carrot banana juice

My Paati always asks me to eat carrots and bananas daily. But in my childhood days, i dont like banana that much. But now, i ask my children to eat them, but they refuse as i refuse in my school days. So i tried this one day and came out good and my children like them too. U also try and tell your comments.

Ingredients

Fresh Carrots - 5
Sweet Bananas - 2
Milk - 1 lt
sugar as required.

Method

Boil the milk and cool it for 2 hours.
Now peel the banana and cut carrots into small pieces.
Mix it well in the blender or mixer. again add the milk and sugar and blend it for 30 seconds and serve cool.

Carrot Halwa

Ingredients

Carrots - 3
milk - 1 lt
sugar
cardamon powder (elakai powder)
ghee
raisins
cashew nuts/badam nuts

Method

Make the carrots into very small pieces.
Wash and pressure cook the carrots for 5 minutes with milk.
In a tawa, put the carrot, milk, sugar and stir well under low flame until it becomes somewhat thick.
Add ghee and stir again until the ghee starts coming out.
In the meantime, roast the nuts and raisins with 1 tsp of ghee
Add them now to the carrot halwa and serve hot.

Carrot Juice

Ingredients

2 medium sized Carrots
!/2 Litre milk
sugar

Method

Boil the milk and keep refrigerate it for 2 hours, untill it becomes cool.
Cut the carrots in to small pieces
Mix the carrot pieces, cold milk, and sugar and grind in mixie.
Filter and serve it cool.

Cumin Powder (Seeraga thool)

Ingredients

Cumin seeds

Method

Choose brown, aromatic cumin seeds.
Dry them in sunlight for 1 hr.
Grind them in a mixer, untill it becomes a fine powder.
Store in airtight jar.

Note: Cumin powder looses its flavor in 8 to 10 days. So grind the approximate quantity as necessary.

Cardamon Powder (Elakai powder)

Ingredients

Cardamom (Elakai)

Method

Separate the Cardamon skin and seeds.
Dry the seeds in sunlight for 1 hr.
Grind them to a fine powder.

Note: Some may grind the skin also. But we grind only seeds. You may use the cardamon skins in tea ( like elakai tea).

Coriander Powder (Dhania thool)

Ingredients

Corriander seeds

Method

Choose crispy green coriander seeds.
Place in hot sunlight for half a day.
Grind to a fine powder and store in airtight jar.

Turmeric Powder

Turmeric Powder (Manjal thool)

Ingredients

dry turmeric

Method

Buy thick firm and dry turmeric and wash with plenty of water.
Drain the water and dry in hot sun .
Break them into small ones, with mathu and grind in mixie to a fine powder and store in airtight container.

Red Chilli Powder (Milagai thool)

Red Chilli Powder (Milagai thool)

Ingredients

1 kg red dry chilli (ularntha sivapu milagai)
1 tsp oil (nallennai)
small blocks of asafoetida (perungayam)

Method

Choose long shiny thick dried chillies.

Break off stalks, and discard.

Add a tsp. oil to a kg. of chillies.

Grind them till nice powder in mixie.

Preserve it in a airtight container with small blocks of asafotida.