How to Make Chocolaty Chikoo Shake

Recipe by Naiya Sheth : Learn how to make Chocolaty Chikoo shake. Chikoo/sapota is one of my favorite summer fruits. Chikoo is delicious tropical fruit rich in vitamins and minerals. It is soft and full of antioxidant tannins. It contains natural sugar like fructose and sucrose. It gives replenishes energy and revitalizes the body instantly.

Here it's a sweet n delicious chocolaty chikoo shake recipe. Surprised! Chikoo or chocolate? Yes, as you know I am a chocolate lover, it is a very rich combined taste of chocolate and chikoo together. To give more richness I always add vanilla ice cream with it. It is surely a heavy stomach filler during fasts. A single one is enough. And it's a healthy summer cooler also without any artificial color and flavor. For those who are diet conscious can avoid  ice cream. But normally as I said above I always use 1 1/2 fat milk to cut calories. So what are you waiting for just enjoy this drink tonight.


Preparation time - 5 minutes
Cooking time - nil
Makes - 6 glasses

Ingredients to make Chocolaty Chikoo Shake:

1 liter chilled milk 

3 to 4 big ripe chikoo

2 tea spoon drinking chocolate powder

3 to 4 table spoon sugar

2 scoop vanilla ice cream

6 to 7 ice cubes

To serve with:

Vanilla ice cream

For garnishing:

Drinking chocolate powder

Finely chopped chikoo

Method to make Chocolaty Chikoo Shake:

• Wash and peel chikoo. Chop and remove seed.
• In a big mixture jar add ice cubes, vanilla ice cream, chikoo, 200 ml. milk, drinking chocolate powder and sugar. Churn them properly. 
• Add remaining milk and mix well. 
• Strain and pour in a serving glass.
• Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream and garnish with drinking chocolate powder and chikoo.
• Repeat the same for remaining.
• Sweet and stomach filler Chocolaty Chikoo Shake is ready to serve.

How to Make Caramelized Cold Coffee with Ice Cream

Recipe by Naiya Sheth: Learn how to make Caramelized Cold Coffee with Ice Cream. It is very normal to make cold coffee at home during summer. But here it's a home made recipe for cold coffee with rich taste of caramelized sugar. It is lengthy process to make Caramelized Cold Coffee with Ice Cream, but it is very very good in taste. It is different. So enjoy this yummy recipe tonight.

Preparation time - 2 minutes
Cooking time - 10 minutes
Serves - 4 glasses

Ingredients to make Caramelized Cold Coffee with ice cream:

1 liter milk

2 table spoon corn flour (opt.)

5 to 6 table spoon sugar

2 to 3 tea spoon coffee

4 scoop vanilla ice cream

To serve with:

Vanilla ice cream

      or 

Chocolate /coffee ice cream

For garnishing:

Coffee powder

Caramel sauce

Method to make Caramelized Cold Coffee with ice cream:

• In  a big pan add sugar and start to heat it at very slow flame. 
• At the same time in other pan Mix milk and coffee powder and start cooking it at slow flame.
• Mix corn flour with 1/2 cup cold milk and keep a side.
• Stir sugar continually. When it turns in to golden syrup add hot milk to it very slowly and mix well. Take care while mixing milk with caramel syrup.
• Add corn flour syrup to it and mix well. Cook till boiling temperature. Stir occasionally. 
• Remove from flame and let it cool at room temperature. 
• When cool refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours. 
• At the time of serving add 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream and some crushed ice to it and blend properly.
• Pour Cold coffee in a serving glass and top with ice cream of your choice.
• Garnish with coffee powder and caramel sauce.

Tips:

• I used skimmed milk for coffee, as I always use 1.5 fat milk for my routin needs.
• Corn flour slurry can be avoided if it has to be used for fast, in that case low fat cream can be added at the time of blending.
• 1 to 2 tea spoon drinking chocolate powder can be added if you are a real chocolate lover. In that case chocolate ice cream can be taken and chocolate chips can be taken for garnishing.

