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Garnish: Allow 10 minutes for the steam to subside. If you have time you could cut onions , tomatoes, coriander leaves etc ( if you do not want to waste this time, you could do all this the previous night and refrigerate these ingredients. If you do not like even to do this, another tip is to cut these things and put in a zip lock bag on Sunday and keep refrigerated. Make enough only for five days (till Friday). So then cooking becomes less time consuming. Cutting these ingredients fresh is the best way to go, though.
After steaming the food in the cooker, take out the separators from the cooker and season. Here we describe easy menus for mornings first then we will go to dinners. Light dinners are best, but if you need to, you can cook dinner too.
General instructions :
Steam dal, beans and vegetables with more water and use the same water to make the gravy during garnishing.
“Curry” in the recipes below mans a gravy type recipe made with spices.
Should we boil milk?
Pasteurization is a process of heating milk at a temperature around 60 degree Celsius for a prolonged period of time to kill harmful bacteria. But Ayurveda says milk should be boiled before drinking. This is because boiling inactivates hormones in the milk, which otherwise have an effect on our body. So boil milk and then drink . Avoid cold pasteurized milk.
Milk cooker for morning breakfast:
Buy a two liter or three liter milk cooker. It is good for boiling milk without the need to watch over the milk boiling over the stove. You get stainless steel milk cookers for less than $20.
While your lunch is getting cooked in the pressure cooker, on another burner you could boil the milk in the milk cooker for breakfast. This cooker is convenient to make home made yogurt and also sweets like Payasam.
For breakfast, add milk in cooker and allow it to 'whistle' for a few minutes. Turn it off and add flakes like oats, corn, barley, wheat, rice etc, each for one breakfast (not a mixture). After 5 to 10 minutes add a little of the dry fruit mix or seed and nut mix and enjoy!
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Sakthi Lunch
Adzuki Beans
Anasazi Beans
Black Beans/Black Turtle Beans
Black-Eyed Peas
Borlotti/Cranberry/Roman
Butter Beans
Cannellini Beans
Christmas Lima Bean/Chestnut Lima
Corona Beans
Fava Beans/Broad Beans
Flageolet Beans
Garbanzo Beans/Chickpeas
Desi/Bengal Gram
Chana Dal(split)
Great Northern Beans
Kidney Beans
Lentils
Green, Red, Yellow, Brown, Other
Lima Beans/Butter Beans
Lupini Beans
Marrow Beans
Moth Beans
Mung Beans
Navy Beans
Pigeon Pea
Pink Beans
Pinto Beans
Red Beans/Small Red Beans
Rice Beans
Scarlet Runner Beans
Soybean/Soya Bean
Spanish Tolosana Beans
Split Peas
Green, Yellow
Tepary Beans
Urad
Whole Wheat based chappati, roti, pasta, etc. Use only stone ground flour which are truly whole wheat flour. Other "claimed" whole wheat flours may not be 100% whole wheat but mixed with white flour. Like rice polished refined wheat flour is devoid of fiber and nutrients and cause all health problems in the long run. So try to use as much possible whole wheat grain.
Corn based tortillas are very healthy if it prepared in the traditional Mexican way of fermenting corn with lime and grinding it to flour and then making tortillas with it.
Rye also can be used in the form of whole rye flour and be made as chappati, roti, pasta.
Rye Grain Barley Grain
Whole Barley can be used like rice by soaking it overnight before cooking it. Pearl barley is devoid of fiber and nutrients and so try to use whole barley. Whole Barley chappati , roti also can be made. Laboratory studies show that the insoluble fiber found in barley can be extremely effective in maintaining regular intestinal function which may help reduce the incidence of certain types of cancer such as colon cancer. Extensive research on barley's soluble fiber has shown that it can help lower blood cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease.”
Quinoa and Buckwheat (whole grains) also can be used like rice and wheat.
Quinoa Buckwheat
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Sakthi Sweets
The objective is to make sweets with whole grains and unrefined sugar and ghee or butter instead of refined grains and sugar and hydrogenated oils. The advantage of using whole grains for sweets is that the fiber content in them traps sugar which will not be released for absorption. The obvious reason is that the whole grains has a store of nutrients of its own and so will not pull out body's reserve nutrients for its digestion. This is a healthy approach to save for body nutrients and prevent exhaustion of them avoiding refined food products.
