Nungu Rose milk, Palm fruit rose milk

Nungu rose milk | Palm fruit rose milk recipe with video and step wise pictures , summer coolant recipe made using nungu and rose milk syrup. Rose milk is one of my most favorite drink from the childhood. My mom used to make rose milk for me almost all the days during summer. Most of the days morning after getting up we used to take rose milk only. I got introduced to Rooh afza after moving to Singapore. Though i like it, i still love the rose syrup more.
Also i have seen roohafza with watermelon drink popularly called as Mohabat ka sarbath. Here in the local shops they sell the Malay special rose milk called Bandung. But i always love the South Indian Rose milk.
I saw this rose milk syrup from Sri Murugan stores, Singapore and wanted to try it out.
I actually planned to make rose milk ice cream. But i have got fresh nungu from the Indian shop, so i am so tempted to make this Nungu rose milk. It was so refreshing and perfect for this hot summer. Myself and my daughter enjoyed it so much. Also check out the Nungu sarbath recipe too.
Friends in Singapore, we get this rose milk syrup in Sri murugan stores Singapore. They have a wide range of Indian grocery and you can place the orders through their Android and iOs app too. Orders are delivered at your door steps island wide.

Mango Piyush recipe, mango recipes

Mango Piyush is an authentic Maharastrian cold drink, made using Shrikand | Amarkhand, thick buttermilk and milk with a dash of nutmeg, saffron and cardamom, as main ingredients. Piyush is generally a very thick and creamy drink. Even Piyush is a popular drink in Gujarati cuisine too.  Last year when my friend's in laws family from Mumbai, visited here, her sister in law was telling me about Sabudana Thalipeeth and Mango piyush recipe. I was too fascinated by the recipe and wanted to try this during the mango season. Genrally Piyush is made using Shrikand, but during mango season we can make it using Mango shrikand. I used store bought Mango shrikand recipe, you can make your own Shrikand at home. Generally Piyush is made during fasting, since it is creamy, it will be quite a filling drink.

Also check out my

• 3 ingredients Mango ice cream recipe
• Mango milkshake recipe

Dry fruits sweet lassi | Lassi recipe

Dry fruits lassi using Alvas Natural curd

Recipe of how to make Dry fruits sweet lassi with step by step pictures and video

Lassi is a very popular, traditional yogurt based drink in India. I have already posted Rose lassi, kesar lassi and few more yogurt based Indian drink recipes. For this recipe i used Alvas yogurt (available in Singapore only) and it turned out so tasty and creamy. The Dry fruits lassi was loved by everyone at home and it was quite filling too. Sometimes during summer, we don't tend to feel like standing in the kitchen for a long time but need something chill and filling for the tummy. This dry fruits lassi can be made on such days even for breakfast too. 

For my Readers in Singapore, though we get lot of yogurt in Singapore, the reason why I choose

Alvas curd is :

-Freshly made daily in Singapore.

-Made from Fresh New Zealand Cow’s milk and not buffalo

milk(toned milk) 

-Naturally rich, thick and creamy without any chemicals,thickeners

Places to purchase Alvas Natural Curd:
-Mustafa Centre
-Sheng Siong Supermarkets and Prime super markets.
-Most Indian Grocery stores( including Sri Murugan stores)

Cold coffee recipe

Cold coffee recipe, I am a big fan of filter coffee but generally i prefer my coffee super hot. For the past few weeks, my daughter Varsha started making coffee on her own and she was pestering me that she will make a post on jeyashri's kitchen as she has holidays now. We took a video for making cold coffee but it got corrupted and we couldn't edit that. Luckily i captured the step wise pictures on how to make cold coffee. Now over to Varsha...

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Heyy guys I hope all of you are having a BREW-tiful day! (Anyone got the pun?) I’m back with another post after nearly…2years!? Anyways after lots of convincing Amma has finally let me post something on her blog.  

