Cool Berry Mint Ice Tea...

As it's extensively hot, I am just practically living on water, for a change drinking juices with sugar is not healthy too... Here is a drink without sugar and it's a perfect, energetic and healthy summer drink for you from my kitchen. 

For a glass..

Ingredients 

2 Strawberries 

2 tbsp dried Cranberries 

1 tbsp dried Blue Berries 

Few Mint leaves

2 tbsp or more Honey as per your requirement..

1 cup Water

Pinch of Salt 

2 tbsp Lime juice

1 cup Leaker Tea ( Take a cup of hot water, add 1/4 tsp of tea leaves. Cover and keep for 2 minutes. Strain it.)

Method 

Take a pot. Add water, strawberries, cranberries, blue berries, few mint leaves and pinch of salt. Simmer it on medium heat till it reduces to 1/2 it's quantity. Cool it. Take a blender. Add the berry and mint decoction, leaker tea, honey, lime juice and ice. Blend it well. Pour it into a glass and enjoy the perfect, healthy and energetic drink.

P. S. You can also use fresh berries, if it is available.

Summer Cool Fresh Fruit Ice Popsicle Candies.....

As the heat is terrible, I wanted to have something chilled... My memory took me back to my childhood days, where we use to buy these ice popsicles candies (pepsi as they were called) after a long afternoon play with friends in the summer break. They costed 50 paisa those days and was made with artificial colours and flavors. But who cared... After that a good scolding at home.....

Here is a easy recipe of ice popsicles candy with fresh fruit pulp, lime juice and chaat masala... very simple to make, taste great and it's healthy for children too..... you can customise it with your choice of fruits and can add condensed milk or evaporated milk and sugar to make flavoured milk ice popsicles candies too. 

Ingredients 

1/4 cup of each Fresh fruit pulp

(Mango, Strawberry, Black Grapes and Kiwi or any fruit of your choice)

1/4 tsp Lime juice for each pulp

1/4 tsp Chaat masala for each pulp

1/2 tsp Sugar for each pulp

1/4 cup Water for each pulp

Method 

You get ice popsicles candy bags, I made them at home with the help of a sealing machine.. 

Take any fruit pulp, add sugar, lime juice and chaat masala. Mix it well. Repeat the same process with the other fruit pulps. Take a popsicles candy bag and a big syringe. Fill up the juice into the syringe and transfer it into the candy bag or you can use a funnel to fill the juice into the bags. Fill 3/4 of the bag and tie a knot to the open end of the bag. Freeze it till it forms ice. Cut an edge and enjoy the hot summer afternoons...

Fresh Fruit Compote with Creamy Yogurt..

Fresh Fruit Compote with Creamy Yogurt..

 

Fresh Fruit Compote
Ingredients
1/2 cup of Red Grapes chopped
1/2 cup of Strawberries chopped
1/2  of the Pineapple chopped
2 Kiwis chopped
1/4 cup of Sugar
1/4 cup of Honey
Pinch of Salt

Method
Take a pot.. Add Sugar, Salt, Honey and all the fruits. On a low flame, stir and cook till the sugar has incorporated well with the fruits and the liquid have reduced...

Creamy Yogurt
Ingredients
1 cup Hung Yogurt
1/2 cup Fresh Cream
1 cup Icing sugar
2 tbsp Honey

Method
Beat the cream for 2 minutes, add the yogurt, beat it, add icing sugar and honey, beat it until we get soft peaks.  

For Assembling
Take a small bowl, add 2 tbsp of fruit compote... Pipe in the yogurt.. Decorated with dried cranberries and drizzle with strawberry syrup... 

P.S. You can increase the sugar according to the taste...