Filter Coffee for Black & White Wednesday #33 my entry!

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This photo is going to Black & White Wednesday # 33 started by Susan and guest hosted by Saraswathi Iyer

Strawberry Rose Juice | Summer Specials!

Strawberry Rose Juice is a new mix of fresh strawberries and rose essence. Since my son loves both thought of mixing and he enjoyed the juice.

Serves - 1

Ingredients
Strawberry(Korea)- 6 nos
Rose Essence - 2 tablespoons
Chilled water - 1 glass
Sugar -  1 tablespoon
Ice cubes as required

Preparation Method
In a blender/mixie put all the ingredients and blend to smooth juice. Strain it.

Serve with ice cubes.

Strawberry Rose Juice is ready to serve.

This Juice is going to Summer Spunk by my dearest friend Anusha and Kids Delight by Srivalli hosted by Nupur.

Oats Buttermilk | Summer Specials!

Oats Buttermilk is very healthy and refreshing for this scorching summer.

Ingredients
Rolled Oats - 2 tspns
Ginger - 1" piece
Curds/Plain Yogurt - 1 cup
Water - 2 cups
Salt

Preparation Method


Soak rolled oats in water for few mins.
In a blender, add oats, a piece of ginger and salt. Grind to smooth paste.
Take chill thick curds/plain yogurt add 2 cups water. Mix the smooth paste with curds, mix well and garnish with chopped coriander.

Serve chilled.

Enjoy Oats Buttermilk.


   This recipe is going to CWS Oats Event by Kalyani and Priya and Summer Spunk by Anusha.

Samba Rava /Broken Wheat Kanji!

Samba Rava /Broken Wheat Kanji is a healthy drink. I have been preparing every month and its my son's favourite one too. This can be your breakfast too, if you are bored of any breakfast or looking for an easy breakfast on weekends. This is my daily breakfast. My MIL taught me and we all liked it a lot.

Ingredients
Samba Rava - 2 cups
Pottukadalai/Fried Gram -  1 cup
Soya Bean -  1/2 cup
Elakka podi/Cardamom powder - 1/4 tspn or 4 nos
Nuts - Badam 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup


Preparation Method
In a kadai, dry roast all the ingredients to slight brown separately. Transfer it to a plate.
Allow it to cool.
Grind to fine powder in mixie with little sugar for easy grinding. Mix well.
Store this in a air tight container.Healthy mix is ready.

Now for Kanji
Mix 2 tspns of this powder with little water and boil, then add one glass of milk. Add sugar and Serve.

Samba Rava /Broken Wheat Kanji is ready. Enjoy this healthy drink.

Notes - If you have mill near your place, you can skip sugar.
You can make in large quantity and store for months and stored in fridge too for later use.

Ginger Tea/Inji Tea/Adrak Chai/Teh

Tea/Chai is a traditional milk based beverage India. I have added ginger to add more flavour and its good for digestion and throat. This is going to my Healing Foods Ginger Garlic hosted here at Sara's Corner started by Siri.

Ingredients
Milk(Normal/Low Fat) - 1 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Tea powder - 1 tspn
இஞ்சி/ Ginger/ आदरक/ ಶುಂಟಿ - 1 inch piece pounded
Sugar - 1 tspn or sugarfree

Preparation Method
In a vessel add all the ingredients and boil well. It will overflow but keep in low flame and stir with a spoon until it boils and quantity reduces a little.
Filter it and serve hot.

Flavourful Ginger Tea is ready to serve.

Ramanavami Panagam, Neer Mor and Kosambari!

Ramanavami falls today thats 31st March 2012. Ramanavami is celebrated on the occasion of birthday of Lord Rama. It falls on the 9th day of Shukla Paksha.

On this day prayers are done and visit to Lord Rama temple. Observe fast/upavasam. Special pooja is performed at home and temples offering Panagam/Panaka, Neer Mor/Buttermilk and Kosambari as prasadams to Lord. Ladies will exchange kumkum with the prasadams with neighbours.

In Tamilnadu only Panagam is prepared. In Karnataka Panaka, Neer Mor and Kosambari is prepared.

Heres the simple and easy recipes for this.

Panagam/Panaka is a sweet drink prepared with Vellam/Jaggery.

Take 1 cup mashed or powdered vellam/jaggery in 4 glasses of water.
Add 1/2 tspn elachi powder/cardamom powder and 1/2 tspns sukku powder/dry ginger powder.

Mix well and keep it aside till all the vellam/jaggery is dissolved. Serve chilled or as it is.

Note - If case you feel Jaggery is less you can add later and mix after offering to Lord.

Variation - You can add ripen mash melon/Kirnipazham. It will be very refreshing.

For Neer Mor/Buttermilk

Take 1 cup thick curds/plain yogurt add 3 cups water, chopped coriander leaves, salt, chopped ginger mix well and Serve.


For Kosambari Recipe click here.

Happy Ramanavami.

Rose Milk

Rose Milk is very tasty and simple drink. This is a favourite drink of my 16months old son for its colour and taste:-) Its very refreshing.

I was thinking Rose Milk is very difficult and long process to make so always having it in a restuarant. But my friend here told me Rose syrup is available in super market and its easy to make. Now am very happy after I bought my family likes it a lot and drink daily.

Take 2 tspns rose syrup(store bought sugar added some are without sugar too) in a glass and pour cold milk of your choice(Normal, Low fat, skimmed milk) stir well and serve. For children you can garnish few choco chips.

My other entries for FIL Milk event are

Paal Payasam

Carrot Halwa

Seven Cup

This recipe is going to FIL Milk Event by Sanghi and Soup n Juice Event by Sireesha.

This can be very refreshing drink after fasting so sending it to Joy from fasting to feasting by Lubna.

Badam Milk

Badam Milk is very tasty and healthy drink. Badam is rich in Vitamin E. Its very refreshing drink.

Ingredients
Badam (Almonds) - 6 nos
Pistachos(Pista) - 6 nos
Kumkumpoo(Saffron) - 4 strands - Optional
Sugar - 2 tspns (as per your taste)
Milk - 1 1/2 glass
Elakka powder(Cardamom powder) - 1/4 tspn
Food colour yellow or orange - Optional ( I have not added)

Preparation Method
Soak Badam in hot water for 1 hour and remove skin.
Soak 3 strands of kumkumpoo in 1/2 glass of milk - optional
In mixie grind Almonds and pistachos with little milk to fine paste.
Heat milk, add Elakka powder and this fine paste. Boil well.
Mix kumkumpoo milk and add required sugar and off the stove.

Garnish with pistacho flakes and kumkumpoo. Enjoy the drink hot or chilled.

Jeeragam water (Cumin health drink)

Jeeragam water(Cumin seeds) water is good for health. It helps for gastric problem and improves digestive system. It can be consumed anytime. Very simple and easy drink.

We daily drink this water at home also when I was pregnant.

Start boiling 4 cups of water in a bowl and add 1/2 tspn jeeragam(cumin) (Can also dryroast) when the water turns yellowish and boiling off the stove. Drink the water with or without jeeragam. Its good to drink when warm.

Tip - You can dry roast a cup of Jeera/Cumin seeds and just add when water is boiling.