Hearty Dishes For a Healthy Life

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1. Clean the vegetables before hand.
2. Do not peel off the skin.
3. Cut vegetables into small pieces.
4. Once you cut, you should not clean them again.
5. Do not squeeze water out of the pieces.
6. Do not keep pieces of potato or eggplant in water for long.
7. Clay pots are the best for cooking vegetables both for health and taste.
8. Cooking in aluminum vessels is not good for health.
9. Better use steel vessels for cooking.
10. Cook the vegetables pieces in a low flame (sim). Don’t add water.
Vegetables should be cooked with the water within them.
11. Shouldn’t allow the water in the vegetables to evaporate. So cover them
with a lid.
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12. Should never drain the water out of the cooked vegetables.
13. Coconut should not be added during the process of cooking.
14. Add coconut just before switching off the stove.
15. Curry leaves or coriander also should be added just before switching off
the stove.
16. Lemon should be squeezed over the curry after it is cooled and just before
eating.
17. Honey is to be added after the curry is cooled.
18. The water that comes out of vegetables can be used as soup by squeezing
a lemon over it.
19. Do not use any spices.
20 Use any cream sparingly.
21 Should not eat morning’s seasoned vegetables in the evening or
overnight.
22 Eat a minimum of half kg curry per meal.
23 Eat daily brown rice with curries.
24 It is advisable to use coconut daily.
25 Do not cook leafy vegetables for a longer time.
26 Any amount of milk or curds could be used in cooking.