Mango Milk Shake

Appropriate for the season, and for my busy schedule too! I think am very late to bring this, was thinking to post from the beginning of the mango season, now monsoon is about to start...:)



Ingredients,
ripe mangoes 3 medium size
whole milk powder 5 Tbsps
sugar 1/2 cup or more
ripe mango pieces 2 Tbsps
chilled water enough



how to prepare,
Peel and chop mangoes.
Put them in the blender with milk powder and sugar.
Pour water until it reaches the top of mango pieces.
Blend well.
Pour this into a glass, put some mango pieces on top. Serve.
You can use chilled milk instead of milk powder and water.

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Dates Falooda

Here is a delicious and healthy falooda recipe from Ummi Abdullah. I got this from a magazine, tried out and loved it. You may see slight changes in the measurements, since I tried to make it easy for you, so converted the quantities to cups and spoons. Hope you enjoy!



Ingredients needed,
dates 1 cup
milk 2 cups
condensed milk 1/2 cup
sugar 2 Tbsp
sabja seeds / falooda seeds / black couscous 2 tsp
raspberry jelly crystal 1/4 tsp
almond essence 2 Tbsp
chopped cherry 2 Tbsp



How to prepare,
Soak dates in water for 1 hour.
Soak sabja seeds in 1/2 cup water.
Mix jelly according to the packet instructions and allow to set in the refrigerator.
When it sets, chop it into small pieces.
Take dates, remove seeds and chop into pieces.
Blend together dates,milk, sugar and condensed milk.
Add essence and chill.
For serving,
Put jelly pieces in the bottom of the glass.
Put 2 tsp soaked sabja seeds over it.
Pour the date shake above this up-to 3/4 of the glass.
Add jelly and sabja seeds above this again.
Garnish with chopped cherry.
p.s. I didn't use raspberry jelly crystals, but used a white one, hence the color.

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Pineapple Coconut Delight / Cardamom Flavoured Pineapple Coconut Drink

A few of you may remember the famous "Pina colada " while seeing this.. This one has no connection with that, it's a Keralite naadan drink prepared using some sweet pineapple chunks and little coconut! This is completely home made, those lovely pineapple collected from the backyard and of-course coconut too.. I added some cardamoms and the outcome was a delicious lovely drink! Am sure you are going to love this.. :)



Ingredients used,
pineapple chunks 1 cup
coconut grated 1/4 cup
cardamoms 2 small
sugar enough
chilled water 3/4 glass.



How I prepared,
Blend everything together and strain.
Add or reduce the quantity of water according to your taste.

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Beetroot Juice

When my sis introduced me this "juice", I didn't like the taste and added a good amount of lemon juice and sugar to consume it! :) Having that much sugar is not good, but taking Beetroot juice is good for you, it reduces blood pressure within hours! Beetroot juice is also a well known "powerful juice" that reduces the risk of the heart diseases.. Prepare it with or without lemon juice / ginger / cardamom and sugar, and enjoy a very healthy drink!



Ingredients Needed,
beetroot 1" or 2" pieces peeled and chopped
water 2 glasses
sugar as per taste
lemon juice as desired.



How She Prepared It,
Blend beetroot with water and sugar. Strain and add lemon juice according to your taste.

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Kiwi Mint Juice

Kiwi fruit is a rich source of vitamin C than an equivalent amount of orange. We always enjoyed eating the green flesh,so thought to try out a juice when we bought kiwi fruits last time. The green juice with few mint leaves is a delicious way to remain healthy, especially in the very hot weather in Dubai. Hope you are going to love it.. :)

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Grape Juice

Purple grape juice is very good for your heart! So change your 'drinking habits' and turn towards juices, especially for grape juice, which is helpful for reducing cholesterol level. Google to find out more details.
Here is the way ma makes it, health watchers can avoid milk powder.
Am little busy this week, so haven't replied your queries yet. Please bear with me...

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Mint and Lemon Juice - A Green Cool Drink For The Summer

We have some mint / pudina plants in the back yard. Our helper often said she has seen some people drinking the juice of mint regularly and is there any benefit for this. Though I know mint has many health benefits we used it only while making biriyanis, or making chutneys / pudina chammanthi, or just added in raita. I think mint tea is popular worldwide. Mint is very good for stomach disorders. I have seen many use capsules contained pudina, but never thought of such a delicious drink until she says this. Also, have heard mint is good for treating pimple, for that the pulp of fresh leaves used. This juice should be taken fresh, otherwise it's color and taste will change a little.



Ingredients
Mint / pudina leaves 15
lemon juice 1 lemon
sugar approx. 4 Tbsp or as per taste
water 2 glasses



How to prepare
Wash and clean leaves very well.
Blend it very well with 1/2 glass water.
Strain it.
Add remaining water, lemon juice and sugar.
Mix well, serve immediately.
Hope you loved it! :)

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Ilaneer / Tender Coconut Drink

Last year, during summer a sweet friend of mine Mrs.Meena Prakash had asked me for some tender coconut or ilaneer recipes to escape from the heat.At that time I was not aware of this drink, but had seen some dishes with it like puddings etc. But during last Ramadan this was prepared at home and I found it was very good for the body after a whole day's fasting.This would be a nice, cool and refreshing drink for all of you suffer excess summer heat! Enjoy Meena! :)



Ingredients used
Tender coconut 1
sugar according to taste
cardomam 1



How I prepared
Make a hole on the ilaneer (as usual we do for drinking) and pour all the sweet water to a cup.Cut the tender coconut / ilaneer. Remove the white fleshy part with a spoon.It is easy to do.Put this into the jar of juicer with the ilaneer vellam / tender coconut water, cardomam and enough sugar.Blend this until smooth. Sieve it if you like and add ice cubes also.

