Kalonji used in food recipes

Unlike Kalonji’s (Caraway’s) several benefits in preventing and curing various diseases, kalonji seeds and kalonji oil are popularly used in food recipes as an important spice not only in India and Pakistan but also in the Middle East. In Middle East countries, Hummus cooked with chicken-peas or other beans includes in it a spoonful of Kalonji as a spice. Hummus is popularly relished not only by local residents but also by other immigrants. Kalonji is also an important ingredient used in pickle (known as Achaar in India and Pakistan) especially the pickle of mango, lemon, green chillies. Kalonji is also said to be used for preserving expensive clothing from insect damage.

“Known as Kalonji in Hindi and Kalo jeera in Bengali, Nigella is used in India and the Middle East as a spice and condiment and occasionally in Europe as both a pepper substitute and a spice. It is widely used in Indian cuisines for its smoky, pungent aroma.

A very simple recipe with Nigella seeds is the Alu-Charchari, a quick stir fry of potatoes.

Some of the recipes I have blogged where Kalonji is used for tempering are:
Piyajkolir Tarkari
Fish Curry on a Winter Noon
Musuri'r Dal with Kalonji
Shorshe Dharosh or Okra in Mustard Sauce
Doi-Ilish
My Spice

Following are Jeenas recipes using Kalonji Seeds. The Website of Jeenas contains, in addition, contains delicious and dainty dishes and will benefit a lot for the food lovers.

Chicken Biryani Recipe
Arabic Beef Rice Recipe
Roasted Vegetables Recipe
Lamb Keema Bulgar Wheat
Jeenas blog also mentions varied health benefits of Kalonji reproduced below:

Kalonji seeds have been know to have many healing properties including migraine, chronic colds, palpitations, alopecia, asthma, bee stings, paralysis, amnesia, skin disorders, facial palsy, earache and respiratory diseases.

Kalonji is also known to benefit the stomach due to anti-bacterial properties

Cold pressed Kalonji oil can help with dry skin problems such as eczema and psoriasis and has benefits to the scalps and joints through massage.

Kalonji seeds are an expectorant.

They are also known to be beneficial for respiratory problems and are anti-inflammatory.:

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Preventive diet in sickness

While you are sick whatever effective medicines you take, unless you have a balanced diet and you don’t have control on the diet you can’t be cured properly. If your eating and drinking habits are not proper, nothing can aid in your fast recovery. The more you are knowledgeable about your diet and put that knowledge into practice in timely intake and not to take of the diet, the more you will be able to keep yourself away from diseases. If you are thoughtful about eating and drinking, it will definitely improve your health. When you fall sick you should in fact be more careful in your diet and you should better seek advice of your physician before eating. But for a dangerous disease, you can cure yourself by balanced diet.

Recommended herein is the diet you should take and not to take in the case of different forms of following ailments.

Eczema, boils, itching and other related skin diseases: Eat spinach, radish, onion, tomato and guava.

Dysentery: Eat yogurt, diluted milk, diluted yogurt and rice.

Fever: Take only light food, orange and avoid fats.

Acidity: Avoid pickle.

Ulcer: Don’t eat lemon, orange and other citrus fruit.

Lever: Eat pomegranate and avoid sugar, biscuits and fats.

Wounds and Boils and other related diseases: Take less salt.

High Blood Pressure and Hypertension: Don’t take salt.

Low Blood Pressure: Take salt.

Catarrh: Don’t take milk, ghee and other fats.

Kidney: Take Melon and watermelon.

Asthma, TB and Cancer: Avoid smoking.

Sciatica: Potato, Rice, Banana, citrus fruit, pickle, tomato and peach are dangerous.

General Weakness and improving digestion: take one glass of orange juice daily.

Diabetes: Don’t take bananas, mangos, dates, guava, sugar and other sweet things. Can eat citrus fruits like damson, pineapple, pomegranate and can also eat raw cabbage.