Tag: tonic

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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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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.