How to make Hajmola
Hajmola means digestion pill which is also full of taste. Its spicy taste is liked very much by children as well as adults. The best thing about this pill is that the combination of different spices not only makes its taste tempting, but it is also beneficial for your digestion. If you have nausea or gas pain in the stomach, then this sweet and sour pill made from spices can be useful to you in emergency. Have you thought that you can make Hajmola at home and that too in very simple steps.
Home made things are considered more beneficial because we do not use any kind of preservative nor any kind of synthetic color is used in it. All you get is nutrition. You can prepare Hajmola tablets once and store them and enjoy them for a long time. So let’s see the recipe.
Ingredients for making Hajmola
One and a half teaspoon celery, 1 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon fennel, 1 teaspoon black pepper, one and a half teaspoon black salt, half teaspoon normal white salt, 3 teaspoon dry mango powder, 1 teaspoon jaggery powder or a small piece of jaggery, 3 teaspoon water, 1 teaspoon oil, two pinches of cornflour, if sweet, sugar powder for coating. Now let’s know the recipe.
How to make Hajmola?
To make Hajmola at home, take celery, cumin, fennel, black pepper, i.e. all the whole spices together. Dry roast these spices in a pan until aroma comes out. After this let it cool for 5 minutes. Now put all the spices in the grinder and also add 4 spoons of water. Now grind all these things together. After making fine powder, add black salt, white salt, jaggery, mango powder and grind it once again. If you want, you can also add two pinches of asafoetida in it. In this way a sticky paste will be prepared.
Apply some oil to the prepared spice paste in your hands and make it into a roti-like ball. Now put some corn flour on a flat surface and roll it out, but keep it a little thick, do not roll it out thin. After this, take a small cutter or with the help of a sharp small lid and cut the tablets. After cutting all the balls in this manner, put them in the oven for some time so that they become hard. In this way your Hajmola will be ready. If you want sweet taste along with sourness then coat all the pills in sugar powder and then store them in an airtight jar.
How are these pills beneficial?
These sweet and sour pills made at home are rich in many nutrients because fennel has been used in it which is good for digestion. Apart from digestion, cumin and celery also help in keeping the body warm in winter. Black pepper is also beneficial in cough and cold and calcium is also found in it. Black salt is also considered good for digestion. However, it is better to eat it only in limited quantities.