Spinach-Cracked Wheat Pongal

Ingredients:

• Spinach - 3/4 Cup
• Cracked Wheat - 2 Cups
• Water- 4 cups
• Salt- To taste

For Seasoning:

• Ghee/ Oil - 2 - 3 Tbspns
• Jeera
• Cashew Nuts
• Pepper corns
• Pepper
• Hing/ Asafoetida
• Curry Leaves
• Green Chillies
• Ginger

Method:

• Take a cooker, add ghee to it. Once it is hot add cashew nuts, ginger, green chillies, jeera, pepper corns and also little pepper powder, hing, curry leaves. 
• Now add spinach to it and cook for 5 mins. Now add 4 cups of water, and add cracked wheat and salt to taste.
• Now close the lid of the cooker let it whistle 2-3 times. Switch off the stove.
• You will have nice cracked wheat spinach pongal ready to enjoy.

It is  very healthy as you are getting fiber and iron through cracked wheat and spinach respectively.
Iam getting this recipe and photo, from my daughter Sri.

BEANS-BARBOTTIS

BARBOTTIS CURRY
Materials:
Barbottis(a variety in beans)chopped-2 cups
Grated raw coconut -1/2 cup
Salt
Seasoning:
Urad dal 1 tsp
Red and green chillies slits
Curry leaves a fea
Hing a pinch
Method:
Place a kadai on the stove,add 1to 1 1/2  tbsp oil to it,then after heating add urad dal,red chillie slits and green chillie slits,saute for  a little while.Keep the stove in low flame.Then add curry leaves ,hing and lastly the chopped beans to it.Place a lid on this,and cook in a low flame stirring quite often.We place a plate containing of a half cup of water on the kadai ,so it will be cooked tender with the water vapour in it.
After it is cooked add salt,and switch off after 2 to 3 minutes.Place the lid again and completely let it cool for half an hour.After it is cooled add grated raw coconut and stir it.Transfer in to a serving bowl.

With very less oil and only boiled it is good food and healthy for elders and small children and acidity people.Once in a week i prepare this item.

LAUGH-A BOON TO HEART

LAUGHING -A HEALTH TONIC

Laughing makes a man live longer..every body know the fact.But we in our daily routine loose temper for every thing. Really speaking by laughing and living happy a person lives healthily.

• The persons who suffer with hypertension,and High BP ,if they laugh instead of grumbling,then his hypertension will be reduced by his  laughing.
• Daily if  a person laughs wholeheartedly for 25 times,then the good  result of exercising  of 15 min in a health gym will be received by his heart.
• Although you dont laugh wholeheartedly,even an ironical or artificial laugh is also important for the health.
• By laughing ,the hormones which are secreted by stress and strain in our body will be reduced.
• Atleast daily one should keep a target to laugh atleast 25 times which is very good for heart.
• Daily atleast spend 10 mins of  time with people who crack jokes,see comedy  movies,and comedy serials.
• Show such comedy shows to elders in the home,which improves their health.