Mango Milk Shake

Ingredients (Serves 2)

1 ripe mango, peeled and roughly chopped
2 cups of chilled milk
2 or 3 ice cubes
sugar as required (optional, considering the sweetness of mango)
a pinch of cardamom powder(optional)

Preparation

1. Put all the ingredients mentioned above in a blender and blend it till smooth.

2. Serve chilled.

Fresh Fig - Banana Milkshake

Ingredients (Serves 1-2)

5 fresh figs, stem removed and sliced

Half a banana, peeled and sliced

3/4 cup milk, chilled

sugar or honey as required

1/4 tsp vanilla essence or 2 cardamom pods  powdered 

Preparation

1.  Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend until they are smooth. Serve chilled.

Apricot Ginger Lemon Juice

Ingredients

5 or 6 apricots, seeded
1 squeezed lemon
1/2 inch ginger grated
sugar to taste
2 cups of water
3 or 4 ice cubes

Preparation

1. In a blender put all the above mentioned ingredients and blend  it well .

2. Strain the juice using a fruit strainer and serve chill.

Jallab -A Date Juice

Ingredients

10 seedless dates
5 tbsp raisins
11/2 cups of chilled water
1 tsp rose water
2 ice cubes, broken
5 almonds, sliced

Preparation

1. In a blender, add dates and raisins along with chilled water and blend until smooth.

2. Add rose water to this and blend once again. Then remove and strain.

3. Pour in a serving glass. Add the broken ice cubes and sliced almonds as topping.

Serve chilled.

Blueberry Milk Shake

Ingredients

a handful of blueberries
1 cup chilled 2% milk
2 tbsp honey (Sugar can also be used)
2  cardamom pods

Preparation

1. In a blender add the blueberries, milk, honey and cardamom  and blend it well.

2. Strain the milkshake using a fruit strainer if needed.

Serve it chill !!

Pomegranate Milk Shake

Ingredients

1/2 cup pomegranate seeds
2 cups ice chilled milk
2 tbsp or more sugar according to your taste
1 tbsp honey

Preparation

In a blender, combine all the ingredients and blend them well and the pomegranate milk shake is ready !!

* I boiled the milk first and then refrigerated it.
* I have always noticed that when you take out the pomegranate seeds from the fruit, fingers and nails become brown in color because of the juice from the fruit. To avoid it, cut the fruit into two halves. Take a pan filled with water. Dip the halves in water and remove the seeds keeping them under water. Once you separated the seeds from the fruit, drain the water. You will get the seeds out from the fruit without messing your hands :))

Lemon Almond Cooler

Summer is on it's way and here is a refreshing cooler for you all!!

Lemon Almond Cooler

Ingredients ( serves 2)

1 medium size lemon
12 almonds, skin peeled off
5 or 6 mint leaves
1 inch ginger
3 to 3.5 tbsp sugar
2 cups cold water

Preparation

1. Clean the lemon, cut into 8 small pieces with skin on, removing the seeds.

2. Put the lemon pieces, almonds, ginger and mint leaves in blender and blend it until the almonds are blended well.

3. Now add the cold water and sugar also in the blender and blend for 2 minutes. (I used 3.5 tbsp sugar. But  you can change the measurement according to your taste and the sourness of the lemon).

4. Strain the juice and serve chilled immediately for maximum taste.  If you keep it for a long time, it will give you a bitter taste.