Then add 1 teaspoon sugar. Sugar is optional and you can skip it. We prefer a slight sweet taste in the upma and hence we add it.

Stir again. On a medium to high flame, heat the water and let it come to a rolling boiling.20When the water comes to a rolling boil, lower the flame to its lowest. Then add the rava in 4 to 5 batches with a spoon.

Once you add the first batch of rava, stir and mix immediately so that the roasted rava gets mixed evenly with the water.

Then add the next batch of rava. Mix and stir again very well ensuring that the batch of rava is mixed evenly in water.

Continue to add and stir the rava up to the last batch.

Quickly stir and mix very well. The rava grains will absorb water, swell and get cooked.Cover and allow the rava upma to steam for 2 to 3 minutes on a low heat.

Then switch off the heat. In the below photo, the rava is cooked well and the suji ka upma is ready.Lastly add about 2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves (cilantro). You can add more coriander leaves if you like.upma garnished with cilantro and a lemon wedge served in a dark green blue rimmed plate on a dark blue wooden board
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What is Upma
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What is Upma
Upma is a flavorful South Indian breakfast dish made from rava or cream of wheat.

This traditional dish involves cooking roasted rava in water that has been flavored by ghee (or oil), cashews, urad dal (lentils), chana dal (husked chickpeas), onion, ginger and additional herbs and spices. Sugar can be added for a mildly sweet and savory dish.


This steaming hot breakfast dish can be made vegan by using oil instead of ghee. Full of warmth, flavor and deliciousness, this upma tastes so good. So why not take a break from that boring oatmeal and try something new? You can’t lose!

The main ingredient in any upma recipe is rava. Also called ‘suji’ or ‘sooji‘ in Hindi and ‘cream of wheat’ or ‘semolina’ in English, it is simply granulated wheat. Thus this breakfast food is known as Suji ka Upma in North India.

What really makes an upma recipe special are all the fried ingredients that are used for tempering. These ingredients can vary depending on the recipe, but usually include some sweet, savory and nutty flavors.

Upma is a traditional breakfast served in restaurants throughout South India, including Maharashtra. It is also a common breakfast prepared in South Indian homes. In fact, upma was a regular breakfast or evening snack in my house while growing up.


upma garnished with cilantro and a lemon wedge served in a dark green blue rimmed plate on a dark blue wooden board
Prep Tip to Make Upma Recipe Quicker
This warm, homemade breakfast can be made relatively quickly, especially with this one easy tip. In the step-by-step photo guide below, you will see the first few steps of roasting the rava (cream of wheat).

This can easily be done ahead of time and I actually recommend roasting your rava and keeping it in an air-tight container right after purchase. This will help it stay good longer and prevent it from becoming moldy or spoiled. 

Having your rava already roasted means this hot breakfast of upma recipe can be prepared in only 15 to 20 minutes. Roasted rava can also be used in a variety of other recipes, including Rava Cheela and Rava Pongal.


Step-by-Step Guide
How to make Upma Recipe
Prep and Roast Rava
1.  Prep the ingredients first to make upma recipe. Take 1 cup rava (fine variety) and set it aside. Next gather the aromatics, lentils, nuts, spices and herbs ready. You will need:

⅓ cup finely chopped onions
1 teaspoon chopped green chillies
1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger
2 tablespoons coriander leaves (cilantro)
8 to 10 curry leaves
10 to 12 cashews

1 teaspoon chana dal (hulled and split bengal gram)
1 teaspoon urad dal (hulled and split black gram)
ingredients prepped for upma recipe
2. Heat a pan or kadai first. Add 1 cup rava or cream of wheat (fine variety).

rava added to a frying pan
3. Begin to roast the rava. Stir often while roasting the rava.

roasting rava for upma recipe
4. The rava or sooji grains should become fragrant and start to look dry, separate and crisp. Don’t brown the rava.

rava roasted well

5. Once the rava becomes fragrant and starts to look dry and crisp, switch off the flame and put the roasted rava on a plate and set aside.

roasted rava set aside in a plate to make upma recipe
Fry and Sauté
6. In a pan, heat 2 tablespoons ghee (clarified butter) or oil. You could use sunflower oil or peanut oil or safflower oil or any neutral tasting oil.

heating ghee in a frying pan

7. Lower the heat. Add 1 teaspoon mustard seeds. When you hear the crackling sound of mustard seeds, it means they are getting fried.

