Drinks

Chukku Kappi

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An appetizer, also medicine in rhinitis, common cold, cough, fever

Serves 1 person

Ready in 5 minutes

Ingredients

  1. Dry ginger powder – ½ tsp
  2. Grounded Black pepper – 1 tsp
  3. Grounded Coriander seeds – 1 tsp
  4. Tulasi leaves- 1 hand full or Tulasi powder – 1 tbsp.
  5. Brown sugar (optional) – 1/2 to 1 tsp
  6. Water- 2 cups

Method of preparation

  • Boil the water in a sauce pan and add all the ingredients together.
  • Reduce the water into half. Add brown sugar 
  • Drink in warm state.

Notes:  Keep it in a Thermos and drink throughout the day

 

Appetizer tea

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To improve your Agni (digestive fire)

Serves person

Ready in 5 minutes

Ingredients

  1. Grated fresh ginger – ½ teaspoon
  2. Grounded fennel seeds – ½ teaspoon
  3. Grounded cumin seeds – ½ teaspoon
  4. Grounded coriander seeds – ½ teaspoon
  5. Mint leaves (Optional) – 2 or 3 leaves
  6. Water – 250 ml

Method of preparation

  • Boil all ingredients (except mint leaves) in water for 2 minutes, filter the tea.
  • Put the mint leaves and drink in warm state.

Paanakam

healthy-appetizers

Helps to improve appetite and reduce abdominal discomfort

Serves 1 person

Ready in 5 minutes

Ingredients

  1. Water – 2 cups
  2. Jaggery or palm sugar – 2 tbsp.
  3. Cumin seeds – 1 tbsp.
  4. Dry ginger powder – ½ tsp

 

 

 

 

 

 

Method of preparation

  • Boil the water and add all the ingredients.
  • Reduce the water into half of the total in medium flame of fire.
  • Filter it and Your Paanakam is ready to serve.

Notes:  You may replace dry ginger into fresh one

Lemon drink

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A simple drink to improve appetite and helps in weight loss

Serves 1 person

Ready in 5 minutes

Ingredients

  1. Lemon juice – 3 tbsp.
  2. Water – 250 ml
  3. Honey – 1 & 1/2 tbsp.
  4. Green chili – one (according to your spice level)
  5. Salt
  6. Mint leaves – half hand full

Method of preparation

  • Blend lemon juice together with water, honey, salt in a juicer or a blender
  • Add crushed green chili and mint leaves into the drink and mix well.

Notes: You may replace green chili with fresh ginger paste.


Sambharam

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An healthy digestive drink which is cooling and appetizing

Serves 1 person

Ready in 5 minutes

Ingredients

  1. Butter milk (made from cow’s milk) – 250 ml    OR   Yogurt- 150 ml + Water- 150 ml & blend well
  2. Salt
  3. Curry leaves- one string
  4. Green chili- one (according to your spice level)
  5. Lemon leaves – 2

Method of preparation

  • Mix buttermilk with water
  • Add salt to taste
  • Crush well the curry leaves, green chili & lemon leaves and add to the buttermilk.
Notes:
  • Storing in mud pot increase the cooling property and drink whenever you need. 
  • Finish the drink by the same day itself. Keeping for long time will ferment the mixture further.
  • You may replace the green chili with fresh ginger paste

Summer Drink

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A healthy re-hydrating formula

Serves 1 person

Ready in 5 minutes

Ingredients

  1. Fresh Aloe vera pulp – ¼ cup
  2. Cucumber grated – ½ cup
  3. Honey – 2 tbsp.
  4. Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
  5. Salt – 1 pinch

Method of preparation

  • Blend all the ingredients together and drink.

Notes: You may replace cucumber with winter melon or water melon or fresh coconut water

 

Green juice

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Serves 2 persons

Ready in 20 minutes

Ingredients

  1. Cucumber -1 medium sized
  2. Green apple – 1
  3. Kale – 1 handful
  4. Parsley – ¼ cup
  5. Celery  – 1/2 cup
  6. Lemon – 1 tbsp.
  7. Ginger – 1 tbsp.
  8. Juice of 1 grapefruit

Method of preparation

  • Put all the ingredients together in a blender or a magic bullet blend for 30 seconds.

Desserts & Snacks

Stewed Apple

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A healthy re-hydrating formula

Serves 1 person

Ready in 5-10 minutes

Ingredients

  1. Apple – 1 (peel skin and chopped to small cubes)
  2. Cinnamon powder – 1/2 tsp
  3. Honey – 1 tbsp.
  4. Water – 1/4 cup

Method of preparation

  • Heat a pan or skillet on low flame.
  • Add water, apple and cinnamon powder and cook till the apple becomes soft. Stir continuously to avoid sticking on the pan.
  • Turn of the flame and keep it till comes to slight warm. Now add honey and ready to serve.

Notes:

  • Don’t add honey to anything hot.
  • Can replace apples with pear.
  • While cooking, can add little water if needed.
 

Multi seed rosto

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Serves 2 persons

Ready in 10 minutes

Ingredients

  1. Flax seeds – 1 tsp
  2. Chia seeds – 1 tsp
  3. Black sesame seeds – 1tsp
  4. Pumpkin seed – 1 tsp
  5. Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
  6. Hemp seeds – 1 tsp

7. Sunflower seeds -1tsp

8. Poppy seeds -1 tsp

9. Coconut – ½ cup (grated)

10. Palm sugar – ½ cup

11. Whole oats grain – ½ cup

Method of preparation

  • Heat a pan, add all the seeds and oats and dry roast until the raw smell fades ,keep aside.
  • In the same pan sauté coconut for 2 minutes and mix palm sugar into it and stir well.
  • Now add roasted seeds and mix well. The dish is ready.