Lychee is healthy and balanced too. It is an fantastic source of vitamin C, helps in digestion and gives energy. Therefore it is an great option for the summertime. Learn with us how to make fast litchi shake and cool yourself and your family members to beat the summer.

Ingredients for Lychee Shake

4 cups litchi (chopped and seedless)

1 ltr condensed milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 teaspoons honey or agave nectar, or to taste

Ice cubes, optional

Procedure

Mix the chopped litchi’s, milk and sugar.

Blend and make a thick drink.

Add the vanilla extract, honey or agave nectar, and ice cubes (if using) and process.

Pour into the serving glasses and refrigerate for few hours.

Serve immediately in tall glasses, or chill until ready to serve.

Given below is the recipe for Chilli Paneer with Gravy.

Ingredients for Chilli Paneer

Green Capsicum, sliced lengthwise – 1

Oil – 2-3 tbsp

Cheese (Paneer) - 250 gms

Crushed garlic – 3-4 flakes

Soya sauce – 2-3 tsp

Green chillies – 2-3

Thickly sliced onions – 1 big

Chilly sauce – 1 tbsp

Tomato sauce – 1 tbsp

Black pepper – 1 tsp

Garam Masala – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Method of Chilly Paneer

Cut the cottage cheese into medium sized chunks. Heat oil in a pan, roll the pieces of cheese in some of cornflour and deep fry on medium flame until the edges turn light brown color.

Take out the cheese cubes and keep aside. Now add garlic and green chilly in same oil, fry for a minute. Add onion and stir lightly.

Onion should become little crunchy, add capsicum (Green Pepper / Shimla mirch) and stir for a minute. Add black pepper, salt, garam masala and mix in.

Add chilly sauce, tomato sauce, soya sauce and mix. Stir for few minutes. Finally add fried paneer cubes to the mixture. Tasty chilly paneer is completely ready to serve at home.

The recipe calls for minimal ingredients and results is delicious pancakes. For all the aloo tikki lovers out there, here is the Fast version of the recipe.

Ingredients:

2 tbsp – Sabudana

5 – Boiled Potato

3 – Green Chillies

Sendha Namak

Oil – for frying

Red – Chilli Powder

Method:

-Soak sago in a cup of water for 1 hour.

-Drain and keep aside.

-Peel and grate boiled potatoes.

-Add the deseeded and chopped green chillies, ginger, coriander, onion, chopped curry leaves, drained sago, salt, chaat masala and red chilli powder.

-Mix well with a wooden spoon.

-Divide into 16 portions and shape into round patties, using a little oil on your palms.

-Deep fry the patties until they are crisp and golden brown.

-Serve with tomato ketchup.

Ingredients:

-Ripe mangoes -2

-Red pepper-1

-Green pepper -1

-Jalapeno-1

-Cucumber-1

-Green chilies – 2

-Coriander – handful

-Lemon – 1

-Salt – to taste

Method: take the ripe mangoes and chopped  them. Chopped the cucumber, green chilies, coriander and mix the red pepper, green pepper jalapeno with that. Mix all the ingredients together. Crush the lemon juice over the mixture and sprinkle salt. Biting the mixture in the fridge and take your ready mango salsa .

Ingredients:

-Ghee-3 tbsp

-Khoya(Milk Fudge)-1kg

-Powdered Suger-500gms

-Refined flour-500g

-Clarified butter-6tbsp

-Raisins-3tbsp

-Chironji-2tbsp

-Refined oil-for deep frying

-Chopped Almonda-25gms

Method:

To making stiff dough prepare covering sieve flour and rub in three tablespoons of ghee and add some cold water with that. Cover it with a wet cloth and keep it aside. Sauté’ the milk fudge (khoya) in low flame and until to get the smooth fragrant. Make a mixture of coconut, cashewnuts, almonds, raisins and allow the mixture to cold. Started making ball for the dough and roll each ball into a small round of 4 inch diameter, fill the khoya mixture on the half of the round and after fold it and seal the round .Prepare all the gujiyas and keep it in the cloth. On a medium flame heat the ghee/ refined and deep fry the gujiyas, when it colour is golden or brawn remove it from refined. Store it on airtight glass jar

Ingredients for Toast

1/2 Tomato (chopped finely)

2 Onions (chopped)

Oil – for cooking

4 slices Bread (each cut into 2 pieces)

3 Green Chillies (chopped)

1/2 cup Yogurt

1 tbsp Coriander Leaves (chopped)

1/2 cup – Besan/ Chickpea flour

1 tsp Salt

1/2 cup – Water

1 tbsp – Rice Flour

1 pinch Turmeric Powder

1/2 cup Rava/Sooji/Semolina

For Sweet Version

Sugar -1 tbsp or to taste

Vanilla Extract – 1/2 tsp

Method for Toast

-  Sift the Chickpea Flour with Baking Soda and the Rice Flour.

