Asparagus Salad

ASPARAGUS ....

It was one of the few veggies which unfortunately, had very less cache to my basket from market. But luckily... i tried once when it attracted me with its young and greenly look. I prepared a salad out of it which grabbed everyone's heart with its taste. Now it has now become one of the constant veggie in my basket now a days. Try this salad for rotis , jeera rice or Pulav which goes very well with these mouth watery salad.

Asparagus:

•  can detoxify our system
•  has anti-aging functions
•  is considered an aphrodisiac
•  can protect against cancer
•  reduces pain and inflammation
•  can prevent osteoporosis and osteoarthritis
•  reduces the risk of heart disease
•  can help prevent birth defects

Ingredients :

Asparagus spears - 1 bunch trimmed

Olive oil - 1 tspn

garlic - 1 small bud/ glove thrashed / grated  

pudhina ( mint ) - 1 or 2 leaves

chilli flakes - 1/2 tspn

lemon juice - 1/2 tspn

Flax seeds - 1/2 spn

Basil leaves & herbs - 1/4 spoon (Optional )

salt - to taste

Method:

1. Wash and trim the ends of asparagus .  

2.  Cut the green asparagus into 2 -3 parts each.

  3.  Keep pan on stove and add few drops of olive oil ( or whichever oil you prefer ) . 
       Saute the asparagus.

4. Add lemon juice , grated garlic bud , mint leaves , chili flakes , salt and mix all these well. Then add the stir fried asparagus to this and mix well. 

5. Sprinkle some basil leaves and herbs along with broken flax seeds. Serve it as salad or as side dish for roti or rice.

Nutrients in
Asparagus
1.00 cup raw (134.00 grams)

Nutrient%Daily Value

vitamin K69.6%

vitamin A20.2%

folate17.4%

iron15.9%

vitamin B112.6%

vitamin C12.5%

copper12.5%

tryptophan12.5%

vitamin B211.1%

fiber10.9%

manganese10.5%

molybdenum8.9%

potassium7.7%

vitamin E7.5%

phosphorus6.9%

vitamin B36.5%

vitamin B66%

protein5.9%

choline5%

zinc4.8%

magnesium4.6%

selenium4.4%

vitamin B53.7%

calcium3.2%

Calories (26)1

%

Nutrients Courtesy http://www.whfoods.com

Fruit candy for Kid's Break fast

Yeah i can very well hear many mom's scream and panic about the food to their young little ones. But this topic is mainly for them.

This post is all about Fruit candy stick . 

Which is of full nutritive , healthy and stomach filling too , for the kids. 

Ingredients :

Fruits of your choice - 1/2 cup

Condensed milk - 2 tspn

Walnut - 4

Hazelnut - 4
Rock candy - 2 or 3 pieces
Chop sticks.

Method:

1. Grind the dry fruits with rock candy sugar coarsely and keep aside.

2. Peel and keep fruits you want to add in sticks. Peg those one by one into chop sticks in a colorful way.

3. Add half or one spoon of condensed milk to the pegged fruits.

4. Sprinkle the dry fruits ground with rock candy sugar.

5. Sprinkle graciously so that almost the fruits are fully coated with dry fruits.

6. Refrigerated for few minutes and serve it to eat healthy and stomach filled . Add a pro biotic milk or a glass of healthy drink to full fill your kid's meal :-)

2012

Dear Friends,
Its long time since i write in my blog. I was stuck up with few other works. When i come now , am with ample of wonderful collections of good jewels. I thought i shall share with you all. The bangles are all made of glass and/or clay ! Worth wearing for a party !

These are the antique model collections - simple Temple Jewellery. I love it.

Elegant but very Simple.

Clay and glass made bangles.

