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How to Make Moringa Powder at Home

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First of all, you have to know how amazing Moringa is and the almost endless health benefits it possesses. We made a blog post all about it last year.

17 Amazing Health and Beauty Benefits of Moringa Oleifera 

You can click the link above to find out more about Moringa.

How to Make Moringa Powder at Home

How to make Moringa powder at home

 

It’s simple and an easy 5 steps to make your own Moringa powder at home.

  1. Cutting the Moringa tree down to the size you want and then collect the branches with all the fresh, young green leaves on!!
  2. Washing the branches first with the salt water and the second time to rinse off in normal water.
  3. Drying by hanging them or you can also use a food dehydrator. This time we used the dehydrator because it’s the raining season here and make the leaves dry quick and easy!
  4. Blending add the leaves into the blender or if you got time you can used the mortar and pestle.
  5. Store or drink, eat or sell it!!

 

Below is a comparison picture of the different between using a mortar and pestle and a blender. Whatever way you use, the taste will remain the same, so use what you’ve got handy in your kitchen.

Now you have moringa powder, next is…

How to Use Moringa Powder

It is so easy to use moringa powder, I would say it’s similar to Tea or Matcha.

You just add 2 or 3 Teaspoon of moringa powder into hot but not boiling water or sprinkle in to smoothies, that’s it!! And drink.

Last week I just made moringa smoothies for my husband and it’s taste so good.

For me, I never drank moringa powder tea because I thought it looked too green and the taste would be green,
kinda like eww, but after I tasted it OMGGGG!!!!! Where did I get that bad idea from about moringa drink, Oh poor me! I’ve been missing out for sooooo long.

So now, I will probably do more recipes about moringa drinks and how to use it in cooking and baking and I will share them with you here dear reader.

This is my first moringa smoothie and here the Recipe for you!!

Moringa Powder Smoothie

Smoothie

Ingredients

  • Moringa powder        2 Tsp
  • Honey                        1 Tsp  (If you don’t like it, do not put it in)
  • Bananas                    2  
  • Passion fruit              2

Instructions

Blending…
I prefer without ice and when finish just put it in fridge.
Let it cool. So much better than adding ice!! (in my opinion )

Next one is…..

Moringa Powder Cookies 

Moringa powder cookies

Ingredients

2 tbsp.       Moringa
1 cup         Unsalted butter (Softened)
1/2 cup      Sugar (depends on how sweet you would like it to be)
¼ tsp.        Himalayan salt
2                Egg yolks (room temperature)
1 ½ tsp      Vanilla
2 tsp          Milk
2 cups       All purpose flour 

**If you like to add some extra moringa on top like desiccated coconut or cocoa nibs or even something more fancy or sweet feel free to do it***

Now is the time to say thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. I will soon add more recipes, next time will be fresh Moringa leaves in food!!

See you next time! ; ) 

How to Make Moringa Powder at Home

Khao Tom Gai

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Today I’ll be showing how to cook Thai chicken rice soup or as Thai people call it Khao Tom Gai.

It’s easy to cook and provides lots of good, healthy benefits for your body. The ingredients are very easy to find, you can just use what you have got available in your fridge. Below in the picture of all I have got for cooking but you can change it up anyway you want, get creative in your kitchen, no need to be the same same… make it different! :) So let’s start. —>>>

Ingredients for Khao Tom Gai

  • Chicken breasts
  • Salt
  • Black pepper
  • Pumpkin
  • Carrot
  • Mushroom
  • Celery
  • Coriander
  • Spring onion
  • Garlic
  • Steamed rice

 

  • The last ingredient that can be seen at the top of my picture, I don’t actually know the its name. That is weird, I know right! How can I buy it even if I don’t know its name? How? Easy when I go to the local market, I see it and buy it! Next time I’ll ask what it is called and update this recipe. Please remind me in the comments below! 55

 

 

How to Prepare…

  1. First, I wash and clean all the vegetables and cut them up
  2. Cut or slice the chicken after it has been cleaned
  3. Chop the garlic and add the paste in to the heated oil in a small pan. Quickly stir the garlic until it smell nice and turns a golden colour
  4. Add water into a big pot or pan and when it’s nearly boiling add the chicken, salt and black pepper
  5. Next add carrots and pumpkin
  6. Add mushroom
  7. When all the vegetables are starting to go soft, then add the celery, coriander and spring onion
  8. Now it’s ready to serve and garnish with a little extra ginger and coriander to taste

Thai Cooking Tips

  • I don’t add streamed rice into the soup pot!! Why? Because it’s going to be kept separate as dry rice not a rice soup!! If you want to save your Khao Tom Gai for another day, you can separate the soup and the rice. So keep the rice and soup separate and then later, when you want to eat it, just put it together, heat it up and serve hot.
  • If you like hot and a little bit spicy, just add some extra fresh ginger, it’s so good for your blood!
  • I always stir a little extra garlic into the soup to make it smell nice and taste of garlic.


