Vegetable Biriyani

Vegetable Biryani: Ingredients:

·         2 cups basmati rice

·         1 cup mixed vegetables (carrots, peas, beans, potatoes, etc.)

·         1 onion, thinly sliced

·         2 tomatoes, chopped

·         2 tablespoons ghee or oil

·         1 teaspoon cumin seeds

·         2 green chilies, slit

·         1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste

·         1 teaspoon red chili powder

·         1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder

·         1 teaspoon biryani masala powder

·         A few strands of saffron soaked in milk

·         Salt to taste

·         Fresh coriander leaves and fried onions for garnish

Instructions:

·         Rinse the rice and soak it in water for 30 minutes. Drain and set aside.

·         Heat ghee or oil in a large pot and add cumin seeds. Let them splutter.

·         Add sliced onions and sauté until golden brown.

·         Add ginger-garlic paste and green chilies. Cook for a minute.

·         Add tomatoes, red chili powder, turmeric powder, and biryani masala powder. Cook until the tomatoes are soft and the spices are well combined.

·         Add mixed vegetables and cook for a few minutes.

·         Add soaked and drained rice to the pot. Stir gently to coat the rice with the masala.

·         Add saffron-infused milk and enough water to cook the rice (approximately 3 cups). Season with salt.

·         Cover the pot and cook on low heat until the rice is cooked and fluffy.

·         Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and fried onions. Serve hot.

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Butter Chicken

 Butter Chicken: Ingredients:

·         500 grams boneless chicken, cut into pieces

·         2 tablespoons butter

·         1 onion, finely chopped

·         2 tomatoes, pureed

·         2 teaspoons ginger-garlic paste

·         2 teaspoons red chili powder

·         1 teaspoon turmeric powder

·         1 teaspoon garam masala

·         1/2 cup heavy cream

·         Salt to taste

·         Fresh coriander leaves for garnish

1.      Cooking:

·         Heat butter in a pan and add chopped onions. Sauté until golden brown.

·         Add ginger-garlic paste and cook for a minute.

·         Add tomato puree, red chili powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, and salt. Cook the masala until the oil separates from the mixture.

·         Add chicken pieces and cook until they are tender and cooked through.

·         Stir in the heavy cream and cook for a few more minutes.

·         Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve with naan or rice.

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Health is Wealth

HEALTH PLUS

Handling FAT

What is the status of the body is the main question among people, who are very much in panic about their own health.  To maintain your health, you need to do regular exercises which will help in maintaining better metabolism. Keeping good health and fitness is of primary importance in one's own life.  Human beings are prone to stagnantly watching on health issues.  Health care is of utmost importance in everybody's life span. Eating habits like excessive food intake will result in an overall imbalance in one's body.  Care must be taken while intake food whether we are really in need of food or not at any point that means morning breakfast, lunch, tea, and snacks in the evening and dinner.  Our body is built of bones and muscles, so for keeping fit, bones should be long-lasting.  In childhood, there is no boss to guide you on what to eat and how much to eat.  Eating too much junk food will make your body a bad place to sustain.  Keeping a regular check of the body's symptoms and the food we eat will result in positive results in the long run.  Due to fat blood circulation will considerably become down and the fat concentration will settle in the blood vessels. Then the blood circulation in arteries will become a question of how to manage, so the body starts to react to food causing fatigue and tiredness.   

In order to have a fit body regular exercise is needed for human body.  Therefore, we should decide our food, which type of foods are more suited to our body.  In some persons, potatoes create problems in some other persons excessive use of tamarind creates problems. Any way daily workout is essential for the human body to keep a viable life.

TYPES OF MEDICAL TREATMENTS:

AYURVEDA

Ayurveda is one of the top medical treatments available in India.  Its origin is traced back to more than 5000 years ago. Ayurveda advises Yoga to keep the body fit.  Ayurvedic medicines are more effective than any other medicines, especially before the introduction of the allopathy medicine system, the people were used to taking treatment of Ayurveda.  During that period the ayurvedic herbs were abundantly available to prepare the ayurvedic preparations and medicines.  But ayurvedic medicines take some more time to get a good effect.  But Ayurveda is capable of proper and complete cure and uprooting the disease.   Ayurveda takes care of the causes and the treatment is done for the causes.  For physical ailments like back pain and other related problems, treatments are available in plenty, like abhyangam, kizhi, kadeevasti, pizhichil, etc. are most common treatments.

HOMEOPATHY

Homeopathy is another available medical treatment in India.  There is a steady increase in the number of treatments of Homeopathy.  Homeopathy Doctors always advise continuous treatment of at least one year, because Homeopathy also aims at completely uprooting the causes of the disease, so that in the future such a situation does not occur.  Cold Coughs are common among people in India, and most of children have running noses, it is heard that Homeopathy is best suited for running noses. 

ALLOPATHY

Allopathy treatments are the most common and usually allopathy is considered to be our primary system of treatment.  MBBS Doctors are skilled in treating the patients.  The known diseases Viral infections, major and minor surgeries, common cold & flu.

I am writing this on the basis of my own experience of life, this article is not at all meant for blaming anybody or any type of system of treatment.

EXERCISES 

YOGA and Meditation :

Yoga asanas will be a better idea than any other exercise because it immensely helps to keep the metabolism of our body.

HEALTH CLUB:

Most people depend on the Health Club now because the health club also advises food control methods and regular exercise in the health club will make one person fit from other ailments or sicknesses.

WALKING

One person can normally walk up to 2 kilometers daily, which will keep their metabolism perfect and help to keep good health.  In addition to walking for youngsters some sort of exercise is also advisable.   Morning and evening walks daily will improve health and reduce health problems.

RUNNING 

Running in the morning hours and evening will be advisable for youngsters who are interested.  Running will provide more stamina than any other activity which spends more calories than other activities.

Playing any Sports

Playing any sports when you get time is also another important physical activity to undergo.  Regularly playing tennis, football, basketball, volleyball, and badminton will be a go-getter for one person's health updated.

Why we are doing exercise, playing, walking or running what is the need is of high importance, we are taking food regularly, if so, why we should not exercise regularly, to avoid health issues and digest food taken by the person daily.  The habit of exercising will keep anybody healthy for longer periods.  The food intake should be normal, the probable advice may be to eat less and exercise more to remain healthy and in good health always.

written by MBN.

The readers are advised to take own discretion.

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