Almond Banana Carrot Smoothie | Summer Special Drinks

Here is another refreshing and healthy smoothie for this summer. It can be had in the breakfast and it would be very filling to handle the day.

Ingredients:

• Almonds - 1 cup
• Grated carrot - 1 cup
• Banana - 1
• Sugar - as needed
• Full cream Milk - 3 cups
• Water - 1 cup
• Ice cubes - as required.

Method:

1. Take the almonds/badam and soak in hot water for 2 hrs (it is good to replace the hot water after 1 hr, with some more hot water) or soak in normal water for 5 hrs.

2. Meanwhile grate the carrot. Cut the banana just before using it else it may become black.

3. After 2 hrs, remove the skin of the almonds.
4. Transfer the almonds, carrot and banana to the food processor or mixer grinder.

5. Add in the sugar and milk and process/grind it until it becomes to a smooth paste.

6. Add the ice cubes and give a stir again.
7. Filter it to filter out the residue and serve it chilled.

Dates Almond Milk | Summer Special Drinks

This is my 300th post and I really took long time to achieve this. Its really very tough to maintain the blog, family and work altogether. Thanks to all my fellow bloggers and my friends and my family who help me to achieve this milestone. To enjoy this occasion, I would like to share a healthy drink - Dates Almond Milk.

Ingredients

• Dates - 10
• Almonds - 1 cup
• Fresh Milk - 3 cups + 1 cup
• Icecubes
• Sugar - as per taste
• Saffron for garnishing

Method
1. Wash and soak almonds in hot water for 1 hr. Remove the skin and keep aside.

2. Wash the Dates and remove the dates.

3. In food processor or mixer grinder, add the dates and almonds with 1 cup milk and grind to a smooth paste. If the paste is thick, add some more milk. Add in the ice cubes, sugar if needed and remaining fresh milk and give a stir.

4. Garnish with saffron and serve chill.

This goes to Nithubala's Healthy food for healthy kids - Juices, milkshakes and icecream.

Oats Almonds Cookies - No Egg / No Butter Version

These cookies are very easy to prepare and yummy to eat. Got this cookies from Sharmis passions. This goes well with a cup of hot tea or coffee.

Ingredients

• Oats - 1 cup
• Almond - 1/4 cup
• Wheat flour - 1/4 cup
• Honey - 1/4 cup
• Curd - 2 tsp
• Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180 deg C for 10 min.
• Fry the almonds a bit. 

•  Take 1cup oats and add the fried almonds and grind both to a fine powder.

•  Mix the wheat flour to the grinded powder.

•  Add Honey to it.

•  Add curd to it.

•  Mix together, to form a dough.

•  Take small portions of the dough and make round balls and flatten a bit.
• Arrange them in a cookie sheet, with 2 inch distance between them.

•  Using the fork, press the cookies to form the impression.

• Bake the cookies for 15 to 20 min or till you get the brown colour at the sides.
• Delicious cookies are ready to be served.

This goes to my event - Dish Name Starts with O

Banana in Chocolate Sauce

Ingredients

• Banana - 1
• Cocoa powder - 2 tsp
• Condensed Milk - 4 tsp
• Warm water - 2 tsp
• Dry fruits (Dates, Raisins, Apricot) - few (Chopped nicely)
• Nuts (Cashews, Almonds, Pistachios) - few(Chopped nicely)
• Jelly - as we need (Crushed)
• Honey - 2 to 3 tsp

Method

• In a wide pan, add the cocoa powder, Condensed milk and warm water and cook on simmer.
• Mix well so that no lumps found and a fine chocolate paste is formed.
• Allow it to cool.
• Meanwhile crush the jelly and keep it aside.
• Now in the banana, pour the chocolate sauce, chopped dryfruits, chopped nuts, crushed jelly, honey and serve.

Note: Instead of preparing the chocolate sauce, you can melt any milk chocolate and use as chocoloate sauce.

This goes to the following wonderful events

• Veggie/Fruit a month - Banana by Aipi and Priya
• Choco-Delite's Event by Smitha 

I received an award from the lovely bloggers - Savitha of Savitha's Kitchen and Gayathri of Gayathri's Cook Spot. Thanks a million to both Savi and Gaya for giving this award to me. They both have a wonderful blog. Please do visit theirs for lovely recipes.

I would love to share this with the following 12 bloggers  

• Krishnaveni of Krishnaveni's Kitchen
• Satya of Super Yummy Recipes
• Priya of Bon Appetit
• Sowmya of Vegetarian Cultural Creatives
• Divya of Divya's Recipes
• Anu of Kitchen Skills
• Sameena of My Culinary Creations
• Priya of Mharorajasthanrecipes
• Ramya of Simple Vegetarian Recipes
• Jay of Tasty Appetite
• Mehnaz of Chef Naaz
• Priya of Priya's Easy n Tasty Recipes

Badam Sweets/Almond Sweets

I am very much impressed by the almond sweet recipe by sridevi of Jiboomba. She has a fantastic blog with variety of recipes. Do visit her's for the wonderful recipes. I could not resist or postpone trying it. Though i could not get the red color, it really tastes awesome. Here goes the recipe.

 

Ingredients

• Almonds - 2 cups
• Sugar - 1 cup (Can be adjusted according to your taste)
• Powdered sugar/Icing sugar - 3 to 5 tsp
• Milk - 3/4th cup
• Red Colour - 1 to 2 pinch
• Green Colour - less than a pinch
• Ghee - 2 to 3 tsp (as needed)

Method

• Soak the almonds overnight or 2 hrs in hot water.
• Peel the skin and grind in the blender to a smooth paste by adding milk.
• In a wide pan, add the almond paste, sugar and stir well, so that water content evoporates.
• When the paste becomes thick, add the red colour and before adding save a 2 to 3 tsp of paste to mix the green colour.
• Let the paste cool down and after cooling, make into small ball shapes by adding ghee in your palm while rolling it.
• Now roll over the balls on the powdered sugar.
• Now with the green coloured paste, shape it into leaves or stem and arrange correctly on top of the balls.
• Almond sweet is ready to be served.