Mom's Recipies

Thandai is a wonderful cold refreshing and healthy flavored milk that is traditionally prepared during the Holi festival (festival of colors). When people become a little exhausted after playing exciting yet tiresome holi a glass of Thandai offers instant energy and cools the body.




Ingredients:-

Almonds- 1/4 cup
Blanched Melon Seeds( Magaz) - 1 tbsp.
Soaked Poppy Seeds (Khus Khus) – 2 tbsp
Whole Fat Milk – 500 ml.
Peppercorns – 3
Fennel Seeds (Saunf) – ½ tsp.
Cardamom (Elaichi) - 2
Sugar – 150 gm.
Rose water – 1 tsp
Saffron Strands -Few
Some slivered pistachios and a few saffron strands for garnishing




Method:-

1) Heat the milk ,then add sugar.
2) Stir it till sugar dissolves completely and remove from flame.
3) Add Saffron Strands.
4) Allow the milk to cool to room temperature.
5) Blend almonds, melon seeds, Soaked poppy seeds to a smooth paste.
6) Grind the fennel seeds, pepper corns and cardamom into fine powder.
7) Add the powder ,paste to the boiled milk.Mix well.
8) Refrigrate it for 2-3 hours.This allows the flavours to infuse into the milk.
9) Strain the mixture through a fine sieve and discard the solids.
10) Add rose water and Mix well.
11) Serve Chilled after granishing with Silvered pistachios and saffron strands.
12) Lip Smacking Thandai is ready:)




Tip:- You can also use 1/4 cup dried or fresh rose petals or gulkand variety rose petals too.

Ingredients:-

1 cup fresh Strawberries
1/4 cup Strawberry Ice cream
2 cups Milk
3 tsp Sugar or To taste Sugar
Ice -cubes




Method:-

Wash strawberries properly and remove the stems.
Blend strawberries and little milk together in a blender until crushed properly into a smooth paste.
Add the remaining milk, Strawberry Ice cream ,sugar and crushed ice. Blend again for another 30 seconds or so.
Served chilled in glasses.
Garnish each shake with strawberry.
Enjoy the Delicious Healthy Strawberry Shake!
The drink is perfect for Valentine's Day!

Apple and Banana Shake is an excellent thirst quencher for summers and it is also quite nutritious which really keeps you full for a long time. You can even serve it to your guests in summer afternoons.

Ingredients:-

1 banana, peeled and chopped
1 apple, peeled and chopped
¼ cup of milk or water
2tsp Sugar (or as per ur taste)
1 tsp Vanilla Essence

Method:-

Blend all the ingredients into a blender jar and pour in two tall glasses.
Refrigerate for a few minutes and serve .
You can also add 2 scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream instead of milk or water. That also tastes really good.

Apricot and Almond Delight is naturally healthy nutritious smoothie perfectly fit for a natural sunny day.It is a thirst quencher.Apricots are a good source of beta-carotene. Three fruits contain 2 mg, or about 30 % of the recommended daily amount of beta-carotene. Three Apricots contain 3 g of fiber.Yet this sweet, velvety fruit contains a variety of compounds that research shows can fight infections, blindness, and heart disease.
It is now summer in the Paris and the grocery stores are filled with the aroma of delicious and fresh Apricots.Seeing that I can't stop myself from buying Apricots and here is how the Apricot and Almond Delight comes out.....



Ingredients:-

5 or 6 fresh apricots (or use canned apricots without sugar)
1 cup orange juic
6-1/2-ounces low-fat yogurt
1 Tbsp sliced almonds
2 or 3 ice cubes
Honey according to ur taste
grated nutmeg

Method:-

Place all ingredients in blender container and process until well mixed. Sprinkle with nutmeg before serving.

Serves - 2

Per Serving: 180 Cal; 4 g Total Fat; 29 g Carb; 8 g Protein;5 g Dietary Fiber.