I recently started drinking coffee (filter coffee only, I hate instant coffee) and I have fallen in love with it. I have also learnt how to make it on my own so I don’t have to pester Amma every time I want to have it. So when I make my own coffee I like to experiment with the coffee decoction and try out random combinations. This recipe was one of my experiments which turned out really well. I liked it a LATTE and I hope you do to!!

Mango margarita | Virgin margarita recipe

 Mango margarita is a mexican cocktail , generally mixed with alcohol. The classic way of serving the margarita is by dipping the rim of the serving glass in salt. Last year when we friends went out for a dinner, one of them ordered this margarita and the salt dipped part was so interesting. I wanted to try the Virgin Margarita recipe at home and finally tried with mango. It was so refreshing and i would say it's a perfect summer drink. Try this easy mango margarita recipe at home and get refreshed. 

Virgin Mango Margarita

  Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 25 Mins |Serves: 6


    Mango pieces  3/4 cup
    Plain soda  330ml
    Sugar  3-4 tblsp  
    Lemon juice  2 tblsp
    Salt  little
    Ice cubes  few  
                                                       Video of mango margarita

                                                   
    

                                 


Method:

• I used banganapally mango. Scoop out the flesh of the mango and chop them roughly.
• In a mixie add the mango pieces, sugar, lemon juice and ice cubes.
• Grind this into a smooth mixture.

• Add plain soda to this. Mix well.

• Take a serving glass and rub the rim with lemon juice.
• In a plate add salt and dip the edges with salt. You can also sugar or red chili powder too.

• Pour the virgin mango margarita to that glass.

• Enjoy the drink.

Notes:

1. Instead of sugar you can make a simple syrup by dissolving sugar and water in equal proportions. Just boil sugar and water till sugar dissolves.
2. You can use any fruit of your choice. Strawberry, watermelon will go well with this.
3. For serving instead of salt you can use coarse sugar or mix red chili powder and salt too. 
4. Keep the soda water chilled. You can even add sprite or 7 up also to make Virgin mango margarita.

   

VAZHAITHANDU MOR | NEER MOR WITH BANANA STEM

Summer has started and many parts of India it is in peak. To beat the heat, we need to hydrate ourself with loads of water, cucumber and fresh fruits. Buttermilk | Neer mor is a best summer cooler and to make it more tasty i have already posted Neermor and Masala chaas recipe here. Last month  when i went  to India, my sister after making morkootu with vazhaithandu, made this vazhaithandu mor for all of us. We had this after a heavy breakfast, and it tasted very nice. Later after coming back here, i tried this few times and i can say i am addicted to this. You could never know that Vazhaithandu is added in this butter milk. Enjoy summer with this healthy drink.

Soda Sarbath recipe | Nannari Sarbath

Soda sarbath |nannari sarbath, the name itself gives me lots of childhood memories. We used to get this soda sarbath in a near by potti kadai (petty shop) in my Home town in Madurai. They have few varieties of syrup to add to the sarbath but we love this nannari syrup to be added to the sarbath. My mama used to take us to the shop in his 2 wheeler and we love to see the way the shop keeper is making it. Especially the sound he makes while mixing it in the last is so fascinating for us those days. Most of our summer holidays will be spent like this. We will eagerly look forward for mama to come and take us to the shop. When i bought nannari sarbath 2 days back during our visit to Mustafa, i decided to make this soda sarbath. After finishing the video of soda sarbath today, i tasted a sip from that and immediately the taste brought back so many childhood memories. The 2 wheeler, mama, our trip to the shop, the shopkeeper, the sound of mixing.... i relished the soda sarbath by thinking of my childhood memories.

Soda sarbath recipe

  Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : Nil |Serves: 1

    Nannari syrup  2-3 tblsp
    Lemon juice   2 tblsp
    Ice cubes  2
    Soda water | plain soda|club soda  1 cup
                                              Video of how to make soda sarbath

                   
     

Method:

• Take a glass. Add the nannari syrup. Nannari sarbath we get in super markets. I got it from Mustafa center Singapore.
•  We get this towards the end of the paneer section before the masalas. Also few shops in little India sell nannari syrup.

