tsp. Cardamom powder.

Methods

  1. Wash and wipe good quality Amlas .
  2. Keep all Amlas in pressure cooker and pour 2 cups of water in it.
  3. Cooks up to 3 whistles
  4. Pressure releases ,open cooker and strain water from the cooker. Preserve this water for making Amla squash.
  5. Deseed them and mash with potato masher throughly. Remove hard visible fibers from the pulp.
  6. In thick deep sauce pan mix pulp and sugar throughly.
  7. On high flame ,stir continuously for 10 mins.
  8. Turn flame slow and add cardamom powder, cloves and cinnamon sticks. Crush saffron strands with finger and thumb and add in pulp.
  9. Stir continuously for 5 more min. on slow flame.
  10. Turn off the flame and Amla Murabba is ready.
  11. Bottled murabba once it cools completely.
  12. You can store upto one year and enjoy with your food, bread, bhakhri, paratha, roti or as a medicine ,one tbsp. twice a day .

Amla is super food and rejuvenates  your body.

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( 33) Khichadi

serves 2, 150 -200 gms.each

Ingredients:

  • ½ cup Rice(chawal preferably Parimal also known as Patna rice)
  • ¼ cup Moong dal (Mung beans)  (split green which contains more fibre or yellow which is easy to digest).
  • ¼ cup Masoor dal( split red lentils).
  • 2 tbsp. Tur dal (split pegion pea) .
  • 3 ½ cups water.

Tips:

Requirements of water varies by types of vessels you use to cook khichadi

  • 4 cups water if khichadi in direct pressure cooker .
  • 3½ cups if khichadi in steel pot  in cooker.
  • 4½ cups water if khichadi in sauce pan or kadhai.

Dry masala:

  • 2½ tsp.salt
  • 1 tsp.turmeric pd.
  • 1 tsp.black pepper pd.
  • or
  • 1 tsp. red chilli pd.

Tempering ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp.ghee.
  • 1/2 tsp. mustard(rai)
  • 2 cloves.
  • 1/2 inch cinnamon stick.Asafoetida (hing).
  • ⅛ tsp.Asafoetida (hing).

Method:

  1. In one big steel pot mix all dals and rice .Wash and drain  3 times  with water .
  2. Add 6 &1/2 cups water and all dry ingredients.
  3. Side by side heat tempering vessel and add ghee. Once ghee melts,add mustard seeds and wait for crackling sound. Add cloves , asafoetida and cinnamon . Pour this mixture in khichadi pot. Stir the mixture in pot .
  4. Place this pot in pressure cooker. Cover the pot with lid and close pressure cooker. Pressure  cook upto 4 whistles.
  5. Open cooker after  pressure releases and serves hot and pour 1 tsp. ghee per  plate. khichadi with Soup,tameta nu shak, papad and pickle.
  6. Serve hot khichadi with Soup,tameta nu shak, papad and pickle.

This is a simple type of khichadi which is healthy and yummy too but you can make more rich and spicy by adding different ingredients like onion and garlic and mixing some vegetables.

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My recipes Teas

(12) Cumin seeds Tea

Jeera water

Ingredients

Jeera( cumin)   1 tbsp.

Water. 500 ml.

Method

1) In a big vessel add jeera in water.

2) Boil this for 10 mins.

3) Serve this healthy jeera tea every day and  especially suffering from acidity as jeera is alkaline in nature will reduce acidity. Jeera water also helps to reduce burning sensation during urination. Serve with love and smile.

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