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Gur Shikanjvi/ Gur Lemonade

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Give a twist to your traditional shikanjvi or give a traditional twist to your ordinary shikanjvi……

Gur Shikanjvi

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 litre chilled water
  • ½ cup fresh lemon juice
  • 1 cup gur (jaggery) (broken into pieces)
  • 1 tbspn heapful kala namak (optional)
  • Ice to serve

Method:

  1. Combine gur, kala namak, lemon juice & 1 cup of water in blender and blend until all the gur in dissolved.
  2. Pour this mixture in your serving jug and add rest of the chilled water. Stir. Adjust salt if needed.
  3. Add ice if needed and serve chilled.

Lemon Soda

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Ideal for summer BBQ parties….. 🙂

#CrowdPleaser #SuperEasy #SuperCool #SuperQuick

lmon

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 litre 7 up or sprite (chilled)
  • 1 tbspns black salt
  • 1 tbspn cumin seeds (zeera)
  • 1 cup fresh mint leaves
  • ½ cup lemon juice
  • A lot of crushed ice
  • Few lemon slices and mint leaves to decorate

Procedure:

  • Combine salt, lemon juice, cumin seeds and mint leaves in blender and blend the mixture. Add 1 cup of 7 up and 1 cup of crushed ice and blend further.
  • Pour this concentrated mixture in punch bowl or pitcher and pour over rest of the remaining 7 up. Give a gentle stir. Add more ice if desired along with fresh mint leaves and lemon juicer and serve.

Mango Colada

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Mango Colada is mango and coconut. I used fresh mangoes because they are in season, you can use frozen mangoes or mango sorbet as well. Its a very refreshing drink, I have made mocktail, you can add your favorite to make it cocktail. Have fun!

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Ingredients:

  • 2 kensington pride mangoes/ any sweet mangoes (medium sized)(peeled and cut into cubes)
  • 400 mL coconut milk
  • Some sugar (optional) (if you don’t have sweet mangoes then add a bit of sugar)
  • 1 cup crushed ice
  • Some ice cubes to serve
  • Some strawberries to serve

Procedure:

-Combine everything in blender jug and blend until smooth.

-Fill half of the glass with ice cubes and pour over colada until the glasses are topped up.

-Cut a slit in strawberry and hang it on the rim of the glass. You can put some whipped cream and maraschino cherry as well on top to make it look more presentable but I have done that with my pina colada drink so I tried something different and easy here.

Cool Watermelon Drink

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Only three ingredients….. no added ice……. super flavorful & super easy….. Cool down the heat with water melon drink, ideal for weekend BBQ parties and summer afternoons….. Enoy!

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Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • ¼ water melon (red and sweet) (in season)
  • Few fresh mint leaves
  • 1 cup crushed ice

Method:

-Take off the thick skin of watermelon and cut the fruit into medium sized pieces.

-Put them in a blender with some mint leaves and process it to fine.

-Put a mesh sieve over a jug and pour this mixture. Stir it constantly with a spoon over the sieve, this will help you in getting the fine juice in the jug and pulp and residue on the sieve.

-Discard the residue. Fill two glasses half with ice and pour the drink in them. Garnish with some mint leaves and serve chilled.

Skin Glower (Drink)

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Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 1 apple (granny smith preferred) (cored and cut into wedges)
  • 1 navel orange (peeled)
  • 1 beetroot (peeled and cut into wedges)
  • 1 carrot (peeled)
  • A piece of ginger
  • ½ lemon

Procedure:

-Wash, peel and cut all the fruits and vegetables.

-Put your juicer setting on high and process them.

-If you have a pro fountain juicer, like I have that mashes and grinds everything and collect all the residue in the strainer fitted inside and pour the juice out in the container, then it is perfect otherwise blend all the ingredients in a blender on high speed and make puree. Put a fine sieve over a jug or any container and pour the puree over the sieve. Use spoon to swirl mix it and collect the refined juice in the container. Discard the residue collected in the sieve.

-Fill quarter of your glass with crushed ice and pour the juice. Get a straw and enjoy your healthy breakfast drink which will give your skin a healthy and a natural glow plus all the vitality you need to start your day.

Pina Colada

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One of the famous beach drinks made with coconut milk and tropical twist (pineapple) ……

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Ingredients:

  • 1 large can Coconut milk
  • 1 ltr. Golden circle pineapple juice
  • 1 cup crushed ice
  • Some whipped cream
  • Some chopped pineapple
  • Some shredded coconut (dried/ fresh)

Procedure:

-Combine coconut milk, pineapple juice and crushed ice in a cocktail mixing jug and mix.

-Take 4 cocktail glasses and fill ¾ of each one of them with the drink.

-Put some whipped cream on top, garnish with some pineapple chunks and shredded coconut and serve.

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