Vegan Curd Simple Recipe

Today's recipe is curd. We are so fond of raita that sometimes it is difficult to get this dairy product out of our diet. It's the tangy taste with onions, tomatoes, chillies and fresh coriander in curd that's so pleasing. Try this.

Take 5-6 spoons of grated coconut, add one lemon juice, one teaspoon dry mango powder. Blend it with some water, your curd is ready. Add onion, tomato, green chilli, roasted cumin powder, sea salt or rock salt to taste. Instant raita is ready. Dress it up with fresh pomegranate seeds and you get a visual treat. Add more lemon juice to suit your tangy palate.

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Preparation for October Challenge

Please finalise the menu for Tadka as per your palate and compile the shopping list. My recommendation for seven days-

1. Hara dhaniya - 7 small bunches.
2. Pudina - one bunch.
3. Ginger - 250gms.
4. Garlic - one pod.
5. Coconut (giri) - one and dry - one.
6. Lemon - 7.
7. Almond - 28.
8. Walnut - 14.
9. Dates - 21.
10. Magaj + pumpkin seeds - 100gms
11. Sesame seeds - 7 spoons required, 100gms as may be used for fruits and salads too.
12. Ground nut - 500gms.

(THESE ARE JUST A SUGGESTION)

Tadka for 7 Days

Dry Fruits - almonds -28, walnuts-14, raisins70, pumpkin seeds-70gms, flax-seeds70gms, groundnuts-100gms, sesame seeds-7 teaspoons, magaj-7 teaspoons, dry coconut grated-14 spoons.

Chutney - choose your day

Hara Dhaniya
Nariyal
Pudina
Palak/available local green
Red Chillies
Garlic
Ginger

These can be the base and add tomato, garlic, ginger, green chillies, fresh lime and blend it. These ingredients are always part of our weekly purchases.

Sprouts

Sprouts add a crunchy flavour to our salad. Best is moong beans sprouts.

So today and tomorrow is the day. If you have whole green moong dal at home do it today or even tomorrow will be fine.

Sprouting is very simple if you don't ask anyone.

1. Take a katori/bowl of moong dal. Roughly one handful is good for a week.
2. On first sight you may feel that one handful is less, this is natural. Don't increase the quantity.
3. Wash it thoroughly and soak it for 24 hours. Change water once after 12 hours.
4. After 24 hours strain the water and store it any container(if perforated available use it) and cover it with a wet cloth.
5. Keep rinsing and straining water as per your convenience every 6-7 hours.

That's it. Within 4-5 days you will have sprouts.

If you smell something odd, rinse and strain is the magic that works.

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Natural Living

I was reading an article and came across a beautiful reasoning of illness. The logic is what Nature Care teaches us.

All illness, symptoms and diseases are an intelligent manifestation of the super fine machinery called our body. They can never be corrected or cured by chemicals (medication) because it will only aggravate the root cause or functioning of our body.

The only cure is to change the input to this factory called body. The more we eat quality (Natural whole food) food there are more chances of faster recovery. This is so simple to understand. All those bad food cravings, bad habits and love for processed food is actually slow poisoning and suicidal.

The study in the article was about type 2 diabetes. It takes a normal body about 10-15 years of very bad lifestyle for type 2 diabetes to manifest. This sounds so logical because now parents with an average age of 40 years having teenage children are diabetic and their children are obese. Diabetes in such children is only a few months away to manifest.

So it's not about change of lifestyle of diabetic parents alone but the change must be for the whole family. Burgers, pizzas, momos, chips and cheese are not the sign of high standard of living but sign of one's inflated ego which has manifested due to the bad days in our childhood.

We still have time to correct it or we will be the generation who will be visiting hospitals daily to look upon our parents in old age and also our sick children.

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