Know These Recipes To Stay Healthy In This Monsoon

Our favourite monsoon is here. After we have dealt with the scorching heat of the sun for so long, the much-awaited monsoon is finally here to bring liveliness to humans, plants and animals. But our favourite season can also cause us illnesses like malaria, dengue, typhoid, cold and cough, diarrhoea and many more. So, this is very important to take a look at your diet to keep it healthy for this monsoon.

Nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar has given some tips as to what to eat and what not to in this monsoon. She has given a list of foods that you should eat two or three times a week. Foods like peanut, pulses, corn, cucumber, pumpkin, and other vegetables and also root vegetables are important for you to eat.

Millets like rajgeera and kuttu and uncultivated vegetables of the season like ambadi and Alu are the food that you should have at least once a week. Steamed local dishes like patoli, modak, bafla, siddu and Speciality preparations of the season like bhaji or pakoda of ghosala, mayalu, ajwain are some of those foods that you should have at least once a month. Wild mushrooms, lingdi, bamboo is also important to keep your health on track in this monsoon.

She has also suggested some recipes that you can try at home this season. These recipes are easy and healthy as well, recipes such as Arbi chi kaap. For this, you need to Pressure cook arbi with water for two to three whistles then Peel off the skin of arbi and cut it lengthwise. Then coat those slices with a mixture of chilli powder, Haldi and leave it for 10 minutes. Then add salt to it before frying it.