Ayurveda expert recommended healthy weight gain recipe: Potato pudding or Aloo ka halwa

Try this healthy weight gain recipe as recommended by an Ayurveda expert.

By: Editorial Team | | Updated: January 16, 2018 11:47 am

Struggling with weight gain? If you re aiming at weight gain, the consumption of high-calorie foods must be balanced with exercises that help you bulk up. Weight gain, just like weight loss, needs consistent efforts over a period of time. Tips for healthy weight gain include eating about 500-600 calories than your regular diet, loading up on high-calorie and high-protein diet and weight training at least 3 times a week. Here are some more tips to gain weight and put on muscle. If you re looking healthy recipes that will help you out on weight, you must include this potato pudding or aloo halwa by Ayurvedacharya Dr Partap Chauhan, director, Jiva Ayurveda, regularly in your diet. Also Read - 15 health benefits of methi or fenugreek seeds and leaves

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The combination of potatoes and milk pacifies vata and pitta dosha. It increases kapha dosha. The potato increases pitta dosha, but the milk and sugar in this recipe pacifies pitta, if taken moderately. People of vata constitution and those who are underweight can consume this without difficulty. This potato pudding will strengthen the body and help to increase weight. It is also rejuvenating and aphrodisiac in nature. It increases fat if taken in excessive quantities. So those who are obese should take this in moderation. This recipe is difficult to digest, and can cause indigestion in people who have a low digestive fire. Here are some health benefits of potatoes. Also Read - Bombay potatoes with olives: Try this authentic Indian dish for a nutrient-packed meal

Ingredients:

1/2 kg potatoes

1/2 litre milk

Elaichi powder (optional)

Method:

1) Clean potatoes and boil them. Peel and mash them.

2) Pour the milk into a pan and boil for three minutes. Stir it. Add sugar and stir again.

3) Add the potatoes and a bit of elaichi powder.

4) Serve with sliced almonds. It is best eaten hot.

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Image source: Jiva Ayurveda website

Published : December 18, 2017 5:18 pm | Updated:January 16, 2018 11:47 am

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