Aachi Samayal

Vanilla Milkshake was my very favorite drink in my childhood. When ever i go to restaurants, i order this as a default. And i have seen in the restaurants how they make them. This is exactly what they do. They add little more sugar to it, but in this recipe i have added less. Because my kids and my husband wont need so much of sugar, except me ;)

Summer is also gonna be here, so for kids, this will be a healthy and cook drink. They can have this in any time of the day. My kids really loved it and said "Mommy this is delicious". I make it rarely but still it will be an awesome drink for any party or for the guest when they are for dinner or lunch. Try this yummy lip-smacking drink!!

Cuisine : Indian

Preparation time : 10 mins

Cooking Time 10 mins

Course : Beverages

Main Ingredient : Vanilla Ice cream, Milk

Vanilla Ice Cream - 1 cups

Strawberry Ice Cream - half Cup

Milk - 3 cups

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Vanilla Essence - 2 drops

• Take a Large bowl and Scoop the ice cream into the bowl.
• Now start using the whisk, to make the ice cream into a smooth liquid.
• Now it is time to add milk, vanilla essence and sugar.
• Mix everything together and make foam. 
• Cool it for few hours.

Turmeric Pepper milk is a beverage from South India made by boiling milk with turmeric and black pepper. I usually make this for Cold and cough. If you drink this every night when you have cold, you throat will feel good and relieved. I make it for me and my husband. Kids will hesitate a little to drink but you can ask them to take a sip or little more. I make it after dinner before we sleep. So the point is, the black pepper and the turmeric should be well incorporated in the milk and then be strained. So the milk will have the essence of those.  

Cuisine : South Indian

Preparation time : 2 mins

Cooking time : 10 mins

Course : Beverages

Main Ingredient : Turmeric powder and Black pepper

Milk - 1 glass (8 oz)

Turmeric Powder - 2 tsp

Black pepper - Crushed 2 tbsp

Sugar - 2 tbsp

• Take a sauce pan,  add milk to it. The heat should be in medium high.
• Add turmeric powder and black pepper to the milk.
• Now add sugar. Wait till the milk is reducing a little, keep stirring or it will start to boil.
• It will boil and raise, but keep stirring for a while. Turn the heat to low when it starts to boil. 
• When done strain the pepper and serve hot.

STRAWBERRY LEMONADE

This is one of the recipe i was thinking to make for so long. I wanted to try the taste and the strawberry flavor in the lemonade. I was not very sure how it will blend together and how will it taste. But today i got a chance to make it as i had lots of strawberry and lemons to make this Strawberry Lemonade. The color it self will be so attractive to drink.

Lemonade is one of the favorite juice from my childhood. In my place they used to make this very often if there is any guest in the house, that too in India it will be so sunny mostly the whole year so everyone ill be thirsty in the day time. So v used to have lemon tree at house and when needed we just pick a lemon and make juice. The juice is prepared with some sugar and a pinch of salt, the salt will enhance the flavor in the Juice. Or you can replace sugar with Honey, it is always good if you use honey. Honey will taste better too. And also you can just make without sugar, and yet it will taste good.

So if i am at my mom's place and she used to make very quick lemonade for us with few ice cubes on it, the cold and the taste will be so relaxing for the summer. You can also replace cherry with strawberries, that will be a cherry lemonade!! In the juice you can add strawberry slices too, it is optional. They make cocktail out of this lemonade too,by adding any alcohol of your choice.

Cuisine : American

Preparation time : 10 mins

Cooking time : 10 mins

Course : Beverages

Main Ingredient : Strawberry and lemon

Ingredients :

Strawberry Cleaned and chopped - 3 

Lemon juice - 4 to 5 Tbsp

Water - 2 cups

Sugar - 3 tbsp

Salt a pinch

Preparation :

• In a grinder you can grind Strawberry with little water to a fine paste.
• You can strain the strawberry juice to make it smooth water, and pour it in a pitcher.
• In a large pitcher, where you have the strawberry juice, add water
• Now squeeze the lemon to make the lemon juice, pour the lemon juice to the pitcher as well.
• Now it is time to add the sugar or honey of your choice.
• Then comes the enhancer, salt just a pinch will do.
• Cool it for few hours or you can add ice cubes and serve immediately. 

Filter coffee

Filter coffee is a popular beverage in South India.  The coffee powder that i use is the House blend or Arabian Mocha from PEETS coffee store. We grind it there and buy kind of a pound. The taste and aroma will be just awesome. I basically had the handy filter from India where i just add the coffee powder in the top and pour some hot water to it and it slowly extracts the coffee and drips down to the other cup in the bottom. That is how it is designed so easy and simple to make. The very first time when you use the coffee just after the store the aroma will just go all around the house. So aromatic flavor. So when you store the coffee powder should keep it in a container where it will lock the aroma inside. So every time you make coffee you will have the flavor fresh.

In India they used to have coffee very first thing in the morning, then in the evening. At times they used to drink even after a very heavy meal. In restaurants they give coffee for every meal. So it is that often drank and also very good in taste.  Now a days they go with instant coffee too, which is also good but you will miss the taste of Filter coffee. I am a big fan of filter coffee but because of time crunch i also at times make instant coffee. It is better to stick with either one, keep changing often will not be okay for your body. And when you grind the coffee the chicory how much you add is also adding taste to the Coffee. So this is all about it, lets now see how to make it!!!

Ingredients :

Coffee powder - 5 tbsp

Water - 1 cup

Milk - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 tbsp

Preparation :

• In the Filter add coffee powder. (If you want to use a electric coffee maker, better buy the one which makes the Espresso one, so you can get as good Decoction as this Filter makes.)
• Then in a pan boil some hot water.
• When the water is hot enough you can add it to the coffee filter till it reaches the top.
• Then you can hear the drops which is dripping from the top to the bottom cup. 
• So in a while you can see decoction collected in the bottom cup.
• Now it is ready to have a nice cooffee.
• Now in  a pan, add milk let it boil, then transfer to a cup and add decoction how much dark you want. 
• Add sugar, give it a mix and tada your Filter coffee is ready!!

MANGO MILKSHAKE

I was thinking i can introduce mango to my kids when my first one says that she doesn't like fruit but drinks milk anyways. Some of the mango is kind of mushy so kids avoid eating it. So i thought of this, and when you cool it and give them they will love it. Because when i was a kid i used to love Milkshakes. But too much of mango is also not good for the body.

You can puree it and strain it or just add it with the milk. Sugar is also optional, you can add little sugar for taste but with out sugar it will taste good too. When i tried it first time my kids really liked it. You can add few pieces to it, to just have chunkiness in Milkshake. You can make Apple Milkshake, Vanilla Milkshake, Strawberry Milkshake, and lots more.

Cuisine : Indian

Preparation time : 10 mins

Cooking time : 10 mins

Course : Beverages

Main Ingredient : Mango

Ingredients :

Mango peeled and cubbed - 3 cups

Milk - 2 cups

Sugar - 3 tbsp

Preparation :

• Grind mango with little water to a fine paste.
• In a large glass, add mango syrup with milk and sugar.
• Cool it for few hours

APPLE MILKSHAKE

Apple Milkshake is a health beverage. Good way to cool off in summer.

Preparation time : 10 mins

Cooking time : 10 mins

Course : Beverage

Main Ingredient : Apple

Ingredients :

Apple - 2 cup (cut)

Sugar - 4 tbsp

Milk - 2 cups

Water - 1 cup

Preparation :

• Grind apple with little water. Filter it.
• Add milk and sugar.
• Garnish with apple.