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Categories
salads

(77) Lila lasan nu kachumber

Ingredients

  • Green garlic 100 gms.
  • ½ tsp ghee.
  • ½ tsp cunin
  • ⅓ tsp salt.

Method

  • Seperate white hairy roots from the garlic pods.
  • Wash thoroughly and finely chopped green leaves as well as garlic pods.
  • Heat ghee and cumin seeds in saucepan.
  • After crackling sound add freshly chopped materíal in it.
  • Saute for 2 minutes.
  • Add salt.
  • Accompanied with roti,paratha and rotla or as your desire.
  • Serve with love and smile.
Categories
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.
Categories
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
Categories
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.