mustard seeds added 
8. Now add the ½ teaspoon cumin seeds along with 1 teaspoon chana dal (husked and split bengal gram) and 1 teaspoon urad dal (husked and split black gram).

cumin seeds and lentils added
9. Stirring often fry until the chana dal and urad dal begin to brown a bit.

frying lentils to make upma recipe
10. Immediately add 10 to 12 cashews and begin to fry on a low to medium-low heat.


cashews added
11. By the time the cashews get golden the dals should also be golden.

cashews fried till golden for making upma recipe
12. Now add the finely chopped onions.

finely chopped onions added

13. Sauté the onions until they soften and become translucent on a low to medium-low heat.

onions have softened
14. Then add the chopped green chillies, ginger and curry leaves. You can also add 1 dried red chilli at this step.

ginger, green chillies and curry leaves added
15. Mix well & sauté for a few seconds.

mixing and sautéing for a few seconds
Boil Water
16. Then add 2.5 cups water to this mixture.


water added
17. Add salt as required. Mix well and check the taste of water. It should be a bit salty but not too much.

In case if the salt becomes less in the dish, you can always sprinkle some salt from the top when eating.

salt being added
18. Then add 1 teaspoon sugar. Sugar is optional and you can skip it. We prefer a slight sweet taste in the upma and hence we add it.

sugar being added
19. Stir again. On a medium to high flame, heat the water and let it come to a rolling boiling.

water has come to a rolling boil
Make Rava Upma
20. When the water comes to a rolling boil, lower the flame to its lowest. Then add the rava in 4 to 5 batches with a spoon.

adding rava with a spoon to make upma recipe
21. Once you add the first batch of rava, stir and mix immediately so that the roasted rava gets mixed evenly with the water.

mixing rava with a spatula

22. Then add the next batch of rava. Mix and stir again very well ensuring that the batch of rava is mixed evenly in water.

second batch of rava added
23. Continue to add and stir the rava up to the last batch.

last batch being of rava being added
24. Quickly stir and mix very well. The rava grains will absorb water, swell and get cooked.

mixing everything very well
25. Cover and allow the rava upma to steam for 2 to 3 minutes on a low heat.

pan covered with glass lid for steaming the upma
26. Then switch off the heat. In the below photo, the rava is cooked well and the suji ka upma is ready.

upma done and cooked well
27. Lastly add about 2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves (cilantro). You can add more coriander leaves if you like.

coriander leaves added on rava upma

28. Mix again.

coriander leaves mixed with upma
30. Serve upma hot or warm with slices of lemon or a side of lemon pickle or coconut chutney. You can opt to drizzle half to one teaspoon of ghee while serving. If you like you can garnish with some coriander leaves.

Today’s recipe is custard milk shake. Milkshake is an aromatic , creamy drink made by blending custard with chilled milk and flavoured with vanilla essence.

Ingredients : milk – 1/4 litre

Custard powder (vanilla) – 4 tbsp

Sugar – 1/2 cup

Vanilla essence – 1/2 tbsp

prepration : Take a bowl and add milk in it . Boil it for 2 min. Meanwhile take 1 cup milk in a small bowl add custard powder to it . Mix well it should be runny without any lumps . Add this to boiled milk . Add sugar to it mix well and cook until it thickens. Make sure it doesn’t form any lump keep mixing and cook for 5 min. After 5 min switch off the flame. Chill the custard least 30 min. Take a jar and add custard in it and blend with chilled milk and sugar and vanilla essence. Blend well until smooth and creamy. Pour in serving glasses and served chilled.

Skin tone and brightening

increased retention of nutrients and moisture.

improved circulation.

a tightening effect.

an exfoliating effect.

Multani mitti on face everyday benifits:

Yes, a multani mitti pack can be applied every other day for oily skin. Instead of lemon juice, rose water can be used.

As the hero ingredient, Multani Mitti removes tan, evening out your skin tone, keeping acne at bay.

It also removes excess oil from your skin and keeps it looking fresh.

Many different methods are used in the art of hand embroidery designs. A vivid imagination, creativity, skill in the manner of placing the fabric and thread.

and the help of agile hands and fingers and clear eyesight are required to make beautiful hand embroidery designs.

Different types of these designs include the canvas work, lace and ribbon embroidery, as well as cross stitch.

Line Art Tattoo: Every tattoo is made of lines, but line art does not have color or detailed shading. Visually speaking, line tattoos represent minimalism.

Some people describe the pain as a pricking sensation. Others say it feels like bee stings or being scratched. A thin needle is piercing your skin, so you can expect at least a little pricking sensation.

