Wednesday 6 November 2013

Healthy Food for Your Kids

Hello Friends

Most of the kids hate vegetables. But vegetables the good source of vitamins and minerals and is essential for a healthy life. So let us think how can we make the children to eat vegetables in a quite different way.
Get ready for a healthy Soup!

Soup

Ingredients
                                                 
   




Toor dal/ Moongdal                     1 cup 150g    


Chilly                                           1[if it is not spicy you can add 2 or 3]
Curry leaves/ Coriander leaves     as per your wish[ Don't add too much]

Chop these vegetables

Carrot                                  1
Brinjal                                  2
Spinach (any)                       150g
Small Onion(Shallots)           7-10
Water                                  3-4 cups




Method Of Preparation


First pressure cook Toordal/Moongdal for  3 minutes with all the vegetables. Then Mash this with a spoon. If it is too thick add little hot water. You can serve as it is. But some children don't like this. So let us sieve(filter) the juice using strainer with somewhat large hole. Now the Soup is ready.


Final Preparation[If your child likes Mustard seeds, Leaves and Shallots]

Heat 1 table spoon Oil or Ghee and splutter 2 T spoons Mustard seeds, a few Curry leaves or Coriander leaves and 1Spoon chopped Shaallots. Pour it on the Soup. It goes well with Rice and Pappadam





Serve your child with the Healthy Soup


One Useful Tip

When the weather is too hot This Soup gets spoiled  after short time. To avoid this add a little tamarind juice.










Tuesday 22 October 2013

Making a Cake Without Oven

Cake

Cake is a bread like food. It is a special desert on any occasion. You all  know about  cakes and you have tasted different flavors, with or without egg. OK Can you make a cake at home without oven? 


YES.


Here Let us try a cake.


1. First you have to buy a cake mix available in the market.


2. Follow the steps in the cake mix cover to get the cake batter.


3. Take large thick vessel with its lid and a small thick vessel.[One should be large]. 




4. Take the small vessel and apply butter generously.

5. Pour the batter in it.


6. Switch on the stove and keep the large vessel inside that the small vessel with cake batter. Close the lid.


7. When the outer large vessel becomes hot simmer the stove and let it be on the stove for 45 minutes. 


8. Now your cake will be ready. If you want to check get a skewer or knife and insert it into the cake. If your cake is ready the batter will not stick on the knife or skewer.


9. Cut the cake and enjoy.



                           

Saturday 19 October 2013

Make Tea Very tasty !

Making Tea is very easy. Boil water add a little tea powder and pour some milk & sugar, you get tea. But here I would like to tell you how you can make a tasty tea.





Tea

Boil two cups of water add  2 t-spoons of  tea powder. Any brand you can choose. make it boil for 3 minutes then add half cup carton milk. Sugar as per your wish.

Ginger Tea

Boil two cups of water and  a piece of grated ginger and then you add  2 t-spoons of  tea powder. Any brand you can choose. make it boil for 3 minutes then add half cup carton milk. Sugar as per your wish.
Ginger is a home remedy for indigestion. For  stomach upset add 1 T-spoon tea powder for 2 cups of water and add ginger.Don't use milk. Try honey instead of  sugar.

GingerCardomom Tea

Boil two cups of water add  2 t-spoons of  tea powder, a piece of ginger and 2 cardomom crushed or 1/4 T-spoon cardomom powder. Any brand you can choose. make it boil for 3 minutes then add half cup carton milk. Sugar as per your wish.

Please note that after adding milk let the tea boil for few minutes, then the tea will taste good.
Start making tastier teas now.....