5 Top Health Benefits Of Sabudana | Saggubiyam | Javvarisi | Tapioca Sago | Tapioca Pearls | Sabbaki

What Is Sabudana?

Sabudana is a processed food product made from cassava plant whose botanical name is Manihot Esculenta. The starch got from the roots is popularly called tapioca and it is also used extensively all over the world. Here in India, the cassava plant itself is referred mostly as tapioca plant.

Though the boiled cassava root is also consumed here in India, sabudana is very very popular. I love sabudana, one of my favorite sweets when I was younger was sabudana soaked in milk and cooked along with ghee, sugar and coconut, we used to call it paal maavu in Tamil.

If you are not fond of consuming boiled cassava root then sabudana will be a good alternative. In India, Tamil Nadu ranks first in the production of sago and Andhra and Kerala are also major producers.

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Sabudana Benefits & Uses:

1. Sabudana For Babies:

2. Sabudana For Fasting:

3. Sabudana For Weight Gain: 

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5 Top Health Benefits Of Sabudana | Saggubiyam | Javvarisi | Tapioca Sago | Tapioca Pearls:

1. Sabudana Kheer Recipe For Kids:

This kheer is very famous in our place and we make it often at home. To make the kheer, wash 1/4 cup sabudana and soak it in 3/4 th cup water for an hour or two. Take the soaked mixture in a bowl along with 11/4 cup of full fat organic grass fed milk and boil it in low flame till sabudana is cooked.

Make sure to stir often and once cooked, add enough jaggery | sugar | raw sugar to taste. It should be thick and creamy. Add cardamom powder, fried cashews and raisins and mix well and serve….

 2. Sabudana Bindhi:

We generally use vengampal as bindi for kids but some people do use bindi liquid made out of sabudana. It is easy to make all you need is sabudana and lot of patience. Though the bindi will not be black color, it is an allergy free bindi that can be used safely for babies, you can find the step by step method for making it here.

 3. Sabudana Laundry Starch:

Sabudana liquid is great for starching cotton clothes. Since sabudana is cheap and easily available, it is widely used for starching clothes. Take 1/2 cup sabudana in a dry mixer and powder it to a fine powder.

Mix the powder in 5 cups water till there are no lumps and boil in low flame till it gets glossy and then switch off. Use the mixture to starch the clothes…

4. Sabudana For Skin:

Sabudana porridge is very very soothing when applied on the skin and is great for treating sun burned skin. For the remedy, take little bit of sabudana which has been cooked in milk but before adding sugar.

Blend it along with a fresh cucumber to a paste and apply on the skin. We can also grind sabudana powder, cucumber and milk into a paste and apply too. This mixture is so very soothing on sun burned skin…

5. My Favorite Paal Maavu Recipe 🙂 

There are two types of tapioca sago we get in the markets. One is called paal javarisi which is roasted and then dried. The second is nylon javaarisi (the pearls will be transparent) which is steamed and then dried. We need paal javarisi for making paal maavu.

Take 1/4 cup of paal javvarisi and soak it in water for 4 hours. Once it has soaked, strain the water. Heat little bit of ghee in a pan and add the soaked javvarisi and fry in low flame for few minutes. Add 1/2 cup of milk and let it boil in low flame.

Once the javarisi is cooked and the milk has dried up, add sugar and let it melt. Once the sugar has melted, add grated coconut and powdered cardamom and switch off. This sweet will not require much of ghee like our traditional halwas….