Friday-Monsoon Magic

Just few light pre-monsoon showers (monsoon starts anytime now) and I am already craving for spicy, hot, Bhajia’s..Samosas -all those Monsoon specialities.

The cooling monsoon showers however, also bring along increased susceptibility to a lot of health problems and diseases, peculiar to this season.

I like to start my day with a glass of Warm water (with honey and a dash of lime juice )alongwith a spoonful of Morawla (Amla Murabba/Amla Jam) to keep the doctor away. J

       Warm water and Morawla to keep the doctor away!

Benefits of Awla/Amla (Indian Gooseberry) are well known and Morawla is a home remedy (from good old grandma’s days) we resort to for health problems such as indigestion, mouth ulcers etc.. etc..- 

Let’s start the Friday Monsoon Magic series with Morawla (Auspicious start J)

_________________________________________________________Morawla recipe

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We get two kinds of Awla’s/ Amla’s here –the small pebble sized sweet and sour ‘Rai Awla’ and the big lemon sized less sour Awla.

Use the big Awla to prepare Morawla.Wash and nicely dry the awlas. Using a fork prick the Awlas uniformly from all sides. This will make them a little soft.

Pressure cook the Awlas without adding water (Keep them in a vessel , cover the vessel without adding water and then keep it in the cooker) for 2 whistles and then cook for a few more minutes on minimum flame.

Meanwhile prepare the ‘Paak’ or the sugar syrup for the Murabba.

Take sugar in a pan (proportion of Amla to sugar is 1:2 i.e. if you take 1 kg Awla you have to take 2 kg sugar) and add little water. Water should be just enough to dissolve the sugar.

Heat this sugar-water mixture till you get a saturated solution (we call this pakka pak) or till the sugar almost starts recrystalizing.

Add the cooked awlas to this ‘Paak’ and cook stirring in between. Once you add the Amlas the mixture will become a little watery. Bring the Murraba to a rolling boil – about 7-8 times.

Switch off the gas and cool the Morawla .

Store in a sterilised glass jar.

This Morawla lasts for a long time (the one you see in the photo is almost 1 year old ). So this can be made in bulk quantities.

Have a spoon of this Magic Morawla everyday to ward off many health problems.