How to make Cold Coffee with Ice Cream

Learn how to make Cold Coffee with Ice Cream. Specially in summer I just love to drink cold coffee. I always use to add chocolate flavor to cold coffee. By adding ice cream it can be stomach feeler during fasts. I have added son=me chocolate flavor in this because I just love choco - coffee flavor together. So enjoy this mocha flavor cold coffee with ice cream this evening.

Preparation time - 5 to 7 minutes
Cooking time - nil
Serves - 4 glasses

Ingredients to make Cold Coffee with Ice Cream:


3 table spoon instant coffee powder
1 table spoon drinking chocolate powder
1 table spoon hot water
3 table spoon sugar
4 cup milk
5 to 6 ice cubes


To serve with:


Vanilla ice cream
         or 
Chocolate ice cream
        or
Coffee ice cream


For garnishing:


Chocolate vermicelli
Chocolate sauce


Method to make Cold Coffee with Ice Cream:

• Dissolve instant coffee powder, drinking chocolate powder and sugar in hot water.
• In another big bowl mix crushed ice cubes and milk and add above mixture to it.
• Whisk it properly and pour to serving glasses.
• Top with ice cream and garnish with chocolate vermicelli or chocolate sauce.
• Serve chilled Cold Coffee with Ice Cream immediately. 

Tips:

• Microwave water for 30 seconds only.
• For making espresso coffee at home without coffee maker I mix all the ingredients (avoiding ice) and cook till boiling temp. Then whisk in blander. So, homemade and easy espresso is ready for winter.

How to make Custard Apple Smoothie

Learn how to make Custard Apple Smoothie. As we all know custard apple is one of the excellent sweet fruit. It contains double anti oxidants than an apple so very healthy also. It is a high calorie and high sugar fruit. It is full of vitamin a, b and c, minerals, calcium, irons etc. It�s a very good for anemic person as it is a very good source of hemoglobin. If you've always wondered how to actually make homemade Custard Apple Smoothie, use the following recipes to make your own Custard Apple Smoothie.


Here it�s a homemade recipe for healthy custard apple smoothie. It can be served for breakfast as well as desert also. You can change some of the ingredients to add some variety to this recipe if you serve it often.


I love making this fruit smoothie at home! This recipe makes it fast -- and it's really delicious. This is the easiest homemade Custard Apple Smoothie recipe I know. I use it all the time. The given ingredients would serve 4 people. For more people the ingredients should be incremental. I always believe that the best things in life are always the simple food. Custard Apple Smoothie is a real delight for all the food lovers and one of the most popular fruit smoothie recipes.


Preparation time � 20 minutes
Cooking time � nil
Serves � 4 people

Ingredients to make Custard apple Smoothie:

� cup almonds � roasted in butter
2 cups custard apple pulp
2 cups milk
8 scoop vanilla ice cream
1 cup crushed ice

For garnishing:


Chocolate chips or Chocolate vermicelli or Almond

Method to make custard apple smoothie:

•          Roughly crush almonds � For better result use dry fruit cutter.
•          Mix almonds, custard apple pulp, crushed ice and vanilla ice cream. Churn it properly
•           Pour smoothie in a glass and garnish with almond, chocolate chips or chocolate vermicelli.
•          Sweet and healthy Custard apple smoothie is ready to serve.

Custard Apple Smoothie Tips:

• If custard apples are not available mangoes, bananas or chikooes can be used.
• It is simple to make and soothing to eat.

How to Make Brownie Milk Shake

Learn how to make Brownie Milk Shake.


Normally we love chocolate brownie and we are use to make it often and often. So, here it's a delicious and rich home made recipe for Brownie Milk shake. We can make it from left over brownie also. Here it's a recipe with wheat flour brownie and skimmed milk so good for diet conscious people also. 


Preparation time - 10 minutes
Cooking time - nil
Serves - 4 people


Ingredients to make Brownie Milk Shake:


1 recipe brownie
8 scoops vanilla ice cream
4 cup milk 
2 tea spoon sugar (opt.)


