Winter Cocktail

Indian Cooking Recipe : Winter Cocktail

Ingredients:
3 tsp lemon juice
2 tbsp orange juice
1 bottle soda
4 tsp sugar, powdered
3 strawberries, sliced


Method:
Keep the soda bottle to chill.
Place the sliced strawberries at the
bottom of a tall glass.
Put the sugar and fruit juices.
Before serving put the chilled soda on the top.

Water Melon Drink

Indian Cooking Recipe : Water Melon Drink

Ingredients :

1 melon water
100 gms sugar
Ice cubes



Method :

Cut out a square from the melon as it is
& keep aside.
Put sugar in the melon & cover back with the cut piece.
Refrigrate for 3-4 hrs.
Take out & Pour into glasses. Serve chilled.

Thandai

Indian Cooking Recipe : Thandai

Ingredients :

1 kg sugar
½ kg water
40-50 almonds
½ katori saunf
30 cardamom pods
¼ katori black peppercorns whole
1 tbsp khuskhus
½ tsp rose water
1 tbsp kharbooj / tarbooj seeds skinned

Method :

Bring Sugar and water to boil.
After making sure all the sugar is dissolved remove from heat and cool completely.
Clean all other dry ingredients.
Soak each in water separately for 3-4 hours.
Drain all soaked ingredients.
Peel the almonds.
Blend all the ingredients to a very fine paste.
Place a strainer over a vessel and strain the blended liquid, pressing with back of a spoon, extracting the liquid into vessel.
Add more syrup, a little at a time to extract more.
Pour back husk with some more syrup and blend again, strain and repeat till all the syrup is gone and residue becomes dry and husk like.
Your thandai concentrate is now ready to be stored in clean airtight glass bottles. It has a shelf life (refrigerated) of 6 months.
Ready to serve.
Blend milk, thandai and few ice cubes and serve chilled in tall glasses.

Sweet Lassi

Indian Cooking Recipe : Sweet Lassi

Ingredients :

500 ml yoghurt
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
Crushed Ice
250 ml Water

Method :

Place all the ingredients in a blender including ice and blend until it is a bit frothy.

Strawberry Milk shake

Indian Cooking Recipe : Strawberry Milk shake

Ingredients :

250 gms fresh strawberry

1 litre fresh milk
Sugar as per taste
Strawberry ice cream


Method :

Wash the strawberry and chop it finely.
In a blender put the strawberry, sugar and a cup of milk. Blend it to a smooth paste.
Add the rest of the milk and blend it once again.
Strain it with a mesh into a large jar. Let this cool at least 2 hours.
Serve it in tall glasses with a scoop of strawberry ice-cream.

Quick Tropical Drink

Indian Cooking Recipe : Quick Tropical Drink

Ingredients:

1 bottle Limca
1 tbsp vanilla ice-cream
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp orange squash

For serving:

Crushed ice
Chopped fruit

Method:

Blend the Limca, ice-cream, lemon juice and orange squash in a liquidiser.
Put crushed ice and chopped fruit on the top.
Ready to serve.

Plum Juice

Indian Cooking Recipe : Plum Juice

Ingredients :

500 gms fresh plums
3 cups water
1 to 1 ½ cups rose syrup
1 tsp cumin powder
½ tsp black pepper-ground
1 tsp salt
1 ½ to 1 tsp citric acid

Method :

Put plums in water, boil for about 3 minutes. Cool.
Remove pits by hand.
Put plums in blender and strain.
Add all above ingredients.
Mix and serve cold on ice.

Pink Whiz Cooler

Indian Cooking Recipe : Pink Whiz Cooler

Ingredients:
4 tbsp strawberry ice-cream
4 bottles ice-cream soda
50 gms strawberry jelly


Method:
Keep the ice-cream soda bottles to chill.
Melt the jelly in 1½ teacups of boiling water.
Keep it to set in the refrigerator. When set, cut the jelly into small pieces.
In a tall glass, put a little jelly, a little ice-cream and fill with chilled soda.

