Step by Step Photos for Drinks & Smoothies!

Cardamom Lassi - a pleasant breeze in summer!!

This is a Punjabi recipe.

Blend together in a liquidiser:


Fresh curds - 2 cups


Chilled ,milk - 1 cup


Powdered sugar - 4 tbsp


Cardamom powder = ½ tsp


Serve topped with crushed ice.

 

White Pumpkin Juice with Curd/Buttermilk to cool and cleanse your body. It tastes so good!!

This is a favourite recipe, standard as well, in all Yoga camps & Nature cure centres. It is supposed to cleanse the system completely. It can taken twice or thrice a week.
USE ONLY FRESH PUMPKIN & WASH VERY WELL.
Peel & grate. Squeeze the juice through a clean cloth. Add curd/buttermilk & salt. Pepper is optional.
I use the squeezed pumpkin for Poha-Pumpkin Bahala Bhath

 

Masala Mor - some more, please !

Curds - 1 cup ( preferably malai should be removed)


Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp, chopped

Hing - 1/4 tsp


Green chilli - ½ ( deseeded)


Small onions - 5,6 - chop


Ginger - 1 cm


Tender curry leaves - 6 sprigs (I used curry leaf powder)


Salt



Lime juice - to taste


Temper as below (optional):


Oil - ½ tsp


Mustard seeds - ½ tsp


Grind greens, ginger, green chillies with 1 cup of water.


Strain & to the sediment add 1 more cup of water & repeat the procedure.


Blend curds with 1 cup of water.


Mix this with the strained liquid, salt & lime juice.


Dilute more if preferred.

Temper & refrigerate.

 

Pudina- Tender Coconut Delight - a digestive drink!!

Clean mint leaves & grind with grated ginger adding water.

Strain, squeezing well, add salt, lime juice & honey (all to taste).

Mix with tender coconut water.

Makes a very refreshing drink.

 

Piyush - deliciously creamy Gujarathi drink!!

This can be called an extension of shrikand!
Either ready made shrikand can be used or curd-cheese made at home by straining 1 cup good curds.

To the above, add;

Fresh buttermilk - 1 cup

Sugar (powdered) - 4 tbsp

Cardamom powder, edible camphor (opttional), saffron - to taste

To garnish:

Chopped nuts & raisins

 

Vazaithandu (banana stem) Juice - ahealth drink, specially for dieters!

Vazaithandu (banana stem) is supposed to help reduce the weight (by removing toxins in the body) & is specially recommended for people with kidney stones. Use fresh vegetable for best results. Slice, chop, liquidise with green chillies (optional), ginger, salt & water. Strain, squeezing well & add buttermilk. Garnish with jeera powder.

 

Fig juice - delightfully different!!

This tastes good warm or cold.

Figs - 4 (soak in ½ cup of water for2 hrs & liquidise)

To 1 cup of water, add

Jaggery -1 tbsp (more or less, to taste)

Crush together:

Cardamoms - 2

Ginger - 1”

Tulsi or omvalli leaves - 5,6

Add this with jaggery to water, heat to dissolve jaggery, switch off & keep covered for the flavors to infuse.

After one hour, strain, add fig puree & add water to get the desired consistency.

 

Chocolate Banana Smoothy - "creamily" delicious!!

Milk - 2 cups

Sliced & frozen banana - 2

Sugar - 3-4 tbsp

Cocoa powder - 3 level tbsp

Grated chocolate - to garnish.

Blend & garnish.

 

Carrot-Mint-Ginger Juice - flavour & health!!

Liquidise together & strain.

 

Grapear Juice - ofcourse grapes + pear!!

Use either green or violet grapes. Liquidise with little water & strain.