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Simple Falooda Drink

I hate luxurious life.I don't love wearing adornments. Am a poor relative of our rich Falooda. Because of the simplicity in preparing me and the health benefits am providing , I have been an inevitable drink among the nombu thura (breaking fast in Ramadan) dishes in the blog author's house.. I am prepared of two main ingrediets , arrowroot powder(koova podi) and basil seeds(takmaria or sabja seeds or falooda seeds) in milk with sugar, both are very healthy.. The cereal made with arrowroot powder and milk helps to cure cystytis. I hope you are able to get arrowroot powder in your place to try out me. Normally making powder from fresh arrowroots is a lengthy procedure.
First wash and clean the fresh roots. Pound them in a mortar. Mix it with drinking water in a vessel. Let the white powdered like juice mix in water properly. Take the remaining part out and pound it again. Repeat the process. Let this water remain for some time. You can see the powder precipitated in the bottom. Then discard the water on top. Dry this powder in sunlight.(Information shared by author's mother)
You will get much knowledge about the next ingredient - basil seeds - from the net. These basil seeds are known as black kuskus in some places.



Ingredients and how to prepare
Koova podi / Arrow root powder 1 or 2 tsp (for desired thickness)
milk 1 glass
basil seeds 1 or 1 1/2 tsp
sugar according to taste
vanilla essence little



Soak basil seeds in little driking water.Allow it to swell.Mix arrowroot powder with milk. Boil on a medium heat stirring continuosly. When this becomes thick remove from fire. (If you continue boil it, the solution will start thinning).
Allow this to cool. Add sugar and essence. Then add the previously soaked basil seeds into this.(Don't add this to hot milk).Keep refrigerated.
If you like, add chopped fruits , ice cream , crushed nuts and rose syrup to the above.

See a beautiful lady from our family.... ;)

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Uluva Pizhinjathu / Fenugreek Juice

Thanks to Roopa, Rachel and Shaheen for bestowing the "yummy blog award"! I was very thrilled seeing your comments about my blog and I ask apology for not responding to you soon.With a slow net connection it was very difficult for me to reach your blogs..As I said in the previous post am with mom and this post is from her to my readers Sujitha and Biji. I hope others too may benefit from this.
Uluva juice / uluva pizhinjathu is also known as uluva kanji in some places. It is normally given to the delivered ladies as a post delivery medicine.Elders say this is good for those who are suffering back pain if taken regularly.
Uluva has much medicinal values which has a cooling effect on body and helps to improve hair growth.
You can take this juice any time if you like.



Ingredients
Uluva / fenugreek 1 cup
coconut grated half coconut
jaggery / sarkkara 3 big blocks or as desired



How to prepare
Wash and soak uluva in drinking water. Soak it for over night. Cook this in the same soaked water.Put jaggery in the end.
(You can pressure cook this.)
Take thick milk from coconut.
Blend the cooked uluva in same water and add coconut milk. Or blend coconut and uluva together. Or squeeze uluva , strain and add it to the coconut milk.(this is the real method) This juice has a light brown color.
You have to drink this soon when you prepared, other wise it may be thick.

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Cardamom Flavored Lime Ginger Juice

Ingredients and method
Lime / Cherunaaranga 1
ginger peeled 1/4 " piece
cardamom 1 or 2
sugar 3 Tbs
water 1 glass



Cut lemon into pieces. Remove seeds.Blend all the ingredients together. Strain. Serve immediatley. It may taste bitter if you keep it for long.
You can prepare this using the juice of lemon / lime too.For the first preparation no need to peel the lemon.

My entry for JFI Lime / Lemon hosted by The Spice Cafe..

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Dates And Almonds Drink

Dates have a special place in the lives of Beduins (Nomadic tribe of Arabs) in the Arab world. It is the great fruit rendering enough energy to them. Muslims take it to break fast, because of the health benefits it provides to our body.
While searching for my daughter's social studies project, I happened to read an anecdote from a UAE site. One evening a local Bedu received a letter and there was no sufficient light for him to read it.His wife soon kneaded some dates, and formed a cup. She poured some melted butter into it and placed a wick using some threads and lit the lamp! After finished reading the letter, the man threw out the wick and ate the cup! What an interesting tale , isn't it?



Dates and Almonds drink(Eethappazham Badam Juice)
Dates 15
almonds 15
milk 2 cups or more

Soak dates in 1 cup of hot water for 1/2 hour. Remove seeds. Soak almonds in water for overnight and and peel it.Blend them together with the water used for soaking dates and 1 cup of milk.Add the remaining milk according to your taste. Making paste of almonds and adding it will avoid forming granules in the drink. Since the dates are enough sweet, no need to add sugar.
For removing the skin of almonds in a hurry, just pour boiled water to the almonds, and keep it in that for five minutes. Then peel it easily..

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