Pistachio Milk Shake

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.

Papaya Milkshake - For acidity cure and heartburn

Papaya is one dish that is rich and Vitamin A. It helps in reducing heartburn and gives soothing effect for acidity.

Ingredients:
Ripe Papaya - 1 no.
Milk - 1/2 litre
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Banana - 2 nos
Cashew nuts - 8 nos
Almonds - 8 nos

Method:
Soak almonds in warm water for about 1/2 an hour and peel off the skin. Soak cashewnuts separately. Grind both the nuts to a fine paste. Peel and deseed papaya. Cut into cubes. Peel and cut bananas into slices. Blend papaya, banana and the nuts paste along with sugar and milk. If the milkshake is thick, water can be added to make it thinner. Serve it in tall glass with small pieces of papaya and banana.

Diabetic patients can avoid sugar.

Chickoo (Sappotta) Milkshake

Ingredients:
Chickoo - 5 nos
Condensed milk - 1/2 cup (optional)
Milk - 2 cups
Sugar - 1/2 tbsp
Ice

Method:
Peel chickoo and cut into small pieces. Remove the seeds. Cut one chickoo into small pieces. Add 4 chickoo, milk, sugar, and 1/4 cup of condensed milk to a blender and blend properly. Add the shake to tall glass and add 1 tbsp of condensed milk on top and a few chickoo pieces. Add one or two ice cubes and serve chilled.

Yummy Goldy Shake

Ingredients:
Orange Juice - 1 cup
Pineapple Juice - 1 cup
Milk - 2 cups
Fresh cream - 1 cup
Sugar 1/2 cup
Ice cubes - 12 nos
Pineapple - 3 rings
Orange - 1/2

Method:
Chop the pineapple into small pieces. Deseed the oranges and cut each segment into 4 portions.

Mix orange juice and pine apple juice. Add sugar to it and blend it well. Add milk to it and blend again.

In a tall glass add 2 ice cubes and fill it with the mixture. Add a few pineapple pieces and 1 portion of orange piece on top and add 2 tbsp of fresh cream to it. Serve chilled.

Makes a great dish for party.

Jelly Vannila Shake

Ingredients:
Milk - 1 cup
Jelly - to serve 4 people
Vannila Ice cream - 1/2 kg pack

Method;
In a blender add milk and ice cream and blend well. When it frosts add the jelly and blend again. Serve chilled in tall glass.

Note:
Strawberry or mango jelly goes well with Vannila Icecream.

Coconut Milkshake

Ingredients:
Vanilla Ice cream - 1/2 kg tub
Milk - 3 cups
Fresh cream - 3 tbsp
Dessicated coconut - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup

Method:
Add 1 cup of milk, 8 scoops of ice cream, sugar, dessicated coconut and cream to a blender and blend well till it comes to a creamy texture. Fill a tall glass with this mixture upto 3/4th. Add milk and 1 scoop of ice cream and serve it with a straw. Decorate the rim of the glass with wafer biscuits.

Strawberry Milkshake

Ingredients:
Strawberry - 10 to 12 nos
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Milk - 2 cups
Vannila Ice cream - 1 scoop (optional)
Ice cubes - 2 to 4

Method:
Add Strawberry and sugar to a juicer blender and blend it thoroughly. Add milk and ice cubes and belnd them again till they frost. Serve in a tall glass with a topping of Vanilla Ice cream.

This quantity makes about 3 cups of milk shake.

Cardamom (Elaichi) Milk Shake - Recipe to remove tiredness

Ingredients:

Milk - 3 cups (whole Milk)

Sugar - to taste

Almonds - 10 to 15 nos

Cashew Nuts - 8 nos

Ice cubes - 4 to 5 nos

Caradamom seeds - 1/2 tsp

Method:

Grind cashew nuts, Almond seeds and cardamom in a blender. When they are powdered, add the milk to the blender and mix thoroughly. Add the ice cubes to the blender and blend till the milk frosts. Add sugar and serve chilled.

Note:

If this is served in summer, heat the milk and add the powdered nuts to the milk and serve warm.

Great energy drink.

