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(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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(258) Ukalo Ready Mix

Dry spices powder for ukalo

Ingredients

Method

  1. In mortar and pestle break each dry spice separately into small particles. keep aside.
  2. cut bay leaves into small pieces.
  3. Please do not remove the skin of the cardamom.
  4. Now in the jar of mixture grind all the spices together into fine  powder.
  5. Strain with the strainer and store in an air tight glass jar. Please do not store it in a plastic jar as  aromatic oil from condiments and plasticiser in plastic containers are found to react with each other.
  6. Ideally use 1 tsp. of spice mix in 2 cups of liquid but if you like strong aroma and taste then you can use more.

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Home remedies

(76) Sunth ni goli

Ingredients

  • ½ cup Dry Ginger Powder.
  • ¾ cup finely chopped Jaggary.
  • 1½ tbsp melted ghee.

Method:

  1. In mixing bowl mix all three ingredients thoroughly.
  2. Make round small ladoo with ½ tbsp size spoon .
  3. Consume 1 sunth goli every day 1st thing in morning after drinking 1 cup of plain hot water.
  4. Sunth goli is very effective in this pandemic situation. It is also helps in cough and cold.
  5. Serve with love and smile.
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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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soup

(69) Celery Soup

Serves 4 (250 ml.each)

Ingredients

  • 1 cup chopped fresh celery stems with leaves.
  • 3 medium size tomatoes.
  • 2 tsp. salt.
  • 1 tsp. Sugar.
  • 250 ml water for cooking.
  • 750 ml more water.
  • 1 tsp. black pepper powder.

Method

  1. In a saucepan , add Celery, tomatoes, salt, sugar and water. Keep this pot in pressure cooker .
  2. Cook upto 3 whistles and switch off the flame.
  3. After pressure releases open the cooker lid . Strain excess water which is a clear stock or broth, keep it aside and blend the contents in the blender.
  4. Strain the blend by continuously stirring and adding broth.
  5. Add extra water to it for making 1 liter soup.
  6. Give 2-3 boils to soup after adding black pepper powder.
  7. Celery soup is ready. Serves hot.
  8. Serve soup with handavo, khichadi, pulao, Kanki-ghes or as your desire. Serve with love and smile.

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(48) Turmeric Milk

Serves 2. 250 ml each.

Ingredients:

  • Milk 500 ml.
  • ¼ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • ⅛ tsp. Carom seeds(Ajwain)(optional).
  • ½ tsp.Ghee(optional).
  • 2 tsp. Sugar (optional).

Method:

  1. Heat milk and sugar up to boiling.
  2. Side by side heat tempering vessel with ghee.
  3. Once ghee melts add carom seeds.
  4. As soon as crackling sounds starts ,pour it into milk.
  5. Give one more boil and turmeric milk is ready.
  6. Ideally to be served hot as it is or first strain and then serve.
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(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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(43) Green Gram Soup

Moong Osaman

Serves 2 150 ml.each

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup whole Moong.
  • 300 ml. Water
  • ½ inch grated ginger
  • 2 halved lengthwise and deseeded green chillies.
  • OR
  • ½ tsp. Black pepper powder.
  • 2 tsp.fresh lemon juice.
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • ½ tsp.turmeric powder.
  • 1 tsp. Sugar.
  • 1 tsp finely chopped coriander.

Tempering Ingredients

  • ½ tbsp. Ghee.
  • 1 tsp. Cumin(jeera).
  • 2 Cloves.
  • ½ inch Cinnamon stick.
  • 5-6 Curry leaves.
  • 1 pinch Asafoetida.

Method

  1. Wash and rinse moong 3 times ,add 300 ml water , place moong pot in pressure cooker and cook upto 3 whistles.
  2. After pressure releases,bland moong in blander and strain with the help of strainer.
  3. Add all spices in moong soup and boil on slow flame. Side by side heat tempering vessel and ghee in it. Add cumin( jeera) and wait for cracking .After crackling sound add Clove, Cinnamon, Asafoetida and curry leaves.
  4. Boil for 5 more minutes . Serves hot. Enjoy with steamed rice, pulao, biryani , khichadi, dalia or whole alone as diet food.
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(16) Lemon Juice Cubes

Ingredients

Per cube: 1/2 tbsp. lemon juice

Juicy lemons

Method:

1)Buy 25 good quality, juicy,thin skinned yellow lemons.

2) Wash and wipe all lemons with nepkin.

3 ) Squeeze all lemons with the help of a squeezer. Please don’t throw squeezed lemon skins. you can prepare lemon peel pickle from it.

4) Strain lemon juice with the help of strainer .

5) Fill pop up ice tray with this juice and freeze for 8-10 hrs.

6) After 10 hrs.pop up all lemon cubes and store in air tight container.

7) Keep this container in freezer .Cubes will remain fresh for about 6 months.

8) whenever you want to use lemon, quickly you can use these cubes. It helps in hot summer when good lemons are unavailable.

9) Please be quick while unmoulding cubes and filling container with cubes.

Lemon juice cubes
Squeezed lemons with salt for pickle

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(13) Herbal Tea

Serves 2. 250 ml.each

Ingredients

water. 500 ml.

Basil(Tulsi) Leaves. 8-10

Lemon grass. 15-20 pcs

Mint (Phudina) Leaves 8-10

Ginger grated 1/2 inch

Method:

1) In one big vessel mix all ingredients and boil for 10 mins.

2) Herbal tea is ready. Add 2 tsp. honey(optional) and squeeze 1/2 lemon in 500 ml. tea.

3) Enjoy your herbal tea with some cookies, sweet shakarpare,salty biscuits, salty namakpare ,mathri or puri.

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