Plain Lassi

Ingredients

• Thick curd-3 cups
• Ice cubes-3-4
• Salt or 3 tsp sugar(depending on if you want sweet or salty lassi)-1 tsp
• Water

Method

• Crush the ice cubes in the blender.
• Add the curd, water and salt/sugar.
• Run the blender for about 1 minute.
• Serve chilled.

Mango Lassi

Ingredients

• Thick curd-3 cups
• Mango pulp-1 cup
• Ice cubes -3,4
• Powdered sugar-3 tsp
• Water

Method

• Crush the ice cubes in the blender.
• Add the curd, mango pulp, water and sugar.
• Run the blender for about 1 minute.
• Serve chilled.

Ginger Lemonade

Ingredients

• Minced ginger-1 cup
• Water-1 cup
• Freshly squeezed lime juice-1 cup
• Sugar-1 cup
• Chilled water or Sprite to mix

Method

• Mix the 1 cup of water with the ginger and squeeze through a strainer to get ginger concentrate.
• Add the sugar and the lime juice to this.
• Stir well till all the sugar dissolves.
• Adjust the sugar if you need to.
• Pour it into bottles and refrigerate.
• When serving, add a teaspoonful of this concentrate to chilled water or sprite and mix well.
• Serve garnished with a mint leaf.

Badami Milk

Ingredients

• 1 glass milk
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp Badami Milk Mix
  

Badami milk mix:

• Ingredients
• One tbsp badam (almonds), skinned
• Cardammoms, shelled -4
• Pistachios, shelled -1 tsp
• Kesari (saffron)-1/2 tsp
• Powder all the above in a grinder and mix well.
• Store in an airtight container.

Method

• This beverage can be prepared hot or cold.
• If you want a hot beverage, heat the milk..
• Add the sugar and the badami powder.
• Stir till the sugar dissolves.
• If you want a cold beverage, add the sugar and badami powder to cold milk and stir till the sugar dissolves.

Mango Juice

Ingredients

• Pulp from 6 large fresh mangoes
• One tsp elaichi(cardamom), powdered
  
• Powdered sugar-1/2 cup
• Water

Method

• Blend together all the above ingredients for about 1 minute in a food processor or blender.
• Mix in water depending on the consistency of the juice you want.
• Chill. Serve garnished with a mint leaf.

Mango Milk Shake

Ingredients

• Pulp from 3 large fresh mangoes
• Half tsp elaichi(cardamom),
• powdered
• sugar-1 Whole milk-3 cups

Method

• Blend together all the above ingredients for about one minute in a food processor or blender.
• Mix in cold water depending on the consistency of the milk shake you want.
• Chill. Serve garnished with a mint leaf.

Beetroot juice

Ingredients:

• Fresh beetroot-1
• Vanilla icecream-2tbs
• Sugar syrup-2tbs
• Cinnamon-1tbs
• Chilled milk-1/4 cup
• Crushed ice

Method

• Boil the whole beetroot with the skin. peel it when cold.
• Add vanilla ice cream,sugar syrup, cinnamon,chilled milk and crushed ice in a blender.
• Now add the peeled beetroot to it.Blend together all the ingredients.
• serve chilled.

Panna

Ingredients

• 1 raw mango
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp saffron strands
• 1/2 tsp cardamon powder
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  Method
• Peel and chop mango into chunks.
• In a pan, put mango, sugar and nutmeg.
• Boil till the mango is soft. Cool.Blend in mixie till smooth. Sieve.
• Add cardamon, saffron and bring to boil, stirring continuously.Take off heat. Cool.
• As and when required add a tbsp or more to a glass of chilled water and mix with an egg-beater, to froth.The pulp may be stored in the freezer for over a month.

Tangy Lemon Drink( Nimbu Squash )

Ingredients:

• Lemons-250 grams
• Sugar-250 grams
• Water-250 ml
• Vinegar -1 Tablespoon
  Method
• Take the lemons and wash and cut them into halves.
• Squeeze and collect the juice from the lemons.Store it in the fridge

Sugar Syrup

• Take the water and put it on heat in a saucepan.
• Add and disolve the sugar. Bring it to boil and make a syrup.
• You may have to remove the scum from the top of the sugar.Let the syrup cool down.
• Now take a dry glass bottle and mix the syrup, lemon juice and the vinegar in it.
• Shake the bottle a bit. Store this bottle in the fridge. ( you can keep this for a week or so in the fridge)

Serving

• When serving mix three fourths glass of water with one fourth glass of syrup and add ice cubes.
• You can garnish it with fresh mint leaves.You can also add some table salt if needed
• Another variation would be to add a pinch of black salt.If you want you can use soda water instead of the water. It will be a really refreshing drink and fizzy as well.