Recipe of Indian snack Chivda

This is a Maharashtrian popular snack in India; will remain fresh for more than 20 – 30 days. In the market various types of Pohas available here we are using thin Poha in our recipe.

• Preparation Time: 30 Minutes.
• Serves:  4 persons.

Ingredients:
• 2 Cups of thin Poha
• 3 – 4 table spoon Oil
• 1 tea spoon Mustard Seeds
• 1 tea spoon Cumin Seeds
• 1 tea spoon Turmeric powder
• ½ tea spoon red Chilli powder
• 6 – 8 Curry Leaves
• ½ cup Peanuts
• ¼ cup raisins
• Salt to taste
• 2 table spoon grained Sugar
Recipe:
• Heat Oil in a Pan. Add Mustard Seeds let it pop out, add Cumin Seeds, Curry leaves, Turmeric Powder and sauté for a minute.
• Add peanuts and raisins stir till the peanuts and raisins becomes golden brown.
• Add Salt and Sugar
• Add the Poha, stir this mixture on medium heat for 10 – 15 minutes.
• Mix this well till Poha is coated with all spices.
• Cool this Chivda completely, store in an air tight container.
• At the time of serving we can put some sliced Onions, Coriander Leaves and Lemon Juice on this Chivda.

Fruits to keep us healthy

Fruits to keep us healthy.
In today’s life, we come across various tensions.  Many people cant face them or handle them properly.  One of the reason behind it is lacking of notional values in our food.  These can be obtained in various ways by adding them into our meal.  Known best sources are fruits.

A Healthy person must eat fruit row and not in a juice form.  Following are some of the common fruits available in the market like Banana, water melon, Grapes, Pomegranate, apple.
Pomegranate:  Increases haemoglobin useful in anaemic patients.  In pregnancy it helps to reduce vomiting trouble.
Grapes:  are useful in leaver and skill problems.  Grapes are antioxidant.  We should avoid drinking water after eating grapes.  It is reach in copper, iron and manganese.  Grapes get digested in about two hours. These are having sufficient antioxidant.
Banana: It is called as a complete meal.  It increases weight hence good for weak patients and having a body mass index less than 18 to gain weight. The carbohydrate in it is more digestible as compared to other fruits.  It gives energy and nourishes the muscles.  It is helpful in reduction of cholesterol and to keep control on high BP.  Cooking banana is useful in the treatment of intestinal ulcers.
Apple: An apple a day keeps a doctor away.
Water Melon: It is useful in summer fever.

A best way to take care of the skin

Winters are just around the corner, and what comes along with the wonderful season of winters is the dry flake skin, rough patches all over your body and sensitive scratchy skin. For me, my skin starts peeling off the minute the first breeze of winters starts blowing, and the same flakey and torn skin remains there for around a month. This makes it very hard to even wash your hands or take a proper bath since too much of water would mean even drier skin, resulting in much worse skin conditions. What you need the most when your skin starts acting so sensitive is a good moisturizing lotion that would somehow magically take care of all these problems and give you soft and flawless skin.

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The Nivea Intensive Body Lotion has made my winters easier to survive this year. Earlier, because of the issues that come along with a sensitive skin like that of mine, I had troubles enjoying the beautiful weather of winters. I at all times feared scratching too much on my skin, and the peeling off skin would sometimes bring in deep cuts on the sensitive skin of my palms and fingers. Moreover, the red marks on my face due to the dry weather of winters would never go away with any product. However, now since I have started using Nivea Intensive Body Lotion, I do not face any such skin problems anymore.

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Chatpati Masala Bhendi Recipe

• Preparation Time: 30 Minutes
• Serves: 4 persons

Ingredients:
• 250 grams Ladyfingers (bhindi)
• 2-3 Onions

• ½ tea spoon Turmeric powder
• ½ tea spoon Garam Masala powder
• 1 table spoon Coriander powder
• ½ tea spoon Red chilli powder
• 1 table spoon cumin powder
• 2 table spoon Chat masala
• 1 table spoon Fennel seeds raw crused (saunf)
• Gram flour (besan)
• 1 tea spoon Dry  Mango powder (aamchur) / 1 tea spoon lemon juice
• Salt to taste
• ½ table spoon Oil
• ½ cup Coriander leaves chopped

Recipe to Make Chatpati Masala Bhendi
• Wash the lady fingers, dry with cotton cloth. Slit on one side with knife to fill the masala into this.
• Take a bowl, mix red chilli powder, coriander powder, chaat masala, garam masala, raw crashed fennel siids, rosted cumin, raw mango powder or lemon juice and salt to taste.
• Fill this mixture into the slits of the lady fingers.  Add remaining mixture and put little on oil and mix well. Set aside.
• In a non stick pan put oil add chopped onions, sauté for 2-3 mintues. Add gram flour (besan) mix it will
• Add stuffed lady finguers and mix well. Cover pan with lead, stir occasionally till lady fingers gets crispy.
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
• Serve hot with Roti or Nan

Puran Poli - Holi festival Sweet Dish.

