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(205)Immunity booster Tea

Ingredients

  • 2 cup water.
  • ½ inch grated Turmeric or ¼ tsp. Turmeric powder
  • ½ inch grated Ginger or ¼ tsp. Ginger powder.
  • 1 freshly ground Cardamom with skin
  • 1 freshly ground clove
  • 2 freshly ground Black pepper.
  • ¼ inch freshly crushed Cinnamon stick.
  • 1 freshly cut Bay leaf.

Method

  1. In tea pan mix water with all dry ingredients.
  2. Boil for 5 minutes.
  3. Strain and serve hot.
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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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( 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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(31) Tomato Soup.

Serves 4, 150 ml each

Ingredients:

  • 3 medium size tomatoes.
  • 4 Drumsticks 3 inches each.
  • 1 Carrot 6 inches long.
  • 500 ml Water.
  • 2 tsp. Salt.
  • 2 tbsp. Sugar.
  • 1 tsp. black pepper powder.

Tempering ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp.Butter or Ghee.
  • 1 tsp. Jeera.
  • ½ inch cinnamon stick.
  • 2 Cloves

Method:

  1. Pressure cook all vegetables in 200 ml water. Add salt, sugar and black pepper. Cook upto 3 whistles.
  2. After pressure release, open the cooker and cool the things completely.
  3. Scrape pulp from drumstick with the help of spoon and discard skins.
  4. Blend all the vegetables in blender and strain with the help of strainer. Add water to to make required quantity.
  5. Boil soup for 5 mins. Side by side heat tempering vessel on slow flame and add butter . Once butter melt add cumin. After crackling sound add cinnamon and clove. Pour this tempered mixture in soup and boil for 1 more min. Serves hot.
  6. Serve your soup with handavo,khichadi biryani or as you want. Serve with love and smile
  7. You can also have during sickness .As drumsticks contains all nine essential amino acids, tomatoes are rich in fibers, lycopene, minerals and vitamins B and C and carrots are rich in minerals and vitamins A, D, E and K.

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(19) Rasawala Moong

Green gram curry

serves 4 150 ml .each

Ingredients

1 bowl (100 gms.) green gram( moong)

2 tsp.salt

4 garcinia( kokum)

2 inch size jaggery ( gud) ball

1/2 inch grated ginger

Tampering (tadka) ingredients:

1tbsp. oil,1/4 tsp.mustard(rai) seeds, pinch of Asafoetida (hing) 1/4 tsp.jeera( cumin),8-10 fenugreek ( methi),1 red chilli halved and deseed ,5-6 curry leaves,1 tsp. washed finely chopped coriander (dhaniapatti)leaves

Dry spices(masala)

1/2 tsp. turmeric (haldi),1tsp.CorianderCumin( dhaniajeera) pd.,1/2 tsp. red chilli ( lal mirchi)pd.

Method:

1) Wash moong for 3 times, add 3 bowl water and pressure cook upto 3 whistles.

2) When pressure cooker cool down ,check that moong is tender. If uncooked,cook again for 3 more whistles.

3) In cooked tender moong add all ingredients and 1 bowl water except tadka ingredients.

4) Boil on slow flame for 5 mins.

5) Put tadka pan side by side with slow flame after adding oil . Add rai and wait for crackling sound then add jeera and methi,hing,chilli,curry leaves and coriander leaves.

6) Boil for 2 mins. and Rasawala moong is ready.

7) Enjoy with fulka roti ,wheat bhakhri,paratha,kulcha,jowar roti,bajari roti and /or rice

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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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(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.

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