Bollywood Movies Based on Food & Beverages

Bollywood has great impacts on the lives of the people in India. It is one the largest film industries in the world. It is the most effective medium for telling society its own story. The Hindi cinema industry portrays changes taking place at socio-economic-political levels on the silver screen, so profoundly that it leaves the audience with an unforgettable impact.  The first ever movie was screened in India in 1913. The industry has completed 100 years.  Over the years, many iconic movies have been produced and many unforgettable songs and lyrics have been created. Also there are many hearth touching as well funny dialogues that we always like to listen to. These famous dialogues are on society, lifestyle, politics, economics, spirituality, leadership and almost on everything.  Here are some of the famous movies based on food & beverages.

Here is a presentation that depicts relationship between Bollywood and Food & Beverage Industry. 

TasteMoreNew Recommends Foods You Should Take This Summer

According to media reports, around 30 people have died in Odisha allegedly due to sunstroke so far this year. The heat wave is mercilessly sweeping the state with the mercury level touching above 40 degree Celsius in almost all districts in the state.  It is quite natural that we feel the heat and irritating humid condition.  We try to find out various ways to keep ourselves cool. Our body demands cooling foods to keep energy level intact. What are the best foods that you need to consume in summer? TasteMoreNew has the answer: 

TasteMoreNew: Top 15 Paneer Dishes That Make Your Mouth Water!

Here are our top 15 paneer dishes. Let's taste the tasty.

18 Chicken Dishes at TMN

You may not believe that 100 grams of chicken contains 30 different nutritional substances, which are quite useful to your body. It is the most common non-veg item across the globe. Chicken is a rich source of lean, low fat protein. It does contain selenium, a chemical known for its anti-cancer properties.

Considering the health benefits and differentiated tastes of the people, Bhubaneswar-based food delivery platform TasteMoreNew makes 23 different chicken items for its customers. Here is a glimpse of these items.  

World Health Day 2016: Foods That Beat Diabetes

As the world celebrates this year's World Health Day with the theme 'Beat Diabetes', every Indian should know about diabetes because the number of people with diabetes in India has risen from 11.9 million in 1980 to 64.5 million in 2014.

According to the Lancet study, China, India and US are among the top three countries with a high number of diabetic population. There is a fourfold rise in the number of diabetics – from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014 in the globe and half of them live in India, China, USA, Brazil and Indonesia.

Diabetes is caused mainly from unhealthy eating habits, stress and lack of physical activity. The two common forms of diabetes are type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is not preventable while the latter one can often be avoided. But one can reduce the risk of getting diabetes by following a healthy lifestyle and proper food habits.

As part of its World Health Day celebration, TMN has prepared a list of best foods to beat diabetes.  

Criteria for Selecting a Food Delivery Platform

 Here is a simple presentation that may provide vital inputs for determining you the criteria of a good food delivery platform. 

Chakuli Pitha: A Traditional Odia Rice-based Flat Fried Cake

Odisha, the land of Lord Jagannath is famous for its traditional cuisines. Pithas or cakes are the unique identities of Odia cuisines. The Odia pithas are the most sought pithas across the country.  One such popular pitha of the land is Chakuli.

Chakuli Pitha or rice-based flat fried cake is often compared with Dosa of South Indian states. However, dosa and chakuli vary from size and taste, and also in method of preparations. Dosa is a crunchy and large solid dish eaten along with spicy or sour Sambhar or Chutney. Whereas Chakuli pitha is a non-crunchy, soft, small and thin pancake best enjoyed with sweet chutneys , dalma, aloo bhaja, ghuguni etc.  

Once treated as religious food served to deities on special occasions, Chakuli is now one of the most-sought daily menus in Odisha. It is widely consumed as the favored breakfast menu and snack item in the evening. It can be made at home without much tiring process.

There are different kinds of Chakulis and each has its unique tastes. For example - Saru Chakuli. It is a kind of Chakuli usually tastes sweet. In Odia households, people serve the guests to sweeten their mouth whenever they are invited for any party.

Types of Chakuli Pithas

Saru Chakuli

Budha Chakuli

Coconut Chakuli

Pooli (Meetha Chakuli)

Pyaz Chakuli

Tomato Chakuli

Atta Chakuli

How to Prepare

Chakuli Pitha is prepared in little or no oil, which not only enhances the taste, but makes them very healthy as well. Every person belonging to this state must have tasted this recipe at least once in his or her lifetime. Chakuli Pitha is prepared using rice flour, white lentils(Biri) , refined oil (preferably ghee or mustard oil), and salt. This flat pancake is full of nutrition and best enjoyed with aloo bhaja, ghuguni or white peas curry, dalma or just sugar/jaggery or sweet chutneys.

  

Cuisine: Odia

Serves : 4

Preparation Time : 20 min to 30 min   

Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients  

    1 cup white lentils

    2 cup rice

    Salt as per taste

    Water as required

    1 to 2 tablespoon Mustard Oil

Process

Soak white lentil and rice in water overnight. Then filter out the extra water and grind it to make a fine paste. For grinding add water which covers the lentil and rice.

Keep aside the mixture for 4 to 5 hours for fermentation. Add salt and water to the paste for making the batter a little thin. Make sure the batter doesn't get too watery.

This is the usual method of preparing the Chakuli Pitha, But I like to have it fresh so I just keep the batter covered for 30 minutes after grinding and then use it .

Mix the batter well and place a pan on the stove. Heat a non stick tawa  on a medium flame.

    When the pan gets heated, add 1/2 tea spoon oil and spread it all over the pan.

Take a small bowl of batter and spread it all over the pan in circular shape. After a while  check the lower side of the pitha. Once the lower side turns brownish, flip it to other side.

When the pancake (pitha) is cooked well from both the sides, switch off the stove. Repeat the procedure for all the pithas (pancakes).

Street Foods That You May Publicly Hate, but Secretly Love

There are several reasons that make you publicly denounce street foods. Street foods are deep fried and contain high saturated fat content, which is harmful to health. Other also claim street food lack in nutrition and are rich in unnecessary calories. In a nutshell, street food can cause problems like gastrointestinal infections, high cholesterol leading to health hazards, diabetes and cardio diseases.

Regardless to these factors, you can avoid street foods. You may hate street food openly, but secretly love it because street foods are local identities. People staying outside have always crave for tasting street foods despite the fact that they are fully aware about the low quality of the food. But why do they love to eat? They have secrete love for street foods because they have never erasable memories with street foods.

Here are certain typical street foods that you may publicly hate, but secretly love much or less.