Ingredients:
Rice: 1 cup
Water : 3 cups
Thick curd: – 3 cups
Finely chopped coriander leaves – ¼ cup
White grapes (slit into halves) – 1 cup
Broken Cashews – ¼ cup
Curry leaves – 15
Red chilly – 2
Mustard – ¼ tea spoon
Asafetida – 1 pinch
Sugar – ½ spoon
Ghee – 2 tea spoon
Oil – 2 tea spoon
Salt to taste
Method: cook rice in a pressure cooker with recommended quantity of water. The rice should be cooked till it becomes soft. Take out the rice from cooker and spread it in a large bowl and allow it to cool. When rice gets cooled add finely chopped coriander leaves, curd, grapes, salt and sugar to rice. Place a ladle on stove and roast cashews with ghee and add it to rice. Heat oil in a ladle, add mustard to it. When it crackles add curry leaves, chilly and asafetida. Pour this on curd rice. Mix everything well.
Advantages of the Ingredients
There are a lot of carbohydrates in rice. This revitalizes you right away and gives you a mental and physical boost. It is swiftly and easily digested. It is the perfect health meal for people who are weak and incapacitated and need immediate energy and easy absorption. Ayurvedic texts advise eating rice gruels and buttermilk for gastrointestinal illnesses such diarrhea, dysentery, morning sickness, colitis, and jaundice.
Grapes: Grapes help to keep the body cool. They serve as a brain tonic and memory booster. They aid in digestion and relieve constipation. These berries boost blood hemoglobin and serve as a heart tonic. Rakta (blood) and pitta are known to be balanced by grapes. They are therefore highly helpful for allergies and gout. Patients recovering from bronchitis, asthma, and tuberculosis benefit from their lungs’ strengthening properties. Grapes relieve bladder irritation and burning urination by acting as a diuretic and soothing the bladder’s inner layers. Regular eating of these berries boosts both men’s and women’s fertility. They improve the functioning of the female reproductive system and boost sperm production and motility. Grapes are essential for improving skin immunity and safeguarding it from a variety of skin conditions.
cholera, typhoid, amoebiasis, and other intestinal illnesses typically manifest themselves in the summer. During the summer, eating curd regularly helps to improve gut flora (friendly bacteria present in intestine). Our intestines are more resistant to various infections thanks to these microorganisms. Curd is therefore regarded as a probiotic.
The beneficial bacteria known as probiotics support a healthy digestive system and increase immunity. Lactobacilli and bifidobacteria are the most prevalent friendly bacteria (probiotics). These probiotics are easily accessible as curd (yogurt). Curd is easily absorbed by people who have trouble digesting milk.
Regular consumption of curd rice, particularly in the summer, prevents digestive and intestinal issues. Ayurveda claims that curd draws water from the intestines (hence called as Grahi). Due of this characteristic, it is frequently used to treat diarrhea and dysentery. It boosts kapha and pitta while reducing vata dosha. In addition to strengthening the body, accelerating digestion (agni), stimulating taste receptors, and serving as an appetizer, curd aids in improving the quality and amount of semen. Curd facilitates bladder emptying and lessens bladder irritation.