Pumpkin Benefits

 Pumpkin:

Pumpkin contains 90 percent water content. It also contains minerals like vitamin B, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium.

Health Benefits of Pumpkin:

• Pumpkin reduces the acidity in the blood and cools the body. It also removes excess bile from the body.

• Those who have digestive disorders, feeling of retching after eating, stomach ulcer, irritation, pain in the stomach should boil pumpkin and eat it. 

• During puberty, many women experience increased body heat and thin body due to excess body heat. This causes menstrual disorders and prolonged discharge. Women with such an effect should include pumpkin in their diet. It cools the body and reduces the heat. The body will become stronger.

• Gamma amino butyric acid present in pumpkin helps the brain to function well.

• The magnesium present in pumpkin seeds helps to strengthens bones and teeth.  

• Omega-3 fatty acids increase the amount of good cholesterol in the body.

• Cancer patients who drink this pumpkin juice will develop immunity.

• People trying to lose weight should take 200 ml pumpkin juice every morning.

Collection of Healthy Pumpkin recipie:

Here are some of the healthy pumpkin recipie you can take in your daily life.

Pumpkin pudding:

•  Grate the pumpkin. Pour 3 tablespoon ghee in a heavy pan and add 10 gram of cashew nuts. Fry them.

• Put the pumpkin in a pan and fry it well, sprinkle some water, cover and boil it.

• Once the pumpkin is cooked, add the sugar and stir well. Add roasted cashew nuts. Keep stirring well.

Pumpkin juice:

• Remove the skin from the pumpkin, cut it into small pieces and grind it in a mixer, mix it with water and filter it.

•  Mix two teaspoons of honey in it and drink it.

Pumpkin Rice:

•  Grate the pumpkin and grind it in a mixer and extract the juice. Add some water.

• Drain the rice and boil it in three parts pumpkin water to one part. After boiling, remove and let the rice cool.

• Pour oil in a pan and add mustard, urad dal, chickpeas, grated coconut and green chilies and saute well. Pour them into the boiled rice and stir well, adding salt as needed.

Pumpkin raita:

• Grate the pumpkin in a bowl and add curd and salt.

•  Season it with mustard and green chilies.

Pumpkin Dosa:

• Take 1 cup of raw rice and wash thoroughly. Soak in water for 1hr. Take 1 medium sized onion and chop it.

• Add the chopped onion , 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds, 1 tablespoon of fresh grated coconut, 1cup of grated pumpkin to the mixer grinder. Grind them to a coarse mixture.

• Add the soaked rice to the mixture and grind them to a fine paste.

• Add the cumin seeds, salt, 2 tablespoon of rice flour and mix well.

• Add 1/4 cup of water and mix well.

• Transfer to the griddle and spread on the griddle like dosa. After one side cooked flip to another side. Transfer to plate.

What is the best time to eat pumpkin?

The best time to eat pumpkin is in morning or as snacks between the meals. You can also consume after the dinner for good sleep.

Is pumpkin heat or cold?

Pumpkin is cold food and it provides nourishment and strength to the body.