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Surakkai Soup / BottleGourd Soup / Lauki soup

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Surakkai Soup / BottleGourd Soup is full of nutrients. Bottle Gourd is a high fibre vegetable and is full of anti-oxidants. This soup is a good option for people who are trying to loose weight. This vegetable cools your body. While consuming this soup regularly you can see a lot a benefits on your hair and skin.

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Surakkai Soup / BottleGourd Soup / Lauki soup

Surakkai Soup / BottleGourd Soup / Lauki soup is a healthy and nutritious soup
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time25 minutes
Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: bottlegourd, healthysoup, soup
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 1 Medium Bottle Gourd
  • 2 Tablespoon Butter
  • ½ teaspoon Cumin Seeds
  • ½ teaspoon Pepper
  • 15 Shallots
  • 1 Garlic
  • Coriander Leaves Fistful
  • Salt to taste
  • Water as needed

Instructions

  • Peel the bottlegourd and chop them into small pieces.
  • Heat a pressure Cooker. Add in Cumin and Pepper and saute them.
  • Add in small onion and garlic and sauté them.
  • Add in the chopped bottle gourd and coriander leaves.
  • Add in 2 cups of water. Add salt to taste.
  • Close the pressure cooker and pressure cook for 3 whistles.
  • Switch off the flame allow the cooker to cool down completely.
  • Open the pressure cooker. Blend the ingredients using a hand blender.
  • Transfer to a serving bowl and serve hot.
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Step by step instructions

Surakkai Soup step 1
1. Take tender Bottle Gourd. Peel the skin and chop into small pieces.
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2. Chop the vegetables. Get ready with the ingredients.
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3. Heat butter in a pan.
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4. Add in Cumin Seeds and Black Pepper.
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5. Add in Garlic
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6. Add in Small Onion.
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7. Add in Chopped Bottle Gourd.
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8. Add in Green Chili.
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9. Add in Chopped Coriander.
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10. Add in salt to taste.
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11. Add in required water.
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12. Pressure cook for 3 whistles. Open Pressure cooker after the pressure is released.
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13.Open the pressure Cooker.
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14. Blend the soup using a hand blender.
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Tips

Before using the Bottle gourd taste a small slice of it. If it tastes bitter, then discard immediately. Tender Bottle Gourd tastes great.

Watermelon Ice Apple Juice

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Watermelon Ice Apple Juice is a treat on a summer day. The Blend of WaterMelon and Ice Apple with milk gives a nice and soothing taste. Both watermelon and Ice apple have nice cooling properties this helps in cooling down your body and keeps you hydrated on a summer day. Ice apple is a low calorie and high fibre food which keeps us full for a long time. Watermelon hydrates us well on a hot summer day.

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Water Melon Ice Apple Juice is a treat on a summer day. The Blend of WaterMelon and Ice Apple with milk gives a nice and soothing taste. Both watermelon and Ice apple have nice cooling properties this helps in cooling down your body and keeps you hydrated on a summer day.
Prep Time10 minutes
Total Time10 minutes
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: iceapple, juice, watermelon
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 500 ml Water Melon Juice
  • 150 ml Sweetened Condensed Milk
  • 150 ml Milk
  • 1 Cup Ice Apple Peeled and Chopped
  • 1 Cup Water Melon

Instructions

  • Add all the ingredients into a bowl and mix them gently.
  • Serve Chilled

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1. Add Water Melon Juice in a Mixing Bowl
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2. Add in Condensed Milk
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3. Mix them gently.
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4. Add in Milk and mix them.
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5. Remove the skin of ice apple. Chop into small pieces and add them in.
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6. Mix them.
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7. Remove the seeds from watermelon. Chop into small pieces.
WaterMelon Ice Apple juice
8. Add them in and mix gently.
WaterMelon Ice Apple juice

Serving Suggestions

Watermelon Ice Apple juice tastes best when served chilled. It can be served as a mid morning snack on a hot summer day.

Curry Leaves Chicken

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Curry Leaves Chicken Masala is a very easy, tasty and yummy Chicken side Dish. It can be served with Steamed rice and simple rasam or can be served with rotis. Curry Leaves Chicken is Prepared using Coconut oil and Curry Leaves roasted in it. The freshly ground masala gives out awesome flavours to the recipe. It tastes simply yummy.

Curry Leaves Chicken Curry

Step by step instructions

Dry Roasting Curry Leaves

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1. Roast Curry Leaves
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2. Let the Curry Leaves Cool down.

Dry Roasting Spices

roast pepper
3. Heat a Wok. Add in black Pepper
roast cumin
4. Add in Cumin.
roast fennel seeds
5. Add Fennel Seeds
Roast Coriander
6. Add coriander Seeds
Roast Cinnamon and Cloves
7. Add Cinnamon and Cloves
dry the masala
8. Dry roast all the spices until nice aroma comes out and cool them down.
heat oil
9. Heat oil in a wok.
add bay leaves
10. Add in Bay Leaves and saute until nice aroma comes out.
add onion
11. Add in chopped onion and saute until glossy.
add tomato and salt
12. Add in chopped tomatoes and saute until mushy.
Add ginger garlic paste
13. Add in Ginger Garlic Paste and saute it.
saute the vegetables
13. Saute until the raw smell leaves.
add chicken
13. Add in the chicken Pieces and mix them gently.
cook chicken
14. Chicken releases water while cooking. Cook until it is soft.
add salt
15. Add in salt to taste.
16. Add Chilli Powder and Turmeric Powder.
let masalas blend
17. Mix them and keep cooking.
add curry leaves powder
18. Add in the Powdered spices.
cook chicken
20. Cook until the masalas blend well.
delicious chicken ready
21. cook until all the water evaporates and the chicken is coooked tender.
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Curry Leaves Chicken is a mouthwatering and spicy chicken recipe.
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time35 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: chicken, curryleaves, nonveg
Servings: 4

