This is one day festival celebrated in the northern region of India. On this day, married females keep fast from sunrise until moonrise for longevity of their husbands. Females break fast after seeing moon and than their husband face.
Karva is another word for diya (a small earthen oil-lamp) and chauth means 'fourth' in Hindi (a reference to the fact that the festival falls on the fourth day of the dark-fortnight, or krishna paksh, of the month of Kartik).
This is also important from Ayurveda point of view. This changes the routine of the body functioning. Occasional fasting relax and cleanse the body. Several metabolic adjustments occur during fasting, and some diagnostic tests are used to determine a fasting state. For example, a person is assumed to be fasting after 8–12 hours. Metabolic changes toward the fasting state begin after absorption of a meal (typically 3–5 hours after a meal). Extended fasting has been recommended as therapy for various conditions by health professionals of most cultures, throughout history, from ancient to modern.
One should have to take care of the diet when fasting or when fasting is over. Eating light food is preferable. We are presenting the Broken Wheat Kheer which is not only delicious but easy to digest.
Broken Wheat Kheer
Ingredients
Broken wheat 1 cup
Water 2 1/2 cup
Jaggery or brown sugar 1 cup
Cornflour 2 tsp
Cardamoms powder 2 tsp
Coconut milk, from one cup freshly grated coconut
Method:
Prepare broken wheat in dry grinder. Then cook broken wheat in pressure cooker, with water, till very soft. It normally takes about 8 minutes. Add jaggery/brown sugar to nearly boiling cooked wheat and let simmer for a minute more, uncovered, stirring all the time to avoid burning. Remove from heat. Mix coconut milk with cornflour and add to porridge on the low flame. Allow it to almost boil but do not keep boiling for any length of time. Add cardamom powder, and serve hot or cold.
Karva is another word for diya (a small earthen oil-lamp) and chauth means 'fourth' in Hindi (a reference to the fact that the festival falls on the fourth day of the dark-fortnight, or krishna paksh, of the month of Kartik).
This is also important from Ayurveda point of view. This changes the routine of the body functioning. Occasional fasting relax and cleanse the body. Several metabolic adjustments occur during fasting, and some diagnostic tests are used to determine a fasting state. For example, a person is assumed to be fasting after 8–12 hours. Metabolic changes toward the fasting state begin after absorption of a meal (typically 3–5 hours after a meal). Extended fasting has been recommended as therapy for various conditions by health professionals of most cultures, throughout history, from ancient to modern.
One should have to take care of the diet when fasting or when fasting is over. Eating light food is preferable. We are presenting the Broken Wheat Kheer which is not only delicious but easy to digest.
Broken Wheat KheerIngredients
Broken wheat 1 cup
Water 2 1/2 cup
Jaggery or brown sugar 1 cup
Cornflour 2 tsp
Cardamoms powder 2 tsp
Coconut milk, from one cup freshly grated coconut
Method:
Prepare broken wheat in dry grinder. Then cook broken wheat in pressure cooker, with water, till very soft. It normally takes about 8 minutes. Add jaggery/brown sugar to nearly boiling cooked wheat and let simmer for a minute more, uncovered, stirring all the time to avoid burning. Remove from heat. Mix coconut milk with cornflour and add to porridge on the low flame. Allow it to almost boil but do not keep boiling for any length of time. Add cardamom powder, and serve hot or cold.
Advantages
It has coconut milk which keep body cool, milk provides protein, Wheat provide Protein and carbohyradrates for instant energy. Fiber in Wheat keeps your intastine healthy.
Brown sugar/Jaggery is natural form of sugar. So, gives instant energy.
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