Benefits of Drinking Green Tea Before Bed Time

Most of us know the benefits of drinking green tea in the morning but are unaware on healthy benefits of drinking green tea before bed time and really it has positive results.

Before that let us know few facts about green tea. The antioxidants in tea help to boost immune system and reduce the risk of diseases like cancer, it can fight respiratory infections. Some people also make green tea gargling as a habit. 

3 Benefits of drinking green tea before bed time  

• According to research and studies drinking green tea at evening time may reduce the flu upto good extent.

• Flavonoids in green tea help to fight against internal inflammations.

• Making a habit of drinking tea before bed will relax us by soothing nerves and muscles.

It's best to have green tea 30 minutes before your meals and not after else it dilutes the gastric juices resulting in improper digestion.

 

Does green tea help you lose weight?   

Yes, then let us know how does green tea burns fat. If you take green tea with honey before bed time after the meals  it boosts metabolism by stimulating natural bowel movements and helps to burn fat and which has now become the daily routine drink for weight loss aspirants.  When you visit the supermarket you will find many brands of green tea, then you should know what kind of tea helps you lose weight which will be discussed later in a different topic.

Can green tea lower blood pressure?   

Yes, because now days we have short sleep durations due to busy and hectic life but usually a person should have sound sleep of at least 7-8 hours. Short sleep may increase high blood pressure and less than 5 hours may have 3 times increased risk of heart attacks.


How often should you drink green tea? 
One cup in the morning, one before your lunch, one in evening and one before dinner. But make sure you take in smaller amounts because anything over the limit is not good. Caution taking excessive green tea may lead to anxiety and I have seen how my friend suffered from that.

Green Peas Puri - Easy Puri Recipe - Healthy Recipe of Puri with Matar

Green peas puri recipe is yet another easy tasty and Healthy Recipe of Puri which I tried using fresh green peas. Green Peas are abundantly available in markets during this winter. So I thought of trying much more new recipes using green peas. I made this recipe and it came out very well. It is much more tasty than I have expected. I have made it for the first time and my hubby fell in love with the puffed up green puris. So beautiful the colour was and also so refreshing and appetizing. Also called as Hare Matar ki Puri in hindi.

Green Peas Puri is a quick and easy puri recipe, you just need to grind green peas using very few ingredients which adds spice to the puri and have to mix this paste with flour and make a soft dough.

Roll into discs and fry, Pooris puffed up like ping pong balls are ready in your plate. I served them with pickle, you can serve it with any mildly flavored chutneys. Since it is already spicy I felt no need to use any curry or gravy as sides for this Green Peas Puri.
Ingredients:

Easy Puri Recipe with green peas

1. Green Peas - 1 cup
2. Coriander - 3 to 4 sprigs
3. Spring Onion Leaves - 3 to 4 sprigs
4. Green Chillies - 3 to 4
5. Carom Seeds(Ajwain) - 1/4 tsp
6. salt - To Taste
7. Wheat Flour - 2 to 3 cups
8. Oil - For deep frying
9. Water - As needed
10. Bombay Rava - 1 tbsp





Other must try green peas recipes,

- Carrot Peas Pulao Recipe

- Mushroom Green Peas(Matar) gravy recipegravy recipe


Procedure:

How to make Healthy Recipe of Puri with Green Peas

1. Blend in mixer ingredients from 1 to 6 to a fine paste using little water

How to make puri dough with green peas

2. In wheat flour add bombay rava, salt, blended paste and knead to a fine dough, add water if needed

3. Now pinch small lemon sized balls from the kneaded dough and roll as small discs i.e. as pooris and deep fry in hot oil

4. Hot Spicy and easy puri recipe with green peas are ready, you can serve this recipe of puri with any chutneys or pickles. Since it is already spicy I feel no need to use any curry or gravy as a side dish. But you can try these dishes Potato or Alu masala or Puri Kurma.

