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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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Hot Drinks

(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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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.

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My recipes Teas

(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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Health Drinks Hot Drinks My recipes

(05) Kadha (Immunity booster)

Kadha or kadho is a traditional Indian drink, often consumed as a chai or tea and is considered to be effective against cough and cold and seasonal flu. Made with Indian herbs and spices, Kadha is a natural immunity booster and is said to be the best remedy against fever and sore throat. It also cures cough and is loaded with antioxidants.

Serves 4  (200 ml.) each

Ingredients

  • 800 ml. Water .
  • 4 tbsp. Sugar.
  • ½ tsp. Ginger powder ( Sunth).
  • ½ tsp. Pipramul powder (Ganthoda).
  • ½ tbsp. Cumin seeds ( Jeera)
  • ¼ tbsp. Carom seeds (Ajwain)
  • ¼ tsp. Cardamom powder (Elaichi).
  • 8-10 strands of Saffron ( Kesar).Pinched and crushed with finger and thumb. Only during cold season.
  • ⅛ tsp Cinnamon powder.
  • 2 Cloves powder
  • 8- 10 Holy Basil leaves

Method:

1) Take water in big vessel

2) Add all ingredients , stir and put it on fast flame

3) Stir occasionally and boil it like tea

4) Switch off flame after 5 mins of boiling

5) Serve this kadha every day morning, afternoon or at bedtime in Monsoon ,Winter or during corona or in throat infection, allergy due to seasonal changes, flu, cough, cold. No need to strain. Serve with love and smile.

Gujarati Kadha (Tasty Water)

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