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Saina

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 Saina
Saina is an unusual crispy green leaf snack served with chutney.
Cook Time 60+ minutes
Servings
people
Ingredients
Cook Time 60+ minutes
Servings
people
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Remove the stalk and big veins of the taro leaves.
  2. Mix the mung bean flour and water until you have a thick paste.
  3. Leave it for 30 minutes.
  4. Then add the rice flour, chopped pepper, cumin, chopped garlic, salt and mix into the paste.
  5. Apply the paste to the vein side of each of the 4 leaves and stack the leaves on top of each other.
  6. Make two rolls of 4 leaves each: roll tightly while folding the sides inward. Optional: tie with a thread to hold the leaf roll in place while steaming.
  7. Steam the rolls for 10 minutes and remove thread if used. (They can be eaten steamed or fried.)
  8. Cut the rolls in slices of 1 - 2 cm and deep fry the slices.
  9. Serve the saina hot with a tomato or green chilli chutney or another sauce that you prefer to dip it in.
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Sathya Sai Baba says…

“The 17th chapter of the Gita clearly defines the nature and tastes of the three types of food eaten by man: the food that promotes love, virtue, strength, happiness and cordiality is Sathwic; that which inflames, arouses, intoxicates and heightens hunger and thirst is Ragasic; the food that depresses, disrupts and causes disease is Tamasic.

 

The company with which food is consumed, the place, the vessels in which it is cooked, the emotions that agitate the mind of the person who cooks it and serves it, all these have subtle influences on the nature and emotions of the person who takes the final product in! It is because the sages of India realized this that they laid down many do’s and don’ts for the process of eating.”

SSS 11:8 - 28.01.1971