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Sprouted Moong Daal

Sprouted Green Gram Cutlets

Here is mouth watering and nutritional snack for the day – Sprouted Mung dal cutlets.
Sprouted mung beans (moong daal) are baby mung bean plants. Because mung bean sprouts are so small, they contain a concentrated amount of key vitamins and minerals such as iron, potassium, folate and vitamin C. They are also a good source of protein. As the plants sprout, they also produce enzymes that make it easier for your body to digest and metabolize the protein they contain. Add these tiny nutritional powerhouses to a variety of healthy recipes to boost the protein content.

Ingredients:

2 – Potatoes (cooked)

1 cup – Sprouted cooked green grams

(For sprouting the mung beans soak mung beans in water for 8 hours. Drain water and place them in a low light or considerably darker place in the kitchen at room temperature. You can use cheesecloth, paper cloth or just a plain jar for sprouting. If you are using plain jar, then cover it with a light cloth )

Sprouted Mung

  • 1 -Finely cut white onion
  • 2 – Small cut green chillies
  • 1 tsp – Garam Masala powder
  • 1/2 tsp – Fennel seed powder
  • 1 -2 inch grated Ginger
  • 2 tbsp – Corn flour
  • 7-8 Indian curry leaves
  • 1/4 cup – Bread crumbs
  • Salt for taste
  •  Oil for frying

Preparation method:

  1. Combine the cooked sprouted green grams, cooked potatoes, garam masala powder, fennel seed powder in a bowl.
  2. Heat few drops of oil and sauté the chopped onions, chopped green chillies, grated ginger and curry leaves until the onions turns golden brown.
  3. Add sautéed onion, chillies to the cooked potato-sprouted green gram mixtur, add salt e and mix well
  4. Make small balls from this mixture. Flatten them and keep aside.
  5. Make a white paste with corn flour and enough water. Dip the flatten cutlets into the corn flour paste and roll it over the bread crumbs.*
  6. Heat oil in a pan and gently drop the cutlets in. Fry on both sides in medium flame until the crust turns golden brown.
  7. Serve hot cutlets with tomato ketchup and green chutney.

*Alternatively one can mix bread crumbs while mixing potato -sprouted green gram mixture with onion, prepare balls and flatten it before dropping it to oil. The purpose of adding bread crumbs is to bind the mix well, so that while frying cutlets remain intact.

Image courtesy : http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/images/sproutedpesalu/sproutedpesalu1.jpg

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The answer is: Both a and b

Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: March 23, 2017
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Change is the Law of the Universe

“The BhagavadGeetha has the depth of the ocean and the vastness of the sky.”

“Don’t think The BhagavadGeetha got over long time ago. It is still going on everyday in each and every person’s life. Our life is all these 18 chapters of the Geetha. In your life, you can see which chapter you are in now. Where are you stuck? 1st Chapter? 2nd? 3rd? … You can gauge for yourself where your life is.” Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

BhagavadGeetha has 18 chapters and the meaning of these 18 chapters are explained by Sri Sri Ravishankar Guruji in simple words. In a meeting someone asked Guruji “thousands of years ago people had the same problems as we all have today, there is not much difference. Things have not changed much in human life. How we compare then present day life to 1000 years back? “

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar clarified the doubts in simple words while explained the concept of 18 chapters of BhagavadGeetha.

Thousands of years ago also, there was a new moon and there was a full moon, there was winter and there was spring. Therefore, in everyone’s life also, the 18 chapters of the BhagavadGeetha happen.

• The first chapter is where you regret and say, “I am powerless and I give up”.

• The second chapter in your life is when someone wakes you up and says, “Hey come on! There is nothing to regret in life. There is something in you that don’t change and you have the power to sail over all this”. Then you wake up and you felt good.

• The third chapter tells you to act. Do not sit and worry, ‘What about me? What about me? ‘Go and act, this is Karma Yoga.

• The fourth chapter tells you, now that you are acting you must also listen to knowledge. Don’t become like a machine and only act, listen to knowledge as well. There is something beyond all this.

• The fifth chapter tells you about material and spiritual knowledge. You cannot say, “Everything is being done and there is nothing for me to do”, or you cannot think, “I am doing everything. I did this and I did that”. This is not going to work for you. Wake up and see, are things happening or are you really doing it?

• Then the sixth chapter is when you learn to meditate.

• The seventh chapter tells you, now that you are meditating, you should know the author of meditation – the one who is meditating in you. ‘Who am I? What is time?’ Knowing all about is science. When we are deeply connected with ourselves, anything that we do in the world seems so effortless.

