Bhajje Amshe ( Blood-Red Swiss Chard/Red Amarnath Inwards A Spicy Kokosnoot Sauce); Diabetes Friendly Thursday

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My contribution to this is our really ain " Bhajje Amshe". This is null but Red Amarnath leaves cooked inwards spicy kokosnoot sauce.The argue I country " our really own" is because this is non a recipe that I invented. This has been inwards our culture, inwards our homes for generations. My mom made it, her woman nurture made it, so on together with so forth.

This is a really traditional recipe that is so tardily that it is cooked without fifty-fifty much idea together with endeavour going into it! The signal of me telling you lot all this is that, someone who is a diabetic, doesn't necessarily receive got to acquire nearly finding novel recipes to eat!! There is enough inwards our everyday cuisine that diabetics CAN eat! It is all nearly beingness mindful of WHAT you lot consume together with HOW MUCH you lot eat! This dish is traditionally served alongside rice but tin terminate last eaten alongside roti or chapati.

When it comes to rice, it makes a big departure whether you lot are eating white rice, parboiled rice,matta rice or brownish rice every bit white rice has the highest glycemic index acre brownish rice has the lowest. Lower the glycemic index, amend the food.It likewise matters whether you lot are eating rice or kanji. Kanji is rice alongside the water. We people from South Kanara, traditionally consume kanji for dinner. Kanji makes you lot experience fuller faster due to the H2O content inwards it.

Bhajje Amshe served alongside kanji made out of matta rice.

Bhajje Amshe is unremarkably made alongside here.

Servings: 4-6 ( 1-1.5 cups per person)

Ingredients:

Red Amarnath/ Red Swiss chard: 1 medium-sized bunch
Water: 1/2 cup+1 cup( may non withdraw all).
Freshly grated coconut: 2/3rd cup
Dried Red chillies: 2-3 ( tin terminate last adjusted based on private spice level)
Dried tamarind: marble sized portion
Salt: to taste
Garlic: 6-8 cloves
Coconut oil: 1 tsp

Method:

Wash the ruddy Amarnath or ruddy swisschard thoroughly. Chop it finely together with add together to a pot containing 1/2 loving cup water. Add 1/2 tsp tabular array salt together with convey it to a boil.

Reduce the open fire together with gear upward for exactly about other 6-8 minutes. Turn off the open fire together with proceed aside.

Grind together freshly grated coconut, ruddy chillies together with tamarind to a fine paste, adding H2O every bit needed niggling at a time. Your masala is ready.

Add the soil masala to the cooked ruddy Amarnath/ ruddy Swiss chard together with convey it to a boil. Turn off the flame.

Tempering:

Heat kokosnoot stone oil inwards a skillet/pan on depression heat.
Peel together with chop the garlic cloves into medium-sized pieces. Add this to the hot kokosnoot oil. Sauté the garlic until it turns golden brown.

Now add together this to the prepared swisschard together with kokosnoot sauce mixture.

Served alongside brownish rice & salad

Serve hot alongside rice/roti.
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Cooking made easy:

Quite oft people shy away from greens every bit they exercise non know how to build clean them together with are thus unable to acquire rid of the sand/dirt inwards the greens! There is null to a greater extent than repulsive than sand inwards your oral cavity acre eating! There is an easy, foolproof means to build clean the greens. Rinse the greens together with and then soak them inwards mutual frigidness H2O alongside a few drops of vinegar for a few minutes. The vinegar takes attention of whatever bugs, pesticides acre the H2O volition receive got the sand/dirt settle at the bottom. Although non advised, to last foolproof, you lot tin terminate chop the greens together with soak it i time to a greater extent than inwards H2O for the 2nd time. You volition non last disappointed.

Footnotes (Tip for good for you lot living):

We are all aware of the multitude of wellness benefits of including green leafy vegetables inwards our diets. From providing essential vitamins similar vitamin A, K, E, calcium, Fe together with folic acid to dietary fiber, the benefits are quite a few.Regular intake of greens inwards the diet may aid forestall diabetes, pump affliction together with may last fifty-fifty cancer.
Swiss Chard is a powerhouse of antioxidants together with an splendid root of vitamins A,C,K, magnesium, potassium, Fe together with dietary fiber.

Red Amarnath is likewise an splendid root of Vitamin Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 together with beta carotene together with is used to heal several pare conditions.It is an splendid root of dietary fiber together with is used to process constipation.

Garlic is known for its anti-hypertensive together with anti-diabetic properties.

Fresh coconut has been used inwards the South-Indian diet for fourth dimension immemorial! Studies receive got shown that kokosnoot is likewise high inwards dietary fiber together with may contribute to maintaining a good for you lot trunk weight.

References:

http://www.joybauer.com/food-articles/leafy-green-vegetables.aspx

http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthy-kitchen-11/leafy-greens-rated

http://www.webmd.com/diet/swiss-chard-9-healthy-facts

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/284103.php
http://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/amaranth-leaves-how-to-cook-this-green-leafy-vegetable-761205

http://healthbenefitsofeating.com/vegetables/health-benefits-of-red-amaranth-leaves/

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265853.php

http://www.livestrong.com/article/143962-raw-coconut-benefits/

Disclaimer

I am non a nutritionist or dietician. My cognition together with data is based on my query together with reading from unlike resources. Please consult your Dr. or dietician earlier making whatever changes to your diet.

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