Musk melon Badam Smoothie

Fruit smoothies provide you with the essential nutrients.Excellent meal replacement for those who want to do a detoxification.keeps u full for a long time provides you with fibre which is otherwise lost in juicing..apart from vitamins and minerals you get from fruits milk gives an extra dose of calcium and Vitamin D which makes this an excellent choice for health watchers.

Musk melons are a good source of Vitamin A,Vitamin C,B Complex Potassium etc

It is highly refreshing  on a hot summer day since it is a body coolant

Next time you crave for something sweet jus blend these and have a sweet low calorie guilt free healthy treat

Musk melon cut into small cubes-1/4 cup

Milk-3-4 cup

Almonds-4-6

Almonds sliced thin-1/2 tsp for garnishing

Saffron strands-few

Badam mix powder -1/2 tsp(optional)

Honey-1 tsp

Blend melons,milk honey badam mix almonds together until smooth.Pour into a glass.Garnish with sliced almonds and saffron strands..

No need to add sugar since honey substitutes.

Serve chill..

Watermelon Amla Cooler

It is supposedly winter in Chennai,yet one rarely feels cold here.. Here is a drink for you to refresh esp when back from an elaborate shopping session or a long day at work...

Here is a quick and easy cooler to refresh with only two ingredients

Amla and Watermelon

Amla (Phyllanthus) is also known as amlakka or amlakai in Hindi, which means the “sustainers” or the fruit where the “goddess of prosperity presides”.

Watermelons are mostly water — about 92 percent — but this refreshing fruit is soaked with nutrients. Each juicy bite has significant levels of vitamins A, B6 and C, lots of lycopene, antioxidants and amino acids.There's even a modest amount of potassium.

Watermelon -roughly chopped into big chunks -1 cup

Amla-2-3(deseed and cut into small pieces)

Honey(optional)-1 teaspoon

blend first two ingredients and strain it

Add honey and icecubes

Sweet and Tangy cooler ready!

BEVERAGES

Kumbakonam Degree Coffee

Coffee Powder-preferably fresh ground with 80%coffeebeans-20%chicory
Hot water
Full cream milk-simmering for about 10 minutes after boiling point
sugar
Method

Add 4 tsps of coffee powder in a medium filter and add boiling water little by little with a ladle.

wait for 15 minutes when all the extracts gets collected as decoction.
Take two tbsp of thick decoction and add the boiling milk to it.Add sugar if needed and swish twice till froths are formed at top.Serve hot with a drop of decoction topped up.
Tip

Do not add cold milk and heat the coffee.The taste will be lost.