Vegetable Idli | Breakfast Recipe

Vegetable Idli Recipe is the perfect Indian breakfast. A nutritional idli mixed with vegetables. Add vegetables of your choice in the batter and serve this healthy breakfast to your family. 

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Ingredients:
Semolina - 1.5 cup
Curd - 1 cup
Chopped vegetables (Carrots, Capsicum, onions) - 2 cups
Ginger garlic chopped or in paste form - 1/2 tsp
Roasted Vermicelli - 1 tbsp
Salt - As per taste
Eno packet - 1

Method:
1. Soak semolina in curd for 15-20 min. Add all vegetables, ginger garlic,  vermicelli and salt. Mix well Add water to adjust the consistency.
2. In the last add 1 sachet of eno for instant fermentation.
3. Grease idli moulds with little oil and prepare the idlis in steamer or microwave.
4. Vegetable idlis are ready. Serve coconut chutney and enjoy a healthy breakfast.

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Mango Kulfi Recipe

Mango kulfi is the most relished and delicious sweet dish during summer season. Homemade kulfi is free from preservatives, no colouring agents and is creamy, 

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Ingredients:

Milk – 1/5 litres

Sugar – 2 tablespoon

Mango Puree of 3 pcs

Method:

1.       In a Kadai, thicken the milk, Boil it till the milk reduces to half. Add sugar and simmer for 10 more minutes. 

2.       Allow the milk to cool down completely.
3.       Mix the mango puree into milk and blend the same to get a smooth mango puree. Keep this mixture in freezer. Allow the mixture to set slightly and blend again. Follow this process for at-least 2-3 times. This will help avoid crystals and will get a creamy kulfi.
4.       Pour the mixture into kulfi mould and keep in freezer till the kulfi set properly.
5.       A stick for kulfi can be added at this stage (optional).
6.       Serve cold either by cutting into pcs or in a stick form.

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Honey Cinnamon Drink | Weight Loss Recipe

Honey cinnamon drink is an effective weight loss recipe which helps to shed extra kilos. Drink it consistently 2 times a day for at least one month for a considerable weight loss. Include lots of fluids and follow a low card diet to best results. Honey contains antioxidants and enzymes that have various healthy effects on the body and cinnamon helps boost your metabolism to lowering your cholesterol. Combining the two of these help creates a sort of deadly combo for the body.  

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Ingredients:
Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp
Honey - 1 tsp
Hot water - 1 glass/ 250 ml

Method:
1. Boil water and keep it aside.
2. In a glass add cinnamon powder and pout little quantity of water. Mix nicely and pour the complete quantity of water and further mix well.
3. Allow this mixture to cool down completely, till it reached the room temperature.
4. Once completely cooled, mix honey to the mixture. Weight loss drink is ready.
5. Consume half quantity of this drink before going to bed at night and keep the rest in refrigerator. Balance half needs to be consumed early morning, first thing. After 1.5 hrs have breakfast.. 

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Navratan Dal | Mix Dal Tadka

Navratan Dal Recipe is commonly called Mix Dal Tadka is full of protein as 9 kinds of pluses are mixed together.

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Ingredients:

Chana Dal / Split Bengal Gram - 1/2 cup

Rajma/ Kidney Beans  - 1/4 cup

Kala Chana/ Brown Chick Peas- 1/4 cup

Chole/ White Chick Peas - 1/4 cup

Matar/ White Peas - 1/4 cup

Urad Dal / Black Gram - 1/4 cup

Lobia / Cowpea - 1/4 cup

Masoor dal/ Red Lentils - 1/4 cup

Green gram dal - 1/4 cup

Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp

Tomato Puree- 2-3 tbsp

Salt, Red chili powder, Turmeric powder - As per taste

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Coal pcs - a small

Method:

1. Soak all the pulses mixed together for 4-5 hrs.

2. In a pressure cooker, heat 1 tsp desi ghee or oil and splutter cumin seeds. Saute ginger garlic paste.

3. Add tomato puree and cook it till it leaves oil. Add all pulses along with spices. Add desiered water. 

4. Pressure cook for 15-20 min.

5. Simultaneously prepare the tempering by heating desi ghee and put coloured red chili powder. Add this in the prepared dal.

