HealthyLife is a part of www.WeRIndia.com, an all India – centric website (https://healthylife.werindia.com) and is solely owned and operated by WeRIndia.com. It is a Indian nutritional portal providing educational articles.This nutritional port was launched on February 5th, 2015.
Instant Rava Vada
Looking for a tasty instant snack item?
Try instant rava vada (semolina vada). It is very easy to prepare with ingredients readily available at home and is very tasty.
Just make sure you don’t eat more than two as it contains some amount of oil.
Ingredients
Rava (semolina)– 1 cup
Curd – ½ cup
Cumin – ½ tsp
Onion – 1 Finely chopped
Ginger – Grated ½ inch
Green chlli – 1, finely chopped
Salt – as per your requirement
Cilantro/corinder – 2 Tbs finely chopped
Curry leaves – few
Asafetida – a pinch
Oil – for frying
Preparation:
In a container mix rava, cumin, onion, ginger, salt, chopped coriander, ginger, asafetida, green chilli, curry leaves by adding curd. If needed add little water and mix well.
Keep dough aside for 15 to 20 minutes
Apply little oil on palm and take a small amount of dough and flatten it. Give donut shape by making a hole in the center.
Heat oil on medium flame and slowly, carefully release the vada in hot oil. Fry till it turns golden brown.
Remove vada and place on paper towel to drain the excess oil.
Overtime kitchen cabinets get dirty. Especially when you are on move, you need to clean the house before selling it or handing it back to the owner.
Cabinets are sources of dirt, bacteria, oil and grease and it might take time to clean the cabinets.
Once in two weeks or once a month if you start cleaning the cabinets using any one of the tips, cabinets look clean and dirt free.
It saves your money on cleaning services and helps to keep your family healthy.
Use Vinegar: Mix warm water and white vinegar in 1:1 ration (50/50) in a spray bottle and spray on cabinet doors. Wait for five minutes and then, wipe off with soft and clean old cloth. Use the liquid to clean inside the cabinet to keep it clean and shining.
Vinegar, olive oil and warm water mixture: Mix these three ingredients – For 4 Tbsp vinegar, add 1.5 cups of warm and two tsp of olive oil. Shake well and spray on cabinet surface. Use a clean cloth and wipe cabinets.
Use dish soap or detergent: In a spray bottle add few drops of dish soap or detergent to warm water. Shake well and spray on cabinets. Use a soft, slightly dampened cloth to rinse away soap liquid from cabinet followed by a wipe using dry cloth. Use a soft cloth and rub the surface. Use same past inside cabinet to keep it clean and shining.
Coconut oil and baking soda:Take one part of coconut oil and two parts of baking soda and mix to prepare a paste. Apply on the cabinets using a soft cloth or sponge. Leave it for a while and using cloth scrub it off and use a damp cloth for final cleaning.
Ice cubes:If you have something tough and sticky foods stuck to cabinet use ice cubes to remove. Put few ice cubes in a Ziploc bag and hold it over the spot till the spot hardness. Use a plastic knife or a spoon to scrape the spot. For left over spot- apply paste of vinegar and salt and wipe using a soft cloth.
Oil soap: To remove oil, grease from food, use oil soap like Murphy oil, orange oil or Pine sol cleaner. Pour little of the liquid on a soft cloth and rub onto cabinets until the oil or grease is gone. Use another clean cloth and remove rest of the residue.
Vegetable oil and baking soda: In a bowl, mix vegetable oil and baking soda in 1:2 ratio. Prepare a paste and apply this on cabinet, particularly in the areas where there is knob and handle. Use a clean cloth and wipe it off.
For wooden cabinets – make sure that you do not dampen the cabinets for a long time.
For metal cabinets – Baking soda does not work properly on metal cabinets. Rest of the tips are good to use.
It is good for bladder control and helps in strengthening muscle
To reduce anemia in pregnant women betel nut is preferred traditional medicine. It helps to bring back iron content and reduces blood sugar level.
Betel nut helps those people who suffer from brain injury related speech inhibition and muscle control.
Eating betel nuts after meal helps in digestion and increases metabolism. Betel leaf and betel nuts with mouth freshener is called paan.
Chewing betel nut helps in reducing cavities in mouth.
Chewing betel nut strengthens gums
It helps in controlling stomach worms -In addition to chewing, one can boil betel nuts with java ginger (Temulawak) and drink the liquid.
In addition, chewing betel nut also reduces dysentery.
During travel, chewing betel nut helps in controlling travel sickness like nausea and vomiting.
Instead of eating supari alone (it can be bitter), people add various ingredients and make it more interesting to eat.
In some parts, natural herbal colors are added making it somewhat black – purple giving a bit different taste than original supari.
Thin slices of raw supari boiled in milk, sugar and cardamom and dried in sun light is liked by many.
A mixture of pieces of supari, sugar and flavoring agents –is common form of supari available in India.
Slices of raw supari roasted in clarified butter (ghee) and sugar added tastes good. Instead of sugar one can add salt.
Thin slices of raw supari cooked in sugar and cardamom syrup and sun dried is another way to make supari tasty.
Another traditional way to eat supari is with betel leaf, sugar, gulkan and other mouth fresheners.
How much betel nut is too much?Eating betel nut too many times a day can cause dry throat, cough and taste bud change. People who suffer from cough should reduce or should not eat betel nut. Eating little (1/2 tsp to 1 tsp) of cut betel nut per day is recommended. Many reports say that eating betel nut can cause cancer of different forms – mouth, throat, stomach etc. People can be addicted to betel nut with long-term usage.
