Pav Bhaji

Ingredients:

Pav bun – 6

Onion – 2 chopped

Tomato – 3 boil, peel & paste it

Potato – 3 – 4 boiled

Dry peas – soaked overnight & boil it

Butter – 150 gm

Pav bhaji masala – 2 tblspn

Chilli powder – ½ spn

Kasuri methi – ½ spn

Salt – as per taste

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbl spn

Lemon – 1

Coriander leaves – few

Preparation:

Boil potato and peas keep aside.

Heat pan add 3 tbl spoons of butter let it melt, add onion, sauté it.

Add ginger garlic paste cook till raw smell goes. Add tomato paste cook till oil separate.

Add pav bhaji masala, salt and chilli powder mix well. Then add boiled peas and potato mash well and required water, cook for 3 mins .

Add kasuri methi mix it. When oil separates switch off the flame. Sprinkle chopped onion and coriander leaves.

Heat a dosa tawa add some butter place pav bun. Cook for 15 secs both side.

Serve with lemon wedges, butter and some chopped onion.

Eye Care Tips

 Natural beauty tips for eyes to get beautiful eyes naturally. There are certain beauty tips for eyes that can create a naturally beautiful look. Your eyes say a lot about how you feel. Is ‘how to get beautiful eyes’ the question on your mind? Here are some homemade beauty tips for eyes that will help keep your eyes healthy and pretty.

• Cut a few slices off of a cucumber and keep them in the refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Keep the chilled slices over your eyelids until they become the warm.
• Then wash your eyes with water.

• Dip 2 cotton balls in rose water, place the wet cotton balls over your closed eyelids.
• Leave it 10 to 15 minutes, then wash your eyes with water

• Suck your eyes with room-temperature of water a few times daily.
• Avoid watching at your computer screen for too long and twinkle frequently to prevent your eyes from drying out.
• Drink the plenty of water and eat fruits and vegetables which based on water.

• Dip 2 cotton balls in a cold milk.
• Place them on your closed eyelids for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Wash your face and moisturize as usual.

• The starch in potatoes is said to have anti-inflammatory qualities that can help soothe skin and reduce irritation. Peel raw potatoes and then grate and pound into a poultice. Apply to the eyes and leave on for 15 minutes.

• The tannin in the tea reduces any swelling and the appearance of dark circles caused by lack of sleep, while the moisture from the bags is absorbed into the eyes, rehydrating and reviving them. Use green tea or black tea. Brew the tea bags as you would normally and allow the bags to cool or place them in the refrigerator. Lie down and place a tea bag over each eye and leave in place for about 15 minutes.

• An ice-cold compress placed over your eyes helps constrict the blood vessels which may be causing your dark circles. Good choices include a bag of frozen peas or two chilled teaspoons. Lay down with your head propped by pillows and place the compress or compresses over your eyes. Rest for at least 10 minutes and gently pat your eyes dry.

• Egg is a wonderful natural ingredient that aids the skin to tighten helping reduce the appearance of wrinkles. Mix one egg white with 3-5 drops of lemon juice. Saturate two clean cotton balls in the mixture, squeeze excess liquid out before placing over the eyes for ten minutes. Wash off with warm water then rinse with cold.

• Lack of sleep can make your skin appear paler, which allows blood vessels to be more visible through the skin, giving the appearance of bluish or dark circles. So make sure that you are getting in at least 7-8 hours of undisturbed sleep.

Healthy Nerves

The nervous system is responsible for controlling the larger part of our vital functions breathing, heartbeats, hunger, thirst, posture, etc. as well as for our emotions, happiness, sadness, etc, it is imporant to strengthen it naturally to ensure a good quality of life. some specific foods that positively regulate our nervous system.

Baker’s yeast is good in B vitamins,  it is also a good reinforcer of the central nervous system, and therefore it can help improve cases of depression, anxiety, stress, apathy, or lack of appetite.  We can eat it in powder form, mixed with juice or yogurt. If we take it with food, it will improve nutrition assimilation.

Oatmeal is a delicious cereal acts as a nervous system stabilizer.  It calms irritable states and mild anxiety, relieves insomnia, including in small children, and increases mental performance. It is strangely a food that both relaxes and gives energy.  We can eat it cooked, sweet or salty, boiled with milk with a little cinnamon, or with creamed vegetables.  We can also drink oatmeal milk.

