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.

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