♥ Black Sesame Milk Tea ♥

* Flowering Sesame Plant

Ingredients:

2 cup water
1 cup milk
1 teaspoons black tea
2 tablespoons black sesame paste

Enjoy!
♥

♥ Healthy Rice Option ♥

* Rice Plant

This rice has a strong diuretic effect - Great for water retention and improved water metabolism.

Ingredients:
Equal parts - Rice, Corn, Millet, Barley

♥ Thai Mango Sticky Rice ♥

* Mango Tree

Prepping: 10 minutes
Cook: 25 minutes
Eating: 2 seconds

Ingredients:
1 cup sticky/glutenous rice
1-2 ripe mangos * optional - Prem Dhan likes just the rice.
4-5 Tbsp. palm sugar OR brown sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1 can good-quality (thick) coconut milk
water (for boiling or steaming the rice)

Preparation:

RICE

Soak the rice in 1 cup water for 20-30 minutes, OR up to 4 hours.
Do not drain the rice. Simply add 2/3 cup (more) water, plus 1/4 can coconut milk, 1/4 tsp. salt, and 1 Tbsp. brown sugar. Stir this into the rice.
Put in rice cooker under white rice setting, or until the coconut-water has been absorbed by the rice. 

Allow to sit for 5-10 minutes. 

SAUCE

To make the sauce, warm (do not boil) the rest of the can of coconut milk over medium-low heat (5 minutes). Add 3 Tbsp. sugar, stirring to dissolve.

Plate as desired.

Enjoy!  ♥

♥ Ginger Pachadi (Ginger Chutney)♥

* Ginger Flower

INGREDIENTS:
Ginger - 2" piece
Coconut scraped - 1/4 cup
Green chilly - 1 * Serrano chillis are spicy --- 1/2 recipe
Salt- 1/4 tsp
Curd - 1 or 2 cups
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp.
Urad dhal - 1/2 tsp.
Hing
Oil - 1 tsp.


METHOD:
Wash the ginger well. Peel out the skin. Chop it and grind it in a mixie along with chilly, coconut and salt. Transfer it to a bowl, add curd to it and mix well . If too thick, mix some more curd. Season with mustard seeds, urad dhal and hing. Spicy, ginger pachadi is ready.

This is SOOOOO yummy with Persarattu.

Enjoy!