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INDIAN DRINKÂ

Ingredients:

6 cups of plain Curd (Yogurt) with curd cream
3\4 th cup of Sugar (Cheeni)
1 cup of Ice cold Water
16 -20 crushed Ice-cubes

How to make meethe lassi:

When you start to make it, take off 8 pieces of solid ‘curd cream’. It will be on the top of the curd. Use it for garnishing.
Take a bowl and put the sugar and curd in it and blend it in a mixer until it becomes frothy. Now add the ice cold water in it and blend it again in brief. Mix in this the crushed ice. You can also use a hand mixer. Split the sugar and curd mixture into two set, cover, and then process them for 2 to 4 minutes each portion of mixture. Now pour the drink into 8 cooled glasses. Cautiously put a spoon of curd cream, if you loved it. Garnish every drink with curd cream and shake over of sugar. Serve cool so serve quikly.

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Delicious lassi
You need:-

2 cups of Curd (Dahi, plain non-fat Yogurt)
2 cups of peeled and chopped Ripe Mango (Aam)
4 table spoon of Sugar (Cheeni) or as per your taste
½ th tea spoon of Cardamom Powder (Elaichi Powder, if you like its flavor, optional)
Few Ice-cubes (should be crushed)

How to make mango lassi:

Mix all the above ingredients in a mixer bowl, start the mixer and blend until all things turns in to a smooth paste. Now strain this blended mixture from a sieve, press it and take out as much liquid as possible. Now it is ready to serve. Pour into glasses and garnish with some lemon slices and with cherry before serveing. it is an Indian cold drink.
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LEMON SHAKE
Ingredients:

8 juicy – fresh Lemon (Nimbu)
16 cup - Water
20 - pitted and halves Dates (Khajoor)
2\3 rd cup - Honey (Shahad)

How to make your lemon shake:-

Cut the lemons (nimbu) in halve diagonally and then take out the citrus peel from 12 of the halves and then press out the juice from them. Now cut thin round slices of the left over lemons. Then put the water in a pan and add the dates in this pan. Then boil it gently for about ten minutes. After this add the citrus peel in it and then again boil for another 3-4 minutes. After 3 minutes take away the pan from the heat,then put in lemon slices, honey, and lemon juice and stir it and put aside for 10 to 12 hours slightly covering the mouth of the pan. Filter it from the a thin lined sieve. Now it is ready to be served chilled. if you want you can add some vodka or whiskey to make a cocktail.
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JAL JEERA AN INDIAN COLD DRINK
You need:-

6 cups of- ice cold water
2 table spoon - ground cumin
2 tea spoon – fresh mint leave paste
4 table spoon - lemon juice
1 tea spoon - black salt (Kala Namak) *
pinch of sugar
Salt as per taste (if you like)
Garnish:
Mint leaves and lemon slices(round in shape)
Optional Spices:-
1 tea spoon - cilantro (fresh green coriander) paste
1 tea spoon - dry mango powder (amchur)
How to make:-

Take a big bowl and put ice sold water in it then add mint leaves paste, salt, sugar, lemon juice, cumin powder, black salt in it and mix them properly. If you like you can add fresh coriander paste and amchur powder in it. It is an Indian cold drink which cools you and you should feel very fresh in summer. .

Quantity of Servings: 6

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Colourfull Holi Bhang Drink
Ingredients
4 cups water
2 ounce marijuana
8 cups warm milk
4 tsp chopped almonds
1/4 tsp garam masala
1/2 tsp powdered ginger
2 tsp rosewater
2 cup sugar
Method:-
Boil the water and pour it in a clean teapot. Take marijuana and clean it and then put in tea pot, cover it for 10 minutes. Now strain the water and marijuana with the help of a thin cloth, save it. Press these flowers and leaves with your hands and mix the remove in water. In a bowl put the flowers and leaves and add 4 teaspoons of warm milk. Carefully grind them. Repeat this mixing process when you use 1 cup milk. Save all the milk which has come out and store them in a bowl. Now marijuana turned into a pulpy mass. Now put finely chopped almonds in it. Crush it into fine paste. Compress this paste and gather it. Repeat it until all that is left. Mix all the extracts that have been stored, together with the water and the marijuana. Put the garam masala, rosewater and ginger in it. Then add the remaining milk and sugar.

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THANDAI A HEALTHY AND COOLING DRINK

Thandai is a very healthy and cooling drink. It is a very well-liked drink in Rajasthan and all over Northern India. This is a well-known dry fruit drink which is and saffron flavored with saffron in milk. This is also makes on Mahashivratri for lord Shiva. Some times in Holi or on Mahashivratri it mixed with ‘bhang’ which make it an exciting drink.

Makes 12 glasses.

Ingredients:-
2 liter fat full milk
1 cup of sugar should be powdered
15 to 20 peppercorns
A few saffron sticks
To be ground into a fine powder
1\2 cup of almonds
4 tablespoons of khus khus( poppy seeds)
4 tablespoons of saunf (fennel seeds)
1 teaspoon of elaichi(cardamom) powder
40 nos. of white peppercorns
Method:-

Boil the fat full milk and permit it to cool totally. Then keep it one side. Now add the ground powder and mix it properly. Put it in Refrigerator for 5hours. Now through a strainer strain this mixture, add the powdered sugar, saffron and peppercorns and then mix it properly. Serve it chilled. This is a traditional Indian cooling drink.

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Pine Coloda Cocktail

Ingredients –

240 ml - Pine apple juice
20 ml - Coconut / Vanilla ice cream
120 - White rum.

How to serve:-

Take pine-apple juice and put it in a electric mixer. Now add vanilla ice cream or coconut ice cream in it. Then pour White rum to it. Now blend all these things in mixture properly. When it mixes properly pour this cocktail into tall glasses. Then put a scoop of coconut ie cream or vanilla ice cream over it. Garnish with a lemon slice or with pine-apple slice. Now it is ready to serve. This is a delicious cocktail which every one likes.

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 FRESH FRUIT PUNCH

ingredient:-

500 ml – Water
800 grams - Sugar
600 ml - Orange juice
600 ml - Lemon juice
1200 ml - Pineapple juice
600 ml - Carbonated fruit flavored drink if you like
1\2 fruit - Pineapple
1\2 fruit - Apple

Method:-

Take a pan, pour water in it and add sugar in it then boil it for 20 minutes. Now add all fruit juices in it. Dilute it with ice cooled water. If you like sparkling affect in your drink you can add carbonated fruit drink in place of water. Now garnish it with small rounded pieces of apple and pineapple. This is a cooling drink which you like in summer. You can serve it in parties as a welcome drink. This is about 20 to 25 glasses. Be happy and cool with this fresh fruit punch.

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Kashmiri tea

Ingredients:-Â
4 cup water
1 tea spoon green tea leaves
3 tea spoon cinammom powder
3 tea spoon cardamom powder
A pinch of soda

Method :–

Heat the water, when it starts boiling adds green tea leaves and soda. After putting soda and green tea leaves in the tea boil it for 1 or 2 minutes. When water becomes golden, then put cinammom powder and cardamom powder in it and put a lid covering on it. Now turn off the gas stove. Pour the tea in a strainer and add milk or sugar cubes according to taste. You could add both sugar and milk as your taste. Serve hot. It is a tasty and healthy drink in winter.

Tips:-

By adding soda the color of tea becomes beautiful. You can add some ginger or basil leaves if you suffer from cold, in cold it can act as a medicine.