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Sweet Ending

Dessert would be so much more enjoyable if you don’t have to worry about what it’s doing to your waist line. Now you can have your kulfi and eat it too. For every 100 gm
of sugar you replace with a 10 gm sachet of zero calorie Sugar Free Natural Diet Sugar,
you’ll see 400 calories vanish from your favorite desserts.

Strawberry Kulfi

Ingredients

2litre skim milk , 4 tbsp skim milk powder,1tbsp cornflour,50 grams sugar free Natural diet Sugar 10 fresh strawberries, chopped pinch of elaichi powder.

Method

Boil milk in a non-stick kadai. Reduce heat. Keep stirring, and simmer till milk reduces to half its original quantity. Add Sugar free Natural Diet Sugar to milk. Mix milk powder in a little cold water and add to the boiling milk. Keep stirring for another 5 minutes. Dissolve corn-flour in a little water and add to boiling milk. Simmer 2 minutes. Remove from fire. In a separate pan, stew strawberries with remaining Sugar Free Natural Diet Sugar till it attains a thick syrupy consistency. (You can also use bottled strawberry syrup or preserve in the off –season, in which case no additional sweetener needs to be added. Cool and add to the milk mixture. Pour into kulfi moulds and freeze for at least 3 hours.

Pulao is one of India’s most popular delicacies whereby rice is cooked with oil to make it look yellow. While most famous of Indian recipes for pulao may be that of Chicken, Mutton or Vegetable pulao, Fish Pulao is also very tasty but not as popular as others. Here is the recipe as to how to make fish pulao:-

Ingredients:

• Basmati rice-       2 cups
• Tomatoes-          250gms
• Coconut-             1/2
• Salt-                     1tsp
• Ghee or oil-        3tbsp
• Cloves-                3
• Cardamoms-      3
• Cinnamon-         2 pieces
• Pepper corns-    1/tsp
• Bay leaves-        2
• Seer or tuna slices – 350gms

Method:

Wash the rice well, drain and keep aside. Wash the fish, drain. Smear with little salt, chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala. Grate coconut, add 1 cup of hot water, blend in a mixer and squeeze out the milk. Blanch, peel and chop the tomatoes, grind with the cocnut  milk. Measure this liquid and enough water to make 4 cups. Place the rice over the cooking plate in the cooking pan. Add the tomato liquid and salt. Heat Ghee or oil in a small fry pan, add covers, cinnamon, cardamom, pepper and bay leaves. Fry for a minute, add to rice. Place the fish slices in the 2-dish pan of your cooker and place pan in position. Cover the pan and switch to cooking. When cooked, allow the fish to cool for 10 minutes. Remove the bones. Flake the fish and add to the rice and mix lightly. Put it in a warm box for 15 minutes and your fish pulao is ready to serve.

Sweet Ending

Dessert would be so much more enjoyable if you don’t have to worry about what it’s doing to your waist line. Now you can have your kulfi and eat it too. For every 100 gm
of sugar you replace with a 10 gm sachet of zero calorie Sugar Free Natural Diet Sugar,
you’ll see 400 calories vanish from your favorite desserts.

Strawberry Kulfi

Ingredients

2litre skim milk , 4 tbsp skim milk powder,1tbsp cornflour,50 grams sugar free Natural Diet Sugar 10 fresh strawberries, chopped pinch of elaichi powder.

Method

Boil milk in a non-stick kadai. Reduce heat. Keep stirring, and simmer till milk reduces to half its original quantity. Add Sugar free Natural Diet Sugar to milk. Mix milk powder in a little cold water and add to the boiling milk. Keep stirring for another 5 minutes. Dissolve corn-flour in a little water and add to boiling milk. Simmer 2 minutes. Remove from fire. In a separate pan, stew strawberries with remaining Sugar Free Natural Diet Sugar till it attains a thick syrupy consistency. (You can also use bottled strawberry syrup or preserve in the off –season, in which case no additional sweetener needs to be added. Cool and add to the milk mixture. Pour into kulfi moulds and freeze for at least 3 hours.

For the first time, Greek researchers have found that eating a diet rich in choline and betaine, two related compounds is linked to indicators of inflammation. The researchers looked at 3042 men and women between the ages of 18 to 89, culled from a large study dubbed ATTICA. They found that those with the highest intakes of choline and betaine and the lowest levels of inflammatory markers, including C-reactive protein, homcysteine, interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor.

Rich sources of choline include eggs, wheat germ, pork, beef, cod, chicken, shrimp, salmon, broccoli, cauliflower Brussels sprouts. Betaine is highest in wheat bran, wheat germ, spinach, shrimp and beets.

 Choline helps make neurotransmitters and fats in cell membranes, while betaine helps reduce homocysteine levels.  These findings suggest that both may be key to reducing inflammation, now considered a stepping stone to heart disease and other chronic conditions.