Toffee in Coffee a recipe for chocolate coffee lovers

Some thing different and something yummy. Though pure coffee lovers may not approve this, still, it tastes good.

Ingredients:

Milk - 1 cup

Instant coffee - 1 1/2 tsp

Boost or drinking choclolate - 1 tbsp

cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp

Sugar - 1 tsp

Whipped cream - 1 tsp

Method:

Heat the milk and add instant coffee powder to it. Add cinnamon powder, boost and sugar. Add whipped sugar and serve warm. 

This can be served as iced coffee also by adding one or two ice cubes to it.

Apple Shake with cinnamon to cure Acidity

Acidity have become very very common ailment in the recent times. People tend to get it more easily due to the current lift style. Apple which keeps the doctor away, definitely keeps acidity away if it is taken with cinnamon.

Ingredients:
Apple - 2 nos
Sugar - 2 tbsp
Milk - 2 cups (chilled milk)
Cinnamon Powder - 1 tsp
Ice cubes - 4 nos

Method to make:
Peel and dice apples to cubes and grind it in a blender to a fine puree along with milk and 1/2 cup of milk. Add the cinnamon powder and the remaining milk and whip it well. Serve with 1 or 2 ice cubes.

This makes 4 glasses of milk shake. Can be served with small cubes of apple on top.

Health Benefits of Cinnamon Powder.

Home Made Badam milk mix recipe

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 have a sweet tooth 1/2 spoon of sugar can be added).

How to make Badam milk shake:
In a blender add Badam syrup, ice cubes and milk and whip once or twice. Pour in a glass and add Vannila or Butter Scotch Ice cream. Serve chilled with Wafer Biscuits

Rich and Royal Milkshake

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.

A healthy fruity breakfast

Bored of the regular breakfast, want to try something healthy and refreshing, try out the following which is definitely filling refreshing.

Ingredients:
Banana - 2
Strawberries - 2
Papaya - 3 to 4 medium sized cubes
Pineapple - 2 medium sized cubes
Apple - 1 no (peeled and de-seeded)
Honey - 1 tbsp
Sugar - 2 tbsp (optional)
Ice cubes - 2 nos
Milk - 2 glasses

Method:
The above measurement will give almost 3 cups of fruit juice.

Blend all the ingredients except milk in high blending speed in a blender. Pour 1 glass of milk and run the blender in whip mode for 2 to 3 times. Transfer it to a vessel and add the remaining glass of milk and serve it for breakfast.

Apple Milkshake - First recipe for toddlers and kids

This is a great recipe to introduce fruits for kids. This also can be given with milk for school going kids as a breakfast or evening drink.

Ingredients:
Apple - 1
Badam - 1 no
Cashewnut - 1 no
Honey - 1/2 tsp

Method:
Cut apple into pieces and pressure cook it. Grind it to a fine paste with Badam and Cashew. Transfer it to a feeding bowl and then add honey and mix well

Note: It is better to check with your pead to add Badam and cashew to the apple while giving it to toddlers.

Recipe for Dates Milk shake

This is one recipe which is rich in Iron and Calcium. Kids will love it for sure.

Ingredients to make 2 cups of dates milk shake:
Dates - 1/2 cup (without seeds)
Sugar - 4 tbsp
Milk - 2 cups
Ice cubes - 2
Vanilla Ice cream - 1 scoop

Method to make dates milk shake:
In a blender add dates, sugar, 1 cup of milk and grind it till it frosts. Pour in 2 tall glasses to half the level and add milk to remaining half and add 1/2 scoop of ice cream in each of the glasses.

Can be served with wafers.

Pomegranate Milk Shake

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.

Ice Coffee - A milkshake recipe for coffee lovers

Ingredients:Instant Coffee Powder - 2 tbsp
              or
Coffee Decoction - 1/4 cup
Chilled Milk - 1 cup
Chilled Water - 1/2 cup
Ice cubes - 4

Method:
Add all the ingredients in a blender and blend it till smooth and frosts. Serve chilled in tall glass.

Choclate Milk shake - Kid's favourite recipe

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.

Mango Milkshake

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.

Healthy drink for exam goers - Soya bean milkshake

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.