POHA KHEER

Aval Payasam (Poha Kheer) is made with milk and poha. Learn how to make/prepare Aval Payasam by following this easy recipe. It will be helpful to prepare a sweet in short time for your guest and kids.


INGREDIENTS:
Poha (Flattered Rice) – ½ cup
METHOD:

• Whole Cream Milk – 2 liter
• Almonds (Thinly Slivered) – 10
• Pistachios (Thinly Slivered) – 10
• Sugar – 2 Cups
• Cashews (Broken) – 8
• Raisins – 15

1. Wash and drain the poha. Leave it aside for 10 minutes.
2. Separate poha grains with your finger.
3. Boil the milk in a large vessel.
4. When milk starts boiling, add poha and stir gently.
5. Bring to boil again.
6. Simmer till milk volume reduces to half. Stir occasionally.
7. Now add sugar and cardamom powder. Stir to dissolve.
8. Add fried raisins and cashews. Simmer for 2 more minutes. 
9. Garnish with chopped almonds and pistachios.
10. Serve hot.

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Carrot Kheer

Forget about vitamin A pills. With this orange crunchy power food, you get vitamin A and a host of other powerful health benefits including beautiful skin, stroke & cancer prevention, and anti-aging. We can get maximum benefits from this amazing vegetable. You can feed this vegetable for your kid as they wish! Carrot Kheer is a very sweet and healthy pudding for your buddies!

Ingredients:

• Carrots – 4
• Milk – 4 Cups (950 ml)
• Sugar – ¾ Cup (200 gram)
• Cardamom (Powdered) – 2
• Almonds (grated) – 3 tbsp
• Cashew nuts – 10
• Almonds (Chopped) – 4 tsp
• Raisins - 10

Method:

1. Boil the carrots in water till they become soft.
2. Grind them to paste along with cashews and keep it aside.
3. Boil the milk. Reduce the flame and keep on stirring till it becomes thick and 2/4 of the quantity.
4. Add sugar and grinded cardamom to milk and stir constantly till it becomes more thick and ¼ of the quantity.
5.  Now add the carrot paste to milk and increase the flame. Mix well.
6. When it starts boiling, remove from heat.
7. Garnish with chopped almonds, raisins.
8. Serve cold.

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RICE KHEER

                                                                

Rice kheer is a famous South Indian recipe. Rice Kheer is usually prepared on the "PONGAL FESTIVALS" which comes on January month and offered to the lord. Rice Kheer (Akkaravadisal) usually offered as a prasadham in the temples which has an unique taste. It has lots of milk and jaggery - which translates to lots of calcium, protein and iron. Children like this sweet very much.

Ingredients needed:

[For 4 serves]

Basmati rice - 1 cup

Split yellow moong dal - 1/4 cup

Milk – 4 cups

Jaggery - 1 cup

Ghee -1/2 cup

Cardamom -5 (powdered)

Cashew nuts - 15

Raisins - 50 grams

Preparation:

•  Wash and soak rice for half an hour. Drain and keep it aside.
•  Fry moong dal till golden brown.
• Melt jaggery in very less water (Make it as a syrup) and filter it impurities.

Method:

• Boil milk, add rice, dal to it and cook till it becomes mushy.
• Then boil jaggery for a few minutes and add it to the cooked rice.
•  Fry cashew nuts, raisins in ghee separately and add everything along with the ghee to the Rice Kheer.
• Add cardamom powder and mix well. Serve piping hot.

Note: 

• You can do this in pressure cooker also but for best results follow this method. 
•  Rice Kheer should be in semi-solid state. If the end preparation is too tight (i.e. solid), then add milk to make it little loose.

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Best Sunglasses

We often buy sunglasses as fashion accessories to buy a new pair every spring with emphasis on fashion for function. But being in the sun always mean to take measures against ultraviolet radiation damage ..

When making a purchase that is fashionable, do not forget sunglasses to protect your eyes. So, how well they work on as they make you look like.

