SuvaiArusuvai - Veg Recipes of India

Ingredients: 2 Oranges (Nagpur variety) OR 4 Mosambis 4 Carrots 1/4 cup Lime juice 1/2 tsp Salt 1 tbsp Honey 1/8th cup Mint leaves 1 Lemon slice Ice cubes Method: Grind the carrots to make juice, yielding approximately 200 ml. Juice the oranges (or mosambis) to obtain approximately 200 ml of juice. Alternatively, use store-bought orange juice. In a tall glass, add 3 to 4 ice cubes. Pour 100 ml of carrot juice and 100 ml of orange (or mosambi) juice into the glass. Add honey and lime juice to the mixture, and stir well to combine. Garnish the mocktail with mint leaves and add a slice of lemon to the rim of the glass for decoration. Serve the refreshing Orange Carrot Mocktail as a party starter, a healthy summer cooler, or as an after-school drink for kids. Enjoy this delicious and nutritious beverage

Kaaichiya moru or Moru kaaichiyathu is a simple recipe from Kerala just like Neer mor made in Tamilnadu. Just like the people of Tamil nadu the Keralites also end thier meal with rice and curd or buttermilk. This is a flavourful and aromatic dish.  Here's the recipe for Kaaichiya Moru or Moru Kaaichiyathu, a traditional Kerala dish: Ingredients: 2 cups Curd (Thick and Creamy) 2 cups Water 6 Shallots (Sambar Onion) 1 inch Ginger 1 Green Chilli 1 tbsp Salt 1 pinch Turmeric Powder 1 tbsp Hing (Asafoetida) 1 tsp Mustard Seeds 1/2 cup Curry Leaves 1/2 cup Coriander Leaves 2 Red Chillies 2 tbsp Coconut Oil Method: In a large bowl, whisk the curd until smooth. Slowly add water while whisking until it reaches a semi-thick consistency. Set aside. Heat coconut oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and let them splutter. Then, add the red chillies, hing, and chopped curry leaves. Next, add finely chopped shallots, green chilli, and ginger to the pan. Stir well. Sprinkle turmeric powder and continue

Ingredients: Pistachio - 1/4 cup (unsalted) Sugar - 1/2 cup   or Honey - 4 tbsp Milk - 3 cups Ice - 1 cup Method: Grind pistachio and sugar or honey. Add 1/2 of the milk and crushed ice and blend together. Add this to the remaining milk and serve chilled.

Ingredients: Lemon - 8 nos Sugar - 2 cups Salt - 1 pinch Water - 1 cup Mint - a few leaves Vannila syrup Method: Remove the peel of 2 lemons slowly with a sharp knife. To remove the bitter taste, remove the white patch inside the skin. Cut the peel into thin strips. Boil the peel along with sugar, salt and water for about 5 mins. Close the pan and boil for another min. Remove from flame and add mint leaves. Leave it for about 15 minutes. Drain the syrup and let it cool. (For faster cooling, it can be even placed in freezer). Squeeze out the juice of lemons. Add a pinch of salt to it. Mix both the lemon juice and syrup and store it in airtight bottle and store it in fridge. (This stays good for about a week to 10 days). While serving add 5 parts of water to 1 part of sugar or soda. Add one or two drops of Vannila Syrup on top and place a lemon rind on the rim of the glass.

Ingredients: Carrot - 2 nos Beetroot - 1  Black Pepper Powder - 1 tsp Mint leaves - 1/4 cup        or Mint Paste - 2tbsp Salt to taste Sugar 1 pinch Cashew - 1 no Badam - 1 no Method: Soak Badam in water for a while and peel the skin. Cut carrot and beetroot into cubes.  Grind carrot, beetroot, cashew and badam in a blender. Add 2 cups of water and strain it. Mix in salt, sugar and the black pepper powder.  Garnish it with mint leaves and serve chilled. Good to improve the HB count in blood.

An apple a day keeps doctor away. A pregnant woman needs lots of nourishment during her entire period of pregnancy. Some women due to their morning sickness will not eat a lot. For them, this drink is a great boon and this can be had immediatly after preparing. Ingredients: Apples - ripe and unsour - 4 medium sized Sugar - 1/2 tbsp (better substitute with Honey) Lime Juice - 1 tbsp Ice cubes - 1 or 2 (optional) How to make Appy Magic: In a juicer blender, grind the apples (if the juicer have its own filter the better, if not the juice have to be strained using a muslin cloth). Blend it till it is smooth and a fine paste. Add the lemon juice, sugar or honey and mix well. Serve with the ice cubes. This juice is to be made immediatly after cutting the apples so as the nutritional value in it is not lost. The dash of lime juice will help in getting releived from morning sickness. Honey will help in increased strength(as it have iron content in it). Ice cubes also help in reducin

Every one wishes to have a healthy glowing skin. Tomatoes gives that glow to any kind of skin type. I am highly fond of this fresh juice recipe that whenever I feel a bit low of energy, I take it as we have all the below ingredients at home ever. Even if there is no lemon available one can have it without that and can feel a definite refreshing just in a few mins after taking it. Ingredients Tomatoes - 4 Ginger - 1 inch piece Sugar - 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice - From one medium sized lemon Ice cubes - 2 Method Grind tomatoes along with ginger and sugar. Blend well and add the lemon juice and ice cubes. It is the best drink to have to have in summer. Check the health benefits of ginger Best summer drink Fights Cancer Helps skin glow

