Homemade Butter from A2 cows milk

Here is a pictorial representation to extract butter from A2/Natti Cows milk. This butter can be used to get healthy homemade ghee (recipe follows).

Ghee made at home with homemade butter gives wonderful aroma and taste than a store bought Ghee and its very healthy. Ghee made out of Holy Natti cow has amazing healing power than the ghee made of Jersey cows.

Click on https://swarnaprashana.org/amazing-facts-about-the-holy-cow/ to know more on holy cow

Method

  1. Start collecting the Cream or Malai from the boiled cows milk. You will get a good amount of cream when the milk is cooled completely. This can be arrived by refrigerating the boiled milk. Incase you forget to take the malai / cream from milk, you can take it from curd and mix with the rest of the collected malai.
  2. Store the malai in a Statinless steel container and refreigirate it. You can collect and store the malai for 2 to 3 weeks. Below is the cream/malai which was got from 1 ltr Natti cows milk and stored for 18 days. This quantity yields around 250 gms of butter.

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3. If you feel the butter is freezed and hard, jus keep it out until it becomes easy to take it in a spoon. But see to that it is cool, only then you can extract butter easily.

4. Keep 4 cups of water in the refrigerator and allow it to cool for half n hour.

5. Now take half of the cream in a Wet mixie jar and pour 1 cups of cold water. Use the pulse mode and whip the mixture in the mixie until you see the butter floating at the top (refer below pic). This might take 3 to 4 min of whipping. Please see to that the mixture is cold otherwise it would be difficult to take out the butter.

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6. Take out the floating butter with your hand and drop it in  bowl of cold water.

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7. Repeat the same step with the rest of the cream. Once you have collected the butter, wash it well with the water in the which it was dropped.

8. Once washed well the soft homemade butter is ready.

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9. Store it in a Stainless steel box and this can be stored for 2 days and can be used to preapare ghee

Note

*Always see to that the mixture cool which will make the process easier.

*If you feel you are not able to collect butter from mixie, jus freeze it for 5 min and whip again.

*We can also use a wooden buttermilk churner for extracting butter from cream or malai, which is one of the ancient and authentic method.

 

Author: Sri Nandhini Hari

I’m Sri Nandhini Hari, a B.Com & M.B.A finance post graduate and have worked in American Express Bank as an Asst. Manager and later with CTS as Financial Analyst. I have a passion towards our own tradition and culture and this has triggered me to share the natural and homemade products to a bigger community for the benefit of all.

Neer Dosa- Traditional dish with Poongar Rice (Womens Rice)

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Ingredients:

  • Poongar / Women’s Rice – 2cups
  • Grated coconut: 1 cup
  • Thin Poha/Paper Aval – 1 handful
  • Coconut Oil – For greasing
  • Salt, Palm Sugar – As per taste
  • Ghee/Butter

Procedure:

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    • Wash and soak women’s rice for 8 hours minimum.
    • Grind the rice along with grated coconut and poha to form smooth paste. The consistency of the paste should be slightly thinner than normal dosa batter.

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    • Keep the batter covered for fermentation for minimum 8 hours.consis-2
    • Now, check the consistency of the batter to be a bit more thinner than normal dosa batter, add water if required.
    • Now add 1-2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp sugar and mix the batter well.
        • Now smear dosa tawa (preferably iron tawa, avoid non stick and induction tawas) with coconut oil using coconut fiber.

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      • Heat the tawa for 2 mins, now pour dosa batter starting from outer circle and ending with inner circle and spread it with laddle to make circle.

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    • Pour coconut oil little by little on the sides of dosa to complete the round and cover.

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  • Once the dosa is cooked, flip the other side and cover.
  • Remove from tawa and serve hot with a dollop of desi cow ghee or fresh butter and coriander-mint chutney.

ready

Note:

Herbal Tea

Anyone can try this simple recipe for Herbal tea. This is a very good substitute for Coffee and tea

Ingredients:

  1. Coriander seeds
  2. Dry ginger Powder
  3. Palm sugar

Method:

👉🏻 Take 2 hand full of coriander seeds, slightly pan fry it
👉🏻 Immediately pour 2 glass of water and dry ginger powder without skin, boil it and wait until reduce it to 3/4th
👉🏻 Now switch off. Add palm sugar to the extract.
👉🏻After mixing it, filter it and drink.

Ancient people will drink this as a tonic for brain development. This is the basic version.

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Multi Millet Khakhra

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour – 1/2 cup
Multi milet flour – 1/2 cup
Fresh Methi leaves – 1 handfull (can use dried kasthuri methi)
Ajwain – a pinch
Jeera – a pinch
Chilly powder – 1tsp
Ghee -1tsp
Salt as reqd

Method :
Wash and drain the methi leaves.
Mix all the ingredients provided in the above table. Add water and kneed into a smotth, stiff dough.Divide the dough into equal parts and give them a shape of ball, Keep them covered.

