Stone Apple Squash (Bael ka Sharbat)

Stone Apple Squash (Bael ka Sharbat)

Very recently, I visited one of my neighbour's house Mini Gandhi during the peak afternoon, it was quite hot. She knew I don't take aerated drinks at all. She brought a peach coloured drink for me and informed me it is Bael Ka Sharbat. I had heard about it but never tasted. Quite hesitatingly i tasted it. To my surprise it was nice with a peachy aroma but quite sweet. I felt refreshed after having it and I decided to do some research on it. She, being a member of Holistic Healing Sanstha, had recently heard Luke Coutinho talk about the health benefits of Bael in summers which she shared with me.

Bael, known as, Aegle Marmelos, commonly called stone apple or wood apple is a native tree of India, its fruit has amazing benefits. It can cure heat in stomach, reduces gastric ulcers, cures Diarrhoea. It is anti inflammatory, controls cholesterol and many more.

So I decided to give this Bael sherbet a healthy twist and here it is

Preparation Time : 20 - 25 Min

Cooking Time : 0 Min

Ingredients : 

• 1 Ripe Bael fruit medium size
• 3 Tablespoon Shakkar (jaggery)
• Rock salt 1 Teaspoon or according to taste
• Roasted zeera powder 1 Teaspoon
• Mint leaves 10 -15 
• 2 lemon for garnishing
• Ice cubes

Procedure : 

• Break the Apple wood fruit. 

• Remove the pulp 

• Add water to the pulp and leave this for 5 minutes

• Crush the pulp with hands not with blender, else the seeds will get crushed and make the squash bitter in taste.

• Strain this juice through strainer

• Add shankar to it, mix it. I used organic shankar to give my squash healthy twist.

• Add rock salt, jeera powder and mint leaves to this and mix it well. you can keep this squash in bottle or jag.use it according to your need 

• While serving take a glass add sone small pieces of lemon. fill the glass with ice cubes add few mint leave add ball squash to this . Ratio is 1:3 one portion Bael squash and 2/3 portion of ice or c hilled water 

Chocolate Potato Chips

Chocolate Potato Chips

As I always prefer to make easy preparations today I am sharing a very simple but intresting chocolate preparation with potato chips. This is perfect for gatherings, party, kids get together or during festivals as I prepared this time for my Diwali guests.

Preparation time : 10 Min

Cooking Time : 1 Min

Ingredients :

• 1 Packet readymade potato chips
• 100 gm Dark chocolate compound
• 2 Sheets butter paper or parchment papper

Procedure :

• In a bowl, grate chocolate compound and microwave this for a minute on medium temperature
• Take out the bowl and mix the chocolate well. It will be in a form of smooth sauce 

• Now take a potato chip, dip it half way in chocolate sauce and keep it on butter paper as shown in picture

• Repeat these steps with rest of chips

• Wait for 5 minutes or till the chocolate gets hard

• Serve it or keep it in an air tight container 

• Enjoy ....your gatherings 

Cucumber Corn Bites

Cucumber Corn Bites

Salads are always good, very healthy but it sounds boring to everyone so it's a challenge to make people eat salads with a smile on their faces .... But these cucumber bites will not only make them happy but they will ask for more .... For parties it will be a great hit .... so guys try this....

Preparation Time : 15 Min

Cooking Time : 0 Min

Ingredients :

• 2 Fresh Cucumber

• For Corn Filling :

• 1 Cup Sweet corn (steamed)
• 1 Medium onion finely chopped
• 1 Tomato finely chopped (first remove the seeds)
• 1/2 Green capsicum finely chopped
• 1/2 Red bell pepper finely chopped
• 1/2 Cucumber Finely chopped
• 1 Tablespoon chopped fresh coriander 
• 1 Tablespoon lime juice
• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 1 Tablespoon honey
• 1 Teaspoon dried oregano herb
• 1 Teaspoon chopped jalapeno 
• Salt according to taste

Procedure :

• For Corn filling Click

• Now take fresh Cucumber wash it and peel it (to give it a designer look) you can peel cucumber in strips as I did

• Now cut cucumber into rounds as shown in picture

• Now from each cucumber rounds scoop out some cucumber to form a cucumber cup as shown in picture

• Now fill the cucumber cup with corn salad filling

• And serve it ...

Tips :

• You can change the filling according to your taste