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Can we eat horse gram daily |  Horse gram for weight loss | kulthi dal benefits -  Horse gram Curd rice for summer      Yes you can eat daily and its very good for health. soaking and cooking perfectly is more important.And you can treat as a rice (horse gram) eat with gravies vegetable and more. Horse gram is a plant- based protein rich pulses .Horse gram called in tamil Kollu.Its really very cheap in price and lot and lots of health benefit in this.   Horse gram is wonder in treating various health issues such as asthma, bronchitis, urinary problems, fat burning, it control cholesterol and blood sugar and e ven it helps to solve menstrual problems, prevents the kidney stones and protects against from gout and Uric acid . Horse gram is rich in protein , Mineral , Iron , Fiber , Calcium , Carbohydrate, Phosphorous and Zero ( 0) fat . Today i'm going to share a simple and quick summer morning breakfast recipe for weight loss or weight management or healthy eating lifesty

About Onion Vadagam Onion vadagam is a Sun-dired condiment prepared in small onion and other spices for tempering in south indian cooking. It's give good flavour and its mostly used in tamilnadu while cooking in gravies in vegetarian as well non - vegetarian. In other words in tamil is Karivadagam / vengaya vadagam. And whenever  summer season starts my mom prepare this and i will help him to do , because in this recipe only we use small onion only , peeling the small onion skin is very hard but if you do this recipe (taste maker :-)  ) in your home , really your cooking will become more flavour and in your home all love you cooking. This one so much costlier in online so better you can make this in home and enjoy a healthy eating with my recipe. Ingredient  Peeled Small Onion - 3 kg Mustard seed - 50 gram Cumin seed - 50 gram Fenugreek - 20 gram Turmeric powder - 20gram Salt - 1/4 spoon Curry Leaves - 2 hand full Hing - 1 piece Fennel seed - 20 gram Garlic - 30 gram Urad dh

 Tomato Chutney recipe  Hi Everyone , today i share you tomato chutney recipe in video and as well as content post here. Basically we all do tomato chutney mean we add onion ,but here i share a easy and tasty tomato chutney .This taste is can suit for idli ,dosa , chapati as well as curd rice. I n g r e d i e n t : 1. Tomato - 1/4 kg 2. Gingerly oil - 2 Tsp 3. Mustard seed - 1small sp 4. Urad dal - 1small sp 5. Asafoetida - Little 6. Cumin seed - 1small sp 7. Fenugreek seed - 1/2 half sp 8. Green chill - 10 -15 9. Curry Leaves  10. Turmeric powder 11. Salt - 1/2 sp 12. Kashmiri chilly powder - 1/2 sp 13. Jaggery - little (optional ) 14. Kasoori methi - little HOW TO MAKE TOMATO CHUTNEY AT HOME COOKING INSTRUCTION 1. Add gingerly oil on pressure cooker , and saute mustard seed , Urad dal , asafoetida ,Cumin seed, Fenugreek seed , green chilli ,Curry leaves one by one on low flame .  2. Add Tomatoes ,  salt , Turmeric powder and Kashmiri chilly powder . Don't need t

  Ridge Gourd Chutney Today iam sharing easy dinner ideas or morning breakfast ideas with ridge gourd chutney for idli recipe.It's really a tasty and wonderful side dish chutney recipe for idli. Cooking this recipe and share your feedback. Ingredients : Oil - 3 tbsp Mustard -1/4 tsp Peas - 1/4 tsp Cumin - 1 tbsp Hing powder - (Small) curry leaves  - little Chili - 4 Chili - 2 Ridge gourd - 4 Large Onion - 6 Garlic-4 (small) Chili - 1/4 tsp Kashmiri Chili - 1 tbsp Dry methi leaf - (Small) Tamarind - (Small) Rice flour - 1 1/2 tsp (soaked in water) Water - 3 tbsp Instructions : In a pan drop the oil and heat . Add mustard seed, cumin seed,fenugreek ,broke dry chilli,green chilli,curry leaves and hing powder roast one by one until it becomes good aroma                                                  Add chopped onion fry in medium .Along that add chopped ridge gourd ,add salt too                                                  Add tomato and garlic.Close lid to cook the

Weight-loss recipe - Ragi Upma RAGI  is also a very rich source of minerals & proteins.  Ragi Upma  can be an especially good source of protein for vegetarians because of its methionine content that constitutes about 5% of the protein. Ingredients:   Dry Roasted Ragi vermicelli  - 1 packet Onion - 1 Chopped Coconut - Grated 1/2 cup Curd - 1 TSP Mustard Seeds- 1/4sp Urad dal - 1/2sp Hing powder - little  Curry Leaves Chopped Green Chillies - 2 Salt Instructions:   Heat water in a pan in high flame and swiftoff it. Add ragi vermicelli in hot water. Leave for one minute and drain it completely. Now heat oil in a pan. Temper mustard seeds, curry leaves,onion, green chillies . Saute all of them well. Add the mixture( ragi mixture) we made in first step in this pan. Now add curd then give it a good mixture , atlast add coconut mix it well for 1 minute switch off the flame . Its ready to enjoy. Tried this recipe, Take a picture and Tag me  @illavarasi_kitchen on Instagram Subscr

                 Ven  pongal  Pongal is a delicious South Indian food made with rice and yellow moong lentils. It can be made sweet or savory.Today i shared you Kara pongal / Savory version of pongal which will be coked in the flavour of ghee ,cumin seed , asafoetida , curry leaves and also nuts cashew.  Ingredients :  1. Raw Rice - 1 1/2 (iam using 1/4 padi for measuring) You can use glass or measuring cup of your choice. 2. Moong Dhal - 200 grams ( or ) little one which i used same vessel measurement for this. 3. Water - 3 1/2 padi 4. Turmeric powder - little 5. salt - 1 1/2 sp For Fry : 1. Ghee - As required ( if you add more it gives much taste ) 2. Jeera - 1 sp 3. Pepper - 1/2 sp 4. Cashew nuts 5. Curry leaves - 1 arch 6. Ginger - chopped little one How to cook  Wash and boil the rice and  Moong Dhal with the mention measuring Water cup in cooker for 3 whistle. cook 2 whistle for high flame , 1 whistle for low flame.Then allow to steam out after the stove is switched of

Best side dish for veg pulao // Potato Kurma // potato side dish for pulao This post is available in Tamil Pulao it's basically a vegetarian recipe ,and it taste was like fried rice , so this potato kurma is a best combination. This kurma was made in green chilli and ginger ,no added plain red chilli powder so , its makes more aroma and taste for Pulao Ingredients : Potato 2big Oil - 2Tsp Big onion - 2 Salt - 1/4 sp Tomato - 1 Ginger small-one, garlic 4 ,chilly 2 - 1/2sp Chicken masala powder - 4sp Fennel powder -1/4 sp Turmeric powder -1/4sp Coconut- 1/2cup Cumin and pepper powder-1/2 small sp Coriander Leaf Method to cook   1.  Heat a pan and Add Oil , Add onion ,saute in medium . Add salt and tomato fry in medium dont deep fry the onion .Add ginger garlic paste -1/2 sp  2. Add Chicken masala powder - 2sp , Fennel powder 1/4sp . After all masala item was fried well now add potato and fry in medium. Add turmeric powder and add hot water to boil the potato.Potato w