Take one ball and coat with dry flour and roll into very thin chapathi. Roll it as thin as possible for uniform cooking. Now heat a thick iron tawa on low heat. once its become hot place the rolled chapathi in the tawa,after 20 seconds flip to the other side and start pressing from the edges with a potato mashes or folded thick cloth. Pressall over the chapathi to make sure that no bubbles are formed.

Please see to that you cook in low flame to avoid over cooking… once the chapathi becomes stiff cool it and transfer to a air tight container. Prepare remaining khakhras in the same way.

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For a twist, smear ghee and add a tinch of chat masala and to make it healtier sprinkle finely chopped onion, tomato and grated carrot

Wonderful crunchy-munchy-healthy tea snack ready!!!!!
A snack which can be made and packed for family outing too…

” Traditional and organic  varieties of Pohas, Rice, Millets and other Ancient products are available at parent led community shopping site https://hlp.world/store/  “

Author: Sri Nandhini Hari

I’m Sri Nandhini Hari, a B.Com & M.B.A finance post graduate and have worked in American Express Bank as an Asst. Manager and later with CTS as Financial Analyst. I have a passion towards our own tradition and culture and this has triggered me to share the natural and homemade products to a bigger community for the benefit of all.

Urud dal Jamoon

Ingredients:
White whole urad dal – 1 cup
Sugar – 1/2 cup
Water – 1 cup
Elachi – few crushed
Oil to fry

Method:
Wash and soak urad dal for 2 hours.
Then drain the water completely and add it to a grinder and grind well.
Sprinkle very little water. Once its grinded to a fine paste take out the batter to a bowl.
Heat oil in a pan. Take small balls out of this batter and put it into oil. After 5 mins turn it to the other side and allow it to cook well.
When its golden brown remove and add it to a plate and allow it to cool.

In a separate pan add sugar water and crushed elachi and boil well. When it has reached a syrup like consistency switch of the flame allow it to cool and add the fried jamoons.
After half an hour remove the jamoons from the syrup and serve.

Note:
While grinding batter just sprinkle very little water.
Sugar syrup should be thin in consistency. It should not be too thick.

” Traditional and organic  varieties of Pohas, Rice, Millets and other Ancient products are available at parent led community shopping site https://www.hlp.world/store/  “

Author: Saranya

I’m HomeMaker and a mother of 1 year old baby girl. I have 6 yrs of IT experience with Accenture and IGATE and currently taken break to take care of my little one. I have an interest towards home made ancient recipes which is very healthy for kids and adults and hence started preparing all those at home and thought of sharing the same with all parents.

Bamboo Rice Payasam

Ingredients:
Bamboo rice: 1/4 cup
Palm jaggery: 1/2 cup
Elachi,cashew,kismis: as required
Thick coconut milk: 1 cup
Moong dal – 2 tblspoon
Ghee – as required

Method:
Wash the bamboo rice and moong dal well. Soak the rice and dal for around 1 hour.
Then add all these to a cooker and pressure cook it for 6 whistle and then allow it to cool.

Meanwhile take palm jaggery in a pan add half glass of water and heat it. Once the jaggery melts completely remove it from flame and filter it.

Then add this jaggery syrup to the cooked rice and mix well. Add the coconut milk and cook for 2 mins and then switch off the flame.

In a pan melt ghee then add cashew and kismis and fry till golden color. Then add this to the cooked payasam. Add little crushed elachi.

Serve it hot or cold.
Note:
After soaking the rice, take the rice in a mixer and grind it twice and then can be cooked with dal.

” Traditional and organic  varieties of Pohas, Rice, Millets and other Ancient products are available at parent led community shopping site https://www.hlp.world/store/  “

Author: Saranya

I’m HomeMaker and a mother of 1 year old baby girl. I have 6 yrs of IT experience with Accenture and IGATE and currently taken break to take care of my little one. I have an interest towards home made ancient recipes which is very healthy for kids and adults and hence started preparing all those at home and thought of sharing the same with all parents.

Apple Aval Payasam

Ingredients:

Apple – 1 peel skin and grated
Poha – 4 tablespoon dry roast and grind to a fine powder
Milk – 2 cups
Water – 1 cup
Palm sugar – 1 tbspoon
Ghee

Method:
Take grated apple in a pan and saute it till the water in it evaporates. This take around 3 mins.
Then add the powdered Aval and mix well.
Pour milk and mash it well.
Add palm sugar and mix everything well.
Then add water and allow the contents to cook well. At last add ghee.

Any type of Aval can be used to make this recipe

” Traditional and organic  varieties of Pohas, Rice, Millets and other Ancient products are available at parent led community shopping site https://www.hlp.world/store/  “

Author: Saranya

I’m HomeMaker and a mother of 1 year old baby girl. I have 6 yrs of IT experience with Accenture and IGATE and currently taken break to take care of my little one. I have an interest towards home made ancient recipes which is very healthy for kids and adults and hence started preparing all those at home and thought of sharing the same with all parents.

