Cooking rice needs perfection on the amount of water and time. Just soak the rice for 10 mins, 4 minutes pressure cooker mode in the instant pot and wait 5 minutes for natural pressure release.  Its easy and actually works as pro on busy times. Even if you invite guests you can prepare in advance and use keep warm mode.  Now a days everyone works from home office, its quite easy to cook rice without whistle sounds.

Enjoy this perfect cooked rice with any of your favorite curry. Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

 


 

Ingredients

  • Rice - 1 cup
  • Water  - 2 cups
  • Salt - 1 tsp

Method

  1. Rinse rice under running water. Drain the water and then add it to the container of your Instant Pot.
  2. Add water to the pot along with salt.
  3. Close the Instant Pot with its lid.
  4. Set the pot to PRESSURE COOK/MANUAL (High pressure) and set timer to 5 minutes.
  5. Do a natural pressure release, that is wait until silver button on lid drops. BE CAREFUL OF HOT STEAM.
  6. Hit CANCEL. Open the lid and hot rice is ready to serve.

 

Add rice, water and salt
Add rice, water and salt

Open the lid after pressure release
Open the lid after pressure release

Ready to serve
Ready to serve
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Strawberry smoothie become my family all time favourite milkshake without milk 😜 specially for breakfast. Due to lock-down cooking frustration for mommies, this is best for you and your family to give healthy kick off the day. It is so frothy and so creamy with adding 2 tbsp of oats. Once you start drinking you would prefer this strawberry smoothie at least 2 - 3 times a week. 


If you want to change up the flavor you can replace the strawberries with blueberries, raspberries or mango. You could even do a mix of two. My son love it when I make smoothies. I’ll serve him for breakfast or brunch or  a refreshing treat on a warm summer day. You can’t go wrong with these yummy drinks.

 


 

Ingredients

  • Strawberries - 4
  • Oats - 2 tbsp
  • Flax seeds - 1 tsp
  • Honey (optional) - few drops

Method

  1. Blend strawberry and oats until smooth.
  2. Add flax seeds and honey as needed to suit your taste.
  3. Kids - Add more honey and add icecream scoop or cream to tempt.

 

Blend strawberry and oats
Blend strawberry and oats

Add flax seeds and honey
Add flax seeds and honey

 
 
 
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 Matta Rice kanji is one of the traditional food in Srilanka, Kerala and southern part of Tamil Nadu. Adding moong dal to your daily diet contains a range of health benefits, also it contains high nutrients. This porridge tastes amazing with some coconut sambal. This porridge is not only easy to make but taste so healthy. Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

 


 

Major Benefits of red matta rice

  • Prevents Obesity (Aids weight loss)
  • Improves digestion
  • Prevents diabetics
  • Rice source of calcium and zinc
  • Controls Cholesterol level

Ingredients

  • Matta Rice / Red Rice - 1.5 cup
  • Moong dal / Pasiparuppu - 1/2 cup
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • Coconut milk - 1 cup
  • Water - 5 cups
  • Salt as per taste

Method

  1. Dry roast the rice and dal. Then wash rice atleast 3 to 4 times and pasiparuppu well. 
  2.  Open instant pot and add rice, dal, cumin seeds and water and mix it.
  3. Close the lid. Hit PRESSURE COOK and set time for 10 mins.
  4. Allow the pressure releases naturally and open the lid.
  5. Add salt and coconut milk and mix well.
  6. Serve kanji with sambal or any thogayal.


Dry roast and wash rice and moong dal
Dry roast and wash rice and moong dal

Add rice, dal, water, cumin seeds
Add rice, dal, water, cumin seeds
Allow it for natural release after 10 mins of pressure cook
Allow it for natural release after 10 mins of pressure cook

Add salt and coconut milk
Add salt and coconut milk
Mix well and ready to serve
Mix well and ready to serve

Serve with coconut sambal for best taste
Serve with coconut sambal for best taste


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 "Your Hair is your best accessory."

 



Egg yolk is rich in protein, vitamins, fatty acids and vitamins like A, D, and E. These nutrients promote hair growth and prevent hair fall. Olive oil is the other ingredient of this mask, which strengthens and softens your hair, while exfoliating it. It also darkens the color and prevents premature graying. The presence of vitamin-rich egg yolk and castor oil make this hair mask ideal for curbing hair loss, especially for dry and rough hair. Also it adds silky shine to your hair without using any hair product.
 
The best part is that eggs are inexpensive, easily available, and give you healthy hair when consumed as a part of your diet as well as when you use an egg pack for hair. Try this mask at least once in a week, you'll see amazing results immediate.  
 
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