Bhishma Panchaka Recipe Book 2

Beetroot Soup

Chop beetroots and a small piece of ginger. Boil them in water with salt. Then run it through a mixer. Add lemon juice for taste.

Carrot Soup

Chop carrots and a small piece of ginger. Boil them in water with salt. Then run it through a mixer. Add lemon juice for taste.

Carrot & Beetroot Salad

Option A:

Grate carrot and beetroot. Add salt and squeeze lemon. Add some roasted peanuts or alternatively add some chopped cashews, almonds and raisins.

Option B:

Cube boiled potatoes/sweet potatoes. Mix it with grated carrots, lemon juice and sprinkle some peanut powder.

Fruit Salad

Cut and mix fruits like apple, banana, grapes, plums, pears, chikoos etc. Add some cashew nuts, grapes and chopped dates. You can add some Badam milk just to give a slightly wet consistency.

Potato/Sweet Potato Patties

Preparation:

Boil potato/Sweet potato. Mash it and add salt, a tbsp of grated ginger, roasted and powdered peanut powder (2 tbsps for ½ kg of potatoes). Divide them into tomato sized balls and flatten them on the tava. Roast them till they darken in shade and look a little hard from the outside.

Date Chutney

Grind dates, lemon and salt ground together. Serve with patties.

Peanut Coconut Chutney

Roast peanuts and grind it with coconut, ginger, salt, a date to taste, and lemon juice.

Raw Banana Sabji

Halve the raw banana lengthwise. Then chop them with a quarter inch thickness. Mix with salt and steam it in the cooker. Do not pressure cook it. Squeeze a little lemon. Add a lot of coconut and mix it all together.

Mixed Roots Sabji

Option A:

Boil some potato, sweet potato, carrot and beetroot, cut them all into same bite sizes. Mix with some boiled peanuts, salt, lemon & coconut shavings.

Option B:

Mixed roots, boiled and simmered in a gravy of ground paste of cashew nuts, ginger and salt.

Option C - Mixed Roots Saagu:

Boil the mixed roots (Include radishes). Simmer in a gravy of coconut shavings, few cashews, ginger and salt.

Badam Milk

Blanch the almonds. Add some dates & water and blend it in a mixer for refreshing milk!

ABC Juice

Run through a Mixer 1 peeled apple, 1/2 a beetroot, 1 medium carrot, 1 cup water and dates. Ginger is optional.

Mixed Fruit Smoothie

Smoothies - easy to make, but greatly energizing and refreshing!

• Blend bananas, apple, chikoo/dates together till pureed
• Pineapple smoothie – Same process as above
• Grape smoothie - Same process as above

Other Juices

• Orange, lemon and Mosambi juices
• Tender coconut water

Nendhrangai Sweet

Halve the Nendhrangai bananas. Slice them lengthwise and ¼ inch thick. Put them on a tava and cook it till it darkens a bit. You can garnish with coarse powder of cashew or Badam. Serve it with date chutney.

Gajar Halwa

Grate carrots and half cook it in a little water. Then add Badam milk or coconut milk and cook it down to a thick consistency. Add chopped cashews and raisins.

Sweet Balls

Blend dates and broken nuts and make them into lemon sized balls. Carry them with you for quick energy that lasts for some time.

Potato Finger Chips

Boil potatoes, peel them and slice them in the shape of finger chips. Add salt and either bake them or air fry them in an air-fryer till it hardens a bit and changes colour.

Raw Banana Finger Chips

Slice raw bananas like finger chips, mix with salt and haldi and bake it till it gets cooked.

Yummy Baked Sweet Potato/Potato/Tapioca

Bake these vegetables whole and unpeeled in the oven till the skin looks wrinkled and the vegetable looks cooked. Peel them and cut them into big chunks and add salt. Can also sprinkle roasted peanut powder.

Peanuts Snacks

Roast some peanuts and add salt to them

Cashew/Almond Snacks

Roast some cashew nuts or almonds and salt them