Rasam for Stomach Upset

Ingredients:
Tamarind – small lemon size
Water – 3 cups
Ajwain – 2 tablespoon
Turmeric powder – a pinch
Salt curry leaf – as required
Oil
Red chilly – 2 broken into pieces
Coriander seeds – 2 tablespoon

Method:
In bowl take water add tamarind, ajwain, turmeric powder, salt , curry leaves and coriander leaf and boil nicely.
Meanwhile take a pan add little oil and heat it. Then add mustard seeds, curry leaves, red chilli, coriander seeds and fry well. Then pour this seasonings in the boiled water and mix well.

Author: Saranya

I’m HomeMaker and a mother of 1 year old baby girl. I have 6 yrs of IT experience with Accenture and IGATE and currently taken break to take care of my little one. I have an interest towards home made ancient recipes which is very healthy for kids and adults and hence started preparing all those at home and thought of sharing the same with all parents.

Jeera Pepper Rasam for Cold

Ingredients:

Pepper : 2tsp
Dhania seeds : 2tsp
Arisi Thippili (long pepper) : 1 1/2tsp
Thur dal : 1/2 tsp
Jeera : 2 tsp
Curry leaves : 2 to 3
Pudina leaves : 4 to 5
Tamarind : a small lemon size
Tomato : 1
Coriander leaves for garnishing

For Tempering
Ghee – 1tsp
Mustard – 1tsp
Curry leaves – 2 to 3

Method :

Soak Tamarind in water for 15 min
Heat a kadai and dry roast pepper, dhania, arisi thippili (long pepper) and thur dal and fry till it changes colour. Add curry leaves and pudina and swich off the stove. Grind into smooth paste by adding water.

Extract juice from the soaked tamarind add salt, turmeric and hing. let it boil. Add the ground paste once raw smell goes add reqd quantity of water and allow it to froth.(Rasam must not boil)
Heat a kadai and temper the items provided above and add to the rasam. Finally add tomato, coriander.

You will feel really releived from the body pain due to cold. The Arisi thippili used, gives a stong taste in the tongue which will soothe the throat.

Author: Sri Nandhini Hari

I’m Sri Nandhini Hari, a B.Com & M.B.A finance post graduate and have worked in American Express Bank as an Asst. Manager and later with CTS as Financial Analyst. I have a passion towards our own tradition and culture and this has triggered me to share the natural and homemade products to a bigger community for the benefit of all.

Poongar Idli Manchurian(Indian version)

Ingredients

Leftover Poongar Idlis – 4
(can substitute with any other idlis)
Onion – 1
Tomato – 2
Ginger – 1 inch piece
Garlic – 3
Capsicum – 1 small
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tspn
Chilly powder – 1 tspn
Garam Masala – 1 tspn
Coriander / spring onion for garnishing
Oil – for frying

For Tempering

Oil – 2 tspn
Fennel seeds – 1/2tspn
Curry leaves – 5 to 6 leaves

Method :

Cut idlis into bite size pieces. Heat oil for shallow frying, once the oil is hot fry the idli pieces and turn the idlis now and then for uniform cooking. The idlies should be fried till it turns to golden brown colour.

fried-idli

Finely Chop onion, tomato, ginger and garlic.
Heat oil in a pan( can use the left out shallow fried oil) add items in the tempering and then add onion, ginger and garlic. Once it changes color add tomatoes and salt to taste. Wait till the tomatoesbecome mushy and then add thin strips of capsicum. Now start adding the masala items a cup of water and cook well.

Once the masala is cooked mix the fried idlis and garnish with spring onions for chinese taste or with coriander leaves to have the taste of Kaima idli.
To maintain the crunchiness of idli jus mix the idlis jus before serving. Onion raitha is a perfect accompaniment with this dish.

Mouth watering Indo chineese dish made @home for our loved ones!!!!

Note:
*Shallow frying the idlies is optional, but it gives the idli nice colour and it helps to hold the crunchiness and shape.
*You can refrigirate the idlis for 3 hrs before frying. If the idlies are not refrigerated, the idli pieces get stuck to the laddle while frying.
*Fried idli can be had that jus like as a munching snack. It will stay crunchy for more than a hour.

” Traditional and organic  varieties of Pohas, Rice, Millets and other Ancient products are available at parent led community shopping site https://www.hlp.world/store/  “

Author: Sri Nandhini Hari

I’m Sri Nandhini Hari, a B.Com & M.B.A finance post graduate and have worked in American Express Bank as an Asst. Manager and later with CTS as Financial Analyst. I have a passion towards our own tradition and culture and this has triggered me to share the natural and homemade products to a bigger community for the benefit of all.