CBadam Milk is one of the favourite drinks in our household. To make any occassion special, either Badam Kheer or as a dessert Badam milk is served. This is one recipe that I learnt from one of my friend's mom which can be stored in fridge and use whenever needed. Ingredients: Almonds - 1 cup Saffron - 1/2 gm(fresh) Sugar - 2 cups Water - 1 1/2 cups Badam essence - 1 tsp (optional) How to make Badam Syrup: Soak almonds in hot water and peel them. Add 2 tbsp of warm water to saffron. Grind both almonds and saffron to a very fine paste. Better to avoid water but if needed, a little water can be added. In a heavy bottom pan add sugar and add 1/2 cup of water to make sugar syrup. Add the paste when the syrup starts boiling. Keep stirring so as to no lumps are formed. (Essence can be added when the mixture starts boiling again). Let it cool and refrigerate it. How to make Badam Milk using Badam Syrup: Add 2 tsps of syrup to warm milk. (Though no sugar is needed, if you ha

A very rich easy to make milkshake. This gives instant strength and energy too. Ingredients: Badam - 10 to 12 pieces (soaked and skin peeled) Crushed Ice - 4 cubes Pista - 8 to 10 pieces (unsalted) Butter Scotch Ice cream - 3 scoops Kesar - 1/2 tsp Cardamom - 2 nos Milk - 1 cup Method: Add milk, 2 cups of butter scotch icecream, badam, cardamom, pista and 4 cubes of ice. It is better to use a whipper rather than grinding it. Garnish it with pista pieces and Kesar strangs. This makes 2 glasses of milkshake. While serving add the remaining 1 scoop of icecream, (half scoop in each glass) and serve chilled.

Ingredients: Pomegranate  - 1 no (big and ripe) Sugar - 2 tbsp Milk - 3/4th cups Ice cubes - 2 nos Method to make Pomegranate Milk Shake: In a juicer, add all the ingredients together and grind well till it frosts. Pour in a tall glass. Serve with a twig of mint leaf.

This is one milkshake that can be had either cold or hot. I dont make it with the coco powder that we get in the supermarkets, they give a bitter taste, instead I use a combination of choclate drink and Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Ingredients: Milk - 2 glasses Sugar - 3 tbsp Boost - 4 tbsp Dairy Milk Bar - (the Rs. 5 bar is enough for 2 glass) Water - 1/4 cup Ice cubes - 2 Method: Warm the water add boost to it and mix well. Scrap the Dairy Milk into pieces and add that to the warm water. Take a hard bottom vessel and add the milk, sugar and the choclate mixture and keep stirring till everything blends together. Remove from flame, let it cool. Take half of it and blend in a blender till it frosts. Mix it with the remaining. If you want it hot, heat the remaining mixture before adding the forsted mixture to it. If you are serving it cold, blend both together, add ice cubes and serve chilled. Alternatively, you can add choclate ice cream while blending. But avoid Dairy Milk.

A healthy and tasty drink. Make it plain or make it as a milkshake, kids will love for sure. Drink that people of all ages can have. Ingredients: Carrot - 2 cups grated Milk - 4 cups Water - 1 cup Sugar - 3/4 cups Cardomom - 1/2 tsp Cashew nuts - 24 nos. Method: Pressure cook carrots in one cup milk and one cup water. (Just one whistle is enough). Let it cool. Grind half of the cashew nuts with the cooked carrot to a fine paste. Bring the remaining 3 cups of milk to a boil. Add the ground paste to it and cook till the entire mixture forms a thick paste. Add sugar after reducing the flame. When the sugar dissolves remove from flame, add cardomom powder and cashew nuts roasted in ghee. Serve chilled. (If you want it as a drink, add half cup of this kheer to half cup of milk before serving).

Ingredients: Mango Puree- 1/2 cup Milk - 3/4th cup Mango Ice cream - 2 scoops Sugar - 2 spoons Method: Blend mango puree and milk and one scoop of mango ice cream along with sugar in a blender. Serve in a tall glass with the remaining scoop of ice cream.

Ingredients: Soyabean powder - 100gms Milk Powder - 100gms Baadam, Unsalted Pista - 50 gms Sugar - As per taste Cardomom - 2 to 5 Milk - 1 cup chilled Method: Mix and seive soya powder and milk powder to blend well. Dry roast baadam, pista and cardomom and grind them in a dry mixer. Mix it along with the soya bean mixlk powder mixture and blend well again. Add this powder and 1 tspn of sugar to one glass of chilled milk. Beat it in a juicer or hand blender and serve cold. Alternatively, it can be had in a glass of warm water and this helps in keeping a person awake but alert when studying for exams.

Early in the morning, the brain is fresh after a good amount of sleep, to make it more energetic, a glass of milk that is added with nuts helps. Ingredients: Cashewnut, Baadam - 50 gm each Walnut - 20 gm Khus Khus - 2 tbsp Cardamom - 2 pieces Kesar Strands - 5 gms Sugar - 100 gms Method: Dry roast all the nuts and powder them. Grind the kesar strands separately. Grind the sugar separately. Mix all the three ingredients together and store it in a cool dry container. As sugar is added to it already, it is better to avoid sugar while preparing this drink.