SHAHI TUKDA

from Diwali Edition 2022

SCHIZOPHRENIA, An ayurvedic view

Shahi tukda is a royal Indian dessert which can be made with minimum effort. It is nothing but crispy fried bread dipped in sugar syrup and served on a bed of rabri. It is a simple Indian Bread Pudding which is delicious and scrumptious.

INGREDIENTS –

For Toast –

– 5 to 6 slices of bread (preferably 1 or 2 days old) – Oil / ghee for frying – 1 tblsp Chopped Pistachio (Pista)

Sugar Syrup / Chashni –

– 1 cup Sugar – 4 cups Water – 1/2 tsp Cardamom Powder (Elaichi Powder)

For Rabri –

– 1 cup Water – 3 tblsp Milk Powder – Pinch of saffron – 1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder

INDIVIDUAL PREPARATIONS –

Rabri – In a heavy bottom pan add 1 cup of water when it becomes lukewarm add 3 tblsp of milk powder. On low flame reduce the milk. Switch off when the milk has reduced and become thickened. Add crushed saffron and cardamom powder. Mix well and keep aside to chill.

Sugar Syrup – Now to prepare the sugar syrup. Take one cup of sugar in a wide vessel and add four cups of water. Heat it and let the sugar dissolve. Add the elaichi powder to the syrup. Keep aside to cool while you fry the bread.

Bread – Cut the bread pieces into desired shape. You can cut triangular or even square. Heat the oil for frying and on medium flame fry the bread slices till crisp.

ASSEMBLING THE SHAHI

TUKRA – Take a platter, dip the bread slices in the sugar syrup. Evenly coat each bread slice with the sugar syrup. Take it out and place it on the serving platter. Coat each piece in sugar syrup and arrange them neatly on the platter. Next pour the rabri on the sugar syrup coated bread slices. Garnish with sliced pistachios. Serve the shahi tukra on a base of Rabri.

THE TIMES OF CANADA OCT 2022 You HEALTH &..... FOOD

Diwali is a season of festivities, celebration and Food is an important component of celebration. This article shares reflections on Food and its role in health. While celebrating with all its traditions and ceremonies, please also do reflect on food and its direct role in health.

Health more than just absence of disease. It is a composite of financial, spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing. It is an integral part of one’s lifestyle. Though reactive treatment of acute diseases requires external diagnostic, pharmaceuticals, and surgical interventions, our current system has made much progress and provided exemplary and much needed services of responding to acute need.

However life is much longer and this is where this external intervention has limited role, and lifestyle plays major role in health. Food becomes the main pillar of good health, along with stress and physical activity.

Food has many components and biochemical basis of food is an important component, making sure that biochemical nutrients, major components of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, required vitamins, micro nutrients all are taken in balance.

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much more holistic, integrative and sustainable. Most important component injurious to your health is added sugar. Diwali pays special attention to sweets and direct simple refined sugar and your diet. This simple intervention will go long way in lowering the burden of chronic disease like diabetes.

To start with food security plays a major role in wellbeing, availability and equity is an important component of lifestyle and thus healthy living. But even more important is understanding of how lifestyle habits play acritical role in building best utilization of the food for good health. Habits like when you eat, how you eat, why you eat, how much you eat become far more important than even what you eat.

What you eat will always be important and balance between macro and micro nutrients, understanding of supplements, is the backbone of what we eat. Balance between carbohydrates, proteins and fats is key for healthy living. In postindustrial society, understanding of preservatives, artificial chemicals and its impact of food ingestion is in early stages of understanding and will be one of the key component of producing healthy eating habits and food consumption.

Labeling of the food in simple and comprehensive way will be required for consumers to make informed choice. This is major part of our work in understanding total food composition and its impact on body systems and overall healthy. Its link to inflammatory response and guts biome and in turn overall health. Digestion and conversion to biological emery, storage of energy all play an important role in healthy Food.

When you eat is another component, on which we have total control and our dietary habits of late evening eating is one life style, which can and does play major role in how food is utilized by the food and in turn become focus of storage and biological resistance. As for diabetes it can be major source of fatty deposits in organs and thus insulin resistance.

How you eat is, though simple, is not practiced in daily living. Making sure you take time to eat, chewing food properly has been taught to us all from childhood. Make use of the gift of our teeth. Chewing food properly so that it can be digested easily and properly How much you eat- portion size is sometimes lost and some old habits of unless you are full, you have not eaten are counterproductive. This leads to excess food calories which permits buildup of body organ fat and start of key cause of insulin resistance and type II diabetes. In this context role of fasting is also a healthy habit, well prescribed in Vedic sciences.

Last why you eat, social eating and eating when you are not hungry, again is cause of ill health.

So on this Diwali, make a selfdetermination of eating healthy and promoting good health, an ounce of prevention is worth pound of disease. Make use and live healthy life. Diabetes can be prevented, can be delayed and even reversed with combination of internal interventions of positive healthy eating and when required external interventions of medications.

Arun K Garg, MD Clinical professor The Univ of British Columbia

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