Ice apple rose coconut milk shake recipe

I know I am getting carried away with these ice apples and the dried rose petals .. Been thinking of trying something new, refreshing and healthy with these ingredients and came up with this. This is one of the best drinks to be had in a summer afternoon, chilled or at room temperature.

Alright, following is the recipe

Ingredients

Ice apples/ nongu - 2

Dried rose petals - 1/4 cup ( may use rose syrup instead)

Coconut milk - 1 cup

Sugar 2-3 tsp

Water - 1 cup

Method

Blend the ice apples and coconut milk well, add the dried roses and let it soak for sometime. Add the water and strain.

Garnish with chopped nungus and dried rose petals and serve chilled.

Just as simple as it is !:)

Tips

I made fresh coconut milk at home, you could use store bought one.

May replace sugar with jaggery syrup.

Thanks 

Chaithanya

Lassi with dried rose petals - Rose lassi

Summer, heat, craving for cool drinks is all synonyms. There are ingredients which are body coolants and dried rose petals are one of those. I have had few recipes with rose petals before and now this one to add on :)

All is fair as long it tastes good!!

This is made with no essence or colours, just used dried rose petals, fresh and clean rose petals must be as good.

Ingredients

Dried rose petals - 2-4 tbsp

Fresh chilled curd - 1 cup

Sugar - as required

Few ice cubes

Water - 1/4 - 1/2 cup

Method

Soak the petals in water so that it releases the essence. Squeeze out the petals completely. Now blend the rose water with curd and add the sugar. Serve cold.

I cudnt wait to shoot this picture to gulp it down, just being frank :) 
Enjoy!
Thanks 
Chaithanya

Mango tender coconut drink

Summers and mangoes are made for each other, mangoes lasts till the summers last! and this time I tried this king of fruit with king of drinks.. nothing but a simple tender coconut. Like I have said in many other places I am very poor at naming my creations, I combined these two nice fruits with curd/yogurt. I dunno whether this should be a smoothie, juice or something else. But I just named it as a drink not complicating it much :)  Garnished with sliced almonds over the chilled drink was quite a relaxing drink in this summer.

So following is the recipe

Mango pulp - 1 cup

Tender coconut water and pulp- of 1 tendercoconut

Yogurt- 3/4 cup - 1 cup

Method

Blend /Mix the three ingredients well and serve it at room temperature or cooled, garnished with almond slivers

Now say cheese and relish this drink. Sugar is very much optional.. I chose not to use sugar.

Tender coconut drink

Had some opened up pack of fresh cream and was thinking what to do with it. Usually I use the fresh cream for cakes, waffles and few other recipes... but have no such plans and this pack would expire by that evening ! Hence this product.
 

Ingredients

Tender coconut - one

Fresh cream 1/2 cup - 3/4 cup

Milkmaid - 2 tbspn

Rose water ( optional)

Cardomom powder ( optional)

Method

Blend the fresh cream , milkmaid and tender coconut water and pour into a glass and scrape out the tender coconut meat and add to the drink. You may add a pinch of cardamom powder and a few drops of rose water to enhance the flavour. But it was equally good without these enhancers.. yes you got me .I dint use at all. You may also add a scoop of vanilla ice cream while serving ! I thought about it after finishing the drink. :)

Avocado orange smoothie

I have been always wrong in getting good avocados, either it will be unripe or rotten or ripe and spoilt. I try my luck again and again and voila , I got a nice one this time. I was feeling like a new baby in my hand .. I know it sounds a bit of an exaggeration, but as I said I was super happy !! Knowing the fact the fruit is super nutritious I wanted to use it as an evening snack for the kids. They would happily reject if I would have tried a guacamole with it.
SO i went ahead to try a smoothie and also had few oranges with me. So follow is what I tried!

INgredients
Avacado- one
Oranges - 3 no.s
Sugar - as required
Choco chips - for garnish and fooling :)

Method
Peel the oranges and remove the juice and keep aside.
Half the avacado and remove the seed. Scoop out the flesh of the avacados in a blender and add in the juice to make a smooth paste. You may add in sugar if you feel it is required.
Remove the smoothie to a tumbler or bowl and throw in some choco chips.
Smoothie is ready!

Want to read more about avacadoes ? read this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado

Banana, mango and vanilla frozen yoghurt

Banana, mango and vanilla frozen yoghurt 

Was watching Dona Hay's fast , fresh and simple few months back and she was making this smoothie, it was so simple and looked tasty too . Had thought of making this when the mangoes arrive. And to my surprise my dear husband reminded me about this recipe when he saw the mangoes in the fruits bowl! Without much delay I made it and its so so simple to make and is tasty too. So here goes the simple recipe

• 2 bananas, peeled and chopped
• 3 mangoes, peeled and chopped
• 3/4 cup yoghurt/curd
• Vanilla essence ( I used vanilla pods )

Place the banana and mango in an airtight container and freeze for 4 hours or until frozen. Place the banana, mango, essence/scrapes of vanilla pod and yoghurt in a food processor and process until smooth.  

• Make sure that you take good bananas,  preferably sweet robustas
• Make sure that you select the fine mangoes too , avoid the ones which you think will have thick fibres.
•  If not serving straight away, return to an airtight container and freeze. Allow to soften for 5 minutes before serving. You could scoop into ice-cream cones to serve.
• You can change the ratio of the mangoes and bananas to you preference. 
• Optionally you can sugar too

 

 

Summer drink II

I really dont know what to name this drink , mostly it would be summer drink II :) Its nothing but mixed fruit juice

Ingredients
Oranges- 2
Apple- 1
Med sized cucumber- 1
Med sized lemon- 1
Salt/ sugar- to your taste
Ginger jam - 1/4 tspn

Method
Remove the juice of the oranges and strain in the large sieve
Blend the apples with the lemon juice and cucumber and mix with the orange juice.
Add salt or sugar to your taste and garnish with either ginger chips or quarter tspn of ginger jam and serve.


Enjoy ! :)