Category: Drink

The summer season is here and we all want to drink a refreshing,sweet and cooling drink…well look no further we’ve got just the drink for you.This refreshing pomegranate drink will surely quench your thirst and beat the summer heat.Try this variation of a mojito that will ought to make you feel refreshed in a matter of seconds.

Ingredients

• One pomegranate
• A few mint leaves
• Lemon juice(of half a lemon)
• A pinch of black salt
• water/soda
• Ice

Method

• Muddle up the pomegranate,mint leaves,lemon juice and black salt till it looks like you have a slurry type mixture
• Add the ice into a cup/glass
• Pour water/soda
• And enjoy it chilled!!

Slurp on this tasty lemonade that is made in a matter of minutes and is totally instagram-worthy.

This recipe is for all the monkeys in your house and for people who are on diet. It is healthy and delicious and very easy to make with just Four to Five ingredients. The glass is going to finish before you even blink.

This recipe makes Two medium glasses

Ingredients

1)  Two ripe bananas – sliced

2)  One tablespoon honey or u can add sugar also. Honey helps the diet conscious people

3)  One tablespoon bornvita(or anything your kids like) or one Teaspoon Coffee

4)  300ml milk

5)  Chocolate Syrup for garnishing (optional)

Method

–          Blend all of the ingredients in a blender till a smooth consistency

–          Put the delicious concoction in a glass and serve with ice

Tip – If you freeze bananas for two hours or so then it gives better taste. You can avoid ice in this method. Feel free to change things and make your version.

Another variation is instead of Coffee or bournvita one could add even peanut butter for the health-conscious people

It is summer time in India esp North India gets really hot and with kids at home you need to keep them hydrated as they want to run out and play and do lots of swimming . While I make lots of lemonade, my kids are ready for experiments and trying out different drinks. Today we will do simple Bael (Wood Apple) Drink and Mango drink.

Bael Cooler

Ingredients

• Bael (wood apple)-1 no
• Sugar 2-4 tbsp
• Lemon juice- 2 tsp
• Salt/black salt to taste
• Roasted cumin powder
• Bowl of water

Method

1. Peel the bael by breaking it and put all the pulp in a bowl of water and leave it for 30 min to one hour
2. Mash the bael in water and sieve the water out. Don’t increase the water quantity as we want it more like a concentrate
3. Mix sugar ( you can increase and reduce or skip as per your taste), salt and cumin powder in the concentrate
4. Put ice in a glass and pour the concentrate in the glass about 3/4
5. Add little lemon juice and put some water in the glass . Stir it
6. sprinkle some more cumin powder and serve it chilled
7. Concentrate can be kept for a week or so

Mango cooler

This was created to curb the usage of tetra pack juices. I had tried only doing juice with fresh ripe manages but kids said it is tastier to have raw mango juice.  So I came up with this combination of the two !!

Ingredients

• Ripe Alphonso Mango  1 to 2 nos
• Raw Mango 1 nos
• Sugar 4-6 tbsp depending upon your taste and sweetness of your mango
• Water 1.5 liter

Method

1. Peel and chop the mangoes
2. Put in a big pan with water and sugar
3. Let it boil for 15-20 min or till mango becomes soft
4. Pass the juice through a sieve and let it cool
5. Refrigerate the same for 2 hours and serve chilled mango juice

Do share once you try making the two. These two have become top favourite with my kids after lemonade

Summer season is here and we all love to have colorful cool drinks.  I love doing mock-tails for the kids  and for our house parties.  They are the most sought after drinks. Hilarious part is I  do the preparation for mocktails and they are stolen for making cocktails but anyway it is all in the family.

Here goes the simple one

Orange and Strawberry – blossom

Ingredients

• Orange juice – 2-3 cups(chilled)
• Strawberry Crush or Grenadine Syrup- 2 tbsp
• Lemon Juice- 1 tbsp
• Vanilla Ice-cream- 2 tbsp
• Mirinda -1/2 cup or sprite or soda
• Crushed ice to serve

Method-

• Mix together everything except crushed ice & Mirinda in a blender
• Put in fridge till serving time
• Mix in the soda or Miranda to blended mixture before serving
• Pour in a glass with crushed ice

Does it not look awesome?

The other one very famous with kids is Fruit Punch

Ingredients

• Mixed Fruit juice – 2-3 cups(chilled)
• Grenadine Syrup- 3 tbsp
• Lemon Juice-3 tbsp
• Vanila Icecream- 2 tbsp (or Amul cream)
• Sprite or soda- or limca- 1 cup
• Crushed ice to serve

Method-

• Mix together everything except crushed ice in a blender and Soda
• Put in fridge till serving time
• Mix in the soda or Miranda to blended mixture before serving
• Pour in a glass with crushed ice

Don’t they look awesome and you can do your creativity in presenting the same. Pl try out different combinations and happy “mocktail-ing”!