Tips before you choose a Best Sunglass:

• First and foremost, you should keep in mind that UV protection is a must for sunglasses. It is always good to go for a branded pair, and check the ones that have a rating of one hundred percent of UVA and UVB protection.
• When you buy a pair, take someone with you. This will help you choose a pair of better and faster. Also, try as many pairs as you can to narrow your choice.
• Although they are in vogue, huge sunglasses the size does not suit all people face particularly small. Always choose sunglasses according to your font.
• Points to filter blue light, as it is to damage the retina. Also, go for a pair of polarized, which helps to reduce glare. Green tinted glasses are a good option because it helps to filter blue light and reduces glare.
• If you are an athlete, then go to the rose-colored glasses, because they give a better contrast of objects are considered on a blue and green background.
• If you have a triangular facial features, the aviator glasses would be the best option for you.
• This may be aware that each type of points fits well into the oval features. So if you are endowed with an oval face, you're in luck!
• If you have a square face, never in any case to go to the square-shaped sunglasses, as this will only emphasize your facial structures.
• Large framed rectangular glasses are a good choice for people with a round face. Again, do not wear round glasses, as it will just emphasize the roundness.
• If you're a little chubby cheeks, you get a thick frame for your glasses, and choose a darker lens.
• If you have a wide forehead with a small chin, then the best option for you will be wide and dark frames. The wider the horizontal size, the better sunglasses will look at you.
• Although the black frames are the most popular choice, make sure that it does not contrast with your skin tone too much, before choosing one.
• Cats in the style of glasses look is ideal for heart-shaped facial structure. So if you were to refrain from buying one so far, it's your time to buy. The frames in a metal frame at the bottom and bright colors will also be a good option for you if you do not dig the cats in the style too much.
• The best choice for diamond face shape is oval or slightly curved points. However, to go to the subtle forms of sunglasses.
• In addition, polycarbonate (PC) is the most common choice of lens material, because they are lightweight and durable.
• Square or round glasses will look good on you if you have a long face structure.

Your points should be comfortable revolver, do not look for slander, and should always match your skin. Wheels should also not graze the side of your face.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           For Tanned SkinYou should try these colors

• Tortoise
• Honey
• Brown
• Coral
• Aqua
• with black glasses...

Brands you can opt for

• GUCCI
• Prada
• Dior
• Chanel
• Fendi

 

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Vitamins and Skin

Vitamins is the main reason for our healthy life, vitamin deficiency causes plenty of diseases. Especially for skin it plays a vital role. This is why major skin care products that you see contains high amount of vitamins. But most advisable is to take those vitamins by means of food we eat. Here are some of the essential vitamines for great skin and how to incorporate them into our diet.

Vitamin A

• For scaly and dry skin, Vitamin A is the first enemy.
• Who suffers from acne are also advised to take plenty of vitamin A.
• Vitamin A helps to rebuild skin tissues.
•  For skin disease like psoriasis, it is advised to apply retinoids (a form of Vitamin A), mainly to regulate cellular growth. 
• It serves as an anti -aging nutrient.

Sources:

  Egg, Milk, Carrot, Pumpkin, liver, Dried apricots, Greeny leaves, Cantaloupe.

Vitamin E

•  It perhaps the most well-known vitamin that is essential for healthy skin. 
•  It is an antioxidant that helps fight free radicals in your body (which occur due to smoking, pollution and sun exposure)., which cause premature aging.
•  Appearance of age spots, wrinkles, stretch marks and lines are reduced by appyling vitamin E products.

            Sources:

Olives, Sunflower seeds, peanuts, almonds, wheat germ and leafy greens.

Vitamin C:

•  Like Vitamin E Vitamin C also an effective antioxident. which helps in the battle against skin aging.
•   It also stimulats the production of collagen in your skin. Collagen is the protein responsible for making your skin supple. So if you wish to retain smooth and youthful skin then Vitamin C can help.

Sources:

      Most fruits are good sources of Vitamin C so try to make fruits a staple addition to your everyday diet. Vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, tomato, brussel sprouts and cucumber are also good sources of this vitamin.

Vitamin B complex:

• Vitamin B1, for instance, boosts circulation in the body and gives your skin a certain glow.
•   If you're a woman taking birth control pills then you are at risk of Vitamin B1 deficiency.

Sources:

      Egg yolks, nuts and raisins are great sources of Vitamin B1. Niacin of Vitamin B3 helps your skin receive plenty of oxygen, which prevents development of acne among other benefits. Niacin-rich foods include tomatoes, broccoli and carrots.

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