Chyawanprash

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 15 minutes.
• Boiling time: 10 minutes.
• Frying time: 16 minutes.
• Cooking time: 15 minutes.
• Total time: 56 minutes.

Homemade Chyawanprash! Actually it is an herbal daily tonic; made of goose berry and dry herbs, so you can say, Chyawanprash is types of nutritious, delicious herbal, jam.

It has so many benefits. It is natural Indian health tonic.

Ingredients:

• Amla (Gooseberry): 1 kg
• Sugar: 1 kg
• Ghee: 100 gm
• Honey: 10 gm
• Lauh bhasm: 2 gm

For making herb powder:

• Ashtvarg: 4 gm
• Mace (Javitri): 2gm
• Cinnamon: 1 gm
• Pepper: 4 gm
• Dry ginger: 4 gm
• Vanshlochan: 2 gm
• Mulethi: 2 gm
• Giloch or gurich: 2 gm
• Vidari kand: 4 gm
• Brahmi booti: 2 gm
• Shatawar: 2 gm
• Kamalgatta; 2 gm
• Green cardamom: 2 gm
• Jaiphal: 1no.
• Nagar motha: 2 gm
• Baheda: 4 gm
• Harre: 4 gm

Preparation:

1. Grind all herb powder ingredients together into fine powder. Keep aside.
2. Clean amla.
3. Boil amla in the pressure cooker with a glass of water; let it cool, deseed and grind to make fine paste, sieve this paste through soup strainer. Keep aside.

Method:

1. Take fry pan heat ghee in it, when it smokes; add prepared mashed gooseberry paste, fry till light golden colors or till ghee separates from sides of the pan. (About 10-15 minutes)
2. Add sugar; let it cook till it becomes little bit sticky and leaves the sides of the pan. (10-15 minutes).
3. Add grounded masala stir well. Cook for one minute.
4. Put off the flame, add lauh bhashm and honey. Let it cool.
5. Chyawanprash is ready. Store it in a glass container.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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