Monday, February 20, 2012

Amla Murabba


Indian gooseberry or Amla is having very good medicinal value.

Amla is the Indian word for the fruit of the gooseberry tree that is native to all parts of India. Gooseberry (avalo or avla) is full of Vitamin C. It's Murabba is prepared by cooking gooseberry pieces in sugar and preserved. Try by grating the Gooseberries then cooked or easy way by doing in pressure cooker and then cut them into small pieces before cooking them with sugar.
An excellent tip on cooking and dicing it before adding sugar because so hard and gets difficult to grate.
Would you rather steam the gooseberries as a better option

than pressure cooking?
Since the vitamins from the amla would anyways be lost in the water in the pressure cooker?
Another tip is pressure cook with as little water and use that water while cooking the syrup. So simple and no loss of vitamins.
Try adding ginger juice and pepper powder, so that it will help as a medicine for cold and cough.
Follow few simple steps to get a tasty homemade Amla Murabba. 

Take the Pressure cooked gooseberries, cut into pieces and remove the seeds. Throw the seeds. Now measure the cut pieces of steamed amla and take the same amount of sugar.
Always remember: Sugar, equal to the fruit.
Put amla pieces, sugar and little remaining water from

the pressure cooker.
Cook until the sugar gives one thread syrup consistency.
[ Make a one-thread consistency sugar syrup means touch

the syrup with your forefinger and touch thumb to forefinger,
if it forms a| one thread, syrup is ready].
Remember to add little ginger juice and pepper powder also. Preserve in the fridge section to last longer.
Amla is, indeed, the key ingredient in the popular Ayurvedic recipe, Chyavanaprasha.
More than anything, it may be called as “King of Rasayana” [rejuvenation], owing to its multiple health benefits. Ayurveda describes amla as a cooling, astringent, digestive, laxative, stomachic, and aphrodisiac medicine. It also has anti-pyretic, anti-inflammatory and diuretic properties.
Amla strengthens absorption and assimilation of food.

It improves digestion and stimulates our taste, maybe this is stomachic.
Have you tried storing amla juice?
Just extract the juice and put in airtight container and put it in the freezer! At the time to serve| drink the juice have it in water mixed with sugar and few drops of ginger juice n lime juice.

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