Fried rice with sprouts recipe.

Fried rice is one of the favourite dish of young generation.It can be used used for breakfast,or as snack,or during festivals.If you add sprouts to fried rice taste will be good and of course it is good for health.Try this very delicious fried rice with sprouts.

Required ingredients

Rice:1 cup
Green gram sprouts:1/2 cup
Small onions:(chopped):2
Mixed vegetables(carrot,beans,green peas) chopped:1 cup
Cumin seeds;1 tsp
Cinnamon:2 inch
Cardamom:2 cloves
Curry leaves:2 twigs
Salt;to taste
Clove:2

Oil+ghee:2tsp each

How to prepare fried rice with sprouts

• Heat oil and ghee in pressure pan.Add the spices and fry until good aroma comes from the spices.
• Add onions and them till they become transparent.
• Wash and put the rice to it.Fry it till it becomes white.
• Add 2-21/2cups of water,salt,chopped vegetables,sprouts,curry leaves and mix well.
• Close the lid.Cook for 2 signals.Allow it to release pressure by its own.
• Open the lid.mix well.
• Serve hot with side dish.

Fruity channa salad recipe

Salads are easy to prepare and good for health.Since it is freshly prepared and raw it is full of energy.We can make many combinations of fruits and vegetables.

Required ingredients

Cooked chick peas:1 cup

Cucumber,grated:1/2 cup

Orange segments,peeled:1/2 cup

Chopped coriander leaves:2 tsp

Lemon juice:1 tsp

Salt and pepper powder:to taste

How to prepare fruity Channa salad

• Combine all the ingredients except the salt and pepper.
• just before serving add salt and pepper and and mix well.

Wheat germ cutlets recipe

Wheat germ cutlet is a healthy snack.It is very tasty and mouth watering dish for all ages.Wheat germ is very good from the health point of view.

Required ingredients

Wheat germ:1 cup

Small rawa/soji:1 cup

Potatoes,boiled and mashed well:2 large

Spinach:finely chopped:1 bunch

Bottle gourd grated:1/2 medium

Carrot grated:1

Onion finely chopped:1

Ginger crushed:1 piece

Salt to taste

Ghee

How to prepare wheat germ cutlets

• Press out all excess water from bottle gourd.
• Press out all moisture from spinach,by pressing in the fold of a cloth.
• Take potatoes in a large mixing bowl.Add all vegetables,wheat germ salt ,ginger.
• Mix all ingredients of the bowl to form a soft lump.
• Take  portions of mixture,form cutlet shaping as desired.
• Dip each one in rawa on both sides and keep on pre heated skillet.Cook on both sides by adding little ghee.
• Serve hot with chutney.

Cucumber salad recipe

Cucumber salad is one of the best healthy and tasty salad.It can be used with rice or directly.It is called as Sasive in local language.Here little buttermilk,coconut and mustard seeds are used.

 Required ingredients 

Cucumber:1
Grated coconut:1/2 cup

 Mustard seeds:1/2 tsp Salt:to taste
Buttermilk:1/4 cup
 Coriander leaves

How to prepare cucumber salad

•  Grate cucumber or finely chop and put it into serving bowl.
•  Grid grater coconut with mustard seeds to form smooth paste by adding sufficient water. 
• Add it to the grated cucumber.
•  Add salt,buttermilk and mix well.Decorate with coriander leaves.

Methi sambar for shyavige

Methi/fenugreek is very cool in nature.It is good for diabetes. we can prepare a very delicious side dish for noodles,idly,dosa.Combination of this will be very tasty and good for health also.

Required ingredients

Methi/Fenugreek seeds:1 tsp
Red chilly:1
Tamarind:a pinch
Salt:to taste
Jaggery(optional):to taste
Grated coconut:1 cup
Oil:1 tsp
For tempering:Oil,mustard seeds,curry leaves.

How to prepare methi/fenugreek sambar

• Take methi and red chilly in a pan.Add little oil.
• Fry them in a low flame till you get the smell of methi and methi should turn in to golden brown.
• Grind them with grated coconut ,tamarind to form smooth paste by adding sufficient water.
• Transfer in to a vessel, add water so that the consistency should be like that of sambar.
• Add salt and  jaggery,boil it for 2-3 minutes.
• Put off the fire.Tempering done with heating oil,mustard seeds and curry leaves.

