♥ 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!  ♥

♥ Amrita Cookies ♥

Prep: 12-15 mins

Bake: 8-10 mins

Makes: ~30 cookies using tablespoon scooper

Taste: mild sweet, neutral energetics, strengthening

1 cup of whole wheat flour -- sweet, cooling, heavy

1 cup of whole barley flour -- sweet, cooling, light

1 cup milled flax -- sweet, cooling, oily, smooth, moistening
1/2 cup butter, softened -- sweet, cooling, oily, smooth, moistening

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

some powdered sugar for coating if desired

baking - warming, drying, lightening

Cream butter, sugar and vanilla until fully mixed. Add flour and flax with salt to creamed mixture, blend throughly. Add nuts and mix well. Preheat oven to 400F. Shape into 1-inch balls and bake 8-10 minutes. Do not brown. Cool, then either roll in powdered sugar sprinkle on top.

This traditional recipes can be found online under Mexican Wedding Cake, Russian Teacake, and Snowball Cookie, but I made modifications to it for more healthy cookie --- so I am calling mine Amrita Cookies.

I will bring some over --- enjoy!

♥ Date Bread Pudding ♥

Prep: 10 mins
Cooking: 3 Hrs
Taste: Sweet and DELICIOUS!

WHAT IS NEEDED:

• 3 cups of milk or soy milk
• 1/2 c. pitted dates
• 2 c. wheat flour
• pinch of sea salt
• pinch of baking soda
  1/4 c. of currants or raisins

AND...

• BIG Pressure Cooker
• Claypot --- or something that you can cook in.
• Blender
• Tongs
• Plates

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Blend wheat, milk, and dates together. Best is milk and dates together into a puree but okay to have dates in chunks.
2. Mix in the rest of the ingredients.

3. For samosas later, get some sweet potatoes ready to boil in the pressure cooker pot.

4. Put a layer of potatoes on the bottom of the pressure cooker (about 9 potatoes - save 3-4 for pakoras and bajis later).

5. Pour filter water up to about 4-6 inches.

6. Place clean claypot on top of the potatoes.

7. Pour batter into pot.

8. Put cover.

9. If not able to close the pressure cooker, okay to put a plate on top.

10. Close the pressure cooker. Get the water to a boil and then let simmer for 3 hours.
at about 30 mins the potatoe will be done so you can take those out and add a little more water.

STILL COOKING :) ...

This is really nice to have with some herbal tea or pour some hot milk over it. YUM.

* From Maya Tiwari - Ayurveda: A Life of Balance -- pg. 318.

Next time... Samosas! ♥