• Add lemon juice to this.
• Add ice cubes. 

• Add the plain soda |club soda to this.
• Mix well with a spoon. 

• Serve immediately. 

Notes:

• If you want you can replace nannari syrup with rose syrup. Personally i haven't tried this but i feel it will be good.
• You can replace plain soda with sprite or limca and skip the lemon juice.
• No need to add sugar to this as nannari syrup has sugar in it.
• If you do not want soda you can add plain water.

Pineapple Mocktail recipe | Summer cooler recipes

Pineapple mocktail made with pineapple, curry leaves, ginger and tender coconut water. I ahve already posted a pineapple orange juice combo and a grape orange juice with ginger. Last week when Raks visited our house casually, i made a Pineapple juice for her by adding freshly squeezed orange juice to this. I made it for everyone at home and it was a super hit at home. So i thought of making this as a post for jeyashris kitchen and took the video of pineapple mocktail yesterday. Thsi time i tried with tender coconut water and replaced mint leaves with curry leaves. I thoroughly enjoyed a tall glass of pineapple elaneer mocktail after shooting the video and the clicks. Stay hydrated this summer and enjoy this summer drink.

Beetroot chaas recipe | Summer cooler recipes

Beetroot chaas|Chukandar chaas is a healthy summer cooler recipe. It is similar to the masala chaas but the addition of beetroot makes it more healthy. Beetroot, yogurt and few spices, just mix everything and consume on hot sunny day. We south Indians make neer mor during summer. My mom used to make neer mor in the morning, during summer days and keep it in a big jug in the refrigerator. We have to finish that by evening. Those days we are never exposed to any aerated or bottle juices. Also we have 4 coconut trees in the house and we used to get fresh organic ilaneer from the home grown trees. Stay hydrated in the summer by taking home made summer coolers.

Beetroot chaas

  Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 5 Mins |Serves: 3

    Beetroot  1/2
    Green chili  1/2
    Ginger  a small piece
    Cumin seeds  1/2 tsp
    Yogurt   1 and 1/2 cup
     Water  1 cup
     Chaat masala 1/4 tsp
     Salt  as needed
     
     

Method:

• Chop the beetroot into cubes and cook in little water for 5 minutes. You can skip this step and straight away proceed to grind the ingredients.
• You can roast the beetroot in the oven too. 
• Allow this to completely cool. No need to drain the water.

• Grind the beetroot, yogurt, green chili,ginger,cumin seeds along with salt.
• Grind into a smooth paste. 

• You can straight away serve this but i wanted to filter it. 
• Filter the chaas and add chaat masala to this.

• Add 1 cup of water to bring it to a right consistency.
• Serve chilled. 

Notes:

1. You can temper the chaas with mustard seeds and hing as we do for south Indian neer mor.
2. Roasted cumin powder can be added in the last while serving. 
3. You can also add few mint leaves or coriander leaves while grinding.

   

Basil lemonade recipe | Summer coolers

Basil lemonade is a perfect summer thirst quencher recipe. This recipe is made with basil leaves, lemon and honey. If you have all the ingredients in hand you can make the drink quickly. Last week when we ordered food for a party from a lady who stays nearby and does catering service, she told me about this basil lemonade. So curiously i asked her about that and she explained about and i got a bunch of thai basil leaves another friend from her home garden. I tried basil lemonade at home and even posted this in Jeyashri's kitchen Instagram story too. Today i tried with sweet basil leaves and it turned out very nice too. Make this small variation in your usual lemonade and enjoy the summer.
Check out my other lemon based summer coolers

• Shikanji
• Home made lemonade 

Rose lassi recipe | Lassi recipe

Lassi is a popular yogurt based Indian drink. I have posted punjabi sweet lassi, kesar lassi, mango lassi in jeyashri's kitchen. This rose lassi is quite famous in road side dabbas and anything with rose essence i love it. I have tried rose gulkand lassi for my Kutties kitchen cook book. When i bought rose milk essence 2 weeks back, after trying the watermelon rose cooler, i tried this rose lassi recipe. Varsha a great fan of rose milk, just like me😊enjoyed it very much, after she came back home from her exams. As the weather is getting hot, stay hydrated by drinking enough water, buttermilk and once in a while indulge in such summer coolers.

