Kiwi-Cucumber Punch

Packed with Vitamin C, Kiwi Fruit always makes my eyes feel a lot of freshness around! I absolutely love this fruit eating in cube/slice cuts... More I love when I peel and get them into my mixture jar to make yummy punch with other fresh-green ingredients! 

Try this one and you'll make that again and again :)

Makes: 2 servings

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup Chilled Water

2 Kiwi fruits

1/2 cup Roughly chopped Cucumber

3-4 Mint leaves

2 tsp Lemon Juice

Black Salt, to taste

METHOD:

- Take all the ingredients in a mixture jar.

- Grind them together to make a smooth juice!

- Serve chilled :)

Kavah

Servings: 2

INGREDIENTS:

1 tsp kavah powder

1 tbsp lemon juice

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper powder

2 cups water

METHOD:

- Take water in deep pan and add salt, pepper & kavah powder.

- Boil them all together for 3-4 mins and add lemon juice once off the flame.

- Strain it in 2 glasses & serve hot wit munchies u like!

Notes:

- Kavah powder is made up from beans called 'Boond Daana', which luks very similar to coffee beans. Very less chances of gettin it anywhere else but grocerry stores in India.

- Dry-roast beans till they are brown in color and grind it in form of powder. Store it in airtight container.

Thandai

INGREDIENTS:

3 cup milk

1 cup water

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp fennel seeds

10 almonds

1 tsp crushed peppercorns

1/4 tsp cardamom powder

1 tsp watermelon seeds (magajtari)

few saffron strands

METHOD: 

- boil milk in pan and cool it down to the room temp.

- Soak almonds, fennel seeds, watermelon seeds & poppy seeds in lukewarm water for 10 mins.

- Grind it to a smooth paste (Use a lil extra water if required). 

- Add sugar, cardamom powder, crushed peppercorns & saffron in it and mix well.

- Blend it with milk and keep it in refrigerator for an hour before serving.

Shikanji

'Shikanji' originally is our simple lemonade only & nothing can beat "Sonel's" of Nathdwara for sure! Here is a little twisted version of it.. 

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 glass soda water (option - chilled water)

1/2 cup lemon juice

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup cucumber + mint juice 

METHOD: 

- Mix lemon juice, sugar & cucumber-mint juice all together.

- Take 2-3 ice cubes in both glasses & add this mixture in it.

- Pour soda/chilled water in both the glasses & serve fresh.

A delicate flavor of cucumber & refreshing flavor of mint give a WOW factor to this drink :)