Traditional Adai!!!

A long time pending in my drafts finally posting this recipe. Enjoy.....

Adai is one other typical South Indian Breakfast/Tiffin item. It is like dosa but different in taste prepared with paruppu(dal).

Ingredients:
· Boiled Rice /Dosai Rice - 2 cups
· Thoor Dhal (Thuvaram Paruppu) - 1/2 cup
· Channa Dhal/Bengal Gram (Kadala Paruppu) - 1 cup
· Urad Dal - 1/2 cup
· Red Chilli Dry - 3 nos
· Curry Leaves - few
· Asafotida (Hing) - 1/4 tspn
· Salt to taste
For Variations
· Chopped Onion
· Black Pepper powder (preferably as grains)
· Sliced Coconut
· Drumstick leaves (Murungai ilai)

Start with:
· Soak rice and dhal in water over night.
· When soft, grind it coarsely with red chillies.
· Though thin paper roast Dosas can be made with the smooth batter, in general the batter for Adai has ingredients not ground nicely. This still gives the nice brown crispy texture.
· Once ground add asafotida & salt and leave the batter to ferment for a while (duration….depending upon the outside temperature)

Consistency: Should be little thicker than the Dosai Batter (Coarse)

Now if you are wondering why Onion, coconut and Murungai Ilai then here you go with the below options:
· At the time of making Adai, you can use one of these as additional ingredient (I repeat only one of these and not all together) to get different flavors to your Adai.
· Another alternate is that, instead of Red Chlli you can use Black Pepper and in that case again sliced Coconut can be added.
· If you are looking at Murungai Ilai, do not add Pepper or Coconut but you may wish to add onion. Try not to add more leaves as some do not like the weired bitter like taste.

Adai can be prepared without any of these extras but if you want your taste buds to try different, then add these ingredients only when you are making the Adai and not before. This helps the basic flavor of the batter remain the same and that the freshness of the additional ingredients.

Preparation:· Add your desired extra toppings and also the curry leaves.
· Heat the pan a little more than medium, season it with half spoon of your preferred oil.
· If your pan is nonstick type, then no need to season it but you can straight away start making Adai.
· Remember that since the batter is not smooth and the consistency is thicker than that of Dosa, this needs to be cooked a little longer than Dosas.

. To make the corners crispy, add little oil to sides. you can also make a little gap at the middle and add little oil to make it crispy too. Turn the adai and cook reverse side.

Serving Options:

· Adai with Avial is the best. For Avial check for recipe just click Aviyal· Adai with butter cube.
· Some people like my husband eat it with Jaggery and thick fresh Yogurt.

UPSET STOMACH?

UPSET STOMACH? EAT BANANAS - GINGER!!!!!

Bananas will settle an upset stomach.
Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.

PREVENT STROKE - INFO

NUTRITION UPDATE

TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA!

Prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses appetite and keeps the pounds from invading....Green tea is great for our immune system)!

Thanks to my friend.

Homemade Badam Milk!

Badam Milk is very tasty and healthy drink. Badam is rich in Vitamin E. Its very refreshing drink.

Ingredients
Badam (Almonds) - 6 nos
Pistachos(Pista) - 6 nos
Kumkumpoo(Saffron) - 4 strands - Optional
Sugar - 2 tspns (as per your taste)
Milk - 1 1/2 glass
Elakka powder(Cardamom powder) - 1/4 tspn
Food colour yellow or orange - Optional ( I have not added)

Preparation Method
Soak Badam in hot water for 1 hour and remove skin.
Soak 3 strands of kumkumpoo in 1/2 glass of milk - optional
In mixie grind Almonds and pistachos with little milk to fine paste.
Heat milk, add Elakka powder and this fine paste. Boil well.
Mix kumkumpoo milk and add required sugar and off the stove.

Garnish with pistacho flakes and kumkumpoo. Enjoy the drink hot or chilled.

Pachai Payaru and Karamani Sambar

Pachai Payaru (Green gram) and Karamani (Black eyed beans) sambar is very tasty. It is very good for health. Its rich in proteins, so I make sure to use these once a week in my kitchen.