The design often involves symbolism for strength or change, a life motto, or a memory

Today’s 19/9/2022 recipe is suji ka Halwa. This is an easy and quick recipe .

Ingredients :

• Suji – (semolina) – 1/4 kg
• Orange food colour

• sugar – 2 cup
• Cardamom powder – 1/2 tbsp
• Water – 4 cup
• Ghee – 1/2 cup
• ChopChopped dry fruits

prepration : Take a pan and add Ghee .when the Ghee is getting heated then add suji and fry until it light brown then add water and cook for 2 min after that add sugar and cardamom powder and some chopped dry fruits and cook until the water becomes dry. Now the delicious suji Halwa is ready to serve.

My today’s recipe 19/09/22 is peanut chikki like to cook and eat natural, healthy, and tasty foods, and I enjoy sharing recipes from my native Indian cuisine.

INGRIDIENTS:

2 cups peanuts

2 cups + 2 tablespoons powdered jaggery

1 teaspoon ghee.

INSTRUCTION:

Grease a rectangle or square tray with ghee. With this, you can make perfect square-shaped chikkis. (I used a round pan, as I didn’t have a square one.)Heat a deep-bottomed pan. Add peanuts. Saute on a low fire, stirring continuously, until peanuts become crispy. This may take about 5 to 6 minutes.

Transfer them to a plate. Set aside to cool.Once the peanuts are completely cool, rub them between your palms to remove the skin.

Do this little by little. Break each peanut in half, and remove the small part inside the halves. Discard these, as they are bitter. Don’t worry if a few are left.

They won’t spoil the taste.Heat the same deep-bottomed pan. Add jaggery powder and 2 tablespoons of water. Stir and boil the mix on low fire until the mixture froths. Continue boiling until this jaggery syrup reaches two-string consistency.

To test this, either you can drop a little syrup and see whether it falls like two strings at the end, or you can drop some syrup into the water and see whether you can gather it and form a ball.

This is the right consistency for making the bars.Now, add peanuts. Mix them with the syrup. Boil the mix for 1 minute. Turn off the stove. Pour the mix into the greased tray.

The thickness of the slab should be about 1/3 inch. Gently tap the sides to ensure that the mix spreads evenly. Put the tray aside and let it set.After 5 minutes, when the mix is still hot, draw out the squares with the help of a greased knife tip.

Don’t insert the knife too deep into the bar.After another 5 to 8 minutes, insert the knife tip exactly on the earlier lines, deep inside, and cut the pieces. Take them out one by one once you can move them from the base.

These bars become super crunchy once they are completely cold. So, now your scrumptious peanut chikki is ready to serve. Munch them whenever you desire. Enjoy eating these yummy bars.

Mehndi: Mehndi is also included in the sixteen makeup of women. Be it any festival, women definitely apply mehndi on their hands. Mehndi on hands not only enhances the beauty of a woman but it is also considered auspicious.

The color of mehndi blooms completely on the palms of some women, but the color of mehndi of some women remains yellow.

If you want that your hands also have a deep color of henna, then you can apply natural henna made of jaggery.

It takes only 5 minutes to apply henna made from jaggery.

Ingredients for making Mehndi from Jaggery:

100 grams jaggery pieces

2 tsp henna powder

1 tsp roli kumkum or vermilion

30 grams cloves

50 grams sugara

tin box

a small earthen lamp or bowl

How to make Mehndi from Jaggery:

To make henna from jaggery, if you want, grind jaggery or use it in small pieces like this.

2- Now put the jaggery in a tin box and make a little space in the middle and put cloves and sugar.

3- Now place an earthen lamp or a small bowl on top of the sugar and cloves. If you want, you can set the bowl with the help of wet flour.

4- Put roli or kumkum in this bowl and keep the tin box on the gas.

5- Now put a pot or other vessel filled with water over the box and cover it with flour from all sides so that the steam does not escape.

6- In a while the box will start heating from inside and steam will start coming out. You have to keep it like this for about half an hour, after which the steam will become water and collect in the bowl kept inside.

7- Now remove the top water vessel comfortably and you will see that the water has collected in the bowl you have kept inside. Now add mehndi to it.

8- Your henna made from jaggery is ready. You can easily apply it on hands or feet.

9- If you want, you can also use this henna without adding green henna powder.

10- The color of the mehndi of jaggery is very dark and it can be applied anywhere on the hands or feet.

Foil painting means a shiny, slippery surface. Paint moves around easily so look around your house for things that might work.

