VEGETABLE SOUP

VEGETABLE SOUP

INGREDIENTS


50g green beans
50g cabbage
1 tomato diced
50g leeks
50g carrots
2 cloves of garlic chopped
50g red dhal
2 small potatoes cubed
2 cardamoms
1 sprig curry leaves
1 piece of lemongrass
1 tsp raw curry powder
1 piece cinnamon
1 tbs crushed black pepper
1 tbs tamarind paste
8 cups water
Salt to taste

A Summer Drink (Punch)

A Summer Drink (Punch) 

Ingredients:
1 can of frozen cranberry juice
1 can of frozen orange juice
1 can of frozen lemonade
1 big bottle of ginger ale
Juice of two lemons
Sugar to taste.

Red Iced Tea

Red Iced Tea

A cooling drink with few calories and no caffeine!

5 bags of Tetley Red tea
3-5 TBS Sugar
Juice of a Lemon
Juice of an Orange
boiling water
Iced water
Ice cubes 
Lemon slices & Orange slices for garnish (optional)

Pour 3/4 cup to a cup of boiling water on to tea bags and let steep for about 3 minutes, do not disturb tea bags or steep for too long to avoid the tea becoming bitter.
Remove tea bags and add sugar - the tea will be extra sweet at this point. Add ice water and cubes to cool it to room temp.
Extract juice form orange and lemon into a serving jug. Add cooled tea and adjust sweetness before adding more ice cubes and lemon/orange slices for garnish.

*It is important to bring tea to at least room temperature before adding citrus juices or your iced tea will be cloudy.

Pour into tall chilled glasses and enjoy on a hot summer day!



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Faluda

Faluda This is a muslim speciality and usually served in between meals. You may need to reduce the rose syrup content to 1 tbsp if you are used to less sweetness. Serves 1. Ingredients 1 Scoop Vanila ice cream 1 1/2 tbsp Rose flavoured syrup 1 1/2 cups milk 1/8 tsp Kasa-kasa (optional) 2 tbsp hard set Jelly (Jello) (optional) 1 tbsp cooked Vermicelli (optional)

Really good Rasam stock from vegetables

Really good Rasam stock from vegetables

7 Cups water
2 onions,
2 carrots or radishes
2 celerey sticks,
handful coriander leaves
1/2 cup Tuvaru Parripu washed,
handful dried
mushrooms (oriental type)
handful Dried seaweed
like Japanese Hijiki,
Wakame, Arame etc,
1 tsp crshed Peppercorns,
1" sliced ginger.

Directions; Boil water, add chopped vegetable
and all the other ingrediants. Skim then cook
covered for 1 hour. Strain well and use as 

flavoury base for Rasams instead of plain dal water.

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Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

1 banana sliced
1 cup strawberries sliced
3 ice cubes
1/2 cup milk

1. Slice banana and strawberries and place in freezer for at least 1 hour
2. Remove from freezer and put all fruit into blender
3. Add 2-3 ice cubes for thickness
4. Add milk to your desired thickness
5. Add sugar if needed
6. Blend until smooth

Pour into glass and enjoy!
This can be made with any fruit. 

Sri Lankan Banana Flower Soup

Sri Lankan Banana Flower Soup Recipe

Ingredients :  

1 prepared banana flower
1 cup of raw shrimp
1 can or 14 ozs thick coconut milk
1 ½ inch piece ginger peeled and grated
1 stalk of lemongrass, or 1 tblsp sliced
¼ tsp tumeric
½ tsp garam masala
2 fresh green chillies, or dried red chillies to taste
salt and black pepper to taste
oil for cooking
water

Ginger Lemon Tonic Tea

Ginger Lemon Tonic Tea

Description

Ginger is one of the main ingredients in an Ayurvedic diet. It is used in most recipes and known for its incredible abilities to help stimulate our digestion. It is a Sattvic spice and is known in Ayurveda as "universal medicine". Dry ginger is hotter than fresh. It is a great stimulant and expectorant for reducing Kapha and increasing Agni. Fresh ginger is a better diaphoretic, better for colds, coughs, and nausea. Ginger is also great for arthritic conditions and is a tonic to the heart. It relieves gas, belching and cramps in the abdomen including Vata type menstrual cramps. Externally, this is a great paste for pain and headaches.

Ginger Garlic Soup

Indications

• It balances Vata and kapha
• It cleanses the system
• It digests the ama (undigested food)
• It has anti-oxidant properties and improves immunity
• It is a very good appetizer
• It is good for common cold and asthma
• It is good for heart
• It reduces serum cholesterol
• It relieves constipation
• It relieves gas
• It relieves morning sickness in pregnant women
• It relieves pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis

Avocado Juice (Persea americana)

Properties  Sweet in taste  Unctuous   Cold in potency  Reduces vata & pitta and increases kapha  Increases the weight of the body  Very tasty   Contains more fat  High quality protein content  Vitamin A content provides resistance against bacterial infection  High calorie content It is very beneficial for: Digestion Hyper acidity Ulcer Gall bladder problems Weight loss

Ingredients:  Avocado fruit pulp – 1 fruit Water – Quantity sufficient Palm Sugar – 3 spoons full Yogurt – ½ cup

Pineapple Drinks

Pineapple Drinks

1 fully ripe pineapple
1 can evaporated milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 -3 tsp vanilla essence
4-5 cups ice cubes (if you prefer less sweet you can add more ice)

Peel and cut up pineapple into cubes. Put into a blender.
Add evaporated milk, sugar and Ice cubes and blend it. Add vanilla last and blend in. Pouring into a glass container then Put in refrigerator for a while (about 30 minutes) serve cold.