Party Punch

Indian Cooking Recipe : Party Punch

Ingredients :

1 big bottle of Lime/Pineapple/
Orange Soda
½ litre vanila Icecream
½ litre vanila sorbet
1 litre ginger soda
1 can (small) red cherries
1 can (small) delmont mix Fruit
1 can sprite

Method :

Mix in a bowl all above ingradients, 10 minute before serving and keep in bowl with 2 cup crushed (very small pieces) ice.
If you serve, occationaly stir to avoid fruit left at bottom.

Orange Squash

Indian Cooking Recipe : Orange Squash
Orange Squash Ingredients :
1 litre juice
1.500 kgs sugar
750 c.c.water .
40 gms citric acid
2.5 gms KMS (potassium Meta Bisulpite).
4 tsp essence

Method :
Wash the fruits, extract the juice and measure.
Make syrup with sugar and water.
Add citric acid. Heat it till the sugar dissolves.
Filter through thin cloth, cool, add essence
and colouring.
Mix the syrup in the juice and stir well.
Dissolve KMS in hot water and bottle the same at once.

Lemonade

Indian Cooking Recipe : Lemonade

Ingredients :

1 lemon juice
6 tsp sugar
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp powder of black pepper
¼ tsp juice of ginger

Method :

Take a glass and mix all these ingredients with a little water.
Stir well till the sugar dissolve properly.
Now add soda or chilled water in it.
Serve it chilled and decorate with mint leaves and lemon.

Lemon Ginger Chill

Indian Cooking Recipe : Lemon Ginger Chill

Ingredients :

2 lemon juice
small piece ginger
5 mint leaves
Sugar according to your taste
Salt a pinch
4 cups water

Method :

Mix them all together in the blender for few seconds.
Then strain it.
Chill it for few hours.
Add ice cubes.
Serve with lemon slices.
Ready to drink.

Iced Tea

Indian Cooking Recipe : Iced Tea

Ingredients :

1 tall glass
1 cup water
1 tsp tea powder
5 tsp sugar
1 lemon's juice
10-15 ice cubes

Method :

Make black tea as usual with 5 tsp sugar
Take the tall glass and fill it more than ½ with ice cubes
Cool the black tea till only a bit warm
Pour the lemon juice over the ice cubes and also the black tea
Garnish with whole pudina leaves(1-2) and a lemon slice.

Health Drink

Indian Cooking Recipe : Health Drink

Ingredients :
2 tomatoes
1 carrot
1 orange
a few drops of lemon juice
3 drops saccharine or 2 pills saccharine
2 pinches salt
crushed ice for serving

Method :
Chop the tomatoes and carrots into big pieces.
Put the orange segments and ½ teacup of water.
Blend it with all the remaining ingredients in a
liquidizer and strain.
Serve it with lots of crushed ice.

Fruits Drink

Indian Cooking Recipe : Fruits Drink

Ingredients :

2 bananas
3 peaches
1 cup yogurt
1 cup chilled milk

Method :

Peel the bananas and cut the small pieces bananas and peaches.
Grind the both fruits in the mixer.
Add low fat yogurt and again grind, you can mix chilled milk and sugar.
Serve chilled.

Badam Milk Shake

Indian Cooking Recipe : Badam Milk Shake

Ingredients :

3 cups of milk
1 cup of badam
1 cup of yogurt/curds
1 cup of sugar
5 cinnamon
2 cups of water

Method :

Grind cinnamon, badam, sugar all together
After put milk & curds into the mixie, grind
well, along with the above powder.
Put water if you do not want it served thick.
Serve the chilled badam milk shake.

Any Time Cool Drink

Cool Drink


Ingredients :
4 large apples
4 tbsp sugar
6 bottles lemonade
1 bottle soda
juice of 1 lemon
1½ teacups orange squash (approx)
chopped fruits (seasonal)
crushed ice to serve


Method :

Keep the lemonade and soda bottles to chill.
Peel and cut the apples into big pieces.
Put the sugar, lemon juice and 1 teacup of water and allow to cook.
When cooked, blend in a liquidizer.
Before serving put the orange squash and the chilled lemonade and soda and stir well.
Serve ice-cold with chopped fruit and crushed ice.