Ragi Malt

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easy ragi malt, Finger millet recipes, Keppai recipes, Ragi flour, Ragi Flour recipes, Ragi Malt, ragi porridge, Ragi recipes

Ragi malt is something quite heavy for breakfast and an apt one 🙂 It is so filling with just one cup. It doesn’t take more than 10 mins to prepare this recipe, so you can make it quick and easy. For a fast paced morning, this is a perfect recipe!!

Few more of my ragi recipes, check the below link

Ragi Dosa

Ragi Murukku/Chakkli

Ragi Puttu(Savory)

Ragi Puttu(Sweet Version)

Ragi Roti

Ragi Kaara Biscuits

Ingredients:(serves 2)

Ragi Flour : 4 tablespoons

Milk : 2 cups (can include 1 cup milk and 1 cup almond milk)

Water : 3/4 cup

Jaggery : 1 tablespoon( alternatively use sugar)

Cardamom Powder : a pinch

Method:

• Dry roast ragi flour for 3 to 4 mins. Make sure it is not burnt.
• Now mix ragi flour with water and make a paste without lumps.
• Now add milk(also almond milk in case using this), cardamom powder, jaggery. Mix well. It should be little watery.
• Heat it in low medium flame. Keep stirring, otherwise lumps will form.
• It would become thick. It takes around 5 mins.
• Stop and serve warm.

Perfect for breakfast 🙂

Almond milk gives an excellent taste, So I would totally prefer to add it.

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Day Start Juice – 5 ingredient

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Beetroot juice, Carrot juice, healthy juice, kick start juice, miracle juice, Morning kick start juice

Wanna kick start your day with a healthy juice?? Here we go with 5 Ingredients for this juice. More over I love the gorgeous color of the juice 🙂

Some benefits are below

• Beetroot helps in strengthening the immunity, reduces blood pressure.
• Carrots improves vision, anti ageing and gives skin a perfect glow.
• Ginger is a wonder medicine for me, various health benefits. You find my article on ginger earlier.
• Kiwi control blood pressure, asthma, good for heart diseases.
• Spinach , I don’t have to mention their benefits 🙂

Ingredients:

Beetroot : 1 medium

Kiwi : 1

Carrot : 1

Ginger : 1 inch piece

Spinach : handful

Honey : 1 tablespoon

Water : 1 cup

Method:

Do I have to include this 🙂 Peel of the skin from Beetroot, kiwi, carrot and ginger. Chop them roughly. Add the spinach leaves, honey and water with all others in a blender and blend it. Done with this wonderful juice to start your morning 🙂 If you want, you can filter it in a strainer. I prefer it as it is!!

Enjoy friends!!!

POMBerry Juice

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Blue berry Juice, fresh juice, Home made juice, POMBerry Juice, Pomegranate Blue Berry Juice, pomegranate juice

Its been a long time since I posted on juice/smoothies. My Thursday are always fruits. I am doing this for almost 2 years now. But I will have evening some dinner. Only now I am doing a complete diet.

Pomegranate is a great fruit which aids in digestion and weight loss. It has lots of Iron content in it. The recent one’s which I had bought was a little extra sour in taste. Even after adding honey , I couldn’t get rid of the sour taste. I had got 1lb of blueberry box which was staying in fridge. This had a mix of both sweet and sour taste. So combined them both to make a fresh juice.

Nothing much in Ingredients just Pomegranate and blueberry.

Put them in a blender and grind it well.

Remove the seeds and the skins of the fruits.

Add honey and serve it chilled 🙂

This had a gorgeous color, I loved this color. Anytime home made juices are better than the bottled one 😛 Hope you liked it friends 🙂

Neer Mor (South Indian Style spiced Butter Milk)

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Buttermilk, chithirai thiruvizha, Lord Kal Alagar, Lord Parvathy, Madurai, Meenakshi temple, Meenakshi Thiru Kalyanam, Neer Mor, South Indian style butter milk, Spiced Buttermilk

Neer Mor / Butter milk, is such a perfect summer drink. Its extremely hot in India during summers, no one would dare to get out of the house between 11 am to 3 pm 😛 . During summer this is a drink which is always available at home 🙂 Hailing from the temple city Madurai, I would like to share details of a festival we celebrate every year.

