Brown Rice Cooking Instructions

Brown Rice is considered to be one of the most nutritious and healthiest foods. If you are worried about your growing weight, feeling fatigue, more often, want to stay away from diabetes; want to keep your cholesterol level down then brown rice is the right kind of food for you. Therefore every individual should wake up himself and abolish the use of white Rice and supplement it with brown rice.

Brown rice is a very nutritious and healthy product. As of now let us learn how to cook brown rice in a few simple steps:

Cooking brown rice is a little tricky and time taking process. Many people have trouble cooking brown rice in the beginning. Once you cook regularly you get used to it. You must bear this in order get the full nutrients it has. The first step is to clean and rinse the rice properly and soak in lukewarm water for at least half an hour or more. Since brown rice is a whole large grain with upper bran layer intact; it needs to be soaked in lukewarm water for better result.

Here you must learn to add right amount of water to cook brown rice. For cooking brown rice take double the quantity of water to rice. For example:

1.    If you are cooking 2 cups of rice add 4 cups of water. Any thing less makes the rice hard to eat and anything more makes it messy.

2.    Now put on the stove and cook the rice on high flame for 5 to 10 minutes and then reduce the flame letting the rice cook in a simmer for another 20 minutes. It usually takes long time to cook when compared to white rice. Do not bother about the gas expenditure while cooking. Think about the benefits of eating brown rice. Because regular use of brown rice keeps you away from doctors and medicines.

3.    When the rice is cooked take off the stove and keep the lid closed for a while for better results.

Your rice is now ready to serve. Serve it hot with any curry. Regular use of brown rice keeps you fit and healthy. Make a practice of eating brown rice regularly at your home and make your friends and relatives follow the same.

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Beet Root Curry Recipe

Ingrediants:

Beetroot - 1 Kg
Green chilli - 10
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Curry Leaves
Onions - 2
Salt - for taste
Hing - little
Turmeric powder - pinch
Moong Dal - (30 minutes rinsed in water)
Cumin Powder - 1/2 Teaspoon
Coriander Powder - 1/2 Teaspoon
Chopped coriander

• Remove the upper skin of beetroot using peeler and grate the beetroot.
• Soak moong daal for around 30 min .
• Chop some onions if you would like to use onions but it really adds taste to the curry.
• Chop green chillies.
• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add musturd seeds, cumin seeds.
• Add hing if you would like.
• Now add green chillies and onions and cook it till it is light brown.
• Add grated beetroot and cook it for sometime.
• Add moong daal. If required add water, else fry it in oil itself.
• Fry till moong daal is cooked properly and if needed add water .
• Add salt, chilli powder , cumin powder, sesimi powder, coriander powder and fry till all the moisture is gone.

Healthy Carrot Roles Recipe Made Easy

Ingredients:

1. Carrots - 10 Nos. (750 Grams approx)

2. Cashew Nuts / Groundnuts - 100 Grams

3. Honey - 250 Grams

4. Whole Coconut - 1 No.

6. Corn Flour - 2 table spoons

7. Cardamom - 4 pieces

Procedure:

1. 
   
   Take around 750 grams of fresh Carrots and rinse them well with water. Peel off the skin of carrots and crush them into small pieces.
2. 
   
   Break the Whole Coconut and crush into small pieces similar to carrots. Using dry coconut may not taste that well.
3. 
   
   Roast the Cashew Nuts for a few minutes and crush them into half pieces – half powder in a mixer grinder. If you can’t afford cashew nuts you can use groundnuts as its substitute. It can also be very delicious.
4. 
   
   Take a non-stick pan and put on the stove in a sim flame. Now add the crushed carrots into it and cook it for a few minutes till the raw flavour goes off and water coming out of it dries.
5. 
   
   Add honey into it and mix it well and cook for a few minutes. When you cook honey it’s true that some of the nutritional values might be reduced but it’s not harmful right? We are substituting it with sugar which is a prohibited item in our Natural Ways of Living.
6. 
   
   Now it’s the time to add some Cashew Nuts / Ground Nuts crushed into half pieces – half powder and mix it well. This adds tremendous flavour to our dessert while eating.
7. 
   
   Finally add 2 table spoons of Corn Flour into the pan and mix it well and cook it for couple of minutes. When all the water gets evaporated remove the pan and let it cool for a few minutes.
8. 
   
   Add Cardamom powder for fine flavour and fragrance.
9. 
   
   When the cooked ingredient is cooled off, make rolls of your desired size in an oval shape and roll them on the coconut pieces crushed and roasted before. The small coconut pieces give you crunchy and crispy taste while eating.

Our special dessert is ready now. Apart from being delicious this dessert is high in nutritional values. All the ingredients whether it is Carrots, Cashew Nuts, Ground Nuts, Honey and Coconuts are rich in Carbohydrates, Potassium, Sodium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Proteins and dietary fibers and many other vitamins and enzymes.