Priya of Bon Appetit is a good friend of mine. When she asked me to do a guest post, I readily agreed. I couldn’t select a recipe for the post. I wanted to make a traditional recipe for her. When I visited Coimbatore, mom asked me to prepare this poondu legium for her. I took snaps of the legium to send it to Priya. This is part of postpartum diet. I got this recipe from a nurse. This is also a great medicine for those with gastric problems. One spoon a day is very effective.
This tastes wonderful. Imagine Paalkhova with Poondu flavour. It is what the legiyum tastes like. The sweetener used for this legiyum is jaggery or palm sugar. If making this legiyum for postpartum diet, gingelly oil is used. Otherwise you can use ghee.
Garlic is well known for its medicinal properties. This increases milk secretion for breast feeding moms. I have been thinking of posting this recipe for long and at last I got a chance to post it. Thanks Priya for the opportunity. For the recipe, please check Priya’s post.
Priya has also sent me a token of appreciation and I am very honoured.
Will surely check out Priya’s space for the recipe, snap does look very appetizing 🙂
thanks for the lovely post gayathri !
Have heard this legiyam, but not seen or tasted it. Would check her blog for this…
sounds interesting dear 🙂
Checked the recipe in priyas blog, so useful and traditional recipe. We too make this but we add coconut milk and will add some shallots too…..Seeing your post made me think of making it…
Awesome Gayatri! I did not know garlic and milk went hand in hand anywhere. Great post. Just visited.
Awesome guest post Gayathri,legiyum looks fabulous.
Thanks for sharing this Gayathri, very useful one..
So new in all regards, from name to the contents for sure….bookmarked. 🙂
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My mom used to make it when my sisters had babies. Its supposed to heal the body after the baby is born and also for nursing.Nice photos G.
Hello Gayathri, just now, I’m noticing this lovely recipe from you… Sure, this looks awesome. There is an event Healthy Morsels going on at my space and the current theme is about Pregnancy. Would you like to link this recipe there, as this is a very useful post and many would benefit from it. Thanks a lot in advance 🙂
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