Ingredients

Pachai Payaru - 1 cup

Karamani (Brown or white) - 1cup

Curry leaves - 2 tspns

Oil - 2 tspns

Tamarind - 1 lemon size
Asafotida - 1 pinch

Salt

For masala(grinding)

Coriander seeds (daniya) - 1/4 cup

Dry red chilli - 4 nos

Kadala parap(Bengal gram) - 2 tspn

Uzhatamparap(Urad dal) - 2 tspn

Venthayam(Methi seeds) - 1/2 tspn

Grated coconut - 2 cups

Preparation methodSoak tamarind in hot water for few mins and squeeze it.
Cook Pachai Payaru and Karamani in pressure cooker for 3 whistles with water.
In a kadai, add 2 tspns oil and fry the above masala ingredients without coconut till dal is brown. Allow it to cool. Add coconut while grinding in mixie and grind it to a fine paste with little water.
Keep a vessel on stove and add tamarind water. Now add cooked grams to this and allow it to boil.
Add the grinded masala to it and boil.
Heat oil with little ghee or only oil and add mustard wait till it splutters, off the stove add asafotida and curry leaves.

MIx it with the sambar.

Pachai Payaru Karamani sambar is ready to serve. It can be served with rice.

Notes - You can reduce the masala as per the quantity you are cooking.
If it becomes thick, add water and salt and warm it.
Adding of toor dal is not necessary, if required you can add very little.

Jeeragam water (Cumin health drink)

Jeeragam water(Cumin seeds) water is good for health. It helps for gastric problem and improves digestive system. It can be consumed anytime. Very simple and easy drink.

We daily drink this water at home also when I was pregnant.

Start boiling 4 cups of water in a bowl and add 1/2 tspn jeeragam(cumin) (Can also dryroast) when the water turns yellowish and boiling off the stove. Drink the water with or without jeeragam. Its good to drink when warm.

Tip - You can dry roast a cup of Jeera/Cumin seeds and just add when water is boiling.

GINGER

Ginger can relieve your joint pains

Ginger helps thwart inflammation in several ways

Can herbs and spices be a good medicine for your joints? Possibly. One new contender for soothing creaky knees is ginger.

Research has found that when people with stiff, sore, osteoarthritic knees took a ginger extract for six weeks, they felt significantly better.

Anti-Inflammatory Action
Long used in Eastern medicine to treat musculoskeletal problems, ginger contains a complex mix of compounds that researchers suspect helps thwart inflammation in several ways.

And in the study, side effects (stomach upset) were mild.

The Goodness of Ginger
Along with its inflammation-cooling properties, ginger may have anti-cancer properties too.

Ginger is a well-known nausea reliever. If you're cooking in the kitchen with ginger, chances are you're lowering your risk of cancer.

It possesses two cancer-inhibiting compounds, 6-gingerol and 6-paradol.

So use ginger in your food, you know its beneficial uses.

REMEDY: People with stiff, sore knees felt better after they took a ginger extract for six weeks

AVOID: Ginger capsules that you get in medical stores, they're a synthetically prepared compound.


MCC - http://justurs.blogspot.com/2009/02/magnificent-click-contest-2009.html

Carrot Rice - Recipe

Carrot rice is very different rice cooked with grated carrots and spices. A tasty rice and healthy too...

Ingredients
Rice – 1 ½ cup
Carrot – 2nos(grated)
Onion – 2nos
Tomato – 1no
Oil - 2 tspns
Cinamon(patte), Cardamom(Elachi), Cloves(Laung)Spices – 2nos
Red chilli powder – 1 tspn
Garam masala powder – ½ tspn
Turmeric – 1 pinch
Ginger – ½ tspn(grated)

Salt

Preparation Method
Cook rice in cooker with ½ cup less water so that rice is not sticky and keep aside.
Wash and grate carrot and onion separately.
Chop tomato into small pieces or grate it.
In a pan, put oil and spices wait till it splutters.
Add onion and sauté till its brown.
Add tomato and sauté till its soft and cooked.
Add carrot and fry for sometime.
Add turmeric, garam masala and red chilli powder and cook till raw smell goes.
If required add little water and salt.
Once all are cooked well off the stove.
Mix with rice well.

Serve carrot rice as it is or with raita.

