Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Manathakali Coconut Milk Sodhi


Manathakali Coconut Milk Sodhi

Ingredients:

Manathakali green - 1 cup (cut into small pieces)
Green chillies - 1 or 2 ( as per your taste)
Jeera - 1 tbls
Garlic pods - 8
coconut milk - 1 cup
Small onions - 10
Oil - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste

Procedure:

Clean and cut the green.  Add oil to the pan along with jeera, onion and green chillies.  Once the onion got cooked add garlic and wait till the garlic to cook.
Now add the green and stir for a minute.  Now add salt and some water to the Keerai to cook.  Once the Keerai got cooked and make sure all water is observed.  Now turn off the stove and add the coconut milk and stir well.

Here is delicious mathakali coconut sodhi ready.  

Nutritional Values:

The following are ways in which you can use Black Nightshade(manathakkali) in your homes and communities;
Liver Disorders; Solanum nigrum is most effective for liver disorders such as chronic enlargement of the liver and associated symptons, eg. haemoptesis (blood from the mouth, mucoid stools, and other skin manifestations). The juice of the plant can be taken for this.
Chronic Skin Ailments; For example Psoriasis and Ringworm, the tender plant is used as a vegetable and a paste (as a poultice) of the plant is applied locally.
Inflammatory Conditions; The plant is taken internally as a vegetable and applied externally as a paste. Alternatively the hot leaves can be applied to the swellings.
Painful periods: the leaves are used. Crush a handful of (about 20) leaves and boil the paste with ¼ cup of water and pinch of salt, to extract the juice. Dosage; take ¼ cup of boiled leaf juice, along with meals thrice a day for 5 days during menstruation. Repeat for three cycles.
For fevers, diarrhoea, eye diseases, hydrophobia; the berries are used.
Decoction of leaves; diuretic, laxative. Decoction of berries and flowers; prescribed in cough and cold.
Manathakkali Keerai – has lot of vitamins in it. Is good for mouth & stomach ulcers.

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