Fruit popsicle recipe | Summer coolers

As Varsha is posting for the past 2 sundays some interesting popsicles , today she is sharing the furit popsicle recipe, which we tried even last year too. We are going for a holiday and i have scheduled some posts till the end of the month. Please bear with any delay in replying your mails or comments. Over to Varsha.....
It is really important to stay hydrated and healthy during summer. I usually find myself opening the
fridge every 2 minutes to look for something cold and nice to drink and since we have holidays now, all that my brother and I eat are chips, cookies and other junk food. Amma keeps insisting that we should eat fruits instead of all that. But do we listen to her? NOO ,So I came up with this popsicle. So the next time you crave for something nice and cold have this popsicle instead. It's healthy and refreshing at the same time. BTW this is the last post of the SUNNY SUNDAY POPSICLE series, as we are going for holiday. But don't worry I'll be back with other posts some time later. BYE BYE.

Dates popsicle recipe | Easy popsicle recipes

Sunny Sunday popsicles post by my daughter Varsha. Check out her coconut lemonade popsicle recipe.  Over to Varsha....
Today is my parents wedding anniversary, so I thought I would post a 'perfect date' recipe. Do you guys get the pun? I am not so good with puns or writing introductions. Since the Ramadan Month is starting tomorrow, Amma suggested that I post a dates recipe. Nowadays it rains quite often but you don't need a sunny weather to eat popsicle, right? Well at least I don't think so. Popsicles can be eaten anytime, anywhere. I am the kind of person who eats ice cream when its raining outside.  This is a perfect recipe for people with a sweet tooth. Enough said,  let's move on to the PERFECT DATE RECIPE. Check out the eggless dates cake recipe and dates kheer recipe too.

Coconut lemonade popsicle | Summer recipes

This post is from my daughter Varsha, who wants to mess up write post for my Jeyashri's kitchen on weekends, as she is having Summer vacation. As we are going for holidays, i have already scheduled posts for the month of June and told her to stop with one post. But she is so enthusiastic and wanted to do few more popscile posts. She has posted her maiden post for me last year, an eggless double chocolate cake.  Over to Varsha.
Heyyy! I'm back. I wanted to post a recipe for Mother's day itself but I was busy with my exams so I
couldn’t do so. Since its summer now I thought of posting a popsicle recipe. It's getting really hot in
Singapore these days. So I thought of having a series known as SUNNY SUNDAY POPSICLES, where a popsicle recipe will be posted by me on Sundays for the next few weeks. I chose this recipe for the first week because it's very easy to make. It's time to beat the heat with my COCONUT LEMONADE POPSICLES.

Coconut lemonade popsicle

  Preparation Time : 15 mins +freezing time 7 hours  | Cooking Time : Nil|Serves: 4

     Tender coconut water | ilaneer   1 and 1/2 cup
     Sugar   3-4 tsp
     Lemon juice  1 tsp
     Coconut bits  2 tblsp
     
     

Method:

• Take out the water from the coconut. Pour it in a bowl. Add the lemon juice to this.
• Add the sugar.  Mix well.

• Chop the tender coconut into small bits. Transfer the bits to the coconut lemonade mix.

• Pour this in popsicle moulds and cover it. Freeze it overnight or freeze for 6 hours.
• Once done, run this moulds into water and gently take it out from the mould.
• Enjoy them cold.

• You can even enjoy the coconut lemonade as a drink itself without freezing them into popsicles. 

