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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Vegetables and Fruits|nutrional source

Vegetables and Fruits | nutritional source

👉Introduction

👉 Type of Vegetables

👉 Cost of Vegetables

👉 How to use vegetables

👉 Health issues

👬Introduction :

In any country, vegetables are a very important commodity, vegetables are loved by everyone, but today there is a situation in the world where vegetables are piled up without sales because many other things are more important than vegetables, these are the goods that are booming in the world trade today, that is, fish, meat, and bread made from flour.

Once upon a time, Indian States were storehouse of grains, but later on when people went outside in search of jobs, the cultivation become for the name's sake and slowly the people became detached from farming on the verge of risk due to natural calamities or some other reasons.  By the end of 1980 people started to search jobs in foreign countries which made them rich and their families staying in the home country started reaping the benefit of foreign currency resulting into the people in the home country became rich and they are not in need of any other income which was earlier accumulated through farming crops and vegetables. But these kinds of changes cannot be completely ruled out because, as the saying goes, one must move with the times.

But there is one thing that causes a lot of pain, mansions are being built in all the fields all over the country by replacing fields.  Still there were hopes that some of the farmers remain in the field for those who does not have the foreign currency, but they changed their crops from grains and some other crops mainly coconut, areca nuts, rubber and spices were become the main source of income for the farmers.  In the northern side still wheat and sugar cane are the main source of income for the farmers especially Kerala the southern state of India changed their natural farming of crops to other commodities as stated above.  Even though farmers who were farming vegetables still continued and now a days people started to cultivate vegetables in their homes itself due to non-availability of organic and quality vegetables.

Vegetables are treated as the primary means for all to make their food, when we think of making food the basic ingredient required would be vegetables, without vegetables, food preparation is difficult.  Each and every food preparation requires the vegetable as one of the ingredients. Including vegetable in our food is of high importance as it contributes major part of the vitamins and mineral required for our body which helps to keep out of serious illness.  Vegetables helps in making essential vitamins and minerals for our body.  Truly nutritious elements in the vegetables scores and contribute abundantly to the health of a person.   If you get fresh vegetables from the local market, then it would be sufficient to meet your daily cooking needs.  

👬  Type of Vegetables :

In a market we have multi-variety vegetables to choose, the following vegetables are mainly available in the veg market :

    👐Cabbage: Cabbage is a very special and common vegetable and having watery substance inside, you do not need lot of water and easy for cooking. Cabbages are usually used in salads and for making dry veg items and Manchurian.  Cabbage is filled with vitamins and minerals in abundant amounts.

     👐Tomatoes, Potatoes and Onions : Tomatoes and onions are also the main source of food preparation, today we cannot think of preparing food without onions, potatoes and tomatoes because these vegetables are the primary content of any food recipes.  These vegetables are also rich in vitamins and minerals. 

Other vegetables like Lady finger, carrot beetroot, capsicum, bitter gourd,  pumpkin, cucumbers, brinjal

 

👬 Cost of Vegetables:

Vegetables' costs are not too expensive and not less expensive but it still remain dependent upon the seasons.  In some seasons one vegetable cost becomes high and another vegetables cost becomes low.  Normally in the summer season and winter season vegetables cost low as compared to Monsoon.  In Monsoon due to transportation costs high and weather conditions affects crops due to which costs are also soaring.  But it is affordable for a middle-class family.  For others those who are making vegetables in their land or in their house terrace the cost is not an issue.

👬How to use vegetables:

Veggies are considered to be most common raw food item which can directly be used for making salads.  Even though the usual way is to use it after properly cooked. Green salads are very commonly prepared by people to serve with lunch and dinner as a side dish.  Normally people store the vegetables in the Refrigerator for safely keeping out of drying and damaging. 

👬 Health Issues : 

Due to use of vegetables there no known health issues for many years we are using vegetables for our daily food needs.  Some people use vegetables as their main food instead of food grains due excess starch in the food grains.  Boiled vegetables are advised by Dieticians for those who have health issues like blood pressure and diabetics.

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Avial Recipe

AVIAL 

Avial is a traditional and typical form of curry well known in Kerala, this is a  mixture of different vegetables especially prepared during some special occasions like marriages and other well known festivals like Onam and Vishu.