Bee Pollen is a superfood.  It equalizes the blood pH and nervous system function thanks to its B vitamins.  We will take a tablespoon of ground pollen every morning, mixed with a bit of water, juice, or yogurt.

It is recommended, in these cases, to daily consume foods rich in magnesium,

Dark chocolate has almost 500 mg of magnesium per 3.5 ounces, Green leafy vegetableslike Swiss chard, lettuce, spinach, Fruits lke Banana, apricot, avocado, melon, plum. Nuts like Almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts. Then Peas, lentils, Cereals like Brown rice, millet, oats, Seeds,Potatoes,Pumpkin. We can also opt for a magnesium supplement.  In this case, we will take three grams every day, orally, three times a day so the body can absorb it properly, which is one gram per meal.

Walking barefoot on moist earth, dewy grass, beach sand, in a river, in the sea, etc, at least half an hour a day is the most economic and healthy way to balance our nervous system.  In addition, it helps us to eliminate elctromagnetic radiation that we absorb in our body from continuous contact with electronic devices.  We recommend that you test it out, as the results can be noticed from the first day.

Kumbakonam Kadappa (Gravy)

Ingredients:

Yellow moong dhal - 3 table spoon (boiled)

Potato – 2 (boiled)

Turmeric powder – 1 spoon

Oil - as req

Salt - as per taste

Onion -1 big sliced

Tomato – 1

Curry leaves – few

To temper:

urud dhal – ½ spoon

mustard seeds – ½ spoon

Bay leaves – 1

Cardamom – 2

Star anise – 1

Cloves – 2

Kalpasi (black stone flower) – 1 or 2

Cinnamon - 2

To grind:

Fennel seeds- ½ spoon

Poppy seeds- 1 spoon (soak it in  water for 30 mins)

Grated coconut – 4 tbl spoons

Roasted gram dhal – 1 spoon

Green chilli – 3 to 5

Garlic - 2 num

Preparation:

v Boil moong dhal with 1 spoon of turmeric powder for 2 whistles.

v Boil potatoes and crumble it by using your hands.

v Grind fresh grated coconut, fennel seeds, green chillies, roasted gram dhal, soaked poppy seeds and garlic to fine thick paste.

v Heat a pan add oil, then temper with mustard, urud dhal.

v Then add bay leaf, star anise, Cinnamon, kalpasi, cardamom, cloves sauté it for 5 secs.

v Add onion and curry leaves cook it for 2 mins, then add tomato cook for 2 mins.

v Then add boiled moong dhal and boiled potato mix well boil it for few secs, then add grinded paste mix well and add salt cook for a min, then add required water (not too much) boil it well stir often .

v Serve with hot idly, dosa, poori, chapathi.

POTATO MASALA WITH PUFFED PURI / ALOO MASALA WITH PURI

Ingredients:

1. Boiled potato- 3
2. Sliced onion- 2
3. Green chilli sliced- 2 or 3
4. Salt- as per taste
5. Turmeric powder- ½ spoons
6. Oil-5 table spoon
7. Oil – for deep frying
8. Wheat flour-2 cups
9. Sooji- 1 spoon
10. Curry leaves- few
11. Mustard seeds- ½ spoon
12. Soaked channa dhal- 1 spoon 

Preparation:

Puri:

• In a bowl add wheat flour, salt, sooji mix all together.
• Add little water and knead well, make soft and thick tight dough
• Don’t add too much of water while kneading. Rest it for 10 mins,
• Then take small balls of wheat dough then roll and spread flat, puri should be little thick so don’t spread it too wide and flat.
• Then heat a pan add oil; deep fry the puri one by one.

Potato masala:

• Heat oil in a wide pan
• Add mustard seeds let it crack then add channa dhal sauté for 5 secs, then add green chilies, onion, curry leaves one by one sauté well till onion becomes transparent .
• Then add salt and turmeric powder mix it for a sec.
• Add potato in and mash it here and there, mix well and pour required water not too much.
• Mix all and let it boil for 3 mins, stir often. serve with puri, chapathi, roti.