Avocado Milkshake recipe | With video of how to cut avocado

Avocado Milkshake i first tasted in Singapore , food republic in Vivo city. I was so curious to taste the fruit when we moved here and had it first,in the form of milkshake . Later once Varsha learnt some Glucamole, an avocado dip from school and we had with tortila chips. I bought the avocados to make the avocado ice cream but finally ended up in making the milkshake recipe without ice cream. Try this easy and healthy milkshake recipe at home. I have made a video on how to cut avocado, which will be useful for beginners. Check out my mango milkshake, oreo milkshake recipe.
Choose the dark black avocado, which is the ripe one. If the outer cover is green in colur it is unripe,keep it outside for 2-3 days and once it is becomes dark and soft to touch, you can cut that.

Grape popsicle recipe | Summer cooler recipes

From my childhood i love black grapes very much. During my childhood days we get the black grapes which has seeds in it. My sister doesn't like that and so i always get a big portion for me. Also i generally do not discad the seed while eating, i just carefully bite it and swallow woth the seed. My sister used to tease me, that I will get a grapes tree from my tummy as i am swallowing the seeds. Later we started gettign the seedless varitey. Even after coming to Singapore, i buy the grapes regularly. I have posted a grape orange juice recipe too few years back. When i was casaully waiting for a friend near a shop, i happened to see these umbrella shaped ice lolly moulds in a small shop nearby. So picked this up and made thsi grape popsicle. Varsha wanted to post some summer cooler recipes, but she is bit busy with her studies as she is in 10th grade now. Anyways, stay tuned for her summer recipe post soon. Check out my moong bean popsicle, rose falooda popsicle,

Orange Slushie recipe | Summer cooler recipes

Slush | Slushie is a crushed ice drink, combined with any fruit juice and soda. We get slurpy ( a brand of slush) available in all 7- 11 stores here. Though i don't buy that for kids always but rarely i get it for them. Last sumer itself i wanted to try this at home but some how i missed. Yesterday when i saw akid holding the slurpee in hands in the super market, i thought i will make slush at home and surprise the kids. I picked up fresh oranges and soda from the super market and made it for kids. It was a huge hit at home. Instead of buying the ones at store atleast once in a while i can make it for them at home. Of course as a mother i know fresh fruits are good for the health, i do give them a lot but once in a while pamper them with these types of juices. See the notes section below for healthy variations.
Check out my

• Orange soda recipe
• Orange barley water

Shikanji recipe | Indian lemonade | Summer coolers recipe

Shikanji is a popular summer drink of North India. It is also called as Indian lemonade. I have first tasted this 2 years back in a birthday party. It tasted like lemonade but was bit different too. Then another friend told me that it is Shikanji, a popular drink of North india. Also she told me the ingredients of the shikanji too.  After that i tasted a similar one in Pizza hut last year in India as masala lemonade. It is almost the same but they have added plain soda to that . Past few days we are experiencing a very hot sunny days and suddenly i remembered of this drink and made it at home. Everyone liked it and i thought i will post the recipe of shikanji here. Stay hydrated this summer by taking lots of water, watermelon, cucumber, ash gourd and lemons. Avoid eating very spicy food. Check out my summer coolers collection for more  recipes.
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KESAR SWEET LASSI RECIPE| SAFFRON LASSI RECIPE

Sweet lassi is the one i always love to have anytime. Though i love lassi, i make the salt lassi | neermor, as they are very good for health. My daughter loves all types of lassi. As the kids have holidays, i am making some juice or lassi for them . Today she asked for sweet lassi and i am a mood to click the pictures too. As i have already posted sweet lassi, i thought i will make kesar lassi . The kesar lassi was awesome and she loved it a lot. She infact patiently waited for me to click the pictures.

MILLET CUCUMBER LASSI RECIPE | MILLET RECIPES

Lassi , whether it is sweet or salt, is the most healthy and welcoming drink all time. I have already posted the recipe of  masala chaas here . When i posted vazhaithandu mor i have this idea in mind. . This cucumber lassi with millet is a very healthy one and quite filling too. I made this kuthiraivali | Barnyard millet. You can try with varagu, thinai or samai too. even can make with Oats too. Try this millet cucumber lassi and stay hydrated this summer.