INGREDIENTS
Bengal gram - 1/2 cup
Moong dal and Toor dal - 1 1/2 cups(Mixed)
Onion - 2 nos
Tomato - 2 nos
Red chilli powder - 2 tspns
Oil- 2 tsps
Mustard - 1 tspn
Cumin(jeera) - 1 tspn
Green chillies - 2nos (optional)
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Traditional method of preparing pongal
Ingredients
Rice – 2 cups
Green gram(Moong dal) – ½ cup
Jaggery - 3 cups
Ghee – ½ cup
Cashews and Raisins – 6 each
Water – 6 cups
Milk – 1 cup
Grated coconut – 1 cup
Preparation Method
Keep the Oven clean with kolam (design)
Add Milk in a vengala panai (Bronze pot)
Tie the Manjal Kombu(Turmeric plant) to the Panai(pot).
Wash rice and green gram(moong dal). Add it to panai with water.
Rice and green gram to be cooked soft.
Keep a separate vessel with little water and add jaggery. Once it is dissolved, filter the mud particles and make the liquid to form little thick in consistency.(If u like more sweet you can add more jaggery) Now add it to cooked rice and mix well. Allow it to boil well for some time in medium flame. Keep stirring.
Keep kadai in oven and add Ghee. After it is hot add Cashew and raisins. once its brown. Remove from fire and garnish to pongal.
Sweet Pongal or Sakkare Pongal is ready to serve. It is offered as Nyvedyam to Lord SURYA BHAGAVAN on this day.
Simple Method of preparing Pongal
Cook rice and moong dal in cooker till soft so keep additional water. In a bowl keep little water and add jaggery to it. once its dissolved, filter it in a strainer. Now mix the cooked rice and dal mixture to jaggery and cook well. Keep it in a low flame. Add ghee for taste.
Garnish with fried cashews and raisins in ghee.
Quick pongal is ready to serve.
This Salad is very easy to prepare and tastes different.
Ingredients
Cucumber - 1no
Grated coconut - 4 tspns
Sunflower oil or olive oil - 1tspn
Mustard - 1/2 tspn
Split Urad dal - 1/2 tspn (optional)
Asafotida - 1 pinch
Coriander leaves (cilantro) - 2 tspns
Salt to taste
Preparation Method
Wash and remove the skin of the Cucumber.
Cut the cucumber in small pieces
In a bowl, add the cucumber, grated coconut, salt.
In a pan, heat the oil, add mustard and asafotida
Add split urad dal and wait till its brown.
Then add this to the salad and mix.
Garnish with coriander leaves(cilantro) and serve.
Please note that Ladies Finger (Bhindi ) is also known as " OKRA ".
Last month in one of TV program I learnt of a treatment for Sugar (Diabetes). Since I am diabetic, I tried it and it was very useful and my Sugar is in control now. In fact I have already reduced my medicine.
Take two pieces of Lady Finger (Bhindi) and remove/cut both ends of each Piece. Also put a small cut in the middle and put these two pieces in Glass of water. Cover the glass and keep it at room temperature during Night. Early morning, before breakfast simply remove two pieces of lady Finger (bhindi) from the glass and drink that water.
Keep doing it on daily basis.
Within two weeks, you will see remarkable results in reduction of your SUGAR LEVEL.
My sister has got rid of her diabetes. She was on Insulin for a few Years, but after taking the lady fingers every morning for a few months, She has stopped Insulin but continues to take the lady fingers every Day. But she chops the lady fingers into fine pieces in the night, adds The water and drinks it all up the next morning. Please. Try it as it Will not do you any harm even if it does not do much good to you, but you Have to keep taking it for a few months before U see results, as most Cases might be chronic.
I have received from a friend and do not know any one who has tried the following remedy.
Though you will learn, it is not harmful,