GINGER TEA (TEA WITHOUT TEA)

• Boil 500 ml of water.
• Add some slices of fresh ginger root.
• Reduce flame.
• Cook for 10 minutes and strain.
• Add honey and/or lemon juice of your choice.
• Drink hot.
• (Good remedy for sore throat, cold, etc.)

Carrot Halwa

Carrot Halwa is a dessert, also called Gajjar Halwa, Gajar Halva or Gajar ka Halwa.
Carrot is a versatile root vegetable. We can eat carrot raw as well as cooked. Carrot contains ‘Carotene’, an yellow pigment, which converts itself into Vitamin A. Vitamin A is very effective in correcting night blindness. Consuming carrots give good color to our skin. Carrot also contains phosphorous, folic acid, sodium, potassium, vitamin C, etc. Carrots are also useful to get rid off anaemia / anemia and acidosis. It is a blood purifier.
Method of preparation:

• Boil 500 gm of grated carrots in 750 ml of milk.
• Stir intermittently at the beginning and continuously when it starts thickening.
• Reduce flame; add 200gm of sugar, a tsp of ghee and a pinch of cardamom powder.
• Stir until the ghee comes out.
• Serve hot with decoration of your choice.

Sambar vadai

• Soak 1 cup of urad dal (husked black gram, ulundham paruppu) for ½ an hour.
• Grind to a smooth paste and mix well with a tbsp of rice flour (arisi mavu) , 1/2 chopped onion, 1 chopped green chilli, 2 coarsely broken blackpepper, a handful of mixture of chopped coriander leaves and curry leaves and salt to taste.
• Shape into vadais of preferable size and deep fry.
• Put them in hot sambar.
• They float,absorb sambar, and become smooth and tasty Sambar vadais.

PAL PAYASAM MADE EASY (KHEER), A GOOD DESSERT

• Take 1 litre of milk, ½ Kg of sugar & a handful of washed rice of your preference in a pressure cooker.
• Cook for one whistle and then for about 5 minutes.
• Add a pinch of cardamom powder and stir.
• Serve for 4.

POTATO CHIPS

• Slice potatoes thin and round.
• Add some salt in a bowl of water, soak the slices for 5 minutes and dry.
• Deep fry them in oil.
• Mix with red chilli (chili) powder.

RAVA LADDU (SUJI LADDO) ( SEMOLINA ROUND BALL)

• Roast 1 cup of rava slowly until it gives an aroma.
• Allow it to cool.
• Grind it soft.
• Grind 1 cup of sugar into powder.
• Mix them with ½ tsp of cardamom powder.
• Fry qty 6 cashew nuts and qty 10 raisins (kismis) in ¼ cup of ghee and mix well with the powdered mixture of rava, sugar and cardamom.
• Make laddus (round balls).
• Add hot ghee if required to make laddus conveniently.

MIXED FRUIT SALAD

• Cut required quantity of fruits like grapes, banana, papaya, orange, apple, pineapple, and dates.
• Boil some jaggery in a little milk and filter.
• Mix every thing slowly with preboiled cold milk and keep in refrigerator.
• Serve cold.