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For an energy kick, there's nothing like a fruit smoothie.This creamy, refreshing drink is great for breakfast.This is rich in Proteins as it contains soy milk.

Ingredients:-

1. In a blender, combine milk, oranges juice , banana, sugar, salt and yogurt. Blend for about 1 minute. Insert ice cubes, and blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.

Strawberry smoothies are the most popular fruit smoothie recipes. They are simple to make and are very abundant most seasons.

Ingredients:

6 large strawberries
1 tsp of sugar
1/2 cup of whole milk
1 cup of ice cubes

Method:-

1. Remove the stalks from the strawberries
2. Rinse the strawberries under the cold tap and cut them into slices
3. Put the strawberries into a blender
4. Add the milk and blend on low speed till well smooth, than add ice cubes and blend on high.
5. Add sugar and blend on high speed for about 1 minute.
   
6. The texture should be slushy and smooth.
7. Pour into two glasses
8. Serve

Note:- A strawberry smoothie recipe will taste best if you use fresh strawberries instead of frozen ones. If frozen strawberries are all you have, it is better to add some sort of sweetener like sugar or ice cream.

I love Badam Milk! I first tasted it in my uncle’s shop when I was small. I liked it very much. Whenever we go to my uncle’s shop I definitely drink Badam Milk. Really its very yummy. Delicately flavored with cardamom, the nuts in this chilled, cooling drink don't just make it tasty, but also nutritious too. This is also a good source of calcium. Cold Badam Milk is a great summer cooler but if you use warm milk to make it, it's a great winter drink too!

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 cup almonds (soaked for about 6 hrs)
• 3 cups milk
• Sugar to taste
• 2/3 tsp cardamom powder
• 2 tbsps kewra essence (available at Indian groceries) - optional

PREPARATION:

Grind the almonds to a smooth paste in your food processor. Add a little milk to do this. A lot of people like to remove the skin from the almonds before grinding them. I don't do this as the skin contains many nutrients.

You can do it if you wish, by pressing the almonds between your thumb and index finger. The skin will slip off quite easily.

Mean while bring milk to a boil then add almond paste, saffron strands soaked in milk, sugar and cardamom powder, kewra essence (if using).

Simmer it down for about 5 min.

Serve chilled/ warm.

Note:- Along with almonds Pistachios can also be added.

Nimbu Paani is a delicious thirst quencher made from freshly squeezed lemons, salt and sugar. It has a clean and refreshing flavor and is rich with vitamin C.
Cool down on a hot summer day with this very refreshing drink. It's lemonade with an Indian twist!
INGREDIENTS:

* Juice of 4 lemons
* Sugar/honey to taste
* 2 tbsps Jaljira powder (available at most Indian groceries)
* Chilled water
* Crushed ice
* Lemon slices to garnish



PREPARATION:

1) Squeeze all lemons to remove juice and strain the juice to remove seeds. Pour into a large jug.
2) Add all the remaining ingredients to get desired strength and sweetness and mix well.
3)Serve in chilled glasses garnished with lemon slices.

Note:-* Nimbu Paani also acts as a great mixer for cocktails specially with vodka.

Ingredients:
Sugar 1¼ cups
Water 600 ml.
Freshly ground ginger paste ½ tsp.
Lemon Juice ½ cup
Crushed ice As required
Soda 1 bottle or can

Method:-
This drink is a Ginger tasting soda drink ( you can use water instead of soda)
1. In a pan mix the sugar, 1/2 cup water and ginger.
2.Stir on a medium flame till it forms into a syrup.
3.Add the lemon juice, strain and keep aside.
4. Let the syrup cool down and then store this syrup in air tight bottle
5. While serving take 4 tablespoons of this syrup and add some soda and crushed ice.

Note:-
It is a great tasting drink and good for digestion, use the amount of syrup to suite your taste.
Also you can use Sprite or some other Lemonade instead of plain soda.
If you do not have any soda on hand, simply add some water and crushed ice with some syrup.