QUICK BITES (3)

WHEAT (ATTA) LADDU:

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 glass wheat flour
• 1 glass gram flour
• 1 glass sugar powder
• 3/4 glass ghee
• 1/4 cardamom powder
• 100 gms roasted cashewnuts, chopped into small pieces

METHOD:

• Roast gram flour and wheat flour for a few minutes with one tbsp ghee.
• keep aside.
• In a kadhai, heat the remaining ghee add the roasted flour, cashewnuts, powdered sugar and cardamom powder and mix well.
• Remove from heat.
• Make laddus while hot.
• It makes a very nutritious snack.

MANGO RASMALAI:

INGREDIENTS:

• 8 big slices of bread
• 1/2 tin milkmaid
• 1 cup mango, cubed
• 1 tsp almond paste
• 4-5 strands saffron
• 250 ml milk
• 2 drops rose water
• 3 cups water

METHOD:

• Soak bread in water for a few seconds.
• Squeeze lightly to remove water.
• Fill mango pieces in the bread and pack them softly.
• Add milkmaid to the milk and boil for a few minutes.
• Arrange the bread balls in a broad vessel.
• Pour the milk over them.
• Pour rose water and sprinkle the saffron strands.
• Decorate with dry fruits and serve chilled.

DELIGHTFUL DESSERT:

• You can prepare a dessert using leftover cakes, cookies, candies and fruits.
• Prepare thick custard (flavour of your choice).
• In a large deep bowl, arrange biscuits, cake pieces, cookies etc.
• Pour hot custard over this, spread it out evenly, arrange another layer of biscuits and cakes followed by custard.
• Top it with fruits, nuts and whipped cream.
• Keep it in the fridge to set.
• Serve chilled with a scoop of ice cream.

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BRAIN OR BELLY

BRAIN INFLUENCES IMPLUSE TO EAT FOOD, NOT BELLY:

The next time you crave for some spicy snacks or chocolate in the middle of the night ,do not blame your biology,the impulse to eating the food is in the mind,a new study has found.

Researchers in britain have debunked the common belief that cravings are the resullt of the body's biological needs,that a vitamin or mineral in the food we yearn for is missing from our own diet and needs replacing.

There is no evidence that food craving are linked to nutritional deficiencies.What is more likely is that the foods we crave are those we usually attempt to resist because they induce guilty feelings when we eat them.If we try to resist something,though,the urge for it doesn't go away,it actually becomes amplified,lead researcher Prof.Peter rogers of Bristol university was quoted by the sunday times as saying.

A recent study has also proved that cravings for food are emotionally or psychologically driven.Researchers showed that women who tried to supress thoughts about the favourite fattening food ends up eating 50% more of it than those who talked about thier cravings.