For garnishing:


Whipped cream
Grated chocolate 
Chocolate chips

Method to make Brownie Milk Shake:

• First of all crumble 4 big pieces of brownie by hands and mix it with 4 scoops vanilla ice cream and milk.
• Add sugar if needed. Blend it properly. 

To proceed:

• In a tall shake glass add some small pieces of brownie and than cover it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, here you can take chocolate ice cream also. 
• Pour milk shake over it and garnish with whipped cream and chocolate chips.
• Repeat the process for remaining.
• Make this preparation at the time of serving only.
• Cool and creamy Brownie Milk Shake is ready to serve.

Tips:

• You can use refined flour brownie also. 
• Instead of skimmed milk full fat milk can be taken for rich and creamy texture.
• Whipped cream can be avoided.

How to make Chocolate Smoothie

Learn how to make Chocolate Smoothie recipe.


Chocolate is universal flavor. And smoothies are very good source of calcium for kids. Here its a home made smoothie recipe, with a well known chocolate flavor - Chocolate smoothie.

Preparation time 5 - 7 minutes
Cooking time - nil
Serves - 4 persons


Ingredients to make Chocolate Smoothie:


15 to 16 chocolate chips or chocolate cream cookies
4 scoops vanilla ice cream
4 scoops chocolate ice cream
2 cups chilled milk
1 tea spoon cocoa powder
1/4 tea spoon vanilla essence


For garnishing:


Chocolate sauce


Method to make Chocolate smoothie:

1. Roughly crush chocolate cookies and mix them with both ice creams,milk, cocoa powder and vanilla essence.
2. Now whip them.
3. Garnish with chocolate sauce.
4. Serve chilled Chocolate smoothie.
5. You can serve this with a scoop of vanilla ice cream also.

Ingredients to make Chocolate Sauce:

1/2 cup milk

50 gram grated dark chocolate

Method to make Chocolate sauce:

• Mix both ingredients in a microwave safe bowl and cook in microwave till chocolate melts properly.

How to Make Slush

Learn, how to make different types of home made slush.

In this hot summer cool and chilled recipes are in. So, here its a cool recipe for different types of slushes. We will try to make rose, orange, american lemon slush here, with a great easy basic recipe.

Ingredients to make Slush:

For orange slush:
Orange syrup or squash	:	1 glass
Water	:	3 glasses
For American lemon slush:
American lemon syrup	:	1 glass
Water	:	3 glasses
For rose slush:
Rose syrup	:	1 glass
Water	:	3 glasses

Method to make slush:

1. For orange slush take all ingredients of orange slush and mix them together. (You can use 1 glass of soda and 2 glasses of water instead of 3 glasses of water.) Put it in deep freezer for 8 - 10 hours. You can freeze in individual serving also. After freezing roughly crush with a sharp knife or a spoon and garnish with fresh orange( opt.).
2. For american lemon slush take all ingredients of american lemon slush and mix them together. (You can use 1 glass of soda and 2 glasses of water instead of 3 glasses of water.) Put it in deep freezer for 8 - 10 hours. You can freeze in individual serving also. After freezing roughly crush with a sharp knife or a spoon and garnish with lemon slice or lemon peel.( opt.) 
3. For rose slush take all ingredients of orange slush and mix them together.  Put it in deep freezer for 6 - 8 hours. You can freeze in individual serving also. After freezing roughly crush with a sharp knife or a spoon.

How to make Pina Colada

Learn, how to make cool, non alcoholic home made Pina Colada Drink.


Pina Colada is cool and tangy soft drink loved by every age group. It contains pineapple and coconut also, means good for health.


Serves - 4
Preparation time - 10 minutes
Cooking time - nil


Ingredients to make Pina Colada:

Pineapple juice	:	400 ml
Pineapple syrup	:	3 table spoon
Coconut	:	1
Powder sugar	:	2 tea spoon or as required
Vanilla ice cream	:	2 scoops
Soda water (opt.)	:	100 m

Method to make Pina Colada:

1. Break coconut and cut it in very thin slices, soak it in 1/2 cup water for 10 minutes. Churn and strain it. Add sugar and keep in refrigerator.
2. At the time of serving mix pineapple juice,pineapple syrup,chilled coconut water and vanilla ice cream and churn it.
3. Garnish with pineapple slice and cherry. Chilled Pina Colada is ready to serve.