Marinated potato

Marinated pottato :
Ingredients : 
Baby potato - 250 gms
Fresh curd - 3 tspn
turmeric powder - 2 pinch
chilli powder - 1/2 spn
garam masala powder - 1 spn
dry mango powder -1pinch
methi leaves / kari leaves powder - 1 pinch
black salt- to taste
salt - to taste
butter - 1 spn
oil  - 3 spns

Preparation :

• Half steam cook baby potatoes and peel off the skins.
• Pork it with fork on 1 or 2 sides before marination.
• Mix curd and all other ingredients along with salt ,butter & oil.
• Mix potatoes now with the curd mixture and leave for 3-4 hrs .
• Preheat OTG oven .
• Spread aluminium foil over the tray and spread out the potatoes .
• Set temperature at 180 deg Cel. and place the tray and cook for 20 - 30 min.
• Crispy baby potatoes are ready to serve .

Goes well with curd dip / cheese dip .

Infant Home made Food

I see many mothers struggle to feed home made food but comfortable to some extent in feeding readymade babyfood like cerelac , Nestle etc. But even that untill the baby is unknown to turn his/her head in symbol of rejecting the food. Once it grows to few more months ,it may give the mother " Amma check my food -i dont need this kind of preparation " meaning the food need to be easy to swallow .Make it in a bit thin consistent so that it is easy for babies to swallow in its initial stage.

There is a saying in tamil for babies stomach and throat - stomach size is as small as bead and throat is as small as a needle ( oosi pola thondai, paasi pola vayiru ) So please make the readymade food to a consistent that is much easy for your baby to swallow. And keep lukewarm water/milk beside so that as and when the food is geting thicker you can add to bring back the food to same consistent. 

Regarding home made food ,For BF & dinner - Try to give only idly with vegetable soup / rasam/ dhal water with salt/ for infants upto 8-9 months avoiding dosai . Try to give idly instead of rice , as it contains urudhal ( Protein rich food and easy to digest) . Dip a peice of idly fully in warm soup which will become so soft like liquid soaked cotton ,when put in mouth and will be easy to chew for the kid. 
So by this way your kid will find it easy to eat and will not resist for taking food.And feed with love and care . And when the baby gives clear sign of enough , for your child's sake and for the mother's future sake ..pls stop ... If not later the mother has to struggle a lot when the child grows and learn to stubbornly say  "NO"  !!

Foir lunch - Give dhal /rasam/ fresh curd ( Ferment everday morning separatley for your kid to feed in lunch -fresh curd has good bacteria good for health and will be very sweet to eat rather than night fermented curd -can give even if your kid has common cold ) Strictly Avoid referigerated curd. Encourage your kid to eat steam cooked (only)vegetable like carrot , brocoli, potato ,peas , pumpkin , brinjal etc.. which is easy to eat for him/her . Add little salt avoid stir fry vegetable - he doesnt know deep fry potato or frymes ( it is only mom who introduce to keep it off from her for few min.fr the work to be done without disturbances )

Encourage him/her to eat fruits and keep giving fruits even one that you dont like !! If you dont like papaya ,it doesnt mean that even your child wont like . Please try . And for the first few times he may spill it but may love after few times.. So keep giving -dont stop within a time saying - He doesnt like.

The health and wealth of your baby is in its mother's hand

Feed your precious child easy chewable healthy food.

Sesame gun chilli powder

Ingredients :
Sesame seeds - 100 gm
Red chillies - 4
Garlic pods - 5
Salt to taste

Healthy , Easy to prepare and ready in 2 min.

Dry fry sesame seeds in pan. Then fry dry red chillies with 1 drop of oil. Grind these two with salt coarsely in mixie. Add garlic pods and grind for 1 whirl and dry this mix in shadow for half a day before you store this in a container . This will last for a week . Good combo for dosai , idly and rotti.

Natural Hair shampoo

Try this natural shampoo. Grind Hibiscus leaves and / or aloe vera in mix with little of water and mix it with little of Besan flour . Use this as shampoo to nourish your hair ,avoiding use of chemical shampoo.