South indian famous breakfast dish Rice noodles recipe(ottu shyavige)

South Indian rice noodles(ottu shyavige) is one of the traditional breakfast dish.Usually it is prepared during festivals or for guests.This is one of the tasty homemade breakfast dish.It can be served with Banana rasayana/mango rasayana/coconut milk/methi sambar /with chutney.We can prepare upma with it.that is also very tasty.Ingredients are very less,but the preparation is a long procedure. Usually it is prepared with white rice.Some people prepare it with boiled rice also.Some people mix  both white rice and boiled rice in equal ratio.According to your  taste you can try this.

Required ingredients

Rice:2 cups
Salt:to taste

How to prepare South Indian rice noodles(ottu shyavige) 

• Soak rice for 2 hours after washing.Grind it in to smooth paste after adding sufficient water.
• Transfer it in to a thick bottomed pan.Add salt to taste.
• The thickness of the batter should be thinner than the dosa batter.Adjust the water.
• Heat it on medium flame and start stirring.
• Stirr continuously till it becomes a lump and starts separating from the sides of the pan.
• Allow it to cool.Make balls of the size so that it should adjust your shyavige machine or chakkuli presss.
• Steam cook the balls for 30-45 minutes.
• Put one by one balls in the shyavige machine or chakkuli press and press it.Collect the noodles or shyavige.
• Serve with Coconut milk/banana rasayana/dates rasayana/chutney/methi sambar/any side dish of your choice.

Home remedies for Cough

 Cough is one of the unwanted guest in every body's life.It causes some sort of disturbance to our day today activities.There will be irritation of throat,loss of sleep in association with cough.It is a comman problem for smokers,and some high sensitive person.All people must have experienced cough in their life time.

What is cough?

Cough is not a disease,it is the body's way of removing foreign particles from the lungs and upper air ways,is a symptom of many conditions like laryngitis,bronchitis,tuberculosis,etc.

Types of cough

There are two types of classification
(1)Productive cough
   Non productive cough
(2)Acute cough
Chronic cough
Productive cough-This type of cough produces mucus.Depending upon the condition colour of mucus will be different like white,yellow,brown etc
Non productive cough -In this there will not be any mucus production.cough will be dry.
Acute cough which has produced with in 3 weeks time.
Chronic cough-cough which lasts for more than 3 weeks time.

Causes of cough

• External irritants such as smoke,dust,some time times swallowed particles irritating the air passage.
• Allergy to some particular objects.
• Some of the diseases like asthma,bronchitis,pneumonia,lung tumour or cancer of lung,tuberculosis etc
• Viral infections like common cold may turn to cough.
• Smoking or any other form of tobacco use causes lung damage and produces cough.

Remedies for cough

In case of Tuberculosis of lung, Pneumonia, Tumor/cancer of Resp. system Do take treatment from a Physician or Expert.
Cough is a symptom and not disease,so we have to manage or treat the causes.

• Always take fresh foods ,avoid frozen foods.
• Use plenty of water.
• Clean up your body by doing fasting under the guidance of an expert in a Naturecure centre. Do take Hydrotherapy along with Fasting.
• Do regular pranayama,yogasana,jalanethi, Vamana dhouthi  to improve body's resistance power to prevent infections.
• Lemon tea with ginger during cough gives soothing effect to throat.Ginger supresses respiratory ailiments like cold, cough and with soothing effect it acts as antidote to cough.Lemon contains ascorbic acid ,it helps to neutralise the mucus of cough.
• Honey is known for its healing properties.It does wonders mixed with lemon juice.That is 1 tsp of lemon juice mixesd with 2 tsp of honey and licked every 2 hourly.It helps to clear the throat and gives soothing effect to throat.
• Inhaling steam,aids in releasing mucus in affected air passage and gives relief.
• Herbal tea prepared with basal leaf,lemongrass leaf and ginger also helps in soothing the throat.
• Turmeric milk is awonderful remedy for cold and cough.
• Licking of the mixture-1 tsp ginger juice+1 tsp honey+1 tsp lemon juice+1/4 tsp of turmeric powder also gives good relief from cough.
• Cook onion in  direct fire and eat cooked onion.This gives good result.