I hope you try to cook and eat Khao Tom Gai for your dinner because it yummy! Arroy mak mak!

Let me know in the comments below what ingredients you used to make this recipe your own.

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Khao Tom Gai

Smoked Pork Chop with Spicy Fruit Chili Paste Sauce

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New Recipes!!

You like spicy? This time I will be cooking pork chops with a hot and spicy Thai chili paste sauce. All the meat products we use are from from Paleo Robbie.

 

Smoked Pork Chop served with a Spicy Chili Sauce on a bed of Green Salad

Ingredients

I don’t measure all the ingredients I use because this is my style. I measure in yummyness rather than grams and ounces. I like to taste it and put in a little more when I feel I need too or if I really want to spice up my life!

Assorted Cooking Ingredients for Authentic Thai Meal

 

Cooking Spicy Thai Chili Paste

  1. Hight heat a big pan and add oil.
  2. Add chili paste and after a few minutes add coconut milk and stir it all gently until it is all mixed together.
  3. Add the chopped pineapple, tomatoes and strawberries.
  4. Add kaffir lime leaves and drop a little brown sugar and salt to your preferred taste.
  5. The last thing to put in to the mix is Thai sweet mint.

After making the sauce, grill the carrots with parsley, but if your kitchen has got a lot of stoves you can grill at the same time as you start to make the sauce.

Tips

  • If you love sweet, please help yourself and add some more brown sugar or you want “sweet” but don’t like sweetness from sugar, simply add more pineapple. Our pineapples are ‘beyond organic’ and from our garden and are picked when they are fully ripe. Pineapples do not ripen once picked so supermarket pineapples can be very bland to taste. 
  • If you mess up and the sauce turns out too spicy for you, you can add a little bit of salt and more water.  Anyway you must taste it as you go along and add some more salt or sugar to your tastes.

 

Baby Carrots Cooking

Cooking Smoked Pork Chops in a Pan

Smoked Pork Chop with Spicy Fruit Chili Paste Sauce - Serves 2

Tip

Don’t but chili paste. Here are the Ingredients to make chili paste for yourself;

  • Galangal
  • Lemon grass
  • Kaffir lime peel
  • Garlic
  • Shrimp paste
  • Dried chili

Blend all the fresh ingredients together until you get a smooth paste. If you really want an authentic Thai aroma, use a mortar and pestle to make your chili paste, then you’ll be cooking like a Thai.

Thank you 🙏🏼 

If you want more recipes about Thai food or fusion let me know in the comments below.

And also, please ask me any questions you have about my recipes, that means a lot too me. Enjoy preparing and eating your Thai food… same, same but totally tropical!

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Smoked Pork Chop with Spicy Fruit Chili Paste Sauce

Yum Woon Sen

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Thai Glass Noodle Salad

This recipe is for those of you who love a really spicy salad, Thai style! If that’s you, lets get started!!

Ingredients for Yum Woon Sen

Ingredients

  1. Glass noodle
  2. Chilli
  3. 1 TSP Brown sugar
  4. Lime
  5. Shallot
  6. Onion
  7. Tomato
  8. Vietnams sausage
  9. Celery
  10. Spring onions
  11. Minced pork
  12. Black pepper
  13. Himalayan salt
  14. Hot water

How to prepare…

1. Add water in to a small pan and turn up to a high heat. Add minced pork and sprinkle in some salt to taste and stir until the meat is cooked.

Then pour it in to a big bowl. 

Minced Pork Cooking in a Pan

2. Boil the Vietnamese sausage for about 3 or four minutes. Boil the glass noodles for about 2 or three minutes.

Vietnamese Sausage - Yum Woon Sen

3. Now add all the ingredients in to a mixing bowl, first add little of the hot water + salt + black pepper + brown sugar + chilli and then mix it all together. Next add the minced pork + Vietnamese sausage + onion + tomato + shallot + lime + glass noodle and then mix it again. At this point you should taste it. If you really love it spicy, add  some more chili, but for me just two is enough!

Finally, add the spring onion and celery and give it a quick stir, now it is ready to serve!!

Yum Woon Sen - Thai Spicy Salad

How easy was that? Now you know how to make a delicious, spicy glass noodle salad like a Thai! It’s super quick to make and now you can impress your friends all summer long with your new Thai culinary skills.

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Yum Woon Sen

Fresh Chrysanthemum Tea

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Welcome to the Thinglish Kitchen where today I will share with you the health benefits and my simple recipe to make refreshing chrysanthemum tea.

I would like to introduce you to plants that make fine and beneficial herbal teas directly from our Kitchen Garden.

The first one is the chrysanthemum flower. The name chrysanthemum derives from ancient Greek ‘gold flower‘ and the Chinese ‘mums‘. The beautiful yellow flower is what we are going to use today to make chrysanthemum tea but the flowers do come in many different colors including orange, red, white and purple.

