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Poongar rice benefits the women of all age categories.

Why it’s so special or celebrated for women’s health???? 

Poongar rice is so rich in micronutrients like iron, magnesium, zinc and Vitamin B12, compared to other red rice varieties. Our descendants believed that these nutrients are highly recommended for women, right from her puberty stage to prenatal and postnatal to  lactating phase and till her menopause period.  Women needs to handle a lot of hormonal changes during these phases. Especially, with today’s lifestyle and genetically modified diet, it’s taking a toll on their health. They face adverse hormonal imbalances like early puberty, conditions like PCOS/PCOD, Infertility, thyroid and various uterus related issues. To ward off these challenges for your loved ones,  it’s better they take the right step of consuming right food at right stage. Now this Poongar Rice comes as a life saver, when consumed from their puberty stage, it provides all the essential nutrients, regulate their harmonal functions and boost their immune system.  This Poongar rice indirectly aids to curb PCOS/PCOD condition by its low carb, less glycaemic index and rich fibre content. Poongar rice naturally has a nutty flavor. This factor eased me to try Aval Kesari with this rice. It's a sweet pudding made with simple ingredients like Rice flakes, sugar, ghee and few flavouring agents. It’s an alternative recipe for Kesari/Kesaribath which is traditionally prepared with Rava/Semolina. This sweet is made during Navratri, Krishna Jayanthi festivals. Here, I used my mom’s way of preparation. She soak the flakes for sometime, once it puffs up, sauté in little ghee, add sugar, flavouring and garnishing ingredients, Ta-da, your instant  Aval kesari is ready at your table for serving. It’s way too easy, can be prepared by a newbie as well.

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Poongar Rice - Benefits

Poongar rice also called as ‘Poongar arisi’ is one of traditional rice variety of Chennai (Tamilnadu),which uses natural farming methods (no use of any harmful chemical fertilizers and pesticides). It is flood tolerant and require less water. This variety is very similar to Mappilai samba. It is also called as ‘women’s rice’, as it cures most of women’s hormonal issues. It is especially beneficial to pregnant women’s and lactating mothers.

Poongar Rice – The Women’s Rice This rice is rich in anthocyanin( an antioxidant). Anthocyanin gives it colour (reddish brown) and flavour (nutty). Poongar rice also contain mineral like Iron, Zinc, Magnesium and Molebidinum. Its husk is also nutritious and tasty. This rice generally comes in boiled and semi-polished form.Poongar rice is one of the most wonderful option for making soft idlis, dosas(especially Neer Dosa) and porridge.

HEALTH BENEFITS:

A) Helpful for pregnant women: Its kanji(usually called Pez, water extracted out of boiled rice) is said to induce normal delivery in pregnant women.

B) Removes bad sweat from body: It contains anthocyanin(antioxidant)which helps to kick out the bad sweat out of the body and provide a healthy living.

C) Boost immune system: It increases haemoglobin content in blood and thus boost immunity system.

D) Contain vitamin B1: It contains vitamin B1 which is specially helpful in case of mouth and stomach ulcer and stomach related problem.

E) It is also helpful for headache and is said to boost memory.

F) Diabetes: It generally prevents the glucose from mixing in the blood stream thus preventing ‘diabetes insipidus’. Though there are modern methods and variety with faster productivity but they cause many harmful effects on our body. Traditional methods are chemical free and harmless, also traditional variety of crops have higher content of nutrients thus even if they are produced in small scale they can be beneficial for consumers and can be harmless at greater scale. So organic farming can bring greater yield but there is need to select the best possible method.

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I’m excited about this week recipe, it’s Tamil New year. What could stop me on this occasion to feast you all. I came up with a Classic South Indian sweet, Kesari but with a twist. It’s our simple but scrumptious sweet. And the twist -I made 3 distinct flavours to create 3 delicacies to surprise you…😍♥️. 

1) Sweet Nutty flavoured Coconut milk Kesari– I made this with regular semolina sautéed in ghee and cooked in coconut milk and tender coconut water, then sweetened with sugar and garnished with nuts and raisins. I used turmeric powder for natural colouring. 

2) Vegan, Healthy Poongar rice Kesari-I prepared this with Poongar rice/Women’s rice which I ground to gritty texture like semolina and cooked with coconut oil and jaggery. Here, the rice itself imparts golden brown colour to Kesari. I explained in detail about the health benefits of Women’s Rice in Poongar arisi aval upma and Aval kesari. You can substitute Poongar arisi with any red rice varieties available in the market (follow the same procedure). 

3) Luscious, Creamy Custard Apple Kesari– this is again semolina and milk based kesari but with the inclusion of Custard Apple it elevates the texture and taste to the next level.

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In the last 4 weeks, we took a journey on our traditional rice varieties namely Karuppu Kavuni/Black Rice, Poongar/Women’s rice, and Mappillai Samba/Bridegroom rice. We prepared Healthy, soft, and spongy idlis and restaurant-style Tomato Red Chutney, Aval Kesari/Rice Flakes Pudding, and Appam/Pancakes, Aval Upma/Poha with these kinds of rice. This week, it’s going to be Kaattuyaanam Arisi/Rice, which can be translated to English as Forest Elephant Rice. This is again a traditional, unpolished, organic red rice variety. The name in Tamil defines as Kaattu for wild, Yaanam for elephant. You can derive 2 meanings for it. One, this Paddy variety grows so humongous like 7 feet in size that an elephant can hide behind it. Second, if you regularly consume this rice, it gives you the strength equivalent to the elephant’s legs which holds its entire body weight. This rice variety is rich in calcium which is a vital nutrient for bone strengthening and growth. It’s unusual to see rice being a rich source of calcium. Apart from improving bone density, it also   Fight against Arthritis, Enemy of diabetics, Delays appetite, Rich source of Antioxidant and act as anti-ageing, Accelerates healing. It also improves the immune system, heart health and decreases cholesterol. If you are a bit sceptical to consume this rice as a replacement for your regular rice, then start with simple tiffin recipes like idlis, dosas, appams. This week’s recipe helps you out in such a way that this rice will become inevitable in your diet. Yes, I prepared the Mysore dosa recipe with this indigenous rice. That too in a mixer grinder which will put a huge smile on my North Indian and other nationality friends who don’t own a wet grinder.  Mysore dosa differs from Regular dosa in its ingredients but preparation remains the same.  The addition of a few ingredients like toor dal, channa dal, semolina, sugar enhances the flavour and colour of the dosa.

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Poongar Arisi Kozhukkattai

Poongar Arisi Kozhukkattai Recipe:

Do you prefer steamed foods? I am a lover of steamed foods and you find the collection of steamed foods here .You might be wondering about the rain of traditional rice recipes. It is because it is my long time dream and the access wasn’t possible owing to our transfers. I am so happy to bring to all of the traditional healthy recipes to you. I wish the purpose…