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Submitted by on June 27, 2009 No Comment

It is always great to impart a few marvelous recipes that are uncomplicated and simple to cook and is wholesome and protein rich.

I stumbled upon a piece of writing recently that has some suggestions on losing weight for those who are intense at it.

1. Keep a regular time span for having food
i) This will help the digestive process.
ii) Need to consume only reasonable amount of food at one go.
iii) Lunch and Dinner become low profile affairs.
iv) Chances of forming hyperacidity conditions are limited.

2. Gulp down at least 8 to 10 glasses of water every day.

3. Daily work outs or at the minimum jog no less than an hour.

4. Have a great deal of protein rich food items in your daily menu as protein is fat-soluble and digestive process is enhanced even if you have consumed fat rich foods.

a Moong Dal Uttappam

moong dal uttapam

Ingredients

Moong Dal 6 measures
Rice 1 Measure
Ulud Dal 1 tbs
Ginger
Garlic
Green Chilly
Coriander leaves
Salt

Directions

  • Clean and soak Moong Dal, rice and Ulud dal for 3 hours, grate it to a smooth paste, keep it a few hours to ferment.
  • On the following morning grate ginger, garlic and green chilly and add it to the paste and mix it thoroughly with chopped coriander leaves. Add salt to taste.
  • Put in some sliced tomatoes and onion to the above paste
  • Heat-up a pot and swell up the above paste in round shape.
  • When the side is cooked, turn it down
  • Pour a teaspoon of ghee to obtain the best crunchy Uttappam
  • Feels great with coconut-chutney.

b. Coconut-Chutney

coconut chutney

Ingredients

Coconut: 1 No.
Sugar 1 tsp
Ginger 1 piece
Garlic 4 pieces
Green Chilly 1 No.
Coriander leaves

Directions

Grate the coconut, sugar, ginger, garlic, coriander leaves and green chilly together. Add salt to taste and mix it in a blender. Pour in some lime juice. You have made a remarkable concoction.

c. Moong Dosa

moong dosa

Ingredients
Moong Dal 2 Measures
Ginger 1 piece
Garlic 6 pieces
Green Chilly 1 No.
Coriander leaves

Directions

  • Wash and soak Moong Dal for 3 hours.
  • Grate it into a paste and keep it during the night
  • On the following morning grate ginger, garlic and green chilly and add it to the paste and mix it thoroughly with coriander leaves. Add salt to taste.
  • Pour the paste in thin round shape on a heated pan
  • When one side is cooked, turn it
  • Use coconut-chutney as its side.

d. Energizing Mint Drink

mint drink

Ingredients

Mint leaves
Sugar 2 tsp
Salt 1 nip
Lemon 1 no
Ice cubes as required

Directions

Shake the mint leaves, sugar, salt and lemon juice, in a mixer-grinder. When the mixture turns into a green paste, decant into a special glass. Add some lemonade to the mixture and drink to overcome the heat. Mint has the qualities to purify blood, helps you from heat and is highly stimulating.

e. Panna

panna

Ingredients

Fresh green mangoes 4 nos
Sugar 1 cup
Salt as required
Powdered nutmeg 1 tsp
Powdered cardamom 2 tsp

Simmer the mangoes and peal off their outer skin. Remove the mango pulp and throw away the kernel. Blend the pulp, sugar, nutmeg, cardamom and salt in a mixer. Mix the ingredients well till they become syrupy. Decant into a special glass and put in ice-cold water. Regain your freshness with this lovely drink.

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