Core Ingredients
- Whole Barley, 500 Grams
- Yogurt, 0.5 Liter
- Chicken broth 0.5 Liters (prepare from Chicken bones, alternatively use milk)
Optional Ingredients
- 1 Egg - Coriander chopped
- 2 Large Red onions
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Red pepper (fresh, paste or powdered)
- Olive oil
- Half a lemon
Method
1- Soak the barley in water for 12 hours.
2- Drain the water from the barley and leave with own moisture for a full day until signs of pre-sprouting occur (small rootlets appear).
3- Boil the chicken bones in 4 cups of water, some salt, and half a lemon juice into the pot.
Let simmer for an hour or two - the longer the better.
4- Pass the broth through a sieve to remove solids, keep the broth in a pot, simmer with barley for 20 minutes.
5- Fry the chopped onion and pepper in olive oil until onions are soft.
6- In a separate bowl, add the yogurt, crushed garlic, chopped coriander and egg. Mix well.
7- Keep the barley on very low fire, add the yogurt mixture. Mix the soup well. Turn fire off. Let the soup sit for half an hour.
8- Serve the soup in a bowl, add on top some onions.
Enjoy...
Health benefits of Tanabour
This age old recipe often served to weak and sick people as an ultimate panacea unlocks a wealth of nutritional and therapeutic values. Let's start looking into some of the ingredients.
Barley
Soaking and pre-sprouting the barley has an enormous advantage compared to eating the grains in their dried state. When a grain of barley germinates, many enzymes with great health benefits are activated.
Among the most important bio/active compounds found in barley are:
- Beta-glucan
- Tocotrienol
- Superoxide Dismutase (commonly known as an anti-aging enzyme)
In addition, germinated barley contains a range of vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids, fiber and thousands of other beneficial enzymes.
Yogurt
Yogurt provides the body with a healthy amount of ''good'' bacteria in the digestive tract.
It also provides a dose of animal protein, plus several other nutrients found in dairy foods, like calcium, vitamin B-2, B-12, potassium. Lactoferrin in Yogurt helps the immune system fight infections as well as promotes bone formation.
Chicken Broth
The famous folk medicine of treating colds with chicken broth (or rather natural penicillin) is well known in many cultures due to its inherent immune boosting powers. In addition, the gelatin has many positive effects such as improving joint health and digestion.
In medieval Armenian medical textbook "Relief of Fevers" (1184) Khash is described as a dish with healing properties. Khash is prepared using the bones from Cow's feet, however the properties of broth prepare from animal bones remain identical to those of chicken.
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The remaining elements such as raw egg, garlic, olive oil, red onion and pepper have excellent health promoting virtues that can be searched after in the internet.
Activated Barley Properties
The core element in this soup with ground breaking health impact is germinated barley. The Roman Gladiators were referred to as "Hordearii" meaning literally (barley-eaters), the secret of their great strength and energy. They used to eat a gruel of boiled barley before appearing in the fighting arena.
Barley contains the highest amounts of Beta-Glucan and Tocotrienol (a rare special quasi miraculous form of vitamin E that can cure cancer and many other degenerative or infectious diseases.
Find more scientific information in the links below.
Tocotrienols, the vitamin E of the 21st century: Its potential against cancer and other chronic diseases.
Beta glucan is a scientifically proven biological defense modifier (BDM) that nutritionally potentiates and modulates the immune response.
Barley
has more Beta-Glucan fiber than any other grain!
PROBING THE SECRETS OF A Miracle Protein : SOD, or superoxide dismutase, is an enzyme that prevents oxygen toxicity in the body and is thought to hamper such diverse disorders as heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
Eating Tanabour daily, or occasionally will deliver you the power to take absolute control over your health and your family as well, liberating us from the chains of Big Pharma's expensive, inefficient and harmful drugs (and the dangers of vaccines).
Hippocrates prescribed barley gruel, or ptisan, of various consistencies, to those on fasts or cleansing diets, or to those suffering from debilitating disease.
Using the last words of the great Khrimyan Hairik prior to his resignation as Catholicos of All Armenians, whose life was an outstanding and extraordinary example of a leader’s dynamic accomplishment in drawing his people closer and closer to their native land and sense of nationhood, both physically and spiritually:
"...give me back my peaceful chamber and my pen : a little Tanabour will suffice."
What is wealth? I am sick of wealth, a man only needs a day's food.
