Uluva Pizhinjathu / Fenugreek Juice

Thanks to Roopa, Rachel and Shaheen for bestowing the "yummy blog award"! I was very thrilled seeing your comments about my blog and I ask apology for not responding to you soon.With a slow net connection it was very difficult for me to reach your blogs..As I said in the previous post am with mom and this post is from her to my readers Sujitha and Biji. I hope others too may benefit from this.
Uluva juice / uluva pizhinjathu is also known as uluva kanji in some places. It is normally given to the delivered ladies as a post delivery medicine.Elders say this is good for those who are suffering back pain if taken regularly.
Uluva has much medicinal values which has a cooling effect on body and helps to improve hair growth.
You can take this juice any time if you like.



Ingredients
Uluva / fenugreek 1 cup
coconut grated half coconut
jaggery / sarkkara 3 big blocks or as desired



How to prepare
Wash and soak uluva in drinking water. Soak it for over night. Cook this in the same soaked water.Put jaggery in the end.
(You can pressure cook this.)
Take thick milk from coconut.
Blend the cooked uluva in same water and add coconut milk. Or blend coconut and uluva together. Or squeeze uluva , strain and add it to the coconut milk.(this is the real method) This juice has a light brown color.
You have to drink this soon when you prepared, other wise it may be thick.

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Verum Puli - A Vegetable Curry

My friend Latha Jayaprakash sent me this recipe when she saw the peel and stem recipes here.
Latha is my "senior friend" who has much knowledge in various subjects including homeopathy, beauty care etc. She owns a beautiful blog too. Please check her blog, you can find many helping articles there regarding beauty care.

Whenever I cook noodles my son would request me to make it without "orange and green things"... :) My daughter remains silent, but after completing the meal there would be a pile of carrots and beans in her plate. They love only few veggies like cauliflower,brinjals etc. Recently I found they like broccoli very much, my little boy asks now, give me the "the tree-like vegetable" ma please... :) This curry , I prepared using the broccoli and spinach stems. Latha suggested to make it with one vegetable at a time.



Ingredients
Vegetables - 1 cup chopped
grated coconut - 1 1/2 cups
red chillies 4 or 5 or as per taste
tamarind, shredded into small pieces - 1/2 to 1 tsp as desired
Roasted and powdered fenugreek seeds - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder and salt as needed



How to preapare
Cut the vegetables in to small pieces and cook them in a little water with turmeric and salt.
Grind coconut, red chillies, tamarind ( valan puli not kodum puli ) to a nice smooth paste.

Roast and powder fenugreek seeds. Mix them all together with a little water into a thick paste
add to the boiling vegetables.
Remove from fire when the curry turns frothy.

Temper:
heat coconut oil, add curry leaves some chopped small onion, brown and pour over the curry.

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