Wednesday 30 September 2015

Variety &Benefits of Tea, On Discount @ Spice n Pulses, an Online Grocery Store in Gurgaon




A tea is a refreshing drink that is usually taken in the morning with the breakfast or in the evening with refreshment or, depends, in the nights also. So you can see tea is anytime, anywhere energy drink that can be prepared or is available easily. Also there are different tea varieties existing with their own distinctive health benefits. And for your convenience, Spice n Pulses – an online grocery store in Gurgaon – is offering a good variety of tea even on discounted price.
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A tea has moved forward from the point where it was considered only as a “cup of tea”. A “cup of tea” that was prepared brewing some tea leaves in hot water topped with little sugar and milk. The time was also fixed – with the breakfast, around 4 or 5’o clock. Now, there are so many varieties of tea that you’ll unlikely get any unless you specify name, brand or tea leaf type. The variety of tea has gone so much vivid that it is embracing tea leaves from across the globe. For instance, black, green, white, oolong, fruit, flower, herb, tisanes and blooming teas. You find as many tea varieties around as there are people. And each tea variety has its own specialty such as from energy boosting, uplifting and relaxing to calming. While there are some blends that also work as an aid in healing and well-being. 

Many people take tea in the morning as a pick-me-up to face the challenges ahead in the day. To get the much needed boost to kick start your day, you better steep 1/1.5 tsp of black tea 1 bag or loose leaf in hot water for the duration of 2-3 minutes. Enjoy it with your breakfast. The caffeine inside will work best in giving you the needed energy to kick start your day. As a good suggestion, you better choose an Earl Grey or Darjeeling. Even English breakfast is also a good choice. A White tea is another worthy option that is rich in anti-oxidants and low in caffeine. Many good properties of White tea like least processed, subtle flavor, healthy and a refreshing drink makes it a suitable refreshing drink anytime. 

To fill life into the going tired and miserable day, a sip of fragrant lemon tea, verbena scented green or peppermint tea is all you need. Richness of anti-oxidants inside help ease the stress and give you the crucial break to think through things again, for a while. This is also a good idea to keep Typhoo green tea in office drawer or in hand.  

The time is to take some rest, read a book or watch a movie – brewing something comforting and aromatic as apple cinnamon tea, black tea with rose petals or fennel infused tea you’ll find best fit in this. On the other hand, if you’re down with cough or cold, prepare a masala chai and add some Tulsi leaves in it. This will help you heal quickly. And for upset stomach, add some ginger to the same tea making process to soothe your problem. 

If you’re running through the insomnia problem, a drink of chamomile and lavender infusion in the night can help you best to get back to the normal life. As these flowers are understood very much effective in relaxing the muscles and soothing the mind. Also, helpful in bringing the sound sleep. A drink of organic or mint blend is another good take in this. And for decaffeinated drink, Rooibos tea which is a South African tea can prove a lot beneficial. 

Before reaching to the conclusion, this little chart down is for your reference about what tea is to take as per your particular moods at times:

·         For A Happy Mood – Lemon verbena infused herbal tea 
·         For An Energized Mood – Black chai or green tea
·         For A Productive Mood – Black or green tea 
·         For A Calm Mood –Chamomile and Lemongrass infused tea
·         For A Relaxed Mood – Chamomile and Lavender infused herbal tea
·         For A Curing Mood – Ginger and chamomile infused herbal blends or chai



About The Author
The author works for Spice n Pulses – an online grocery store in Gurgaon. He is related with the store for 5 years and promotes its products, services and offers by his related content.







Tuesday 29 September 2015

Health Benefits of Spices, Available on Discount at Spice n Pulses



You already know about spicing up your food with the use of different spices but do you know that these different spices, easily found in your kitchen, can spice up your life too. The health benefits from spices to you are for pain relief, heart benefits, post-workout soreness and others. With this, spices also contain properties like anti-bacterial/viral and antioxidants to improve your immune system more against disease fighting. Along with, most of the spices include vitamin B and trace minerals. All in all, you can say that spices are an inexpensive way to add many good things to your food and health without extra fat, sodium, calorie or cholesterol.
As per a study, it reveals that using spices in your cooking adds many benefits to your diet. But same study further reveals that people in lack of knowledge about spices use only least beneficial pepper and salt. Here, a good suggestion the study gives is that spices and herbs derived from plants, roots and barks you should also use in your cooking.
In this, the given list is to make you known with the health beneficial spices and herbs found in your kitchen that you use in your daily cooking, as

Cayenne Pepper
The substance is hot in nature because of capsaicin found in it. This very property of the spice makes it highly therapeutic to help relieve soreness and aches. The same ingredient you will get in over-the-counter creams for pain relief.
Other health benefits of the spice include helping fight ulcers and prostate cancer with improved circulation. Adding the spice to the vegetables, turkey and tuna also adds a spicy kick to these foods. 

