Poha is the flattened rice, and Mamra is the puffed rice. They are made from any variety of rice but commonly made from white rice. Flattened rice is grayish-white color small rice flakes. They are made by partly cooking and drying, and then pressing gently to give the flattened shape. Because they are partly cooked and exposed to fire element in the process, they are lighter to digest than regular white rice. There are two varieties of flat rice – thick flat rice and super thin nylon flat rice.

Oat Almond Burfi is one of the best nutritious recipes for the winter season. According to the Ayurveda, in the winter season, Vata dosha or air and ether elements in our body easily go out of balance. Fire elements concentrate more on the core; that is the reason we feel more hunger in the winter season. And we can digest heavy food easily in winter than in summer.

Ojas, a Sanskrit term, is translated as the abundance of vitality and vigor, or sometimes life itself.  Food is obviously an essential part of the physical body. When we eat food, it goes under several stages of digestion to build different tissues in the body. Of course, the quality of these tissues depends on the type of food we eat, and most importantly the digestive power of our body. Good quality food and healthy digestion make healthy tissues all over the body. After a month-long digestive process, the food is converted into seven physical tissues. These seven tissues are plasma (Rasa), blood and blood cells (Rakta), muscle tissues (Mamsa), fatty tissues (Medas), bone tissues (Asthi), nervous system (Majja), and reproductive elements (Shukra). After the physical…