Apple Jam

This is my contribution for Shrivali Event –MEC (Microwave Easy Cooking) Sweet.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Make 1\2 cup

Ingredients:
11\2 cups apple, peeled and grated,
1\4 cup sugar,
4-tbsp lemon juice

Method:
Step 1: Combine the apple and sugar in a microwave safe bowl.

Step 2: Microwave on high for 2 minutes.

Step 3: Remove from the microwave, mix well and microwave on high for another 2 minutes.

Step 4: After that remove from microwave and add lemon juice and mix well.

Step 5: Again microwave for 1 minutes.
Step 6: Cool in room atmosphere.

Step 7: Sterilized the bottle on gas stove for just few second and cool at room atmosphere.

Step 8: Place the apple jam in sterilized bottle and Store refrigerated in an air-tight container.

Step 9: Spread over bread and toast. I make Jam biscuit. Spread the jam over one biscuit.

Step 10: Place oval shape cut biscuit over it and decorate with sugar.

Next coming for Jihva-Rice Event.........

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Ripe Banana Curry

Ingrediens:
5-Ripe banana,
2-tbsp red chilli powder,
1-tbsp turmeric powder,
2-tbsp oil,
Salt to taste,
Coriander leaves for garnish.

Method:
Step 1: Peel the banana and cut into round pieces.
Step 2: Heat the oil in to pan on medium heat.

Step 3: Add directly round cut banana pieces and cook for one minute.

Step 4: Then add red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt to taste.Step 5: Mix gently and turn off the flame.

Step 6: Garnish with coriander leaves.

..................................Serve with Bhakri and buttermilk....................................

Very easy sweet curry. If you like sweet taste then this curry is ready in to just two minutes with fewer ingredients.
Benefit:
1. An excellent source of potassium and vitamin B6, as well as a source of folate abd fiber.
2. A medium banana contains close to 500mg of potassium, a mineral that plays a role in lowering blood pressure. A study on 17,000 adults indicated that higher potassium levels are associated with lower blood pressure. Banana also contains the anino acid tryptophan, which stimulates the production of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that has a calming effect on the body.
----From Food Harm Food Heal Book

Chickoo Juice

Ingredients:
3-pieces of chickoo,
4-tbsp sugar,
2-glass simple milk,
Little water or ice cube.
Method:
Step 1: Peel the chickoo,remove the seeds and cut in to small pieces.

Step 2: Then add sugar and ice-cube or water(optional) in it.

Step 3: Then add milk in it.

Step 4: After that grind with hand blender and drain in to glass.

* Serve Chilled in hot summer.:))

Apple-Watermelon Juice

Ingredients:
2- Big slice of watermelon,
1\2-Apple,
2-tbsp sugar,
Salt and Pepper powder for taste.

Method:
Step 1: Cut watermelon and apple in to small pieces.

Step 2: Crush the watermelon pieces with hand blander.

Step 3: Drain in to vassal.
Step 4: Add sugar if needed.
Step 5: Take a glass and add apple pieces.

Step 6: Then add salt and pepper powder as you like.

In summer party serve chilled.:)

Submitting this to Maheswari for her A Fruit A Month-APPLE.

Strawberry Pie

Ingredients:
200gm strawberries,
2 orange slices,
4-tbsp sugar powder. Method:
Step 1: Wash the strawberries and cut off the tops.
Step 2: Take half of the strawberries and cut in to long pieces. Also take half part slices of orange and remove white cover and seeds and cut into small-sized pieces.
Step 3: Grind remaining half portion of strawberries and orange slices.
Step 4: Take a bowl and put orange pieces and add sugar powder.

Step 5: Then put strawberries pieces and add sugar powder.


Step 6: Than add strawberry and orange juice.
Step 7: Mix and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

Step 8: Serve in chilled glass cups.


Benefits:
· An excellent source of vitamin C.
· Contain folate and potassium.
· Low in calories and high in fiber.
· Provide anticancer bioflavonoids.

Drawbacks:
· Provoke allergies in many people.
· Contain oxalic acid, which reduces mineral absorption and may aggravate kidney and bladder stones.

Pineapple

PINEAPPLE HISTORY :

The name pineapple in English comes from the similarity of the fruit to a pinecone.The word "pineapple" first recorded in 1398, was originally used to descrbe the reproductive organs of conifer trees.The pineapple spread from its original area through cultivation, and by the time of Christopher Columbus it grew throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean (West Indies). Columbus may have taken a sample back to Europe. The Spanish introduced it into the Philippines, Hawaii (introduced in the early 19th century, first commercial plantation 1886) and Guam. The fruit was successfully cultivated in European hothouses beginning in
1720. Commonly cultivated varieties include Red Spanish, Hilo, Smooth Cayenne, St. Michael, Kona Sugarloaf, Natal Queen, and Pernambuco. Canned pineapple is almost always Smooth Cayenne.

In 1996, Del Monte began marketing its Gold Extra Sweet pineapple, known internally by the much more prosaic name MD-2. MD-2 is a hybrid that originated in the breeding program of the now-defunct Pineapple Research Institute in Hawaii, which conducted research on behalf of Del Monte, Maui Land and Pineapple, and Dole. Two similar seedlings, numbered 73-114 and 73-50, were found to have bright-gold, very sweet, low-acidity flesh, high resistance to parasites and internal rot, skin that turned amber when ripe and, best of all, the ability to survive cold storage for up to two weeks. Both versions were briefly marketed, but at the time, couldn't dent the Smooth Cayenne stranglehold on the Hawaiian industry.

Since about 2000,the most common fresh pineapple fruit found in U.S. and Eutopean supermarkets is a low-acid hybrid that was developed in Hawaii in the early 1970s. Fresh pineapple is often somewhat expensive as the tropical fruit is delicate and difficult to ship. It will not ripen once harvested, so must be harvested ripe and brought to the consumer without delay. Pineapple is therefore most widely available canned.

HEALTH :

Pineapple is a good source of manganese, as well as containing significant amounts of Vitamin C and Vitamin B1.

USAGE :

Pineapple is commonly used in DESSERTS and other types of fruit dishes,or served on its own. Pineapples are also used as topping for American and European pizza, most commonly in the "Hawaiian" type pizza. The pineapple juice has been fermented into an alcoholic beverage commonly called pineapple wine, which is a type of fruit wine, most commonly produced in Hawaii. The root and fruit are either eaten or applied topically as an anti-inflammatory and as a proteolytic agent. A root decoction is used to treat diarrhea.

MATHS APPEAR IN NATURE :

The fruitlets of a pineapple are arranged in two interlocking spirals,eight spirals in one direction,thirteen in the other,In the other, each being a FIBONACCI NUMBERS. This is one of many examples of Fibonacci numbers appearing in nature.

My second favorite fruit is pineapple. I love to drink juice of pineapple but when I am not free otherwise I eat as it is.