Oinion Stuufed Bitter Gourd (Pyaaz bharwa karela)

Serving - 4

Ingredients

For Filing of karela (Bitter Gourd)

1. Hing-1/4 tsp
2. Finely chopped 2 onion
3. Finely chopped 1 green chilli
4. 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
5. 1 tsp of Onion seeds (kalonji)
6. ½ tsp of turmeric
7. 2tsp of Oil
8. Salt to taste

For Sabzi

1. 4 tsp of oil
2. 1 tsp of jeera (cumin seeds)
3. ½ lemon
4. 8 medium size Karela (bitter Gourd)

Method:

1. Scrape Bitter Gourd (karela), Add salt and lemon and keep it aside of ½ hour
2. Cut bitter gourd from mid, remove the seeds of Bitter gourd (karela) and then rub them with salt and lemon and keep it aside for ½ hour
3. After ½ hour was Bitter gourd and scrape with lot of water.
4. Now take a fry pan, add oil for making filling on medium flame, add hing, green chilli, onion, ginger- garlic paste, turmeric, half wash scape of bitter gourd (karela) for 2 minutes.
5. Now add Onion seeds, salt and cook the saute for 4 minutes, then keep it aside for cooling
6. After cooling of saute, fill this stuff in bitter gourd.
7. Now again take a fry pan on slow flame, add oil, as the oil heats up add jeera (cumin seeds), then add the filled bitter gourd (karela), cover the fry pan with lid and let it cook for 3-4 minutes from each side.
8. Add other half scrape of bitter gourd to fry pan and then let it cook for 3-4 minutes and squeee lemon to the ready vegetable.
9. Yummy Onion stuffed Bitter Gourd id ready to serve with Chapatti,  Paratha.

Tips

1. After stuffing karela you can even tie a thread round the karela so that fling doesn't come out while cooking

Storing Lemon/Lime Juice

Lime juice are very good of health, In summers drinking 1 glass of lime drink helps you fight with sunstroke.
Lime juices are refreshing, even its good for skin, applying juices on skin help to lighten your skin color. Drinking One glass of water with lime juice daily in morning helps controlling cholesterol.

Ingredients

1. Lemon/Lime-1 Kg
2. Vinegar- 1 tsp
3. 1 air tight bottle

Method:

1. Squeeze all the limes/lemon in a vessel, sieve it.
2. Then pour i in a airtight bottle, add 1 tsp of vinegar and freeze it
3. You can use this liquid whenever you want 
4. You can store this lime juice for around 2 months.

SPINACH YOUNG LOOKING SMOOTHIE

Ingredients:

1. Washed Spinach Leaves-30-35
2. ½ Avacado
3. ½ Apple
4. ½ glass of coconut milk
5. 1/2 lemon
6. Salt to taste ( if required)

Method:

1. In a blender mix all the ingredients and make a smoothie .
2. Have this drink daily, its age defying drink, you drink this smootie daily and after 90 days you will see its effect. Its completely calories free, it helps to reduce weight, helps in maintaining Iron in body.

Thandai (Cooling and storing)

Hello Friends
Drinking Thandai is very healthy and I had seen in my childhood my father making Thandai on holi as after this festival Summer begins and this drink is good to consume in summers.Thandai protects you from Sunstrokes and bleeding from nose in a day.

You can get thandai from market but all of them contains preservative so here is the recipe of home made thandai which you can refrigerate and can use more than a month.
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Ingredients for Thandai Recipe.

Water: 1 ltr
Sugar: 1 kg
almonds: 75grams
cashewnuts: 25gms
Cardamom(ilaichi): 35-40 (peeled)
Aniseeds (saunf)-5 table spoons or 60 gms
Black pepper (Kali mirch)- 2 table spoon
Poppy Seeds( Khas Khas)- half bowl
Rose Water (Gulab Jal)- 5 table spoons
Saffron (Kesar)- 15 threads

Method of making Thandai Recipe:

• Take a utensil mix sugar and water heat it and keep it boiling for 5 min.
• Turn off the gas and the sugar syrup is ready for thandai
• Clean aniseed, black pepper, almonds,cashewnuts, cardamoms and Khaskhas. Wash and soak them for overnight.
• In the morning, make them separate from water. Peel almonds. Beat them finely and use sugar syrup instead of water at the time of beating.
• Mix this mixture in the sugar syrup and sieve it. Mix the remaining mixture in the syrup and sieve it again.
• Thandai is Ready
• Fill it in the air-tight container and keep it in the fridge. You can use it more than a month.
• Whenever you want to drink Thandai, mix milk and ice cubes according to your taste and enjoy the real taste of Thandai