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Neyyappam | Unniyappam | Sweet Appam

It’s a traditional and easy snack recipe originated in Kerala. In Tamil nadu usually this recipe is prepared during Karthigai Deepam Festival. INGREDIENTS: Raw rice – 1.5 cups Jaggery – 1.5 cups Wheat flour – 3/4 cups Ripe Elachi Banana – 1 Green Cardamom – 3 (powdered) Grated coconut – 1/2 cup PREPARATION METHOD: Soak raw rice for 2 hours. Dissolve jaggery and filter for impurities. Grind the soaked raw rice with that jaggery water. Add one ripe elachi banana cut into pieces while grinding. (this will add flavour as well as give softness to the appams) When done,...

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Hobbies and Mental Health – The Interesting Relation between Them

Like physical health, mental health is equally important. If we are not healthy inside, it will project itself out. Thus mental health is connected to physical health. Stress and depression, wild unproductive thoughts affect the mental health. It is caused by others and many a times by ourselves. If we are wise enough to keep ourself away from this, we need not worry or hate the materialistic world as the joy of life is buried within us in the form of a talent! Hobbies – creative expression is not only an excellent way to pass time but also help...

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9 Tips on How to Eat Healthy Everyday

Continuing the ‘How to Keep Our Food Healthy’ series, here are some tips on how to eat for a healthy life. Eating healthy is an essential part of life. Many of us strive to eat as healthy as possible every day, but are you really consuming the best nutrients for your body? Here are some tips to incorporate as part of your daily routine for a healthy living. Not just having raw vegetable / fruit salad is healthy. Take food when they are in warm temperature. Cold food is not an healthy option. ‘Eat to live ; don’t live...

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Handy Tips on How to Cook Food

Continuing the ‘How to Keep Our Food Healthy’ series, here are some tips on how to cook food. Do not overcook vegetables otherwise it will lose its important nutrients. Partially cooked vegetables are always good. If it doesn’t suit your digestive system, then try to take a soup daily by grinding the partially cooked vegetable into nice paste. Salt comes to our hands with added iodine. If it boils for long time it loses the sodium. Hence try using half salt for cooking and add the remaining salt after you finish the cooking. Research articles say, ‘Cooked food stays...

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5 Ways to Keep Our Food Healthy – Washing & Chopping

Continuing the ‘How to Keep Our Food Healthy’ series, here are some tips on how to chop and cook food. Washing & Chopping As much as possible, wash the vegetables thoroughly using your finger and palms and then cut them. (The water used for washing & the peels can be fed to the plants your grow). Even leafy ones, after removing the roots, wash them thoroughly and then cut them. Because if a cut vegetable is washed it loses some of its nutrients and then again in cooking process. Cut into medium sized pieces. This will help saving the...

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