The super trio

Embrace Lord Krishna’s butter this Janmashtami

Janmashtami is just around the corner and this festival celebrates these three delicious semi-solid foods. The country will be celebrating the birth of a naughty Hindu God, who is famous for his love for white butter in his childhood days. This little butter thief drove the Gopis crazy by raiding their pots of white butter. Cow’s ghee, curd and white butter -- all have wonderful properties to help give an overall improvement to the human body, be it the immunity system, lubrication for the joints or even aiding digestion.

Curd
The curd is accurately called the “Elixir of Life” as this cool, creamy and soothing semi-solid is teeming with a clan of bacteria called lactic bacteria. These bacteria work all kinds of nutritional and therapeutic magic. It provides a two in one benefit of killing off disease causing bacteria plus multiplying beneficial bacteria especially gut flora both protecting and restoring. Curd can be called the chameleon of foods as it can take any form. Make a sweet shrikhand out of it or a whip it to make a raita. Churn it during hot summers to make cooling buttermilk or cold soup or add it to your gravies and fold it in a batter to make delicious idlis.

Ghee
Cow’s ghee, on the other hand, is synonymous with gold in the world of nutrition. This liquid gold has quite a long history, as it has been used in Indian cooking for thousands of years. Cow’s ghee transcends the cooking realm, as often it is used in religious ceremonies in Indian culture. Cow’s ghee's nutritional and health benefits are touted as ideal for anyone from little athletes to simple dieters to babies to seniors including people who are lactose intolerant as it does not contain milk solids.

Cow’s ghee contains fatty acids, which are the building blocks for the membranes of every cell in our bodies including the brain. Vital for the absorption of fat soluble Vitamins A, E, D and K. It controls body temperature as well as hormones, lubricates joints and is said to have anti-cancer properties (due to Vitamin E and A) and anti-viral properties due to its anti-inflammatory qualities. What is more satisfying than hot khichdi laced with cow’s ghee, or bajra rotla and paratha in cow’s ghee, or a piping hot rasam tempered with it! Indeed, a treat to the palette. This ghee is delectable in myriad ways.

White butter made from grass fed cows is a very beneficial part of a person’s diet that can improve your immune system, regulate our hormones, protect our vision, boost metabolism, increase brain function, reduce chances of heart disease and blood pressure, and protect you from cancer. Furthermore, white butter can protect against gastrointestinal conditions, while ensuring proper development of the brain and nervous system development. The white butter will help you develop beautiful muscles. And what's more, it's a heart-healthy, super-slimming, anti-aging way of life, which is crucial to your health as a whole. White butter is your only source of an anti-stiffness factor, which protects against calcification of the joints.

Butter
Completely eliminating butter and other healthy animal source fats are not the body ecology way. It is not how our ancestors thrived, and not what nature intended. So, use it as a spread, add it to soups, sauté vegetables in it or just add it to various sauce preparations as it provides a distinctive taste and a very smooth and rich texture and mouth feel.

This festive season clear the habit of shunning our three white golds and lead your mind forward into the heaven of the freedom of partaking white butter, cow’s ghee and curd.