This is maharashtrian sweet dish which is also whole meal item.  This recipe mainly prepared at the time of Holi festive season in India.

Ingredients:
• 500 gram Chana Dal
• 500 gram Sugar or Jaggery
• 250 gram Wheat flour
• 100 gram flour
• 5 table spoon Oil
• 1 Tea spoon grated Nutmeg
• ½ Tea spoon Cardamom powdered
• 2 Table spoon Pure or Home made ghee
• ½ Cup Milk to serve
Recipe to make Puran Poli
• Wash the Chana Dal with ½ cup water.
• Drain our extra water from the dal.
• Add Sugar or Jaggery to this cooked dal.
• Keep this mixture on the low heat, stir till the mixture becomes thick.
• Remove this mixture from the heat set aside for some time.
• Use sieve to pass this mixture before its gets cold.
• Add powdered Nutmeg and Cardamom powder.
• Keep this mixture on low heat if the mixture is still having some water in it.
• Mix in vessel Wheat flour, Flour, oil. Knead this mixture by using little water and make smooth dough.
• Keep this knead dough for an hour.
• Make small size balls from dough and rolled. Put small size chana mixture in the center of the dough, close it the filling completely.
• Roll this ball into chapatti. Fry this on non stick pan with little ghee from both the sides.
• Serve hot with Pure ghee or hot milk.

8 ways to Motive yourself.

Below are the 8 golden rules to motive you this will help us to become successful in our professional as well as in personal life.
1. Stay away from the negative peoples: this the first rule. Negative thinking people waste your time and energy.
2. Stay with Positive and motivated peoples: We can copy their success path and strategies and will also get positive energy.
3. Train your mind: Train your mind to avoid negative thoughts and think positively only.
4. Train your body: prepare strong diet and exercise plan. Try to follow this plan strictly.
5. Fix your Goals with flexibility: Fix out your goals on the basis of your wants and needs but enough flexibility should be there.
6. Take result responsibilities: Take responsibilities of your results never blame on luck or fate. Fill proud about your success or failure as it is the out come of your work.
7. Act purposely. Perform any activity or work purposefully with some motto in mind, if this work is not serving your purpose your work is only wasted efforts and you need to avoid this. You need to reframe the work structure again.
8. Broaden your limits:  Your experience helps you to cultivate your career.  Broaden your daily tasks or work to experience the growth and evaluate this growth with your past experiences.

Recipe of Tomato Rice

This is rice recipe is very simple and easy to make in limited time with taste.

Recipe of Tomato Rice
This is rice recipe is very simple and easy to make in limited time with taste.
• Preparation Time: 45 Minutes.
• Serves:  4 persons.
Ingredients:
• 2 Cups Basmati Rice
• 8 Tomatoes Medium Size
• 4 Onions cut into long thin slices
• 1 cup green peas
• 4 green Chillies
• 1 inch Ginger
• 2 tea spoon Mustard Seeds
• 4 – 5 Curry Leaves
• 1 table spoon Red Chilli Powder
• 3 -4 table spoon Oil
• Salt to taste
• ¼ cup Coriander leaves for garnishing
• 2 table spoon Butter or Homemade Ghee

Recipe:
• Cook the rice and make it cool.
• Make a paste of green chillies and Ginger.
• Grind the Tomatoes and make smooth paste.
• Boil the green peas.
• Heat pan, add Oil heat the Oil. Add Mustard Seeds which will splutter, add Curry leaves, Onion slices and Salt to taste. Mix it well for 5 minutes. Stir till onion gets golden brown.
• In this mixture add green Chilli and ginger paste, tomatoes paste, boiled green peas, Chilli Powder, salt. Boil till it turns into thick paste.
• In this paste mix cooked rice.
• Garnish with chopped coriander Leaves. Put Butter or Ghee and serve hot.