Quash The Winter Blues With Anthentic Delights

Indian kitchens are replete with these indigenous delicacies.

- Leena Chauhan

Like the bear goes for hibernation or birds choose for migration, we humans tend to ignore any tricks to survive the winters. Well, it was not so days before, when our forefathers subsisted.

Upon the arrival of winters there used to be special delicacies, designed heedfully to preserve the warmth of our frame. Along with the accessibilities the digital age has side-tracked us from the path of thinking and evolving phase?

Let’s not forget the blessings of all the cute Daadis and Naanis who used to make everything drenched in clarified butter or better to say ‘GHEE’ as we Indians know. These winter belly-timbers are special due to their healing and temperateness providing ingredients.

Not only do they provide nourishment but also provide some vital nutrients that act as a lubricant for the bones and energy boosters along with delivering balminess. Let’s consider our eating habits as asserted by Hippocrates, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”.

Millets

Winter one would comprehend, is the time for millets. If you dig into different cultures, you can see the millets spluttering into various kinds of comestibles.