Monday, October 24, 2016

Diwali Special - Sesame Oil Bath / Ennai Kuliyal / Saturday Oil Bath


In south Indian People had a traditional healthy habit of taking oil bath to keep their good health... The traditional oil bath is also called as various named in india... Sesame oil bath, Ennai kuliyal, Ayurvedic oil bath, Gingelly oil head bath, Saturday oil bath, etc... It is nothing but massaging the head and body upto toe with heated sesame oil along with spices... Later they will be remove by the applications of herbal powder ( shikakai) and warm water...  


It has many major health benefits, Relaxing, Musular ache, Breaks down scar tissue, Reduces skin infections, Repairing damaged skin cells, Moistuizer skin, Reduce pimples, Slows down the aging of the skin, Act as a natural sunscreen, Clear body heat, etc.. In a week wednes day and saturday is ideal for mens and tuesday and friday is ideal for womens...Within 3 hours from the sunrises is most suitable to take oil bath.. Apply small quantity of oil to the head and massage it for 15 mins and again take small oil and massage over the body and let it rest for 1 hour (kids 20 mins) and bath in warm water with shikakai powder for head and gram flour / kadalai mavu for body... 


Here I heat the oil and add in cumin seeds / Jeerakam, Fenugreek seeds / Vendayam, Shallots / Ulli, Garlic / Poodu, Red chilli / Vathal... fry them in low flame, cool the completely and apply it...

Cumin seeds - Maintaining the proper blood content levels in the body, immunity..

Fenugreek seeds - Prevents hair loss, Fight dandruff, Premature graying, Lighten your skin tone, cool your body...

Shallots - Prevents or treat allergies, Skin became soft..

Garlic - Acne, pimples and spot, Blackhead & white head removal, Stretch mark removal and Vitamins E,C,B1,B6..

Red chilli - Vitamin A, C, B6.. Regenerates damage cells, Tolerance the outer exposure, activates hair growth, reducing bladness, Potassium soothes, hydrates skin, blood vessels stronger...


Weekly once oil bath is followed by the peoples to have a good health.. So I hope that you must try this healthy traditional and get's heatly benefits throughout the year... 

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 10 mins
Makes - 1 cup of oil
Recipe Cuisine - South Indian
Recipe Category - Maruthuvam

INGREDIENTS :

Sesame oil / Gingelly oil / Nallennai - 1 cup
Cumin seeds / Jeera - 1 tbspn
Fenugreek seeds / Vendayam - 1 tbspn
Garlic - 10 to 12 cloves
Shallots / Ulli / Small onions - 10 to 12
Dry red chilli - 2 nos

METHOD :

  • Heat a sesame oil in a small pan..
  • Once oil is hot add in cumin seeds and fenugreek seeds..
  • Allow to splutter and add in garlic and shallots and fry till light golden..
  • Then immediately switch off the flame and the oil reaches up to bubbles.
  • Suddenly add in dry chilli and mix well.
  • Don't let the spices burns..
  • Cool down to room temperature..
  • Remove the fried garlic from the oil and serve to the your kids..
  • (My kids really enjoyed it)
  • Now massage it on your scalp and over the body..
  • Enjoy your oil bath....

PICTORIAL :

 Take all your ingredients ready
 Heat a pan with gingelly oil
Let it heat 
 Add in cumin seeds and fenugreek seeds
 Allow to splutter
 Add in garlic
 Add in shallots
 Fry till light golden
 Slow the flame
 Like this
 Switch off the flame
 It bubbles up
 Add in chilli
 Mix it well
  Now it's done
 Take out the fried garlic
Transfer them into  abowl
Serve to your kids
Enjoy
Apply it.. enjoy oil bath..

12 comments:

  1. Thanks for the post that deals about our culture and tradition.
    ## sesame oil

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  2. Nowadays, people are more concern about their healthy life. For this, they prefer everything naturally including the basic needs. So, we can use Cold Pressed Oil in Chennai for the strong and the healthy life.

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  4. nallennai is also known as gingelly oil. It is highly nourishing, healing and lubricating. Other than being used as a flavor enhancing cooking oil

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  5. Traditionally, south India was known for using cold pressed oil. Bullocks were led around the 'chekku oil near me', turning the wooden crusher to extract oil.Cold pressing is a technique in which the mara check oil is mechanically pressed from the seeds at temperatures not exceeding 120F.

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  6. “When oil is refined, it loses a lot of nutrients but cold pressing it in a marachekku oil chennai ensures that you retain all of it,” says the 35-year-old who works in a software firm.All of the fats and cold press coconut oil that we eat are composed of molecules called fatty acids. Biochemically, fatty acids are composed of a chain of carbon atoms connected to one another by chemical bonds..

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  7. Using wood pressed oil are awesome for the last two years, excellent quality. I hope the prices are affordable so that many more people can move to awesome, which will in turn benefit the farmers. This will result in a drive for awesome farming.

    Living in bangalore and working in air conditioned environment, I have problems with dry skin and itchy scalp. To manage these, I always use edible oils for my scalp and skin. I used fresh mill oils to heal this.

    groundnut oil mill refers to oils obtained through pressing fruit or seeds with a modern steel press, such as those used at Proteco's operation in Kingaroy, Queensland.

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  8. Adding chilli and garlic won't but your skin on face? yeriyaada?

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  9. I came to know that in India they use cold pressed coconut oil to cook healthy food

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