Watermelon Juice

Learn, how to make great non alcoholic summer refresher - watermelon juice


Watermelon juice acts as a natural cooler. This home made recipe is very easy as well as testy also, which will give you real cool refreshing effect.


Serves - 10 glasses
Preparation time - 10 minutes
Cooking time - nil



Ingredients to make Watermelon juice:

Watermelon	:	1 medium size
Lemon juice	:	2 � 3 table spoon
Ginger pest	:	1 table spoon
Rose syrup	:	� cup
Salt to test
Black pepper and cumin powder (opt)

Method to make Watermelon juice:

1. Cut watermelon in big pieces. Remove seeds.
2. Mix watermelon pieces and ginger pest, now churn in mixture jar.
3. Strain from strainer. Add rose syrup,lemon juice. Stir well.
4. To serve fill half a glass with crushed ice, then pour juice over it, sprinkle salt, black pepper powder and cumin powder if required. Serve Watermelon juice chilled.

Lassi With Nuts

Learn, How to make rich creamy Lassi with the goodness of dry fruits

Indian traditional lassi is now with rich test of dry fruits like cream, nuts, pistachio, almonds and raisins.

Serves - 2

Preparation time - 10 minutes

Cooking time - nil

Ingredients to make Lassi With Nuts:

Hung curd	:	2 cups
Fresh cream	:	4 table spoon
Powder sugar	:	3 table spoon
Saffron	:	4 � 5 strands
Milk	:	� cup + 2 table spoon
Chopped almonds	:	8 � 10
Chopped pistachio	:	4 � 5
Raisins	:	8 � 10
Cardamom powder	:	� tea spoon

Method to make Lassi with nuts:

1. Hang curd for 1 hour in refrigerator. Soak saffron strands in 2 tea spoon milk.
2. Mix all ingredients together and churn it properly.
3. Garnish lassi with chopped almonds, pistachio, raisins, 1 - 2 saffron strands and cardamom powder.

How to Make Lassi

Learn, How to make rich yogurt drink - lassi recipe with the goodness of mangoes

As we all know lassi is very healthy,cool drink, a traditional drink. Here it's a honest try make it more tempting, after adding mango pulp.

Serves - 2 

Preparation time - 10 minutes

Ingredients to make Lassi - mango flavor:

Hung curd (hang for 1 hour)	:	1 � cup
Mango pulp	:	1 � cup
Chilled milk	:	� cup
Powder sugar	:	3 tea spoon
For garnishing:
Mango (chopped)
Roasted nuts

Method to make Lassi - Mango flavor:

1. Hang curd for 1 hour in refrigerator. Mix yogurt, milk, mango pulp and sugar and churn properly.
2. Pour mango lassi in a serving glass and garnish with chopped mangoes and roasted nuts.
3. Serve chilled mango lassi.

Hot Chocolate

Learn, How to make tempting home made hot chocolate drink recipe

Hot Chocolate is a tempting recipe, loved by everybody. Specially youngsters and children just love to drink it.

It's a milky recipe, so full of calcium also.

Serves - 4

Preparation time - 2 minutes

Cooking time - 10 minutes

Ingredients to make Hot Chocolate:

Skimmed milk	:	1 litter
Sugar	:	4 � 5 table spoon
Cocoa powder	:	4 table spoon
Corn flour	:	3 table spoon
For garnishing:
Whipped cream
Chocolate chips

Method to make Hot Chocolate:

1. Mix skimmed milk with sugar, cocoa powder and corn flour.
2. Let it cook at slow flame, till thick. Stir continually.
3. When thicken properly pour in a serving glass.
4. Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate chips, serve piping hot Hot Chocolate.

If you want to serve cold cocoa you can take 4 table spoons of corn flour in stead of 3. Let it chilled in freezer compartment. Then serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

lassi with jelly

Learn, how to make Indian traditional home made soft drink recipe - lassi with jelly 

As we, all know lassi is full of calcium. Here it�s a healthy and rich recipe for Indian lassi. It contains strawberry jelly and fresh strawberries also so; children will love to drink lassi with jelly .