• It continues like this- When you meditate miracles happen in your life. Wake up and see the miracles! Many do not observe miracles, nor believe in it. If you recognize it and believe in it then it happens even more! Give a chance for miracles to happen, don’t be so steeped in the material cause and effect — ‘I did this so this will happen’, or ‘I did that and only that will happen’, no! You did it but something else can also happen unexpectedly! Recognizing that ‘something different’ is Vibhuti. Vibhuti means giving a chance for miracles in your life, exploring it.

•Then after that is knowing the universal self and knowing that everything is in me and I am in everything.

• Then there is love and devotion. You know and understand all this, but then what? It is not enough. You should be in deep love! When you know that the divine loves you, you cannot but fall in love with the divine! That is the 12th chapter.

• Then you understand what are the divine qualities and what are the demonic qualities and you realize that you have all the divine qualities in you.

• Then there are the three qualities or Gunas (Satvic, Rajasic and Tamasic) to everything: mind, ego and food. Sattavic ego is, “I am everything and everybody”. The Tamasic ego is knowing that you are only this body, and the Rajasic ego is having a limited mindset and falling into craving and aversion.

• The final chapter is about knowing that you cannot wash your own sins. Drop them and understand what is being said, “I am here to take care of your sins. Feel that you are mine, be connected to me and I will take care of everything. Just relax!’ This is Sanyaasa or liberation.

These are the 18 chapters and these chapters are all a part of everybody’s life. Sometimes we do not reach up to the 18th chapter. It takes many lifetimes to reach there!

Courtesy: http://www.artofliving.org/global/bhagavad-gita

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Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: March 19, 2017
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Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: March 17, 2017
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Bhastrika Pranayama (Bellow breath)

Pranayama is practice of breathing in yoga or it is yogic breathing. The word Bhastrika Pranayama comes from the Sanskrit word Bhastrika, which basically means breathing like a bellows. It is also known as breath of fire.

Prana refers to vital energy needed for us to live, which differentiates living from dead. Our breathing is linked to our emotions and for every emotion that we feel we have a particular type of breathing. Practice various types of breathing in yoga helps us to overcome hurdles in life.

Bhastrika pranayama is a type of paranayama which should be practiced when the energy level is low and to improve the brain fog. In this type both inhalation and exhalation both are forced. The movement of belly along with every breath is an optional variation. So Bhastrika Pranayama is all about inhaling and exhaling completely so that our body gets sufficient amount of oxygen.

The benefits of doing Bhastrika pranayama or bellow breathing is:

  • Quickly calms the mind, reducing worries and anxieties
  • Improves focus and attention, removing brain fog
  • Increases energy, bringing enthusiasm and positivity
  • Strengthens lungs
  • Balancing of tridosha dhatus
  • It also helps in increasing blood flow

Follow these steps to do bhastrika pranayama ;

  1. Sit up tall in easy – Padmasana pose and relax your shoulders.
  2. Take a few deep, breaths in and out from your nose. With each inhale, expand your belly fully as you breathe.
  3. Begin bellows breathing by exhaling forcefully through your nose. Follow by inhaling forcefully at the rate of one second per cycle.
  4. Make sure the breath is coming from your diaphragm; keep your head, neck, shoulders, and chest still while your belly moves in and out.

What your mind and body should do simultaneously while practicing Bhastrika pranayama?

  • In this, inhaling and exhaling should take the same length of time-2.5 seconds to breathe in and 2.5 seconds to breathe out.
  • While you breathe in (inhale) assume that you are taking in positive energy and vibrations, and that you are being energized by them.
  • During breathe out (exhale), imagine that you are taking out all the toxins from our body and find. (feel that during breathe out all the toxins comes out through your breathe)

One can practice three cycles each time:

  • First cycle: Move through a round of 10 Bhastrika breaths, then take a break and breathe naturally, observing the sensations in your mind and body.
  • 2nd cycle: After a 15- to 30-second break, begin the next round with 20 breaths.
  • At the end: after pausing for another 30 seconds, complete a third round of 30 bellows breaths.

Caution:

  • Bellows breathing is a safe practice, but if you feel light-headed in any way, pause for a few minutes while breathing naturally. When the discomfort passes, try another round of bellows breathing, slower and with less intensity.
  • If you are suffering from high blood pressure and acute heart problem then, don’t perform Bhastrika breathing.
  • Do not practice Bhastrika pranayam if you are pregnant.

References:

  • http://www.yogaindailylife.org

Author: HealthyLife | Posted on: March 16, 2017
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