A simple way of reducing fat content in your body is by eating horse gram.
1. Cook the horse gram like dal. Drink the excess water. If you like, you can use the cooked horse gram in curry, sambhar etc.
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2. heat the horse gram in a microwave or just on the gas stove for sometime and then make a fine powder of it and store. use one table spoon of the powder in any cooking that you do like curry, sambhar etc etc. it does not add any taste. but is a very good fat reducer.
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3. Just heat the horse gram and eat it as a snack.
I found it very difficult to differentiate between the various types of dals available. When I cooked, I knew which one to use. But if I had to buy it, I did not know its name. Also some dals looked similar and I was confused when the shopkeeper asked me which one I wanted. So here is a blog to help someone in my condition (specially from my mom)
I have listed 4 important types of dal here.
My grandma used a very useful tip that I would like to share. In most Indian cooking, we crackle mustard seeds and put in our dishes. This is called Tadka (hindi) or oggarnne (kannada) or thalippu (tamil). This is a small job. But the vessel used for this gets oily and needs washing every time. Instead, what can be done is, you can crackle lot of mustard at a time and then drain the excess oil. This crackled mustard can be stored in a bottle and used every time for cooking. It will not get spoilt for months together. It saves time of doing the crackling and also washing the vessel.
After washing your hair pour milk all over it. Leave it for 2 minutes and then rinse it out for shiny long hair.
Grate some cucumber and freeze in an ice tray. Massage frozen cucumber cubes onto eyes to reduce puffiness and dark circles.
The use of fenugreek seeds is one of the most important remedies in the treatment of dandruff. Two tablespoons of these seeds should be soaked overnight in water and ground into a fine paste in the morning. This paste should be applied all over the scalp and left for half an hour. The hair should then be washed thoroughly with soap-nut (ritha) solution or shikakai.
Preparing natural soap:
Fenugreek (Hindi: Methi , Tamil: vendhayam, Kannada: Menthya)powder 1 tbsp
Shikakai (you can buy it from the shop. I would prefer to use Rose brand)3 tbsp
Green gram(Hindi:Moong, Tamil:Payaru, Kannada: hasiru bele) powder 3 tbsp
pudina extracted water
Make a liquid out of the above. Your soap is ready.
To clear dark circles around the eyes, apply cotton soaked in strained tea liquid for 10 minutes.
To cleanse skin apply 1 tsp of milk with 3 drops of glycerin and 6 drops of rose water and leave for 20 minutes.
To prevent salt from getting moist add some rice grains to the bottle of salt. The salt will remain fresh and the sprinkle holes will not get blocked either.