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Refreshing Watermelon Juice with Lemon and Salt

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Welcome to our culinary journey! Today, we're diving into the realm of refreshing summer beverages with a twist – Watermelon Juice with Lemon and Salt. This delightful concoction combines the sweetness of watermelon with the tanginess of lemon and a hint of salt to create a drink that's not only hydrating but also bursting with flavour. Ingredients: 4 cups of fresh watermelon chunks, seedless 1-2 lemons, juiced 1/4 teaspoon of salt Ice cubes (optional) Fresh mint leaves for garnish (optional) Instructions: 1. Prepare the Watermelon: Start by cutting the watermelon into chunks, making sure to remove any seeds. If you're short on time, you can also use pre-cut watermelon chunks. 2. Blend the Watermelon: Place the watermelon chunks into a blender. Blend until smooth and no chunks are remaining. If you prefer a thicker consistency, you can add less watermelon or skip adding any additional liquids. 3. Add Lemon Juice: Squeeze the juice of one to two lemons into the blender with ...

Chia Seeds With Curd | Chilled summer breakfast

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Easy and light breakfast for summers. Chia seeds has omega-3 fatty acids and give a perfect boost of energy for your early morning starts. Ingredients Chia Seeds- 2 tbsp- per person Curd or milk- 1 cup Banana- 1 ( increase quantity as per person Mango- 1/2 per person Any fruits of your choice can be added. Method Take the requires amount of chia seeds, as per person and soak in the milker curd for max one hour. Overnight soaked seeds are perfect, but chia seeds are well edible in one hour too. Add the choice of fruit, the more the merrier. Chia seed doesn't have any taste of its own, and its absorbs the flavour of any formulation you add too. Sugar, jaggery or honey can be added as per taste. Prefer honey on any other form of sweetener if serving to kids. Adults can consume as it is, as fruits its self give it much sweetness. Have a great summers mornings with this chilled dish. Enjoy!

Popsicles | Summer

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Our dear summer is early in Southern India. Already struggling with hot days in and out. Here I have made a refreshing cool two flavors Popsicle's at home. Hope you will try it! Ingredients Two different flavors of drinks non-aerated. Method I have mixed two flavors mango and orange in my Popsicle. Natural juices or cold-pressed, homemade anything can be used. You can use any powder mix drinks or the store bought drinks, like here I have used mango for the base and then froze it for a day and then pour another layer of orange and froze it for another day. Refresh yourself with the joy of yummy Popsicle's with family and friends Enjoy!

Mango Icecream | Creamy

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A very easy and preservative free homemade mango ice-cream for all the mango lovers. Nutritional value The mango fruit is delicious and sweet , it contains over 20 different minerals and vitamins. this ice-cream contains both cream and condensed milk and serves almost 24 scoops of ice-cream. Ingredients Mangoes- 3 medium size Cream- 1cup Condensed Milk- 200 gms Method Peel the mangoes and make a puree in mixer grinder. Now add cream and condensed milk and mix it again. Pour the mix in a freezer friendly bowl and freeze it for 8 to 12 hours. Scoop and beat the heat. Enjoy!

Mango shake

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Who doesn't love to endeavor their taste buds with delightful freshness and sweetness of Mango! The summer fruit is everywhere and the one of the best to have it is mix with milk and dry fruits and enjoy chilled drink in this heating summer. Ingredients Mango medium size 2 Milk 1 cup for every two mangoes Dry fruits- Crushed 1/4 cup for two glass Sugar* only if mango is not sweet but i will suggest to avoid it. Method Take  the pulp and mix it with milk and dry fruits, use blender of mixer grinder to blend everything together Serve with a dollop of fresh cream and few mango pieces Enjoy!

Fish Curry

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A very simple fish curry made by mom. Light ingredients for a light summer lunch in a quiet Garhwali home. Nutritional Value Fish has an expected 240 calories in 1 cup  This dish serves 5 people. Almost 50 percent in one cup of fish is protein combined with fat and carbs. Ingredients 700 gms of fish 1 teaspoon Coriander powder 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder 1 teaspoon Garam M 2 teaspoon Salt 6 cloves of garlic 2 cloves 3 tablespoon of oil Method  Marinate the fish pieces with salt and two teaspoon turmeric powder. Let it rest for half an hour . Add 2 tablespoon of oil in a wok and fry the fish  Three medium size onions, two tomatoes chop and keep them. Sic minced garlic clove with two cloves.  Fry the fish both side till they turn little Golden brown  Remove the fish pieces and now add one tablespoon of oil and fry the chopped onions till they are golden brown. ...

Whole Wheat Pancakes

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Easy and tasteful delights to make your mornings, whole wheat pancakes with banana and chocolate chips and homemade banana induced syrup.   Nutritional value This recipe serves ten pancakes with max 80 calories each. It has banana, brown sugar, whole wheat and, milk in it. Whole Wheat- 400 kcal Banana- 360 kcal Brown Sugar- 60 kcal Ingredients For Pancake 2 cup Whole Wheat 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate (any kind) 1/3 cup milk 4 banana 1 egg For syrup 4 tablespoon brown sugar half tablespoon butter 1/2 tea spoon vanilla essence 1/2 cup water Method Mash the banana with one egg and few drops of vanilla essence.  Mix the whole wheat flour with baking-soda, baking powder and salt. In a pan melt half tablespoon butter and add brown sugar to it, as soon as sugar starts melting add half cup water to it and let it boil. Add banana slices and vanilla essence to it. Cook till the bananas looks little wilted. ...

Chick Pea in Gravy (Chole)

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Another healthy and easy to fix breakfast or anytime snack Oat & Gram Flour Chilla.    

Aam Panna

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Aam Panna  Aam Panna (raw-mango drink), is a delicious thirst-quenching delicacy for summers. I tried to keep the flavors as simple and authentic as mom used to make. Made from boiled raw mangoes the flavors are balanced by adding either sugar or jaggery with black salt. Aam Panna Nutritional Value Raw mango has Vitamin-A and Vitamin C in it. It also has mild percentages of Magnesium, Vitamin B-6, and Calcium As the pulp is mixed with sugar and salt so this recipe will make 4 glasses of Panna with 150 calories each. The calories can be varied if we add more water and less sugar. Calories -150 kcal/ per glass Ingredients Raw mango- 5 Sugar or Jaggery- 1/2 cup (adjust to taste) Black salt- 2 teaspoon (adjust to taste) Cumin powder- 1/2 teaspoon Chili powder- 1/2 teaspoon Method Boil the raw mangoes in a pressure cooker for two whistles and if you are boiling in a vessel it will take around 40 to 45 minutes. Next, peel the skin off and take all the pulp out i...

Vegetable Manchurian

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My sister and I always look for Manchurian and chili potatoes whenever we eat out, any hotel or restaurant if it's on their menu it will be on our table. So after eating it in zillion of places here is my version of Indo-Chinese fusion food 'Vegetable Manchurian Dry', have it dry or with gravy, with noodles or fried rice, it will never disappoint you. Nutritional Value These Veg Manchurian balls are shallow fried which cut lot of calories, and basically, this dish is made of only vegetables which fill our daily dose of nutrition. It has Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium, iron, because of vegetables and its good for kids too. The oil or butter we use to prepare makes a real difference in calories. Calories*- 1500 (whole dish) *calories are an estimation of my cooking. Servings- 3 Ingredients For Vegetable Balls 2 cups of squeezed shredded vegetables (cabbage, bell pepper, carrot, green onions) 1- Red onion 2 heaped tablespoons of cornstarch and all-...