Watermelon Juice...

I like the colour of watermelon juice and of course even taste also...In Bangalore we get the watermelon in almost all season but in my place(Bijapur) we will get it only in summer. If you are Bangalorian and into IT professional field I am sure you will always enjoy this fruit whole year.

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

2 cup - Fresh Watermelon cubes

2 tbsp - Sugar (adjust according to the sweetness of the mangoes)

1 tsp - Lemon juice
a pinch of Salt
Cold Water - as required to mix if it is concentrate

Direction For dough Preparation:

1. Cut watermelon into cubes (Use fresh watermelon to enjoy fruit)

2. Grind Watermelon cubes (Keep some cubes for serving at the end),Sugar,Salt and Lemon juice together, until smooth watermelon juice is ready.(I usually separate seeds of watermelon before putting into processor, as my processor is not having option of separating seeds...:( ..)

3. Take Serving glass, pour the juice.

4. Decorate it with some fresh watermelon cubes.

5. As watermelon tastes/blend very well with salt, you can try applying bit of salt at edges of glass so that while drinking juice you can enjoy it.How to do that?? 
Tricks:  Take empty glass apply bit of water at the edges of glass and in plate take salt spread it . Now invert wet glass into plate so that the edges are applied with bit of salt.

Cold - Coffee

I am big fan of Coffee, So today I tried cold coffee it turned out very delicious. Try this whenever you are having extra milk in fridge….

Prep Time: 5 min

Cook Time: 5 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Chilled Milk – 2 glass or ½ lt

Sugar – 2tbsp

Instant Coffee powder – 2tbsp (I used more coffee powder since I like coffee)

Ice cubes - 2 to 3 cubes crushed

Chocolate shavings – 1tbsp

      

  

Direction For Preparation:

1. In juicer jar or normal big mixer jar add 2 glass of chilled milk, sugar, coffee powder and grind for 1 min.

2. Now add ice cubes and grind until all ingredients are blend together and milk lather is started forming.

3. Pour in serving glass. And garnish with chocolate shavings and little bit of coffee powder to enrich the taste.

Mango - Lassi

My husband is big fan of Lassi so wanted to try it as I am having mangoes in my fridge thought of trying “Mango Lassi”.

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Mangoes chopped - 1 cup

Thick Curd(Yogurt) - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1 tbsp (adjust according to taste)

Water - 1/4 cup

Salt - Pinch

Ice cubes - 2 to 3 cubes crushed

Chopped nuts - for garnish (I used almond and some cherries for garnish)

Direction For Preparation:

1. Mix chopped mangoes, sugar, salt and curd in a mixer jar. Grind for a min.

2. Now add water and ice cubes if required otherwise you can skip adding these ice cubes.

3. When curd and all other ingredients are well blend than pour in serving glass.

4. Garnish the Mango Lassi with chopped almond. Garnishing is left to individual imagination.

Mango - Lemonade

Mango season is back, so let’s try out possible recipes and enjoy this season..:)

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Thick mango pulp - 1 cup

Sugar - 1/2 cup (adjust according to the sweetness of the mangoes)

Water - 1 cup for sugar syrup

Cold Water - as required to mix with concentrate

Lemon juice - from 2 lemons

Direction For dough Preparation:

1. In 1 cup water add sugar and bring it to boil. And turn off the gas.

2. Grind mango pulp in mixer until it become smooth paste.

3. Squeeze out the lemon juice in bowl.

4. Add grinded mango pulp paste to the sugar syrup and stir well until both mixes well.

5. Once both mango pulp paste and sugar syrup are completely blend together, add lemon juice and stir well.

6. Let it cool the above mixture.

7. In serving glass add 3/4 cup of above prepared mixture and add chilled water.

8. Stir it and serve Mango Lemonade with some ice cubes if required.

Mint ButterMilk.

Again summer is back with very hot climate...its always good choice to try something new cool drinks in home rather than ending up soft cold drinks outside. I made simple yet cool Mint Buttermilk, try this at home with simple ingredients.

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:
Thick Curd - 1cup
Fresh Coriander 
Fresh Mint leaves 
Water - 2cup
Salt

Direction For dough Preparation:
1. In juicer jar add curd,coriander leaves,mint leaves,water and salt to taste
2. Add more mint leaves than coriander.
3. Grind the above mixer for 3-4 min until coriander and mint leaves are powdered along with curd and gives nice colour to your buttermilk.
4. Pour this buttermilk in a glass and present it with fresh mint leaves on top.
5. Serve this cold and minty buttermilk.