6. As a final touch, burn coal pcs in flame, till it turns red. Put this red hot coal pcs in dal and top with desi ghee. Cover the container with plate so that the flavours of coal gets infused in dal. 

7. After 2 min remove the coal pcs from dal and serve hot.

  

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Chaat Masala

Chaat masala is a perfect tangy Indian spice or masala without which any chaat recipe is incompplete. A must have for all chaat recipes. 

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Ingredients:

Asfoetida/ Hing - 1/4 Tsp

Cumin seeds/ Zeera - 2 tbsp

Black Pepper powder/ Kali Mirch - 1/2 tsp

Amchur / Dry mango powder - 2 tbsp

Salt - 1.5 tbsp

Black Salt - 1 tsp

Ginger powder/ Sonth - 1 tsp

Mint powder/ Pudina - 1 tsp

Carom seeds/ Ajwain - 1.5 tsp

Coriander seeds/ Dhaniya - 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Dry roast, cumin seeds, carom seeds and coriander seeds. Cool down, grind and sieve it.

2. Add balance all ingredients and store the spice in an air tight container. This quantity can be used for 2-3 months. After that it tends to loose it flavours so must be prepared fresh as desired.

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Aam ki Launji | Raw Mango Launji

Aam ki Launji / Kairi ki Launji - A sweet and sour dish which can be served along with main course. 

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Ingredients:

Raw Mango - 3 pcs cut into small pcs

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Jaggery/Gud - 1/2 cup

Turmeric powder, Red chili powder, Salt - As per taste 

Fennel Seeds/ Sauf - 1/2 tsp

Aesfotida/ Hing - A pinch

Methi dana - 1/4 tsp

Mustard oil - 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Heat oil in a kadai and splutter mustard seeds methi dana. Add aesfoetida, cut mango pcs, fennel seeds, all spices.

2. Add 2 cups of water and cover the kadai and cook for 15-20 min till mangoes become soft and tender. 

3. The add jaggery and cook for another 15 min till the gravy becomes thick. 

4. Consistency of the gravy can be adjusted as per taste.

4. Digestive aam ki launji is ready.  

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Homemade Cough & Flue Remedy | Cough Sweets

These homemade sweets are great natural cough, cold and flu remedy. It helps sooth your throat and easy way to relief cough, cold, flu at home. these sweets are delicious as well.

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Ingredients:

Sugar - 1 cup

Water - 1/2 cup

Lemon Juice- 1 tsp

Honey- 1 tsp

Ginger Powder - 1/2 tsp

Cloves Powder - 1/4 tsp

Powdered Sugar - 2 tsp

Method:

1. In a pan, add water, sugar and boil till sugar dissolves. Also add ginger, cloves powder and honey. Simmer for 5-20 min on medium flame till it becomes thick dark syrup. 

2. Let it cool for few min and add lemon juice in the end. Mix well. 

3. Spread a butter paper on tray and put small portions of syrup with help of spoon. It should be done quickly else syrup will get very very thick. 

4. Cool down these sweets for 15-20 min. Remove the sweets from butter paper and spread powdered sugar to avoid stickiness of the sweets. 

5. Store the prepared cough sweets in an air tight container and have it whenever suffering from cough, cold and flu.

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Quick Home Remedy for Cough Cold

Give instant relief to your sour throat and common cold with this natural home remedy. One should have this drink empty stomach and drink it hot.

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Ingredients:

Lemon - 1 tsp

Ginger pcs - 1 inch pcs cut into pcs

Salt - a pinch

Sugar - 1/2  tsp

Tea leaves/ Tea bag/ chai patti - 1/2 tsp

Black pepper powder - a pinch

Rock Salt (Kala Namak) - a pinch

Honey - 1 tsp

Method:

1. In a pan, heat 1 cup of water. Add all ingredients except lemon, honey and chai patti. Bring the mixture to boil.

2. Let the mixture boil for 2-3 min on medium flame, till all the flavours gets into the water. Once ready, add chai patti and immediately switch off the the flame to avoid boiling of tea.

3. Simultaneously, in a serving cup, add honey and lemon juice. Sieve the prepared water mixture into the cup and mix it well. 

4. Drink this lemon honey ginger flavoured tea empty stomach to help relive sore throat and common cold.    

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