Lemon Grass Tea

Lemongrass-ginger tea is an excellent home remedy for many health problems. This spicy tea is a great way to begin or end any meal or to enjoy between meals. Make this healthful tea a regular drink alongside your fresh juices, for a super-boost to your immune system it’s always one of my favorite hot drinks. 

The ginger is warming and immune-boosting while lemongrass adds a fragrant and citrusy touch. Lemongrass tea is most often used in home remedies for various health issues. Regularly drinking it helps your overall well-being. And when combined, they work synergistically, powerfully, and effectively.

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Prep time	Cooking time	Serves
15 mins	15 mins	2 persons

Cuisine: World

Recipe Category: Beverages

Ingredients Pure drinking Water -500 ml Freshly grated ginger -1/4  cup Lemon grass  including the bulbs-3 big stalks Tea – 2 tbsp. Lemon – to taste

Method

1. Chop the lemongrass and grate the ginger. Boil 500 ml of water in a large boiling pot. Throw the cut ingredients into the boiling water, turn fire down to simmer for 5-7 minutes. 

2. Turn off the heat and add 2 bags or about 2 teaspoonful’s of your favorite tea powder. If it tastes too strong add more water.Strain.

3. Add 1 tablespoon raw honey or stevia for taste if desired. Drink warm.

Consume

Early morning Drink

Notes

Old ginger is more pungent than the young one.

You can also buy ready-to-use tea bags.

Note that when drinking this tea, the diuretic effect will make you want to urinate more. The tea is doing its work of carrying out toxins to be eliminated. Do drink lots of water also to continue with the elimination

Alternative option for busy people

You can prepare this tea in the night and leave it in the pot to cool. In the morning, just lightly reboil it and pour into a thermal flask to take with you to work. You can sip it throughout the day but do not keep for more than 24 hours.

Orange Kesari (Sheera)

Kesari is a popular sweet dish prepared with Sooji. So try this easy recipe to impress your kids.Just like normal kesari which is prepared by adding orange juice. It gives a mild tangy orange flavor and enjoy with your loved ones.Now let’s go to the recipe

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Prep time	Cooking time	Serves
10 mins	15  mins	4 persons

Cuisine: Indian

Recipe Category: Desserts

Ingredients Sooji (Rava) – ½ cup Orange Juice -3/4 cup Water – 1 cup Sugar -3/4 cup Orange food color - pinch Cardamom powder -1/2 tsp Cashews and raisins – ¼ cup Ghee -1/4 cup

Method

1. Heat a spoonful of ghee in a sauce pan and roast the sooji nicely and keep aside. Now roast the cashew nuts and raisins separately and keep aside.Heat ghee in a pan and add water, pour the orange juice, sugar, cardamom powder and give a quick stir. 

2. When it starts boiling, add rava and stir without any lumps.And add remaining ghee/butter and stir continuously till the kesari starts leaving the sides. 

3. Lastly add the roasted cashewnuts and raisins mix well.Transfer in to a bowl and fill the bowl up till the brim and invert it on to the serving plate. Garnish with dry fruits and enjoy.

Serving Suggestions

In the form of Desserts

Kids after school snacks

Notes

Close it with a lid and leave it undisturbed for 1-2 minutes.

Dry roast the rava till golden brown.

Gulab Jamun

Happy New Year to all of you  and want to share our family's favorite sweet Gulab jamun. But these days so many ready-made mix for gulab jamun is available in the market to make the job easier. Gulab Jamun is very famous Indian dessert, where milk balls are dipped in sugar syrup.It can be eaten as such or served it along with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to make it tastier.   Today I made this exotic sweet and it came out very delicious and spongy.

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Prep time	Cooking time	Serves
20 mins	30 mins	8 persons

Cuisine: Indian

Recipe Category: Desserts

Ingredients Store bought mix -2 packets Milk -1 cup or less Pinch of salt Sugar syrup Water -2 cup Sugar -2 cup Cardamom powder -1 tsp Rose essence –few drops Kesar color -pinch

 

Method

1. Combine the store bought mix with milk little by little and bring it to a soft , pliable dough. Add the required water. Keep it aside for 15 minutes. Do not knead the dough much. 

2. Make small balls without cracks and deep fry them in a low flame till it becomes soft.Keep it aside. In  a broad vessel make take the sugar and add equal amount of water. 

3. Allow it to dissolve completely by constant stirring in a low flame. Make sure the sugar syrup does not start to boil before it dissolves completely. 

4. Once it is dissolved , raise the flame and allow it to boil for  5- 7  mins.Add the cardamom powder, kesar color when it boils. 

5. Finally add the rose essence and switch off the flame. Add the jamuns when the syrup is hot. Leave it for an hour and serve !! 
 

Served with

Chilled ice cream

Notes

Don’t knead the dough for long time

If you wish you can add saffron, instead of cardamom and also you can avoid the color.

Happy New Year 2017

I wish everyone a happy new year 2017 and I hope that year is good, with not too many up and downs Happy New Year 2017: New Year is considered as a fresh start by many people.  It is the time to welcome a brand New Year into our lives. 

We have to know that our success and happiness lies in us and only us.  It is our secret of success. The day of new starts will soon make its arrival into our stations. I read this this “Quotes” in an article and hope you too enjoy reading along with me.

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.

Oh my Dear, Forget your Fear,
Let all your Dreams be Clear,
Never put Tear, Please Hear,
I want to tell one thing in your Ear
Wishing u a very “Happy NEW YEAR“!

Like birds, let us, leave behind what we don’t need to carry… GRUDGES SADNESS PAIN FEAR and REGRETS.
Life is beautiful, Enjoy it. HAPPY NEW YEAR.

We have to get ready to make the right moves for a bright future.  Let us all cheer and welcome an awesome Friends form best part of our life.  They take a very special place in our life and always step and stick with us no matter what. New Year is about the knock the door and you need to welcome the Happy New Year 2017 with loads of happiness and cheerfulness

May you all face the forthcoming challenges with Great Spirit in your life coming your way. Stay strong, stay happy and keep smiling always, as it costs nothing.

Love,

Shoba