Shahi Dum Aloo - How to make Dum aloo gravy recipe with Baby Potatoes

Shahi Dum Aloo is yet another spicy and tasty Gravy recipe,  so lets learn how to make Dum aloo gravy recipe with small Baby Potatoes. We can make Dum Aloo using diced big aloo pieces. But a Baby Aloo as a whole looks even more appetizing and suits better for this recipe as you can have a whole Aloo in the saucy n creamy Aloo gravy. Dum aloo without onion and garlic is preferred during fasting days.

Shahi Dum Aloo Gravy Recipe

It is called as Shahi Dum Aloo as Cashew and Onion paste is used in this recipe where cashew is a key ingredient in any shahi recipes. 

There are many variations in Dum aloo gravy recipes such as Punjabi Dum Aloo, Kashmiri Dum Aloo and Bengali Dum Aloo. In these recipes Khova is used also along with cashew and onion paste. Tomatoes and green chilli paste is also used in these variations.

You can serve Shahi Dum Aloo with Naan, Chapathi, Pulaos etc. I served it as a side dish for Carrot Peas Pulao recipe.

Do visit other aloo gravy recipes,

- Potato (aloo) Kurma for chapathi and poori

- Potato (aloo) Capsicum Sabzi for Chapati
 

Shahi Dum Aloo - Ingredients:

For Boiling and Frying Potatoes:

1. Baby Potatoes - 10
2. Water - As needed
3. Oil - 5 to 6 tbsps

For Grinding:

1. Oil - 2 tsps
2. Onion - 2
3. Cashews - 10 to 12

For Preparation:

1. Ginger Garlic Paste - 1/2 tsp
2. Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
3. Curd - 1/2 cup
4. Water - As needed
5. Oil - 3 tsps
6. Garam Masala Powder - 2 tsps
7. Red Chilli Powder - 2 tsps
8. Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
9. Coriander Powder - 1 tsp
10. Cumin Powder - 1 tsp
11. Salt - To taste
12. Hing - 1/2 tsp
13. Kasuri Methi - 1 tsp


Procedure:

How to make Dum aloo gravy recipe with Baby Potatoes

1. Boil Baby potatoes, peel and prick them using a fork, drain on a tissue before frying so that excess moisture if any may drain up
2. Pricking with a fork helps the oil enter aloo and it gets cooked evenly and quickly
3. Heat oil for frying baby potatoes, place baby potatoes in the oil and fry nicely till the outer layer of aloo becomes crisp and golden in colour. Keep turning potatoes while frying using tongs so that they get fried evenly on all sides.

4. After frying nicely, drain baby potatoes on tissue so that excess oil oozes out

5. Heat oil in a pan, add onion pieces and cashews, fry nicely
6. When they are fried, cool down and grind to a fine paste, keep aside

7. Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, once they splutter add ginger garlic paste, hing and cook for a minute
8. Add fried baby potatoes, onion cashew paste and mix nicely
9. Add all the spices i.e. Garam Masala Powder, Red Chilli Powder, Turmeric Powder, Coriander Powder, Cumin Powder, Salt and mix nicely

10. Add beaten curd and water and mix nicely
11. Simmer the flame, cover and cook till gravy thickens to creamy texture

12. Add crushed Kasuri Methi, mix nicely, switch off and your Shahi Dum Aloo gravy recipe is ready to serve.

Baby Potatoes curry recipe

Carrot Peas Spicy Pulao Recipe-Pattani Sadam-Recipe for Peas Pulav

Spicy Pulao Recipe with Carrots and green Peas also called mutter or matar pulao recipe or Gajar Mataranwale Chaul in hindi (Chaul means Rice and Matar means Peas) is a quick and easy to make rice recipe. In tamil it is know as Pattani Sadam. This Carrot Peas Pilaf is rich n spicy one pot meal and suits better for any special occasion. It is healthy too as carrots and green peas both are highly nutritious. Green Peas is a winter season crop. Peas are rich in fibre, act as anti-oxidants, good source of folic acid which is good for expectant mothers as folic acid is a vital nutrient which prevents neural defects in new born babies. Carrots are rich source of Vitamin A, K, B6, Folate, Manganese, Thiamin, Niacin. They are good for eye sight, improves complexion, hemoglobin in blood etc.

