Jay Annapurna Maa!
Ingredients
1 cup tinned cherries, ½ cup chilled yogurt, 8 tbsp strawberry crush, 10 to 12 ice cubes, 1 cup cherry syrup, 4 tsp grated cheddar or processed cheese, 2-3 strawberries.
Method
Ingredients
2 cup seeded watermelon cubes, 1 cup pineapple cubes, 1 cup green grapes, 1 cup strawberries, 2 cup chilled apple juice, 10 to 12 ice cubes, 1 tsp sugar, 4 tbsp cream.
Method
1. Combine fruits in bowl, pour apple juice over and chill in a refrigerator.
2. At serving time, blend fruits in a mixer till smooth, add cream and sugar and blend again, pour into glasses over ice and serve.
Ingredients
1 cup chopped papaya, ½ cup cold milk, 1 cup thick yogurt, ½ cup vanilla ice cream, 1 tbsp honey, few strands of saffron, soaked in 1 tbsp warm milk.
Method
Put papaya and milk in blender and blend till smooth, add all the remaining ingredients and blend until thick and frothy. Serve chilled.
Note: Papaya, milk and yogurt combination are not advisable as per Ayurvada - the ancient medical guide. Jay Shree Ram!
Jay Annapurna Maa Ji ! Here is a soup recipe for your appetite. It is healthy and full of nutrients as wee as Low in Cholesterol. Perfect for your diet plan.
Ingredients
2 cups cubed beetroot, 2 cups cubed carrot, 2 cups cubed tomato, 3 green chillies chopped finely, 2 tsp lemon juice, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp red chilli powder optional, ¼ tsp asafoetida, 1 tsp coriander powder, 2 tsp rasam powder.
For tempering
2 tbsp oil, 1 ½ tsp mustard, cumin seeds, 2 dry red chillies, broken, 4 garlic cloves mashed, a few curry leaves.
Method
1. Blend beetroot, carrot, tomatoes and green chillies in a blender to form a smooth puree. Set aside.
2. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan, when heated, add all the ingredients of tempering. Allow it to splutter. Add the prepared puree and ten cups of water mix and cook for a minute or two.
3. Add all the remaining ingredients, stir and mix well and bring to a boil. Boil the mixture for 10 minutes. Remove from fire.
4. Sieve the boiled mixture through a muslin cloth and squeeze. Discard the residue. Reheat the soup and serve hot in soup bowls.
Thanks for visiting. How you felt after trying this please comment below. Share with all those on dieting. Jay Shree Ram!
Jay Annapurna Maa friends! Here is one recipe for you to chill in this hot summer.
Ingredients
1 litre milk,
7 to 8 tbsp grated or minced jaggary. (You can use sugar but it will increase calories) or as per your taste
Gulkand 3 to 4 tbsn - as per your taste.
10 to 12 Saffron strands - soaked in Luke warm water (water quantity 4 to 5 ml only). Soaking gives nice colour.
¼ cup almonds,
2 tbsp poppy seeds (khaskhas),
2 tbsp aniseeds (saunf),
½ tsp cardamom (elaichi) powder,
Method
Boil the milk, keep it aside and allow it to cool completely.
Roast poppy seeds, aniseeds, black and white pepper for 3 to 5 minutes.
Grind all these roasted items with almonds to a fine powder.
Then add Cardamom powder and mix it well.
Now add jaggary, gulkand to 1 glass of milk which is cooled down after boiling and mix it well using electric blender and add that powder to this mixture and again blend it.
Add this mixture to remaining milk and mix it well.
Using steel sieve filter it and your thundai is ready.
You can serve this thandai as it is or can keep it in fridge and after chilling can serve in a glass or kulhad.
Health aspects:
Thundai is rich in calcium, potassium, Phosphorus, folic acid, Vitamin C and also having high calories as well as high fat and cholesterol.
To reduce fat and cholesterol in thundai: Boil the milk on slow flame and let milk cream (Malaai) to saturate on top while cooling. Then remove all milk cream and then use the remaining milk. Such milk is thin but having less fats and cholesterol content. Also for health benefit we must drink such milk only.
Thanks for trying this instant recipe of thundai. You can prepare the thundai powder in advance and store it for some days. This is cooling drink you can drink in summer.