Health

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

KIDNEY BEANS(RAJMA)

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and, yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Gods Pharmacy! - 1

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

God's Pharmacy!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

CREAM OF APPLE

WHO study says an apple in the morning is equal to 2 cups of coffee. Eating apple in the morning makes you feel brisk.

This is cream of apple soup

Ingredients

Apple - 1 no
Milk - 10 tspns
Maida (All purpose flour) - 1 tsp
Butter - 2 tspns
White pepper powder - 1 tspn
Salt to taste

Preparation Method

Cut the apple into pieces and make a paste in mixie.
In a sauce pan, add butter wait till it melts
Add maida and mix it to a fine paste
Add milk and stir for 5mins
Add the apple paste
Add white pepper powder and salt
If reqd add little water and mix well
Allow it to boil for 5mins

Serve hot.

KEERAI KOOTU

KEERAI KOOTU
(SPINACH MIXED WITH SPICES N DHAL)

From my mom's kitchen

Ingredients

Keerai(spinach) chopped – 4 cups
Dhal – 1 cup
Red Chilli – 2 nos
Grated Coconut – 1 cup
Jeera – 2 tspns
Pepper – ½ tspn
Salt to taste

Preparation Method

Wash Keerai (spinach), rinse off thoroughly and drain in strainer.

Chop the Keerai (spinach) in small pieces

Cook Keerai (spinach)with water, salt and turmeric
Cook dhal and keep separately
Grind Red chilli, jeera, pepper and grated coconut in mixie into fine paste
Now mix with Keerai this paste and boil well. Keep stirring occasionally
Now add dhal and boil once
If reqd add little salt to taste

Serve hot with RICE OR CHAPATI.

Lady's Finger for Diabetes

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,

Aviyal | Authentic Kerala Recipe!!!

AN AUTHENTIC KERALA DISH

ALSO POPULAR IN TAMIL NADU

INGREDIENTS


BEANS
CARROT
MURUNGAKA/DRUMSTICK
CHENAI/YAM
VAZHAKKA/RAW PLANTAIN
POTATO
POOSHANI/WHITE PUMPKIN
MATHAN/SWEET PUMPKIN

FOR 2 PEOPLE PUT 50GMS OF EACH VEGETABLE

FRESH GRATED COCONUT – 1 CUP

GREEN CHILLI – 3 NOS

COCONUT OIL – 2 TSPNS

CURDS – 100 GMS

CURRY LEAVES FEW

SALT

PREPARATION METHOD

CHOP ALL THE VEGETABLES IN SMALL LENGTH (1 1/2INCH) AND PRESSURE COOK THEM WITH 1 TSPN SALT FOR 3 WHISLTES. WAIT FOR PRESSURE TO GO.

GRIND COCONUT AND GREEN CHILLIES TO FINE PASTE

NOW MIX THE PASTE WITH THE VEGETABLES AND BOIL. ADD LITTLE WATER IF REQUIRED

ADD CURRY LEAVES

ADD SALT

ADD COCONUT OIL AND MIX ON THE SIDES SO THE VEGETABLES DONT BREAK. OFF THE STOVE.ALLOW IT TO COOL A BIT.

ADD CURDS, MIX WELL.

AFTER ADDING CURDS DO NOT BOIL.

SERVE HOT WITH ADAI, RICE AND CHAPATHI. ITS VERY TASTY AND HEALTHY.

DRINK WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH

It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven a its value. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases:

Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.

METHOD OF TREATMENT

1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water

2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minute

3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.

4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours

5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.

6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.

The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/reduce main diseases:

1. High Blood Pressure - 30 days

2. Gastric - 10 days

3. Diabetes - 30 days

4. Constipation - 10 days

5. Cancer - 180 days

6. TB - 90 days

7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards - daily.

This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.

It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in our life.

Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active.

This makes sense .. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals ...not cold water. Maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain...

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.

It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion.

Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks: Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.

Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.

Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.

60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.

Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...

7 dont's after a meal

Don't smoke -Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes(chances of cancer is higher).

Don't eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal.

Don't drink tea -Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid.This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult todigest.

Don't loosen your belt - Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted & blocked.

Don't bathe - Bathing will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach.


Don't walk about - People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake.

Don't sleep immediately - The food we intake will not be able to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric & infection in our intestine.