Archive · 6 Sep 2025
Homemade Dishes: Comforting and Nutritious Remedies for Illness
When you're sick, your body needs extra help to get better!
This means more vitamins, protein, and things like chicken stew to help you recover faster.
Dishes like chicken stew, fruit custard, and vegetable dal are great because they are filled with good stuff that gives your body energy and helps it heal.
These homemade meals also taste good and can make you feel comforted, which is also good for getting better.
Things like ginger and cloves can help too.
Making sure you drink a lot of fluids, like broths or even water, is super important when you are sick!
Homemade dishes provide nutrients for recovery and comfort during illness.
Chicken stew is high in protein and micronutrients, and is easy to digest.
Fruit custard supports digestion, immune function, and bone health.
Vegetable dal offers improved digestion due to high fiber.
Tengri jhol (bone broth) is a rich source of protein and minerals.
- Who
- Srinwanti Dutta, a dietitian and nutritionist, and the general public
- What
- Homemade dishes are beneficial for health, recovery, and well-being.
- When
- National Nutrition Week (observed from September 1 to 7).
- Where
- Homes and kitchens.
- Why
- To support the immune system, fight infection, and repair tissue when ill.
- Focus
- Homemade dishes for health and recovery
- Main Dishes
- Chicken stew, fruit custard, vegetable dal, sabudana khichdi, tengri jhol (bone broth)
- Nutritional Value
- Rich in vitamins, minerals, protein and fluids
- Expert
- Srinwanti Dutta, a dietitian and nutritionist