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(35) Amla Murabba

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg. Amla.
  • 1 kg. Sugar or 1 kg finely chopped Jeggary.
  • 15-20 Saffron strands.
  • 5-7 Cloves.
  • 5-7 Cinnamon sticks ½ inches long.
  • ½ tsp. Cardamom powder.

Methods

  1. Wash and wipe good quality Amlas .
  2. Keep all Amlas in pressure cooker and pour 2 cups of water in it.
  3. Cooks up to 3 whistles
  4. Pressure releases ,open cooker and strain water from the cooker. Preserve this water for making Amla squash.
  5. Deseed them and mash with potato masher throughly. Remove hard visible fibers from the pulp.
  6. In thick deep sauce pan mix pulp and sugar throughly.
  7. On high flame ,stir continuously for 10 mins.
  8. Turn flame slow and add cardamom powder, cloves and cinnamon sticks. Crush saffron strands with finger and thumb and add in pulp.
  9. Stir continuously for 5 more min. on slow flame.
  10. Turn off the flame and Amla Murabba is ready.
  11. Bottled murabba once it cools completely.
  12. You can store upto one year and enjoy with your food, bread, bhakhri, paratha, roti or as a medicine ,one tbsp. twice a day .

Amla is super food and rejuvenates  your body.

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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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(18)Sweet chutney

Red chutney, Khajur Amli chutney

Ingredients

  • 500 gms. Red Dates.( lal khajur)
  • 100 gms. Tamarind (Imli)
  • 250 gms. Jaggery (Gud)
  • 2 tbsp. Salt.
  • ¼ tsp. Asafoetida (Hing).
  • 2 tbsp. Coriander Cumin powder.
  • 2 tbsp. Red chilli powder.

Method:

1) Wash khajoor and imli

2) In steel vessel add all ingredients and 2 bowl (200 ml) water and pressure cook upto 4 whistles

3) After cooker cools down, deseed khajoor and imli.

4) Transfer all the ingredients in grinder and make a smooth paste of pouring consistency. Strain this mixture with the help of strainer.

5) Boil this chutney mixture for 5 mins.stir continuously.

6) After tasting chutney ,bottle it in air tight container or make a cubes in pop up ice tray.

7) If you keep in fridge, chutney will taste good upto 1 month. Chutney cubes in freezer lasts for 3 months.

8) Enjoy your sweet chutney with chats,vada,pakoda,chilla etc.

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(17) Green Chutney

Ingredients

  • 5 cups washed,finely chopped coriander.
  • 5 green chillies. If you want more spicy then add more chillies.
  • 1cup washed mint leaves
  • 2tbsp.bhuna channa dal( roasted gram) or khara singdana ( roasted salty peanuts) if you want to use with farali dish.
  • 3 tbsp. lemon juice.
  • Salt to taste.
  • 1 tsp. sugar.

Method:

1)In a mixture jar grind bhuna chana dal and keep aside.

2) In jar add all ingredients except bhuna chana dal pd. and make a smooth paste by adding 100 ml. chilled water.

3) Now mix bhuna chana pd. and again churn the paste one more time.

4) Green chutney is ready,taste it once and now fill pop up ice tray with chutney. Freeze it for 8-10 hrs.

5) Unmould chutney cubes and keep it in air tight container and again freeze it.

6) Use these chutney cubes by defrosting whenever you needed

7) Enjoy you green chutney in sandwiches,vada,pakoda,with main course etc.

8) Please be quick during unmoulding .

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(50)Coconut Cubes

Ingredients

1 Coconut( Shreefal)

Method:

1) Buy good quality coconut with coconut water

2) Remove coconut from its hard outer shell.

3) Chopped coconut into dice size.

4)Grind these coconut pcs.with 100 ml. of water into coarse paste

5) Fill this coarse paste in ice tray and freezed it for 8- 10 hrs.

6) After 10 hrs. unmould coconut cubes and keep in air tight container .Keep this container in freezer .

7) whenever you want to use coconut either in curry or for making idli-dosa’s chutney or as hair food remove from the freezer and use.

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

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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.

Gujarati Kadha (Tasty Water)

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