Serves - 4

Preparation time - 10 minute

Cooking time - nil

Ingredients to make Jelly lassi:

Hung curd (for only 1 hour)	:	2 cups
Strawberry jelly	:	1 cup
Powder sugar (opt)	:	1 tea spoon
Strawberry crush	:	1 table spoon
Milk (chilled)	:	2 table spoon
Strawberries for garnishing

Method to make jelly lassi:

1. Hang curd for 1 hour in refrigerator.
2. Make strawberry lassi as per the direction let it set in refrigerator.
3. Mix hung curd strawberry jelly, strawberry crush, sugar and chilled milk. Churn it in mixture. Add sugar if required.
4. Garnish with strawberries and strawberry jelly pieces. Serve chilled lassi with jelly .

Lassi

Learn, how to make delicious, home made, chocolate flavor lassi recipe

Lassi is a very rich and healthy soft drink. It is very easy to make it at home. Enjoy the goodness of yogurt this summer.

Serves - 4

Preparation time - 10 minutes

Cooking time - nil

Ingredients to make Lassi (chocolate flavor): 

Fresh yogurt (hung curd)	:	4 cups
Sugar	:	4 table spoon
Grated dark chocolate	:	100 gram
Drinking chocolate powder	:	3 table spoon
Chilled milk	:	� cups
Chocolate chips for garnishing (opt)

Method to make lassi (chocolate flavor):

1. Hang curd for at least 2 hours in refrigerator.
2. Mix hung curd, milk, grated chocolate, drinking chocolate powder and sugar together.
3. Churn it for 2 - 3 minutes.
4. Garnish with chocolate chips or chocolate vermicelli.
5. Serve chilled. 

Ice Tea

Learn, how to make refreshing non alcoholic Ice Tea recipe


Ice Tea is great non alcoholic refresher for summer. Here it's a easy cool recipe for home made lemon ice tea.


Serves - 7
Preparation time - 5 minutes
Cooking time - 10 minutes


Ingredients to make Ice Tea:


Tea                : 1 table spoon
sugar             : 6- 7 table spoon
Ginger pest     : 1 tea spoon
Mint leaves     : 10
Lemon juice    : 3 table spoon
crushed ice     : 10 - 12 cubes


Method to make Ice Tea:

1. In 1 cup of water add tea, sugar, ginger pest and 5 - 6 mint leaves and boil it properly.
2. after boiling remove from flame and cover for 5 minutes. Let it cool at room temperature.
3. Add lemon juice and stir well.(at this stage you can add orange, mango or peach squash in stead of lemon juice, in that case you should add only 4 - 5 table spoons of sugar.)
4. Add another one cup chilled water.
5. For serving feel crushed ice in a serving glass and pour ice tea. Serve chilled ice tea after garnishing with mint leave.

Apple Juice

Learn, how to make healthy home made apple juice recipe

As we all know apple is very good for health. It is said that " AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS A DOCTOR AWAY".So here it's a recipe for apple juice.

Serves - 15

preparation time - 15 minute

Cooking time - 20 minutes

Ingredients to make Apple Juice:

Sour apple	:	1 kg.
Sugar	:	3 cup
Water	:	3 cup
Corn flour	:	2 table spoon
Citric acid	:	1 � tea spoon
Salt to test
Mint leaves	:	30- 35

Method to make Apple Juice:

1. Cut washed apple without removing peels. Add 1 1/2 cup water in it and boil it. Add corn flour slurry in to the apple and stir well. let it cool at room temperature.
2. Crush and strain it properly.
3. Make sugar syrup from remaining water and sugar. When it comes to boil add diluted citric acid in to the syrup. Strain the syrup.
4. Mix apple pulp and sugar syrup properly. Let it cool at room temperature. Add salt to teat.
5. For serving put crushed ice in a serving glass,and then pour chilled apple juice in the glass, garnish with mint leaves.