This Recipe for Peas Pulav with nutritious carrots is a healthy dish for kids hence we can make this less spicy for them, you can pack this rice for their lunch box and Instead of dicing carrots to small cubes, I have grated them because some kids don't like to eat carrots.

If you dice the carrots to small pieces they will keep carrot pieces aside and eat just the rice. Whereas if you add grated carrot then they won't have any chance to omit carrot and will eat the whole rice.


You kid is still not comfortable with carrots? try this simple peas pulao recipe without carrots.
 
I have also prepared Dum Aloo gravy recipe for peas pulav and it tasted really awesome, I will post it soon. Meanwhile you can check my Potato Kurma recipe to pair up with this rice. You can also serve it with any kind of raitas, 

Must try these Carrot and Peas pulao side dishes,  

- How to make Boondhi Raitha for pulao and biryani 

- How to make Namkeen Raitha for pulao

 
Ingredients:

Carrot Peas Spicy Pulao Recipe - Pattani Sadam

 

1. Rice - 2 cups
2. Carrots (Gajar) - 1 cup grated
3. Green Peas (Pattani) - 1/2 cup
4. Green Chillies - 4
5. Curry Leaves - 2 sprigs
6. Mint Leaves - 2 to 3 sprigs
7. Coriander Leaves - 2 to 3 tsps
8. Onion - 1 big sliced
9. Tomatoes - 2 to 3 medium sized
10. Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
11. Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
12. Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
13. Salt - To taste
14. Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp
15. Bay Leaf - 1
16. Cinnamon - 1 inch stick
17. Cardamom - 3 pods
18. Peppercorns - 3 to 4
19. Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
20. Oil - 4 tsps 

Also you must try this, How to make carrot beans poriyal recipe

Procedure: 

How to make Recipe for Peas Pulav with carrots

 

1. Soak 2 cups of rice in 4 cups of water for 20 minutes
2. Heat oil in a pan, add bay leaf, cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, peppercorns and cumin seeds
3. When they are fried and nice aroma comes, add green chillies, onion pieces, curry leaves and fry till onion pieces turn transparent
4. Add ginger garlic paste, mint leaves and fry for a minute
5. Add grated carrot and fry till it shrinks for about 2 to 3 minutes
6. Add green peas, tomatoes, salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, garam masala powder and fry till tomato pieces become soft
7. Now add soaked rice along with the water, mix once, cover and cook in low to medium flame till rice is cooked properly
8. Switch off the flame, garnish with coriander leaves and Spicy Pulao Recipe or Pattani Sadam is ready to serve with any gravy or raitha.

Carrot and Peas Spicy Pulao Recipe - Pattani Sadam

 

Other recipes to try with green peas or matar,

- How to make Mushroom Green Peas masala Gravy Recipe

- How to make Matar ki Ghugni Recipe or Pattani Sundal Recipe

Regi Pandu Chikki recipe with sugar | Regipallu - Jujubes Recipe

Regi Pandu Chikki recipe with sugar or Jujube fruit fudge-Brittle is a tasty, easy and healthy recipe and most people like this sweet. It is a unique fudge recipe made with green jujube yet similar to dry fruit chikki recipe. Regipandu or Jujube is a tasty berry fruit available in markets during winter, so I thought of making these chikkis for this pongal or sankrati festival. Regipandu or Regi pallu as it is referred to in Telugu or Regi pandu in english is called as jujube fruit, available in different sizes, colors and tastes. 

Bigger size fruits which are almost the size of plums are referred to as Seema Regi pandu or Ganga Regipandu in Telugu language are also rich in nutrients but they won't taste as much good as the smaller ones. 

This fruit is initially green in colour and as they ripe they change to brownish colour. The firm white colored pulp inside the fruit changes to gooey and creamish in colour. The Jujube fruit as it ripens increases in its nutrient values too.

So most people doesn't like to eat the bigger ones. The bigger jujubes are really not of much taste. I wanted to make some recipe using the bigger seema regi pandu so that I can enhance its taste. And that is how I discovered this unique recipe.