Ingredients

To Dry Roast and Grind

  • 10 Sprig Curry Leaves
  • 1 inch Cinnamon
  • 3 Cloves
  • 2 Teaspoon Pepper
  • 2 Teaspoon Fennel Seeds
  • 1 Teaspoon Cumin Seeds
  • 2 Tablespoon Coriander Seeds

Other Ingredients

  • 1 kg Chicken
  • 1 Tablespoon Oil
  • 1 Bay Leaves
  • 2 Onion Chopped
  • 2 Tablespoon Ginger Garlic Paste
  • 2 Tomatoes
  • 1 Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
  • 2 Teaspoon Chilli Powder
  • Salt to taste

Notes

  • Dry Roasting the curry leaves gives green color to the recipe.
  • Adding more curry leaves while dry roasting would turn the recipe bitter.
  • This recipe is a spicy recipe. If you want to reduce the spice level adjust spices accordingly.
  • Do not burn any of the ingredients while dry roasting or it would spoil the taste.
  • Dry roasted curry leaves have a strong taste. Hence do not add more than the mentioned quantity.
  • Add Water only if required.
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Reduce Grey Hair Naturally

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Use this hair pack to reduce grey hair naturally. If you are spotting Grey Hair Recently like me then this hair pack will help you darken them. Using hair products with toxic chemicals can result in more greying of the hair. Many home remedies will help you get back your dark hair. It is always ideal to use natural remedies for your hair to get rid of these greys rather than going behind the chemical treatments. 

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Ingredients

Amla Powder: Amla strengthens your hair as well as the follicles, which means no more hair fall and faster hair growth. As your hair strengthens from the roots and stops breaking, it also regains its original colour and luster. Amla gives stronger and shinier hair.

Henna Powder is a natural conditioner and a colorant. Henna is in fact an age-old home remedy to turn grey hair into black.

Bhringraj Powder prevents hairfall and baldness can help you boost hair growth and control hairfall. It slows down premature greying and helps blacken dull hair.  

Hibiscus Flower Powder halts grey hair

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Prep Time5 minutes
Servings: 0

Equipment

  • 1 Bowl
  • 1 Spoon

Ingredients

  • Bhringraj Powder
  • Hibiscus Powder
  • Amla Powder
  • Henna Powder
  • Curd

Instructions

  • Make a smooth paste and apply this paste as a hair mask on the hair, making sure to cover the roots. Leave it on for an hour and rinse with a mild herbal shampoo.

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Rava Kesari

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Rava Kesari is a Sweet recipe that is prepared for festive occasions. Rava Kesari is made with Semolina / Rava / Sooji. It is generally served alongside idli, Vada with Chutney and Sambar in a breakfast. It tastes great with super soft, shiny texture without much ghee. The secret to make perfect Rava kesari is adding enough liquid to cook the Semolina / Rava. It is traditionally served warm, but tastes equally good when chilled.

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Rava Kesari is a easy dessert that can be prepared for any occasion.
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: dessert, Kesari, rava, sooji, sweets
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup Rava / Sooji
  • 3 Cups Water
  • 2 Cups Sugar
  • 5 Tablespoon Ghee
  • 15 Cashews Broken
  • ½ teaspoon Food Color / Kesari Powder
  • ½ teaspoon Cardamom Essence / Cardamom Powder

Instructions

  • Heat 2 tablespoon of ghee in a wok
  • Add in cashews and roast until it starts browning.
  • Take them out or ghee and set aside.
  • Add in the sooji and start roasting until nice aroma comes out.
  • switch off the flame and set aside.
  • Bring water to boil. Add in Cardamom / Cardamom essence.
  • Add the boiling water into sooji and start cooking again in medium to low flame.
  • When the water is all absorbed add in the sugar.
  • The sugar starts melting and the mixture gets a bit watery. Keep cooking until all the water evaporates.
  • Add in the remaining ghee and keep mixing them.
  • Switch off flame and add in the roasted cashews and mix gently.
  • Delicious dessert is now ready to serve.

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1. Heat Ghee in a Pan.
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2. Add in Cashews and roast in low flame.
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3. When the Cashews start browning stop roasting and take them out of ghee.
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4. Set them aside.
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5. Into the same Ghee add in the Sooji
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6. Roast for few minutes until nice aroma comes or the Sooji starts to brown. Switch off the flame
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7. Heat water.
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8. Add in Cardamom or Cardamom Extract.
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9. Bring the water to boil.
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10. Add in the Sooji and start heating in medium to low flame.
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11. Keep cooking until sooji absorbs the water completely.
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12. Add in sugar in this stage.

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13. When the Sugar melts the mixture gets little watery.
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14. Add in the kesari Food Color. Keep Cooking until the water is absorbed.
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15. Add in the Ghee.
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16. Mix gently.
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17. When the Ghee is mixed. Switch off the flame.
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18. Add in the roasted cashews and mix gently.

Delicious Rava Kesari is now ready to serve.

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Tips

  • Adjust the sweetness according to your taste as because my version is sweeter.
  • I have added only cashews in the above recipe but you can add any choice of nuts and dry fruits.
  • Cardamon essence can be replaced for crushed cardamon or Cardamom powder.
  • Roasting the Rava/sooji enhances the taste and is the key step in the texture of the kesari. Roast the rava in low to medium flame and make sure not to change the color.
  • Roasting Rava also helps in avoiding lumps while adding water.
  • Rava Kesari thickens over time so do not make it dry switch off the flame when it is a little flowy or loose.

Serving Suggestion

Rava Kesari is a Sweet item and It is generally served along other breakfast recipes like idli chutney and sambar.