Avocado-desert-cream
In a blender, blend one well ripen pear and few dates to a solid paste. Then to that add one well ripen avocado and blend it as thick as possible. This delicious desert is a very healthy and tasty tasty. You can chill it and stuff in cones and give to children instead of health spoiling ice creams.
Vegan sweets with no diary fat:
Flax seeds Laddu
Dry Fry one cup of brown flax seeds in a pan without any oil or butter for 10 minutes until it is roasted. Then powder it . Powder quarter cup of Jaggery and mix (knead) with the flax seed roasted powder and roll into balls. It is easy and very very healthy.
Preparation Time : Less than 15 minutes.
Sesame seeds Laddu
Dry Fry one cup of black or white (black better) sesame seeds in a pan without any oil or butter for 10 minutes until it is roasted. Then powder it in a blender or mixi . Powder quarter cup ofJaggery and mix (knead) with the sesame seed roasted powder and roll into balls. It is easy and very very healthy. It is extremely good for women to regulate irregular mentruation and suffering from infertility problems.
Preparation Time : Less than 15 minutes.
Peanut Laddu
Dry Fry one cup of peanut in a pan without any oil or butter for 10 minutes until it is roasted. Then powder it .Powder quarter cup of Jaggery and mix (knead) with the peanut roasted powder and roll into balls. It is easy and very very healthy.
Preparation Time : Less than 15 minutes.
Quinoa sweet
Soak quinoa and pressure cook it. Using milk cooker easy way to cook payasam (porridge) is to heat 2 cups of milk (you could add one cup of milk and one cup water if you don’t like too much of milk). when the milk cooker starts to give whistle add ½ teaspoon of cardamom powder or one broken pod and five broken cashews and 10 raisins. Add ½ cup or little less of cooked quinoa and mix well without forming lumps. Add ½ cup of brown sugar and close the lid and allow to boil. (You could add butter one teaspoon and mix finally for good flavor).
Preparation Time : Less than 12 minutes.
Whole red rice payasam (porridge)
In a pan boil two cups of milk (you could add one cup of milk and one cup water if you don’t like too much of milk). Add ½ cup of cracked red rice or brown rice (in a mixi or blender) to the milk and cook the rice in it. When it boils add ½ a teaspoon of turmeric powder (we use this as a coloring agent rather than using chemical colors) , ½ teaspoon of cardamom powder or one broken pod and five broken cashews and 10 raisins. When the contents are cooked well add ½ cup of brown sugar and mix well (adding sugar in the end reduces sugar use, you could use less than half cup also). Keep stirring for a minute and then serve. (You could add butter one teaspoon and mix finally for good flavor).
Preparation Time : 30 minutes.
Amaranth Halwa
Soak overnight amaranth seeds and then pressure cook it. Heat butter in a pan and then add broken 10 cashews and 10 raisins. Add ½ cup or little less of cooked quinoa and mix well without forming lumps. Add ½ cup of brown sugar and close the lid and allow to thicken. Serve.
Preparation Time : Less than 12 minutes.
Whole Almond Halwa
Soak overnight one cup of whole almonds (not blanched) and do not peel the skin. The skin has nutritional benefits and also taste good as halwa. Then grind the almond with water or whole milk (milk taste better). Heat butter in a pan and add the ground almonds paste to it and stir it continuously till it is almost cooked. All half a cup of brown sugar (add more or less according to the sweetness you need). Keep stirring until it is cooked and thicken.
Then take out of stove and add one teaspoonful of cardamom powder. Mix well and then can be poured on a plate and cut later into desired shape or rounded into balls.
Cashew Halwa
Soak overnight one cup of cashews. Then grind the almond with water or whole milk (milk taste better). Heat butter in a pan and add the ground cashew paste to it and stir it continuously till it is almost cooked. All half a cup of brown sugar (add more or less according to the sweetness you need). Keep stirring until it is cooked and thicken.
Then take out of stove and add one teaspoonful of cardamom powder. Mix well and then can be poured on a plate and cut later into desired shape or rounded into balls.
Aloe Vera sweet for piles: 20 gm of pepper, cumin seeds, and chukku (dry ginger) each are powdered together in 1 litre of aloe vera juice. ½ kg of palm sugar and 1 litre cow’s milk is added and boiled. Allow the mixture to reduce to a thick consistency (reduce to 50% of original). This is then cooled and stored in a bottle. Half a teaspoon of this preparation is then taken internally both morning and evening.
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