Anything that won’t tear into the foil is a possibility. Cotton balls and Q-tips are a good place to start.

Painting aluminum foil is a fun activity to do with kids of all ages as well as adults, since the paint glides onto the foil smoothly and dries quickly.

Art provide a platform for the artist for expressing their ideas and talents. Art is an interpretation of different kinds of emotions , thoughts, and expressions via human creativity .

I always try to use recycled materials for crafting projects. Almost everyone have piles of papers (newspaper, brown paper, magazine paper etc.) around their houses. It’s about time we turned them into something useful!

Materials needed to make these paper baskets are:-

1) Paper (newspaper, brown paper, colored paper, magazine paper… any kind of paper)

2) Anti-cutter,

3) Scissor,

4) Glue

5) Scotch tape,

6) Cardboard or thick paper.

STEP 1: PAPER STRIPS

I used brown paper strips to make the baskets. At first, you have to cut the papers into strips of 1.5 inch width. Then fold them into half inch width and keep the length about 12 inches or more. Make as many as you can.

STEP 2: PAPER BASKET – 1

First, take 16 strips and divide them into half. Lay out 8 strips vertically and 8 strips horizontally as shown in the first picture of this step. Tighten the weave carefully to make sure that all the sides are even. Now build up the sides. Take a strip and go around the sides as shown in the picture. Keep about half to 1 inch of the strip to fold at the end. while folding the remaining part of the strip use scotch tape or glue to make sure they don’t come out. The square paper basket is ready!

STEP 3: PAPER BASKET – 2

You’ll need cardboard or thick paper to make a round figure (to make the base of the basket) and of course, paper strips. Take 8 paper strips. At first take 2 strips and glue them at the middle, which forms a cross. Now, do the same with the rest of the strips and make sure to glue them at the middle. After laying all the 8 strips together they should look like a star (as shown in the picture).

STEP 4: PAPER BASKET – 3

To make this basket you’ll need a round piece cut out from cardboard and strips of 0.5 cm width. Use super glue to stick 12 strips with the round cardboard plate. Now hold few strips up as shown in the picture. Take another strip and start weaving by circling around. After weaving the first strip you won’t need to hold the paper strips up as they will remain straight themselves. Keep weaving around the basket, but keep about half to 1 inch of the strips at the end. Fold the remaining parts of the strips inside and glue them. You can use extra papers to make borders to.

STEP 5: PAPER BASKET – 4

Take even number of strips to make this basket, it makes it easier. Lay out 4 strips (regular strips as I’ve shown at the first step) vertically and 4 strips horizontally. Tighten the weave carefully and make sure the strips are even. I’ve shown the folding lines in the first picture of this step. Fold up the strips of any one side and start weaving by placing one strip over the other (as shown in the second-1 picture of this step). This kind of weaving will form a corner as you can see in the second-2 picture.

STEP 6: PAPER BASKET – 5

To make this basket you can use all the remaining strips, so that they don’t get wasted. Stick all the remaining strips together vertically with glue or scotch tape. Cut out an oval shape from cardboard or thick paper. Now take the strip and glue it with the oval shaped cardboard plate (as shown in the picture). Start coiling up carefully and continue gluing the strip until it’s finish. When the strip comes to an end fold it inside and use glue to make sure it doesn’t come out.

These are the 5 easy and simple paper basket weaving. I’ll be crafting more paper baskets using different patterns very soon and try to add more details in the crafting.

I hope you enjoy making them. :)

Every sip of warm and healthy vegetable soup is a divine experience during cold winter days. This recipe uses variety of vegetables and vegetable stock to make it more healthy tasty. Here I am sharing the recipe of vegetable soup.

Take some vegetables like carrot , tomato , cabbage , onions , beans and some sweet corns. Chopped all the vegetables and keep aside. Take 2 tbsp of corn flour in a bowl and add 1/2 cup of water in it and mix well and keep aside. Take a large pan and add 1/2 tbsp of oil and add 1/2 tbsp of ginger garlic paste and saute for 2 min . After that add chopped vegetables and 1 tbsp salt and stir and cook for 5 min . After that add 1 glass of water and stir well and bring the mixture to boil . When it starts boiling add 1/2 tbsp of black pepper powder and corn flour mixture and stir continuously for a min to prevent lump formation and cook until mixture turns thick and no raw smell of corn flour. Taste the soup for the seasoning at this stage. Turn off the flame . Now the vegetable soup is ready to serve.