Showing posts with label Drinks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drinks. Show all posts

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Lassi

Salted

- 450 ml plain yogurt
- 1and ¼ cup milk
- 1 tablespoon salt
- Crushed Ice ¼ cup
- Cumin seed powder

1. In blender mix all the above except cumin
2. Top frost with grounded cumin

Mango

- 450 ml plain yogurt
- 1and ¼ cup milk
- 1- 2 tablespoon sugar
- Crushed Ice - 2 fresh mangos peeled, pitt removed and diced
- Kesar (Saffron)

1. In blender mix yogurt, sugar, milk
2. Add mango and ice, blend
3. Top frost with few kesar strands

Lemonade


Ginger

- 3 cups lemon juice
- 1 and ½ cup sugar
- Salt as per taste
- 4-5 crushed mint leaves
- 2-4 tablespoon of ginger juice (Squeeze grated ginger for juice)

1. Heat 1 and ½ cup lemon juice and 1 and ½ cup sugar till sugar is dissolved
2. When cool add 1 and ½ cup lemon juice
3. Add 4 cups of water
4. Add salt and Ice
5. Add ginger juice and crushed mint leaves

Plain

- 3 cups lemon juice
- 1 and ½ cup sugar
- Salt as per taste
- 4-5 crushed mint leaves

6. Heat 1 and ½ cup lemon juice and 1 and ½ cup sugar till sugar is dissolved
7. When cool add 1 and ½ cup lemon juice
8. Add 4 cups of water
9. Add salt and Ice
10. Add crushed mint leaves

Strawberry

- 3 cups lemon juice
- 1 and ½ cup sugar
- Salt as per taste
- 3-5 strawberry grinded roughly

11. Heat 1 and ½ cup lemon juice and 1 and ½ cup sugar till sugar is dissolved
12. When cool add 1 and ½ cup lemon juice
13. Add 4 cups of water
14. Add salt and Ice
15. Add 2 spoon of grinded strawberry in each serving

Mattha


- 1 cups Plain yogurt
- Coriander leaves chopped
- Sugar 2-4 table spoon
- Salt 1 – 2 teaspoon
- Cumin seeds grounded ½ teaspoon
- Oil 2 teaspoon - Curry leaves
- Cumin seeds ¼ teaspoon

1. Mix yogurt with ¾ cup of water
2. Add sugar, initially 1 table spoon and salt ½ teaspoon, then add according to desired sweetness
3. Add cumin seed powder and coriander
4. Heat oil, add cumin seeds , let crack and then add curry leaves
5. Add this sauté to yogurt from step 3
6. Mix well serve with Ice or at room temperature

Panah


- 1 raw mango stone boiled in boiling water till very soft ( 20 minutes )
- Save the water in which boiled
- Salt ( ½ tablespoon)
- Sugar (5-8 tablespoon)
- Water
- Ice

1. Squeeze the boiled mango and take out all the pulp when cool
2. With hand mixture make a soft puree by adding 2 cups water, use water in which mango was boiled)
3. Strain it
4. Add 1 cup fresh water
5. Add salt and sugar, add sugar little at a time
6. It would taste sweet and sour
7. Add more water if too concentrated

** Mango should be sour for this drink
** This makes a nice summer drink

Tea


- 1 cup water
- 4 teaspoon sugar
- 2 teaspoon Indian style tea leaves
- 1 cardamom pod crushed OR 1 ‘ ginger
- 1 cup whole Milk

1. Put water on heat, add sugar, tea cardamom or ginger and let boil
2. When boiling for 2-3 minutes at least add milk and come to boil
3. Strain with strainer and serve hot

** You can use 2% reduced fat milk too, but in case using 1% use all milk and no water at all. In step one use 1 cup milk instead of water