Sadya is a feast cooked during special occasions served on a platter especially leaves of banana shrubs garnished with Boiled Rice and different types of curries mainly Sambar, Rasam, Avial, Olan, Koottu Curry, Thoran, Elisseri, Pachadi, Pulisseri, Pappadam, Achar, Varavu, Sarkkara, Daal Pradhaman, Palada Pradhaman during special occasions. 

The origin of Avial dates back to Mahabharata when Pandavas assigned Bhima the second among the five Pandavas for cooking food for their family, as per the instructions given by others, he had to make a curry which was never been in any list of curries at that period. Bhima take it as a challenge and he prepared a curry out of 9 vegetables.  It is heard that since then this Mix Vegetable curry (Avial) is famous in Kerala traditions. The vegetables and other items for Avial  are:

1.    Drumsticks (Muringakka) -02 Nos. to cut into pieces remove outer layer

2.    Carrots – 02 Nos.

3.    Raw banana-01 No.

4.    Elephant Foot – 100 gms.

5.    Ivy Gourd (Vellari) – 150 gms

6.    Bitter Gourd(Paavakka) – 150 gms.(optional)

7.    Turmeric (Haldi) Powder – ½ tbsp

8.    Green Chilly(Mirchi) -03 Nos.

9.    Coconut (Nariel)– grated – 1 cup.

10. Curd – 01 cup

11. Cumin seed – ½ tbsp.

12. Garlic -06 petals

13. Oil as needed.

14. Water for boiling

   

Elephant foot

Carrot

Muringakka - Drumstick

SADYA

Procedure To Prepare Avial

Slice Carrots, Drumsticks, Raw Banana, Ivy Gourd and Elephant Foot(Chena) on a diamond shape.

Make small pieces of all other vegetables.

Place a Kadai, add water to boil all the vegetables from Sr.No. 1 to 6 also add one tbsp. salt add one tbsp. oil and ½ tbsp. turmeric powder.

Boil till some fragrance of boiled vegetable occurs.

Add grated coconut, green chilly (as per need), cumin seed, garlic into a Mixer to make a half smooth paste. 

Add the paste in to the boiled vegetables and boil again for about 5 to 10 minutes till it mixes well. 

Vegetables should be cooked properly and when finished boiling, the Avial is semi gravy/dry ready.  Use it with Plain Boiled Rice or as a side dish along with Sambar or Any other dishes.

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STEAM CAKE - KERALEEYAN PUTTU

 STEAM CAKE 

Steam Cake is a well-known breakfast in Kerala.  This breakfast is not spread in India and is not too much publicity received for this item.

Even though people are preparing their food throughout their living moments and life goes with food for all.

1. rice powder not smooth powder 2 cups

2. salt - 1/2 tbsp

3. crushed coconut - 1/2 cup

4. Water - 1 cup use wisely to make a sticky powder form batter.

5. Steam Cake Maker - Vessel

Mix the water with rice powder and do not pour too much water and should not be too stickey. 

Add salt as required and taste it for salt. 

Keep aside the Water mixed rice powder.

Take steamer and place its pot on the flame and add one or two class water into it and start with medium flame. Let it boil then use the steamer sphere-shaped to make the steam cake and put its net on the bottom of sphere shaped steamer through its upper portion. Use a stick to align it at the bottom add rice mix two or three tbsp and then add one layer of coconut crushed then again repeat the same process and at last the coconut layer will be on the top of the steamer. Close the steamer and place it on the lower pot of steamer properly, if there is any alignment error, the steam cake will not bake properly, so as to avoid losing steam from the middle portion use some cotton cloth to tie around at the joining place of the pot and steaming vessel after placing the steamer on the face of the lower pot.

Thereafter bake for 3-4 minutes in medium flame when you see the steam coming from the top and a soothing smell out of the steamer, remove it and take a stick to push the bottom net of steamer, if it is properly boiled the steam cake will be properly bonded together and nice steam cake without spreading the rice powder will be seen, otherwise you will have to bake it again to get proper bonding.

Try it if possible else the choice is yours it is another stunning breakfast and it can be used with chana curry. 

  

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