Shoe Flower Drink

Shoe Flower Drink

4-5 Shoe Flower (see picture)
2 Limes, squeezed
Sugar to taste

Add shoe flowers to 4 cups of boiling water. Turn off heat and let stand for 15 minutes. Strain the flowers, add lime juice and sugar to the water. Serve chilled.

Komadu (Watermelon) Drink

Komadu (Watermelon) Drink

Serves 3

4.5 cups of watermelon flesh cut into chunks and de-seeded
1-2 cups cold water
Juice of a half a lime
Sugar and Salt to taste

Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend till all the watermelon has liquefied. Adjust salt and sugar. Serve with ice.
Note: It is much easier if you use seedless watermelon.

Ginger Drink

Ginger Drink 





Ingredients

3 ozs. Root ginger
4 ozs. lime juice
1 1/2 - 2 lbs. sugar
6 bottles of water

Method:
Boil water, add pureed (crushed) ginger and sugar. When sugar gets dissolved, take it off the fire. Allow it to cool and add lime juice. Strain and bottle. Tastes better when it is iced.

This is an ideal Summer drink, when you are thirsty and tired. Enjoy!!! 

Wattakka Soup (Pumpkin Soup)

Wattakka Soup (Pumpkin Soup)




Ingredients

3 lbs of Pumpkin - peeled & diced or try canned pumpkin
2 table spoons of butter or olive oil
2 onions chopped finely
4 Garlic Cloves
1 inch piece of Ginger
1 teaspoon of un-roasted curry powder (made from coriander, Sweet Cumin & Fennel seeds)
1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 can of chicken stock or 10 cubes of chicken cubes OR Vegetable stock
1 teaspoon of Sugar
1/4 teaspoon of Black pepper
1/2 a cup of coconut milk OR 1 cup of full Cream milk
4 Cups of Water
Salt to taste if only needed

Rasam

Rasam

Ingredients

4 cups water
1/4 cup masoor dhal
1 tsp corriander seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
2 dried red chillies
6-8 curry leaves
1 tbsp tamarind concentrate
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp chillie powder
1 tbsp cooking oil
1/2 balck mustrad seeds

Method

Wash and drain the dhal. Place the water, dhal, corriander,

cumin, chillies and curry leaves in a pan and bring to boil.

Lower the heat to medium and cook, uncovered, for 6-8 mins.

Cover the pan and simmer for 30 mins.

Remove the pan from the heat and let cool slightly. Strain the

liquid and sieve the dhal into it. Return to the pan. Heat and

add the tamarind, salt, chillie powder. Stir until the tamrind

is dissolved.

Heat the oil in a seperate pan and add the mustrad seeds. As

soon as the seeds crackle, add the rasam or stir the hot oi and

the seeds in to the rasam.

Remove from heat and serve warm.

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Iramusu

Iramusu 

Totally natural caffeine free, Iramusu Ayurvedic Herbal Tea offers many medicinal benefits. This beverage has a significant fragrance, a good lasting taste giving fresh breath. Regular and habitual consumption of Iramusu Tea ensures the benefits in the long term. The beverage is made available in easy to use tea bags. Sarsaparilla Indian includes Sitestarol, Amarina, Desinine, Hemidesterol, Salicylic-aldehyde, Leupiyol, Tannin and Saponin. the scientific terms the roots are used mostly. It may be the reason since it is good for any type of ailments. It has been studied that the roots dried has a capacity of 0.225% of essential oil. The other features in the Indian Sarsaparilla roots include Sitestarol, Amairina, Leupiyol, Tannin and Saponin. It is well studied that in the Indian Sarsaparilla roots it contains medicinal strength. ramusu (Indian Sarsapanilla) is a perennial twining or creeping herb with a woody fragrant rootstock. It has slender hairless stem with variable dark green leaves, greenish flowers in small compact clusters and narrow cylindrical fruits. Benefits of Iramusu Herbal Tea :-

Ranawara

Ranawara

Ranawara or Ranavara (Cassia auriculata) flower has been widely used from generations in Sri Lanka as a Herbal tea Totally natural Caffeine Free Ranawara Ayurvedic Herbal Tea offers many medicinal benefits.

Ranawara Ayurvedic herbal Tea gives the clear complexion. Ranawara herb acts as an agent in restoring sexual vitality, increases sperm count, and counter acts ejaculatory disorders. Ranawara herb is used as a treatment for diabetes Ranawara Ayurvedic herbal Tea is also effective in relieving urinary problems, assists in stomach cleaning and restoration of the skin to its natural glow.

Acts as an agent in easing discomfort in women during menstruation In Africa the herb has been used for treating body aches, eye irritations, diabetes and venereal disease.

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Polpala

Polpala

Polpala (Aerva lanata) is dried and preserved and used to make herbal tea. In Sanskrit it is Pashanabhedi and in Tamil it is known as Tengappu keerei.

This herb is described as “one of the best known remedies for bladder and kidney stones. Polpala is effective in the treatment of cough and indigestion and is specially used in the treatment of diabetes and urinary troubles. It is a diuretic and is used as an antidote in cases of arsenic poisoning.

In Sanskrit Polpala has another name Nagajihva. This name refers to the fact that the tap root resembles the tongue of a naga or cobra. It is used either by itself or in combination with other herbs to treat snake bites. Polpala can also be made into paste with cold water cmd used as an application for skin eruptions. Polpala can be cooked as vegetable.

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Warm Lemon Water with Turmeric

Warm Lemon Water with Turmeric

Ayurveda recommends to always start the day with a cup of warm lemon water. It has so many benefits for your body. It cleanses the system and helps to get rid of toxins, boosts the immune system, balances pH levels and also aids weight loss by fighting hunger cravings. Try this recipe, drink it for a week every day and feel the difference!

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