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FOOD RECIPE This vegetarian soup brings together hot, sour,salty,bitter  and sweet tastes , in a fine balance. www.askvikass.in serves  4-6 , cooking time 1 hour Ingredients 250 gms mooli, cut to bite-sized pieces 250 gms cluster beans,chopped 4 slices dried fig 1/2 cup garlic 1/2 cup fresh dill leaves (sowa) 3 tbsp ginger,grated 4 cups vegetable stock. For garnish Juice of 1 lemon 2 tbsp toasted sesame oil (see box) 1/2 cup green onioms,finely sliced. Method Place all the ingredients in a pot and cover.Fill a larger pot with water,bring to a boil  and place the smaller pot in it.Cover and cook on a low flame until the vegetables  are tender.Leave covered until time to serve.Stir in sesame oil and lemon juice.Garnish with sliced green onions. To make toasted sesame oil, toast 500 gms sesame seeds in a pan and process in a blender  while still warm until oil is released .Leave in a jar  for a few hours and the oil will raise  t...

S auces are really matter if you want to enjoy an Italian meal. Tomato sauce is probably the most popular sauce for pasta dishes .This page describes how to make tomato sauce  - one that may use meat, while the other is truly vegetarian. The sauce can also from the base for many other Italian sauces. Basic Tomato Sauce . Ingredients: 5 packets of 200 gms Tomato Puree, 1/4 cup of olive oil  , 3 large onions thinly sliced, 1 tsp dried oregano 1/2 tsp dried basil, 2 tsps sugar(optional) 4 cloves garlic chopped and  Salt and pepper for taste. In a saucepan,pour the olive oil  and simmer with garlic and onions till tender, about 15 minutes ,stirring frequently . Add tomato puree ,herbs and seasoning. Simmer uncovered  till thick,stirring often to avoid sticking and burning .Meatballs can be added to the sauce if desired. Sauce can be frozen for 3 months. Note : For a pure vegetarian sauce slice 500 gms button mushrooms and add salt in a little olive oil...

Brazilian Seafood  Stew A re you daunted by the thought of cooking seafood? (It gets dry! It smells fishy!) Or did a fish fillet in some childhood  cafeteria  leave a bad taste in your mouth?Here,the most common objections to seafood and easy ways around them. I DON'T LIKE THE TASTE. This is the top reason for avoiding seafood.But the real problem may be that you have been eating fish that doesn't suit your palate .If you don't like strong fish flavour  like mackerel,try seerfish which is mild .Want a meatier taste? Try tuna ,the steak of the sea.The same principles apply if you are bored with your regular choices ,says chef Rick,coauthor of Fish without a Doubt. COOKING FISH IS TOO DIFFICULT. Not if you can boil water:Steaming  is an easy method that makes it practically impossible to overcook fish,Rick says.He prefers using a bamboo steamer basket because it gets saturated with the steaming liquid - you can steam with stock or broth,as well as water...

Eat Whole ,not processed, Food ! P roceed foods are designed for long shelf lives,and are loaded with sugar  and bad fats,plus three-quarters of our daily salt intake(too much has been linked with a high blood pressure ).Proceeding food often entails stripping natural foods down to their components before creating the final product,and nutrients that protect your heart,such as soluble fibre (its cut the cholesterol) ,antioxidants and good fats,can be left behind . Watch your portions However well you eat ,you have to avoid consuming too much-excess fat,particularly around the tummy ,is released into the blood system as artery-clogging fatty acids.Portion sizes of ready meals and takeaways have increased dramatically in the past 20 years as we have got used to eating more than we need. Use smaller plates to cut your intake by up to 25 percent .Don't eat too quickly -one study found that this doubles your risk of  being overweight ,perhaps because the body doesn't have ti...