The second ingredient we will use from the kitchen garden is Pandan leaves. With it unique sweet taste and smooth aroma this popular Thai ingredient adds a subtle twist to our tea.

chrysanthemums in the kitchen gardenpandan leaves in the kitchen garden

Ingredients to Make Fresh Chrysanthemum Tea

  1. Chrysanthemum flower
  2. Pandan leaves
  3. Water
  4. Natural honey (or sugar)
    how to make chrysanthemum tea

How to Prepare

Following the pictures above:
1. Heat the water to nearly boiling
2. Add the Pandan leaves (for the smooth smell)
3. Add natural honey to taste (only a little is required)
4. Add Chrysanthemum flowers and boil everything until the water goes yellow (just like in the picture bellow)
NOTE: Do not boil for too long or it will make the taste of the tea a little sour
5. Allow to cool and then you are finished!!
6. Reward your hard work in the kitchen with a refreshing glass of healthy chrysanthemum tea.


making chrysanthemum teadrinking chrysanthemum teaJust a Second!! Don’t forget to add ice to the glass and Cheers!!

Chrysanthemum Tea Benefits

  1. Chrysanthemum tea is widely know in South East Asia as a natural coolant. It lowers the the body temperature if you suffer from heat stroke or a fever
  2. It is full of trace minerals and vitamin C, B Carotene, magnesium and potassium
  3. Chrysanthemum tea is great for detoxifying the liver
  4. Can ease digestion
  5. It can be used to help clear your skin when used as a toner and reduce the effect of aging

 

Pandan Leaves Benefits

  1. Drinking the water of boiled pandan leaves twice a day is said to lower high blood pressure
  2. Pandan leaves contain nourishing essential oils such as glycidudes, alkaloids and traces of tannin that can boost you general health
  3. Can be used as a mild pain reliever
  4. Rub pandan leaves on the skin for a natural mosquito repellent
  5. Can be used as a natural body detoxifier

 

Enjoy Your Chrysanthemum Tea

So there you have it! Chrysanthemum tea made with pandan leaves is not only a tasty, easy to make beverage but regular drinkers of this herbal tea will also enjoy the many beneficial health benefits it contains. It also has no side effect or caffeine.

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น้ำดีท็อกซ์ – Detox Water | Revitalise Your Body: Detox Water Recipes for a Healthier You

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น้ำดีท็อกซ์เป็นน้ำดื่มสุขภาพดี สำหรับคนที่รักสุขภาพ เพื่อรูปร่างที่ดี
จะช่วยกำจัดและชะล้างขอเสียออกจากร่างกายผ่านการขับถ่ายนั่นเอง แถมยังได้ความสดชื่นจากแตงกวา และได้กลิ่นหอมจากใบสะระแหน่ด้วยนะค่ะ
Detox water is a healthy drink for health enthusiasts aiming for a good physique. It helps eliminate toxins from the body through excretion while providing refreshment from cucumber and a pleasant aroma from mint leaves.
Detox Water Diet - Thinglish Lifestyle
ส่วนผสม
1). แตงกวา
2). เลมอน
3). ใบสะระแหน่
4). น้ำดื่ม

Ingredients

  1. Cucumber
  2. Lemon
  3. Mint leaves
  4. Drinking water

** ปริมาณขึ้นอยู่กับภาชนะที่เราต้องการใส่เล็กใหญ่ และถ้าเราชอบรสชาติที่เข้มข้น ก็สามารถใส่ทุกอย่างในปริมาณที่มาก**

Detox Water Drink
ขั้นตอนการทำ
1). หั่นแตงกวา, เลมอน และเด็ดใบสะระแหน่ ใส่ลงในขวดโหลหรือภาชนะที่เราเตรียมไว้
2). เติมน้ำดื่มลงไปในภาชนะแล้วนำไปใส่ตู้เย็น

Preparation Steps

  1. Slice the cucumber and lemon, and pluck the mint leaves. Place them in a jar or container.
  2. Add drinking water and refrigerate overnight. Enjoy the cool, refreshing drink the next day.

**จากนั้นก็แช่ข้ามคืน ค่อยนำออกมาดื่มในวันถัด จะได้เย็นสดชื่น**

Detox Water Recipe

What are the Benefits of Drinking Detox Water?

Short-Term Benefits:

  1. Hydration: Keeps you hydrated, enhancing overall bodily functions.
  2. Refreshment: Provides a refreshing alternative to plain water, thanks to the cucumber and mint.
  3. Digestive Aid: Can improve digestion due to the lemon’s acidity and mint’s soothing properties.

Long-Term Benefits:

  1. Detoxification: Regular consumption helps in the elimination of toxins from the body.
  2. Weight Management: May support weight loss efforts by boosting metabolism and reducing appetite.
  3. Skin Health: The antioxidants and vitamins in lemon and cucumber contribute to healthier, clearer skin.

Regularly drinking detox water can enhance overall health and well-being.

 

Detox Water

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