Healthy and Tasty Banana Trunk Sabji "Pochola" recipe - Old Indian Kitchen

     How to make a healthy banana trunk dish - Old Indian Kitchen.  
                                         

          Good evening all.Welcome to Old Indian kitchen cooking.          

             Today, I am going to share one recipe which is a very unique, tasty and of course very healthy.Hope you all know about the banana tree.Banana Tree is the greatest creation of god. It is very useful from top to bottom, we eat banana for energy, use its leaves for puja and many other purposes. Also we take banana blossoms and trunk as food. Banana Trunk Sabji is very healthy dish for diabetic and uric acid patients.

Ingredients : 

•  Banana Trunk 1 - a foot long
•  Onions 1
•  Chop Garlic 1 tbsp
•  Chilly 1
•  Tejapatta or Indian Bay Leaf
•  Raw Moong Dal 2 tbsp
•  Turmeric
•  Salt

 Cooking Process:

1. First remove  the outer covers till you get the inner most trunk.
2. Chop the trunk in a very small pieces.
3. Crush the chopped trunk properly with a big spoon.
4. Meanwhile chop the onions in medium pieces.
5. Wash 2 tbsp of moong dal
6. Heat 5 tbsp of mustard oil in cooking pot.
7. Add the bay leaf first.
8. After that, add  the oinions,garlic,chilly,moong dal and fry together in low heat for 3 minutes.
9. Add 1/2 tbsp of turmeric powder, mix them well.
10. Now add the chopped trunk and mix them with ladle.
11. Add salt as per your taste.
12. Cover the cooking pot for 3 to 4 minutes.
13. Check repeatadly with ladle,then again cover the cooking pot.
14. Cook it for half an hour.
15. Healthy banana trunk dish will be ready in a half an hour,you can serve this with steam rice or chapati.

Note:

We are using some basic ingredients in almost all the recipes. Here, we will try to mention all the benefits of each ingredient.

Jeera (cumin seed) benefits:
1. Jeera is beneficial for digestion
2. It Lowers cholesterol
3. It is Effective for diabetes
4. Jeera Boosts immunity
5. It helps in detoxing body
6. It is good for weight loss.
7. It is Good for liver protection


Dhaniya (coriander seed) benefits:
1. Dhaniya helps in UTI (Urinary Tract Infection)
2. It decrease Blood Pressure.
3. It fight food poisoning.
4. It improve cholestrol levels.
5. It is very Good for digestion
6. It helps protect against cancer.

Black Pepper powder benefits:
1.It assist in breakdooown of fat cells.
2.It helps to cure some skin disease.
3.It gives relief in  cold, cough.
4.It helps to fight against infections and insect bites.

Onion benefits:
1.Onion is a good source of vitamin C.
2.Onion improves the immunity system of human body.
3.Onion regulates the blood sugar.
4.Onion (raw onion)keep your heart healthy by reducing the production of bad cholestrol.
5.Onion is reducing the risk of gastric ulcers.

Garlic benefits:
1.Garlic is a natural blood purifier.
2.Garlic is good for reliefing cold and flu.
3.Garlic and mustard oil hot mixer is very good for massage.
4.It is very good for high blood pressure.
5.Garlic can prevent heart disease.
6.Garlic may help you live longer.

Ginger benefits: 
2.It is good for thyroid patients.
3.It helps reducing nausea.
4.It helps in food digestion.
5.It helps in reducing muscle pain.
6.Ginger is good home remedy for cold and cough.

Pach Phoron and benefits:
 Panch Phoron is a combination of five spices in a equal amount, named fenugreek seed, nigella seed or kalonji, cumin seed, black mustard seed and fennel seed.
Benifits:
1.You will get benifits of five seeds in a same time in one recipe.
2.It very easy to use pach phoron in preparing lenthils.
3.It will satisy your taste because all the seeds have different, nice flavour.
4.It is usefull in preparing pickles.

Fenugreek seed benefits:
1.It is good for high bp patient.
2.It is also benificial for diabetic patient.
3.It helps to reduce cholesterol.
4.It helps to relieve sore throat pain and cough.
5.It is very good for new mothers.

Black mustard seed benefits:
1. It is good for skin and hair.
2.It fights against infection.
3.Mustard seed slows ageing.
4.Also mustard seed can prevent many disease.

Nigella or kalonji seed benefits:
1.It is very helpful in different disease.
2.It is good in cold.
3.It is natural fertilizer booster.

Fennel seed benefits:
1. It helps in weight loss.
2. It is good for liver.
3. It is good for eyesight.
4. It helps purify blood.
5  It is a natural mouth freshner.

Garam masala (Mixer of cinnamon + cloves + cardamom) benefits:
1. Garam masala is a immunity booster.
2. It is helpful in weight loss.
3. It helps in digestion.
4. It helps in lowering blood sugar levels.

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