Colour your diet

Colour your diet 

 

Just like Navratri is filled with colours  eat your way to a better health, add some colour to your plate to ward off health and beauty problems – from heart disease to wrinkles.

Recent research suggests that if your plate looks like a little piece of the rainbow, with fresh vibrant colours, you could be reaping the benefits of a healthy meal.

Eating brightly coloured fruit and vegetables can keep you fit and healthy and protect against certain cancers, arthritis, heart disease, cataracts and even premature ageing,

Keep watching this space to know how to put a rainbow on your plate.....Each day we will put up the benefits of each colour so keep watching ....Njoy Navratri

Recipe for fast - Samak ke chawal

                                            Samak ke chawal

This is one of the healthy food recipe which u can enjoy even if u are not fasting. It will take maximum of fifteen minutes in preparing this dish and you wont feel hungry for 3-4 hours at least.
Here goes the spicy rice recipe

Ingredients:-
Serves - 2-3
1/2 cup of samo rice(Samak ki chawal/samak rice)
1tsp ghee
2 chopped green chillies
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp kala namak(rock salt)
1 or 2 boiled potato (diced)
1.small cinnamon stick
2 cloves
1 bay leaf
1 black cardamom
half cup roasted peanuts(Grind them in a mixer for few seconds)
4-5 curry leaves
Coriander leaves for garnishing
 
Method :-
Step1. Take a pan and add ghee in it.Add cumin seeds, cloves, bay leaf, cardamoms and cinnamon.Stir till u start getting the aroma.
Step2 - Add in curry leaves, peanuts, potato and rice.
Step3 – Add salt, black pepper powder and 2 cups of water.
Step4 – Lower the flame and simmer for about 15 minutes or till whole of the water is absorbed.If you think that rice is not cooked properly than add more water and cook for a while.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve it hot .If you are serving it to kids then drop a 1tsp of ghee above it.

Navratri Specials (Food Eaten During Navratri)

  With the onset of Navratras, it's again the time to fast. "Instead of fasting, most of us end up feasting on high-calorie food. A lot of people who have just one meal a day tend to overeat. If one eats one heavy meal in the entire day, it doesn't get converted into energy instantly but accumulates as fat in the body,'' For those who fast all nine days, it is important to eat small meals at regular intervals.

Following are a few tips which should of help:- 

1.No onion and garlic are used in the food during nine days 

2. No chemical salt but only rock salt is used 

3. Spices used are red chillies, cumin, black jeera, turmeric, choti elachi, saboot kali mirchi, khuskhus and water melon seeds

4. Fresh coriander, green chillies and ginger are used

5. Fruits, nuts, dry fruits, coconut, makhanna can be used

6. Milk products like milk, yoghurt, cream and paneer are used

 

7. Flours used are -- Singhare ka atta, kottu ka atta, rajgiri ka atta, saboodana   arrowroot and samak

8.Limited amounts of oil and ghee can be used to cook food

9. Vegetables used are – potatoes, raw papaya, sweet potato,bhopla,arbi,raw banana

10.One should drink lots of  water, coconut water, lemon water, herbal tea to keep the body hydrated.