-  Add sooji, Yogurt and Water and mix.

-  Mix in the ingredients for either the Sweet Version or the Savory Version.

- Heat a griddle or a skillet and drizzle a little Oil.

- Cut Bread Slices and dip in the batter (on both sides).

-  Place on the hot griddle and cook for a couple of minutes.

-  Drizzle a little Oil on the top-side and flip the toast.

-  Allow the Toast to cook on the under-side for a few minutes.

-  Once done, remove and serve hot off the stove.

-  For Sweet Version – serve with powdered sugar or maple syrup.

-  For Savory Version – serve with ketchup or chutney.

Ingredients for Victoria Sponge Cake

225 grams butter

225 grams sugar

225 grams flour

4 large eggs

1 vanilla bean

1 tsp baking powder

250 grams strawberries

1 Tbsp milk

Process for the Filling

-In a pot put strawberry jam with some warm water.

-Put it on heat until the jam and water form a liquid paste. Then add the lemon juice.

-In another pot put cream, sugar and whisk until soft peaks are formed. Add cream and whisk again.

-Once the jam mixture comes to a boil add strawberries and mix.

Process for Sponge

-In a mixer put sugar, butter along with eggs and mix.

-Include flour, baking powder, little bit of vanilla beans along with milk to the above mixture and mix again.

-Transfer the mixture In 2 different buttered and floured trays.

-Flat it out nice and evenly.

-Bake in an oven set at 180 degress for about 20-25 minutes.

Preparation for Victoria Sponge Cake

-On the baked sponge spread some cream as the 1st layer and then spread the strawberry mix as the next layer.

-Then add the strawberry pieces and then place the other sponge cake on top of it.

-Lastly dust some icing sugar.

Oranges
Oranges are one of the best thing that you can enjoy in winters. This is the only great fruit that is sweet and sore both at a time. Its unique quality is that it supplies a great amount of Citric acid to our body. Citric acid is helpful in breaking the food and then it provides energy.

Nuts and Dried Fruits

Nuts and Dried fruits as we know are made for the winters. We can call them as power house of energy. All the major dry fruit contains fat, carbohydrate and  saturated fats.

Carrots

Carrots can be named as multivitamin capsule. As it has got all major vitamins like B, C, D, E and K. You can also make pickles and jams from it. In India it is used for making Halwa. Halwa is a rich source of fat and carbohydrate.

Chicken Soup

Well if you love non –veg than it’s a treat for you. Chicken soup is not only delicious but it is also very high on energy. It provides on fat that gives you energy whenever your body requires it.

Peanuts

They tastes well in each form whether the plain natural form or you can fry them and add some kind of salts. You can get them in sweet form with in Gur Papar. Peanuts are very good source of the fat and the carbohydrates.

Ingredients

250 gm crushed paneer or ricotta cheese

60 gm sugar

450 gm canned pineapple – crushed

2 tbsp ghee

Few drops of yellow food color (optional)

A pinch of saffron

Pistachios – sliced

Method

Mix the cheese, ghee and crushed pineapple in a pan and bring to a boil.

Once it starts to bubble, add the yellow food color.

Cover and let it cook on medium till the water evaporates.

Add the sugar and saffron and saute it for 5-10 minutes or till it leaves the sides of the pan.

Transfer on to a serving dish and garnish with chopped pistachios.

Ingredients for Tandoori Fish Tikka

-500 gms fish
-1 tablespoon thyme seed (ajwain)
-45 ml cream
-2 teaspoon cumin powder
-2 teaspoon garam masala
-1 tablespoon garlic paste
-20 gms besan
-30 ml lime juice
-5 tablespoon mint or coriander chutney
-1 onion lachha (the way we chop in salad)
-½ teaspoon white pepper powder
-60 gms yogurt
-Salt and red chilli powder according to taste

How to make Tandoori Fish Tikka?

-Mix all ingredients except fish.
-Now rub this mixture on the pieces of fish and keep fish aside for marination.
-Cook it in tandoor and serve hot with onion lachha and green chutney.