Attitude

All depends upon our attitude

Coriander Coffee

 If you are a South Indian, you need not read this.

Take a cup of Coriander seed (sabud dhaniya in Hindi)

A teaspoon of dry ginger powder (known as ‘sont’ in Hindi)

First fry coriander seed till it gets roasted.  Don’t burn it, but it should be roasted properly. Then make it as rough powder (don’t crush too much).

Take a cup of water and add two tea spoon of this coriander powder and add two or three pinch of dry ginger powder in it.  Boil it for few minutes as you prepare tea.  Then filter it and add hot milk as much as you want.  Add jaggery (goood in Hindi).  You can also drink this without milk.  If you want you can add the dry ginger powder a bit extra and those who like can spray a pinch of black pepper powder on it.  It will be best if you drink it with Palm tree jaggery.   Never use white sugar. It will spoil the taste.  Those who like honey, they can use honey instead of jaggery.

This coffee will help to reduce your weight.  It is the best health drink.  This coffee is also good for diabetic people.

But the only problem with this coffee is that once you drink one hot cup, you will definitely want to have a second cup. So better prepare extra cups of coffee. Its aroma will invite your neighbour also. So be ready to serve them too.

Those who do not drink coffee or like coffee serve this as Coriander tea. If someone doesn’t drink both coffee and tea, then change the name and serve a ‘healthy herbal hot drink’.

Some people reject some food just for the name sake even before tasting it.  One time in our ashram for a woman who never likes pickle I served tomato pickle by keeping it in a separate cup as ‘tomato chattni’ as she like chattni lot.  Another person who joined bit late to the dinner asked what you received specially. Then she asked him to taste this ‘chattini’ which is really yummy.   But after taking it, he said that it was nothing but the same tomato pickle which he ate for lunch.  As I was in the kitchen, I explained that as she never liked pickles, taking the same tomato pickle in a separate cup served her as chattni.

This happened several times in my life.  One time when I prepared South Indian uppuma in North, some in that family said they never like (this south Indian uppuma). Then I said that it is not uppuma but vegetable poha.  Then with some reservation they tasted and liked it very much.  Later I explained that it is nothing but the same uppuma but I used lots of vegetables to make it colourful and interesting.

So it all depends upon our attitude in life.

13-08-2018###