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.

Hariyali Jhinga Kabab...

This recipe is for those days when you just want to be out of the kitchen.. And want to have something chatpata and tasty....

This is a very quick recipe and can be made in a short time. This can be served as snacks or a starter. If you want to have it for dinner, then you can make this into a roll by placing the kababs on the chapati, add some sliced onions, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers. Sprinkle some chaat masala and drizzle some green chutney and enjoy the roll. 

Ingredients 

200 grams of Prawns big size

1/4 bunch of Spinach including the stem

4 or more Green Chillies 

1 small piece of Ginger

8 Garlic cloves

Handful of Fresh Coriander

Handful of Fresh Mint

2 tbsp Lime juice

Salt to taste 

1/2 tsp Garam Masala powder 

1/2 tsp Cumin powder

1/2 tsp Chaat Masala

4 or more Bread pieces cut into smaller pieces

Oil for shallow frying 

Method 

Take all the above ingredients except oil and put them in a chopper or food processor. Blend the ingredients well together until it forms into a sticky batter. Take oil in a pan. Let it heat. Take some water in a bowl. Dip your palm into the water. Take some batter, shape it and put it into the oil. Fry on low heat till both the sides are golden brown in colour. Serve it hot with salad. Sprinkle chaat masala on top before serving.

Garlicky Chilli Mango Chicken Roast...

Since mangoes are in season, here is a simple recipe of chicken roast with mango pulp. The chicken is marinated with salt, garlic, pickled red chilli paste, lime juice, mango pulp, salt and oil. It is then roasted in an oven. It is then served with tomato and cucumber slices. This can be eaten with pav, bun, naan or as a starter. Very simple recipe but taste great...

Ingredients 

1 small size cleaned whole Chicken 

Salt to taste 

2 Garlic pods cleaned and finely minced 

1 tbsp Preserved Red Chilli coarsely ground 

2 tbsp Lime juice 

1/2 cup Mango pulp 

3 tbsp Oil

Method 

Take the chicken and pat it dry. Sprinkle salt and rub it on the chicken. Leave it for 5 minutes. Drizzle the lime juice and rub it on the chicken. Now add garlic and chilli paste. Rub it well on the chicken. Add the mango pulp and 1 tbsp of oil. Rub it well, put some of the paste inside the chicken and let it marinate for an hour. Drizzle some oil on the chicken. Roast it in a preheated oven for 15 minutes at 200 degrees celcius. Remove the tray. Turn the chicken, drizzle with some more oil. Continue roasting the chicken for another 15 minutes. Remove the tray, turn the chicken again, drizzle with remaining oil and roast it again for 15 minutes more. Serve it hot with cucumber and tomato.

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...

Egg and Chicken Kothu Roti...

Kothu Roti ( Chopped Roti) is a Sri Lankan dish made from Godhamba roti (a type of Sri Lankan roti) and vegetables, eggs or meat, and spices. This dish is similar to Kothu Parotta from Tamil Nadu. The taste of Kothu Roti will vary depending on the ingredients used. This is a popular street food... 

Here is my adaptation of the dish with left overs... I wanted to make it bit tangy.. So I added sour tamarind Chutney to it...

Ingredients

6 leftover Rotis or Parotta  shredded

1 Onion sliced

1 Carrot sliced

1/2 cup Cabbage shredded ( I have used red cabbage) 

1 Green Capsicum sliced 

3 Green Chillies chopped

Few Curry leaves 

1 tbsp Coriander leaves chopped 

1/2 tsp Mustard seeds

1/2 cup left over Chicken curry with small boneless chicken pieces in it. 

1/4 cup of Tamarind Chutney 

Salt to taste

1/2 tsp Turmeric powder

1 tbsp Srilankan Curry Powder or Madras Curry powder 

2 Eggs

3 tbsp Oil 

Method 

Add oil into a pan. Let it heat. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves and green chillies. Let the mustard seeds crackle. Add the vegetables except for the coriander leaves. Stir fry the vegetables for a minute. Add the eggs. Stir and cook the eggs with the vegetables for 2 minutes. Add the shredded rotis. Add the leftover curry, tamarind chutney, curry powder, turmeric powder, salt and 1/4 cup water. Stir on high flame, keep cutting the ingredients with the edge of the spatula and mixing it well. Sprinkle coriander leaves and serve it hot.