COWBERRY's Blog: Organic Food, Recipes & Healthy Living

Ten moong dal benefits with the IFCT 2017 number behind each: 23.88 g protein, 9.37 g fibre, 92.11 mcg folate and 1268 mg potassium per 100 g, and a GI of 38. Plus its side effects, who should limit it, how much to eat a day and how to cook it.

Sesame seeds how to eat: raw over salads and curd, soaked overnight, dry-roasted in five minutes or rolled into til ke laddu. How much to eat daily, common mistakes and storage.

A2 ghee for babies is a food for after six months, never before: when the WHO and ICMR-NIN say other foods can start, the 5 g of oil or ghee in ICMR-NIN's sample menus, how to introduce ghee one new food at a time, what to avoid and the calories in a teaspoon.

How asafoetida is made: the dried oleo-gum-resin of the roots of Ferula assa-foetida, a plant of arid Iran, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, ground into hing powder; COWBERRY's is processed in Madhya Pradesh without fillers.

Is sharbati atta good for weight loss? It can fit, as the counted whole-grain roti: 97 kcal and 3.4 g of fibre a roti, 193 kcal for two. The calorie arithmetic, what fibre does, where the calories sneak in and how to build the plate.

Black chickpeas how to eat: soak 6 to 8 hours, cook soft, then turn one katori (30 g dry) into bowls, chaat, curry, khichdi, tikki or a roasted snack.

Chana dal recipes for every meal: Karnataka roti, steamed upma and Sindhi dal pakwan for breakfast, chana dal fry and khichdi for lunch, and a jaggery laddu. Cooking times, per-serving figures and links to each full recipe.

Millets vs rice on fibre, protein, iron, calcium and glycemic index, with IFCT 2017 numbers per 100 g, how each grain cooks and tastes, what each costs in relative terms, and which one suits which meal.

How to make green tea at home with leaves: water at 80 to 85 °C, one teaspoon of leaf per cup, 2 to 3 minutes of steeping, then strain. Why boiling water may make it bitter, and how to fix it.

Chana dal in pregnancy: safe when well cooked, with pulses at 80 g a day in ICMR-NIN guidance. Protein, iron and folate per katori, gas-friendly cooking and the safety notes.

Is sharbati atta good for diabetes? Whole wheat grain has GI 47, a whole wheat flour roti tested at 45.1, and one roti gives 19 g of carbohydrate, so it can sit in a diabetic meal plan when portions and the mix are right. Glycemic index, carbs per roti, what the studies say and how much fits a day.

Fifteen millet recipes for breakfast grouped by millet: ragi dosa, porridge and malt; jowar upma and dosa; bajra khichdi and roti; plus foxtail upma, little millet pongal, kodo idli and barnyard khichdi, with per-100 g nutrition for ragi, jowar and bajra.