Lord Meenakshi (incarnation of Lord Parvathy) has her temple in Madurai which so famous for the architecture. We have a festival that goes on during the summer when Lord Meenakshi is married to Lord Shiva. This festival is called the chithirai thiruvizha/ Meenakshi thiru kalyanam. Lord Kal Alagar (incarnation of Lord Vishnu) is believed to be Meenakshi’s brother. Lord Kal Alagar stays in Alagar kovil a temple situated 13 miles from Meenakshi temple. He has to come all the way from Alagar kovil to Meenakshi temple for his sister’s wedding. It is believed that he travels in a pallaku(couch) and the travel takes a weeks time. This whole picture happens every year and we celebrate Meenkashi’s wedding so wonderfully. Marriage happens in Meenakshi temple with the idols of Shiva and Meenakshi. Kal Alagar idol is carried from Alagar kovil to Meenakshi temple.

My house is located in the mid way of Alagar kovil and Meenakshi temple. Alagar’s idol passes through my home. During this time the whole Madurai residents would gather to worship. We all get dressed up so well 😀 and meet a lot of people in our community. Its a lot of fun. We invite friends, relatives to our home. Ahh I miss those days so badly, what a lovely time it used to be 🙂 The beauty of this festival is that though it is a Hindu festival, Muslims, Christians all gathers and celebrate it. I see this as a great unity which is why I love it 🙂 As this festival takes place during summer, many people distribute Neer Mor, Pannakam to help get rid of thirst and dehydration. So when ever I prepare neer mor, it reminds me of this festival 🙂

Ingredients:

Yogurt : 3 tablespoon ( can be full fat or skim)

Water : 1 cup

Salt : 1/4 teaspoon

Ginger : 1/2 teaspoon grated

Green Chili : 1 very finely chopped

Curry leaves : 1 strand finely chopped

Cilantro leaves : 2 – 3 strands finely chopped

Asafoetida : 1/4 teaspoon

Cumin seeds : crushed 1/4 teaspoon or Cumin powder : 1/4 teaspoon

Method:

Put the yogurt, salt, water, ginger in blender and blend it for 2 to 3 mins. Now transfer it to a glass. Mix asafoetida, chopped curry leaves, cilantro leaves, cumin seeds or powder. Mix well. You can serve it immediately or after refrigerating for some time.

Some people temper oil and use mustard seeds and add it. I wouldn’t want it that way, as the taste of buttermilk would change.

It helps in avoiding dehydration. It soothes you stomach.

Enjoy this refreshing summer drink friends 🙂

Additional notes : You can make it thick by adding more yogurt and less water or you can make it very thin by reducing yogurt and increasing water.

Gingered Cantaloupe Lemonade

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Cantaloupe, Cantaloupe Lemonade, Gingered Cantaloupe Lemonade, Gingered Lemonade, Lemonade

Cantaloupe is a low calorie fruit. It is a great source of vitamins and it reduces stress. I love gingered Lemonade. Thought of mixing these two. And it works out great in summer.

Ingredients:

Cantaloupe : 1/2 of one large

Lemon : 1

Ginger : 4oz grated

Honey : 2 teaspoons

Method:

Take one cup of water, add the grated ginger and let it boil for 5 mins. Then cool it down.Cut the cantaloupe to cubes, remove the skin. Take out the lemon juice and add with cantaloupe. Add Honey and the cooled ginger water to this, put it in a blender and blend it smooth. Refrigerate it for an hour or two and serve chill 🙂

Berry, Banana, fig smoothie

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Banana, Berry, Berry banana fig smoothie, Fig, smoothie, Yogurt

I love banana’s and yeah I can’t live without it 😛 I had got some raspberries few days back. So thought of making a smoothie with these two. I have some health issue for which I was suggested to have banana and fig everyday. I like the crunchy seeds of fig. This time I wanted to make it with Yogurt instead of milk, so that I can get a bit of sour taste as well. Its a mixed taste smoothie.

Ingredients:

Banana : 1 (preferably organic)

Fig : 2 ( chopped)

Yogurt : 1 scoop

Raspberry : 8 to 10

Method:

As usual put them all in a blender and mix well. Make sure there are no lumps of fig in the smoothie.

A big no to sugar or honey with this, as all the ingredients are already sweet.

My pic didn’t come well, I noticed it after finishing it hehehe 🙂 it was actually pretty pink because of the blue background this looks orange, next time I would try getting much clear picture friends 🙂 But the taste was too good, that I couldn’t wait to check my pics 😛

Pomegranate and dates smoothie

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Pomegranate and dates smoothie, Pomegranate smoothie, smoothie

Pomegranate is another gem of fruits well known for its medicinal values. It aids in digestions and weight loss. Many a time in the morning I used to have only pomegranate juice for my breakfast.  It helps stomach upsets, menopausal hot flashes, hemorrhoids, conjunctivitis, osteoarthritis, lowers blood pressure, stimulates the immune system, wards off the flu, reduces inflammation, reduces risk of heart disease and lowers cholesterol. It boosts immunity as well.