Ingredients:

Regipallu or Regi Pandu Chikki recipe with sugar

1. Regi Pandu (Jujube) - 2
2. Ghee - 2 tbsps
3. Sugar - 6 tsps
4. Almonds - 1 tsp
5. Cashews - 1 tsp


Must read:  How to make Mango Burfi or Fudges

Procedure: 

How to make Regi Pandu Chikki recipe with sugar

1. Wash, deseed and chop jujube fruits into small chunks
2. Heat a pan, add ghee
3. Once ghee is melted, add jujube chunks and fry for about 5 minutes till chunks shrink and change to pale in colour
4. Now roast nuts in the ghee, add sugar and keep mixing
5. Let the sugar cook till 2 string consistency is reached
6. Now switch off the flame and pour this into a plate greased with ghee
7. Let it cool down or you can refrigerate it
8. When it becomes stiff cut into squares and serve
9. Yummy and easy chikkis using jujube fruit is ready
10. Shelf life is 2 days when refrigerated

Dahi Poha Recipe - Mosaru Avalakki - Curd Poha Recipe

Dahi Poha Recipe is a tasty combination of regular poha(Flattened Rice flakes) and curd. This recipe is named as Thayir Aval in Tamil, Perugu Atukulu in Telugu and Mosaru Avalakki recipe in Kannada and Dahi Poha in hindi. Flattened Rice flakes also called as Beaten Rice is made out of regular rice. So like rice, Rice flake is also a nice filling ingredient. Slight tanginess in curd gives a nice refreshing taste to the recipe and makes it an interesting and thriving for more recipe. As Rice flakes is made out of Rice it contains all the nutrients present in Rice. It is rich in carbs and vitamins whereas curd is rich in calcium and magnesium, improves immunity system.

So in this best poha recipe is a very nutritious and healthy food with less or even minimal spices. Adding Potato and Tomato to the recipe gives a healthy and tasty touch.



In North and South India people include this recipe in their daily breakfast menu as they are rich in nutritional values and also is very filling. Am gonna share many different types of easy poha recipes in this space but for now relish the tangy and yummy taste of Dahi Poha Recipe. Note that there are 2 varieties in Poha thick and thin. Here I used Thick Poha for this recipe. Thin Poha is generally used in making snack mixture.

Dahi Poha Recipe - Ingredients

1. Thick Poha - 125 gms
2. Curd (Yogurt) - 1 n 1/2 cup
3. Green Chillies - 4 to 5
4. Onion - 1
5. Tomato - 1
6. Potato - 1 small
7. Peanuts - 3 tsps
8. Roasted Channa Dal - 3 tsps
9. Curry Leaves - 1 sprig
10. Coriander Leaves - 2 to 3 sprigs
11. Salt - To taste
12. Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
13. Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
14. Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
15. Oil - 2 to 3 tbsps

Must Read other recipes with Dahi/Curd:
 
- How to make Boondi raita
- Namkeen Mathri Dahi Raita for Pulao

How to make Dahi Poha Recipe or Mosaru Avalakki or Curd Poha Recipe - Procedure:

1. Wash poha under water for a minute to remove any dirt and drain immediately
2. Now add a pinch of salt to curd, pour this curd over washed poha and mix nicely

3. Poha should absorb the curd. After absorbing curd, poha should be dry it should not be mushy. You can add more curd if you want it to be mushy it depends on your taste. As per the given measurements poha will absorb entire curd and remains dry

4. Now heat oil in a pan, once oil is hot add mustard and cumin seeds
5. Once they splutter, add chopped green chillies, peanuts, roasted channa dal, onion and curry leaves

6. When onion pieces turn transparent, add diced potato and fry nicely
7. When potato is fried, add chopped tomato, salt and turmeric powder and let tomato pieces cook till they mash up completely
8. Now add poha soaked in curd and mix nicely, cover and cook for 2 to 3 minutes on
low flame

9. Now dish out, garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot steaming Dahi Pohe or Mosaru Avalakki for your breakfast.
10. It tastes yummy, you can add mixture also on top of Curd Poha Recipe and serve.