Ginger
Basically a tree root, ginger is an excellent treatment for upset stomach, bloating, gas, sore throat, cold and other health issues like motion sickness and arthritis. Ginger is used as a spicy herb in both savory and sweet dishes and also can be grated, sugared, sliced or consumed as a candy. This is a must ingredient in many Asian dishes like tea - helpful in easing upset stomach.   

Cinnamon
Derived from bark of a tropical tree, Cinnamon contains highest antioxidant values than other spices. The spice comes with positive effects in reducing inflammation, lowering blood sugar/triglyceride levels, alleviating nausea, increasing sensitivity to insulin and aiding in fat burning. The spice is rich in manganese, calcium and iron so have incredible health benefits.
Commonly used in coffee, cookies, muffins and desserts, Cinnamon is a magical spice. You can also sprinkle the spice on wound as it helps kill bacteria too. 

Fennel 
Found as a weed in US growing in felids and roadside, Fennel is rich in Niacin, Calcium, Iron, dietary Fiber and vitamin C that in combinationadds energy to food. The other advantages of this spicy herb are to help teeth/bones growth, improving immune system and metabolism.
You can serve this peppery plant cooked or raw. But for most benefits of Fennel, you better eat its raw leaves in salads. You can also use it with other greens to steam the combination and fry fish recipes. Its other properties are exfoliate, detoxify the skin and suppress the appetite.
So, next time when you will use these spices and herbs, you’ll be well aware with what the health benefits they come with.


About The Author
The author works for Spice n Pulses – an online grocery store in Gurgaon. He is related with the store for 5 years and promotes its products by his content.

Friday 25 September 2015

ThisBakrid, Find Your Needed Grocery @ Spice n Pulses on Discounts



The time of festivity comes to make and share joy and goodwill that you can best do by preparing and serving desserts to the coming guests, this Bakrid. And, for your grocery needs, you better place your orders at Spice n Pulses - online grocery store in Gurgaon

The festival of Bakrid comes with a not-to-be-missed chance to taste your guests some highly delicious desserts - off course, at the end of the main meal. As the listed dessert recipes are from different countries so will surely add variety of tasty flavors to your Bakrid special desserts. In this, spice n pulses is an online grocery store in Gurgaon to fulfill your grocery needs in short time and even on discounted price. 
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So let’s unwrap the secrets behind the makings of:
 Baklava

The dessert is from Turkey but is loved to eat at the different places around the world. You may be thinking what it is – a sweet pastry, yes it is, filled with layers of dough with honey, sugar syrup and chopped nuts.  
 
Ma’amoul
The dessert comes from Middle-East where it is way too popular. A sweet pastry with filling of dried figs, almonds, walnuts, dates, pistachios and other nuts – Ma’amoul looks like flat cookies or dome shaped. 

SohanHalwa
A traditional dessert from Pakistan and is also spelled as Sohan Halva. For this, first make a mix of water, milk, sugar, cornflour and ghee. Next is boil the mix and keep stirring to get it hardened. Later, add dried nuts and saffron for flavor and serve.  

Kanafe
People also say it Knafeh or Kunafahin the Arabic countries where the dessert comes from. This sweet dish is prepared with thinly shredded phyllo dough or vermicelli like pastry. 

Balushahis
Yes traditional sweet it is. Ingredients of refined flour and shaped small doughnuts are used in making this sweet dish. After deep fried in butter or ghee, the mix is then dipped in sugar syrup to complete the making of delicious Balushahis. 

Emarti
Also named as Janngiri, this sweet dish is made with Urad Dal or Black Gram as the main ingredient by deep frying it. Similar in shape to funnel cakes popular at US carnivals, it tastes great. 

Katayef
A pancake look alike sweet dessert from Middle-East, Katayef is made with dried nuts and goat cheese, as a choice. At the festival of Bakrid, it is largely consumed at different parts of world. 

Sevaiyan
A traditional and much popular Eid&Bakrid dessert it is. Made with fine vermicelli and dried fruits boiling in milk. Also, you can add dried fruits after boiling.
These desserts will add more taste and flavor to the meals and a sweet flavor to the occasion of Bakrid… I know you know it.


About The Author
The author works for Spice n Pulses – an online grocery store in Gurgaon. He is related with the store for 5 years and promotes its products by his content.