The OC encourages steaming, solar cooking and the use of raw foods rather than pressure cooking and frying foods. Gurvinder shapes one loaf nicely and coats in with a seed mixture, it looks quite professional. He made one bread loaf with just ragi and one with a combination of raji and wheat. With only fresh yeast, some luke warm water ragi, salt and sugar he concocted the dough to rise.
Chikoo pudding how to#
Gurvinder the artisanal bread baker in the group showed us how to cook bread from scratch using ragi. which supply good bacteria to the human gut, thus aiding in digestion.
But at the same time, some milk products have been shown to be particularly beneficial to humans – like curds, buttermilk, etc.
And if cows and horses can make calcium from the grass they eat, then we can also get calcium from fruits and vegetables grown in the same soil. The growth hormones given to cows so as to produce a higher milk yield are unhealthy. Some OC members do consume milk while others have them in only in forms such as curds and cheese but not pure milk. OC has mixed feelings about milk products. The desert which we take out an hour later is tasty and the fact that there was no milk in the pudding-like desert was not really detectable, coconut malai is an excellent substitute. The mixture was mixed with chopped chickoo chunks and raisins and walnuts and put in the freezer…no sugar added. This malai was mixed in the mixer with bananas. Lots of malai was taken out and the water preserved to drink. The problem was breaking the large coconuts but managed by sending them to the gardener who had the right tools. The first item on the menu is a pudding made with fruits and the insides of a tender coconut. We get down to work soon after we finish our drink. The OC team was thrilled that the punna was made with jaggery instead of sugar. OC promotes natural ingredients like diverse grains and jaggery instead of highly processed foods like maida and white sugar. We all sat and got acquainted over a cool glass of punna(raw mango drink).
Chikoo pudding full#
Shammi came with a basket full of vegetables it looked like my weeks supply of vegetables and I wondered why there was so much but soon came to understand why. Their philosophy is that the amount of peanuts used for a meal for seven is only half a cup where are the oil used uses much more extractions from the product, whether it be peanut oil, olive oil, or sesame oil, the amount of actual product used to get the oil extraction will be high and it is better to use it in its purest and most natural state. I asked them how the peanut paste used in the vegetables instead of oil is healthier than oil. OC’s oil-free cooking entails using some other fat in its pure form and in this case we used peanuts made into a paste by adding water. Seven people cooking healthy food together… talking, talking and talking about food of course, one of my favourite subjects…where food comes from, where to buy organic foods, how to grow food and how we can make food healthier. The team held their Conscious Kitchen worksop teaching oil-free and other healthy cooking methods.
I was delighted to host the Organic Collective(OC) team at my home.
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