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Edible Flowers Pt -1

July 17, 2019Leave a comment

Edible flowers Tea
Flowers as soon as we hear them we make a clear picture in our mind that they are meant for decorations or religious purpose. But very fewer people know that some flowers can help us in many ways to get rid of disease which highly effect on our body. Today we will not talk about every flower but I m going to share 2 such flowers who have many characteristics from which your most of the body related problems get cured.

1 . Marigold

Marigold, we always see this flower as a part of decorations, weddings, and religious purposes. But what we do after we use it we just throw it away. So this is wrong there are many benefits of having marigold but how we can consume it in what source?
So we can consume the marigold in the form of tea yeas marigold is used to infuse with hot water so whatever characteristics which are there in marigold get mixed with the water.
So what we get after we consumed this tea
It’s high in Anti-bacterial ( which suppress or destroy the ability to reproduce bacteria in our body).
Anti-inflammatory (an element which protects your body from irritation or injury, swelling.
It also can soothe the skin which is a natural cosmetic and is so mild enough that we can use it as baby care.
Not only this drinking marigold tea every day it promotes to healthy new tissues, increases blood flow to the affected areas, hydrates the skin speed-ups the process of skin repair as well as reducing stomach or menstrual cramps.
Apart from this, the marigold essence can use to treat fungal infections of all body. And sometimes it manages symptoms of cough, sore throats and fever

“Hibiscus”

Another flower which we are going to talk about is “Hibiscus”
Hibiscus is also a flower which has many good qualities which are beneficial for the human body
And yes this flower can also be consumed in the form of tea
Just you need to know is boil the water add the flowers along with some cinnamon and honey then strain it and for final touch add some dash of lemon that’s it!
It prevents us from Hypertension(the stage where blood arteries are higher than expected)
Reduces the blood sugar levels and keep your liver healthy and also do help in menstrual cramps. the best part helps in digestion detoxify the body and weight management of body too.
Its is rich in vitamin C
Now talking about these 2 flowers u can buy them in bulk naturally dry them with the help of sunlight or you can use them directly.
The reason some people dry them and use because, to be honest, they are sour and slightly bitter so drying helps the strong flavor to get in control, as well as u, can preserve them for a long time.
so this was only about two edible flowers will be uploading about other edible flowers soon so hope you like the content if you like it SHARE with others and you can see the recipe on my youtube channel link below

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“Chaat” (Hors-d oeuvre) Appetizer!!

April 22, 2019Leave a comment

“Chaat the word literally means to lick, such a portion of food that goes like an explosion of flavours in your mouth! & it should be the same because Chaat (hours-d oeuvre) are starters to your meal that increase your appetite it increases your attention to have more food the same concept is with chaat you get a bunch of flavours from tangy, spicy, sweet and sour. So whenever you eat chaat in one bite you get all these flavours.
though it a very light meal but it totally depends on you that how to defend yourself from such amazing flavours!
And purposely it is kept light because it’s the first course.
But how this Chaat came into existence?

When it was invented?
most of us enjoy this “Chaat” but very some of them know how it was invented.
So the story is this was invented during the royal regime of “Shah Jahan”
in 1650!
Once Shahjahan was having his stomach upset and after so many medicines it was not getting cured because at that time there were no antibiotics so for even small to small disease it used to take time so during his stomach upset he was suggested to eat light meal but as you know kings never used to listen if they need something Shahjahan stomach was carving for some delicious food
so he ordered his khansamas to make something that will make him surprise and happy

khansamas where in big trouble what to do?
so he went to the kitchen he was having atta rawa curd fresh fruits and some spices so he made some atta crisps (hard puris) and as you know curd is light so he mixed spices with att crips along with kebab green chutney and he presented this to king Shahjahan

when he ate it he was so amazed and happy that he introduced this meal in his royal food!

After that, the fusion started to like the king used to travel all around India so the khansamas used to used local ingredients to make it more attractive and tasty so this is how chaat was introduced to this world.

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Is Chicken Tikka Masala Scottish?

April 8, 2019Leave a comment

You people must be shocked after reading this statement but it is completely true.

welcome back to another interesting blog today we will look at chicken tikka masala. its been more than 70 years for this dish but still after so many interesting inventions in non-veg dishes people still order chicken tikka for lunch or dinner. this dish has satisfied so many people buy her finger liking flavours.

Chicken Tikka Masala is a slowly cooked tomato curry along with the spices and the addition is spiced roasted chicken and to make it richer in taste we add cream in it.

The unknown fact which we all don’t know is that there are around 48 recipes for this single dish all around the world. the prime ingredient remains the same which is the chicken.

The question lies who made the chicken tikka masala?

Britishers or Indian?

so there are 3 stories behind this so let’s see

1st story

there was an Indian restaurant name Glasgow in Scotland a Pakistani chef named Ali Ahmed the priority of the restaurant says that it was a busy night in a restaurant and late night a bus driver came and ask for a chicken curry the order was served but bus driver sent it back saying chicken is dry then in the kitchen tomato soup was left at that time so chef added dry chicken in that soup added some spices and sent it back to the table the bus driver loved it and he became regular with his friends for that curry this is how dish came to life.

2nd story

This story says in Britain there were many Indian restaurants in which Bangladeshi chefs used to work there they made this and bought to life.

3rd story

this is a story from Punjab in 1970s people were not knowing about tandoor because it was rarely available people use to see tandoor in big events like weddings live tandoori chicken was displayed but the small pieces of chicken used to left from tandoori chicken so there was a restaurant Moti mahal where this leftover pieces of chicken were tossed with tomato gravy & cream and the dish was bought to life which is named as chicken tikka masala.

people know these 3 stories but what exact one is there no one knows but foodies will never worry about that because at the end taste is important to us.

what else you need when you have a plate of hot & sizzling chicken tikka masala along with garlic butter naan or tandoori roti brushed with hot butter means life is complete what more expectations from left with l lolz! But jokes apart this dish has its own unique body and flavour which is unbeatable from last 70 years in Indian cuisine the dish is so renowned that every non-Indian are also the fan of this dish!!

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