Written By: Pavitra Sampath | Published : December 29, 2014 12:19 PM IST
Beans: So if you are planning to take your date back home for the night, make sure you keep those nasty beans off your plate. Beans tend to make you gassy and you definitely won't feel like doing it while you feel bloated.
We've all been told that beans are great for our health. Packed with fiber, vitamins and minerals the vegetable is a perfect addition to any dish and can serve as a tasty meal all on its own. Even though the vegetable is highly nutritious, many shy away from the vegetable due to the fact that it leads to flatulence and bloating. But now you don't need to shy away from the vegetable. Here are 5 easy ways to ensure that beans don't cause gas when eaten.
Ginger: The fact that ginger is great for digestion, makes it a perfect addition to a meal with beans. Apart from that, ginger also helps in quicker digestion moving along the beans in your stomach, reducing the amount of gas produced. You may also like to read about the other health benefits of ginger.
Tip for use:
Add finely chopped ginger in your meal as you start to cook it. You can choose to grate and add it to your tadka to help release its properties.
Asafoetida: Also known as hing, asafoetida has potent anti-inflammatory and carmative properties that make it perfect to help relieve ailments like an upset stomach, intestinal worms, flatulence and IBS. Simply adding a pinch of this to your meals could help beat gas. Here are its other health benefits.
Tip to use:
After pouring oil in the pan, add a pinch of hing to it and allow it to cook in the oil. A good indicator of this is that it will change colour from a dark brown to a light brown. Stir in the beans and allow it to cook.
Cumin seeds : Not only does jeera have a wonderful odour, but it is also packed with thymol, a potent compound that helps beat the formation of gas within the stomach. Apart from that, other active ingredients of jeera also helps stimulate your salivary glands that bolster a sluggish digestive system. Making it the perfect remedy to prevent the formation of gas after eating beans. You may also like to read about some of its other health benefits.
Tip to use:
Roast some jeera in the tadka as you cook. If you are cooking sans oil, use a few drops of water to help cook the seeds. Heating them helps in the release of thymol, and is therefore an essential step you must mot miss.
Carom seeds: Known to contain highest amount of thymol, ajwain is great to help relieve flatulence. Thymol is very effective in helping your stomach release gastric juices that speed up digestion and helps in cases of indigestion, flatulence, nausea and relieves colicky pain in babies.
Tip to use:
You can choose to roast a little bit of ajwain in your tadka and add the beans to it. If that s not something you d like to do due to the pungent flavour the seeds impart, you can sprinkle it on the dish as it is cooking.
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