Dates is another weight loss food. They are rich in dietary fiber, antioxidants and the essential minerals potassium and magnesium.  Both dates and pomegranate have high Iron content which is very good for health specially for ladies…

And here is my fruits Thursday 🙂

Ingredients:

Pomegranate : 1 medium

milk : 100ml

Dates : 2 to 3 (seeds removed)

Cashew : 3

almonds/walnuts : 3

Method: Just remove the pomegranate seeds, put them in a blender. Add milk, dates, cashew, either almonds or walnuts. There is no need for sugar in this as the fruit itself has the required sugars and dates gives the sweet taste. Blend it well. Grind for 3 to 4 mins, and filter the seeds from the smoothie and serve.

Avocado Smoothie

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Avocado, Avocado Smoothie

South Indians have this tendency and urge to eat food that doesn’t require a lot of chewing, basically a little lazy 😛 I am no exception to it. Rice is the staple food for us and it doesn’t require chewing and easy to eat. There were days when I used to eat just rice with Yogurt mixed without any vegetables.

Actually that took a toll in my health, I got sick ,very fat, without nutrition I was weak. I couldn’t climb stairs. No physical exercise. Every one just made fun of me. I never used to care for my health. It took some time for me to realize it. By that time I had grown really fat.  I was a 5 footer with 155 pounds 😦

But I tried correcting myself by exercising every day. But did not correct my food, a big mistake again. Just exercise will not help. I realized this as well very late. Nevertheless I found it that both physical exercise and proper way of eating is the right way. After this yes I did slim down. I started practicing every Thursday with fruits and milk. Yes at first it was hell. I used crave for food and get exhausted. But slowly I adapted it. Now I am enjoying it. I feel very light after every Thursday when I do this fruits day.

Avocados are a good source of fiber, potassium, and vitamins C, K, folate, and B6. Half an avocado has 160 calories, 15 grams of heart-healthy unsaturated fat, and only 2 grams saturated fat. One globe contains more than one-third the daily value of vitamin C, and more than half the day’s requirements of vitamin K. Check this smoothie that I prepared with avocado.

Ingredients:

Avocado : 1 medium

Milk : 200 ml

Honey : 1 tablespoon

Cinnamon Powder : 1/8 teaspoon

Method:

Cut and slice the avocado, scoop the pulp out, add milk, honey and cinnamon powder and put it in a blender. Blend it to a smoothie, If you need you can add some more milk or water. I prefer honey rather than sugar as honey is much healthier than sugar. Enjoy this healthy smoothie dear friends 🙂

Dried Ginger, Corriander tea/ sukku malli kaapi

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cold cough remedy, Corriander tea, Dried Ginger, home made sukku malli kaapi powder recipe, Home made tea, how to make sukku malli kaapi powder, sukku malli kaapi

Do you have a sore throat, cold or flu? A perfect home made medicine is sukku malli kaapi. This is ideally made with karuppatti( Palm candy) since I did not have stock I have used jaggery.

Spring season is on and pollen allergy as well. First time I am experiencing the pollen allergy. As in India, we never had this allergy. I had a very bad sore throat, my hubby suggested me to prepare this suku malli kaapi( Tamil version of dried ginger, corriander seeds). It helps a lot during the cold, cough, sore throat. After having this yes I had some relief from the sore throat. It doesn’t have any caffeine. Also this helps in digestion.

Ingredients:

To Grind

Dry Ginger -1/2 inch length or Dry Ginger powder – 1 and a half table spoon

Corriander seeds – 1 1/2 table spoon

Cumin seeds – 1 table spoon

Black Pepper corns – 1 table spoon

To prepare tea:

Water – 200 to 250 ml

Palm jaggery/candy – 1 tablespoon ( I used Palm Jaggery)

Above ground mix – 1 tablespoon

Method:

• If you are using dry ginger, grind it to a smooth powder. I used the Ginger powder which we get in grocery.
• Next dry roast the coriander seeds, cumin seeds, black peppercorns for 3 mins.
• And mix with the ginger powder and grind it to a fine powder mixture.
• Now your tea powder is ready.
• Next boil water and add the palm jaggery/sugar. I used palm Jaggery as it is very healthy.
• Now once it is in the boiling stage, add the tea powder and reduce the heat to Medium – low.
• Let it boil for 5 to 6 mins.
• Then have it hot.
• It really help when you have cold and flu.