Fruits

2014-05-06T04:34:00.000-07:00

Beat the Heat with a Fruit:

Fruits are always good for health. A healthy diet should surely contain a bowl of fruits on daily basis.
And when it is summer, surely some fruits will strike in our mind, among which watermelon is the most common summer fruit.

Yes, lets talk about it,

Watermelon:

1) Consists 80% water in it. So definitely its a best heat beater.

2) Helps to maintain good eyesight, smoother skin, best hair, and most importantly it helps in reducing body fat.

REMEMBER: Any fruit consumed empty stomach .... would be more effective.

Watermelon can be best dessert with pinch of salt and black pepper., yummy... :)

Continuation with my first post, now I am going to write on other summer fruit, Muskmelon :

Muskmelon:

The muskmelon or cantaloupe is a perfect summer fruit. Its high water content can help take care of the fluid loss that our bodies go through due to perspiration in this season.

As fruit naturally contains sweetness, no additional sweet is required to eat this fruit.

It is concentrated with excellent levels of beta-carotene, folic acid, potassium and vitamins C and A. Best for evening snack, just to munch on.

It is also best for skin. Also helps in reducing blood pressure.

This fruit can be used in the morning breakfast, or evening snack or just like that at any time. J

I am sharing my two favorite recipes.

Muskmelon Bowl:

Cut the fruit into small pieces, add dry fruits like, almond, pista, raisins, cashew nuts, and add little honey to it, bowl is ready to munch on. Or the same mixture can be used with cornflakes, oats. J

Muskmelon Juice:

Cut the fruit into pieces (1 bowl), along with this you can also use papaya (half bowl), add this mixture of fruits into blender, add little mint leaves to it.

Serve the juice with small cubes of muskmelon and dry fruits if you wish.

Not only the fruit, seeds of the fruits are also useful and they are tasty too J

They are used as after bites.

Fruit Delight: Mango

Mango is worldwide known as King of Fruits.

This juicy and sweet fruit not only cherishes our taste also ensures great benefits to our body.
Mango can be eaten in any form, raw, juice, milkshake, jam, pickle etc.

Fact:
One 100 gram mango provides

Around 50% of daily vitamin “C “.( Raw Mango)
More than 50% of daily vitamin “A”. (Ripe Mango)
A good amount of dietary fiber( 60% of insoluble and 40% soluble)

Some Health Factors of Mango:

Mango is rich in Potassium, which helps in controlling heart rate and blood pressure.
High in Iron.
It has anti-cancer effect, helps reduce cancer risks.
Boosts immunity power.
Helps in digestion
Acts as good skin cleanser, suits for any type of skin.
Helps in promoting good eye sight, fight against dry eyes and also prevents night blindness.
Helps in reducing heat stroke.

Home Remedy: ( For Diabetes)

Take 5-6 leaves of mango boil it in water, soak overnight, and drink the filtered decoction in the morning. This helps in reducing insulin levels.

Tasty:

Tangy Mango:

Cut the raw mango into pieces, add salt and red chilly powder to it, and mix well, tangy mango is ready to eat. :)

Mango Jam:

Ingredients :

Raw Mango : 1.
Sugar : 1 and 1/2 Bowl.
Cardamom Powder : Half Tea Spoon.

Method :

Peel off the skin of raw mango, and grate it,( approximately 1 bowl)
In a vessel add this grated raw mango and 1 and half bowl of sugar.
Pour water into the mixture till the sugar just immerses into water, mix it well.
Heat this mixture on a gas on medium flame for 15 to 20 minutes, till the sugar syrup mixes well with the mango, and raw smell of mango goes off.
Add the cardamom powder and mix it well.
Take off the mixture from gas and allow it cool,
Home made mango jam is ready to serve. :)
Store the jam in a air tight container and keep in fridge.

Amchoor( Dry Mango Powder):

Cut the raw mango into small pieces, and dry it under sunlight, till it become completely dry, later put the pieces into blender, make fine powder out of it.
Amchoor can be used in curry, or in fruit bowl. It gives good taste. :)

Aam panna( Mango Drink):

Ingredients:

Raw Mango : 1 big.
Sugar : 1/4 cup(adjust according to your preference).
Roasted cumin powder : 1Tsp.
Black pepper powder : 1/2 Tsp.
Fresh mint leaves : 5-6.
Chilled water : As required.
Salt to taste
Ice cubes.

Method:

In a pan boil the raw mango, or pressure cook it in a cooker, till it becomes smooth.
Peel off the skin and take out the pulp.
In a blender add this pulp along with sugar, salt, roasted cumin powder, and mint leaves, make smooth paste of it.
Now in a glass add 2 Tbsp. of the mixture and add chilled water according to the taste.
Serve the mango drink with ice, black pepper powder and mint leaves on top.

Note: Image source form Google.com

Interesting Facts of Food

2014-04-25T03:40:00.000-07:00

There are always some interesting facts about different foods, here are some.

1. Bitter Cucumber :The bitterness of cucumber can be removed from it,

How To Do It : Cut the both ends of cucumber and rub them on the cut portion about 10 - 15 minutes, till white colour foam forms, wash the cucumber, the bitterness is removed from it.

2. Salty Curry : Extra salt can be balanced,

How To Do It : If the taste of salt is more in your curry, it can be balanced by adding some potatoes in it, or by adding some small lumps of dough.

3. Skin : Skin of most fruits and vegetables are more nutritious then fruit and vegetable.

4. White Rice: While preparing, to make it fluffy and tender, add a spoon of ghee or lemon juice to it, it makes the rice tender, by adding lemon rice rice will look more white and beautiful.

5. Jaggery and Sugar: While preparing any dish(curry, rice item or any snack) using tamarine paste or water, use some amount jaggery, which adds the taste. And same while preparing dishes with lemon juice, use some sugar, which gives the taste to the dish.

Healthy Food

2014-04-20T23:10:00.000-07:00

This page is all about healthy food in daily life,

In this page, i am going to write about different healthy dish recepies.

I shall start with, Ragi (Finger Millet)

Ragi is one such food,which has capacity of cooling down the body temperature due to heat, easily digestible.
Most commonly used in the form of ragi balls, ragi malt, ragi rotti(chapati).

But here i am going to write about one more easy and healthy dish of Ragi,

Ragi Idly.

Reqirements:

1) Ragi Flour : 2 Bowls
2) Udad(Vigna mungo) daal( gram) : 1 Bowl
3) Salt to taste.

Procedure:

1) Soak 1 bowl of Udad Daal(Gram) in water for overnight, and make a fine paste(Batter) of it in a blender.

2) In the batter(udad daal paste or batter), add 2 bowls of Ragi(Vigna Mungo) Flour, and salt and mix it well.

3) Take idli cooker, grease its plates with oil,and pour a spoon of batter into that, and steam cook for 15 to 20 minutes.

Now Ragi idli's are ready to serve. :)

Note: Image credits : www.google.com

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Fruits

Beat the Heat with a Fruit:

Interesting Facts of Food

Healthy Food