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Vanilla Shake Recipe

talat — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:55:38 +0000

Preparation time : 5 min } Serves 2 glasses

Shakes and smoothies are the quickest and easiest recipes ever and it would become easier if only flavors are added in the form of ice creams. Here in this yummy recipe vanilla ice cream is used to prepare vanilla shake but with little addition of almond flavor.

Ingredients:

4 scoops vanilla ice cream 1 tbsp vanilla extract 1½ cup milk 2 tbsp almond powder

Procedure:

1. Put all the in ingredients in blender and blend well to make thick milky vanilla shake. 2. Pour in the serving glasses and top with almonds and cream.

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Hot Chocolate Recipe

talat — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:13:14 +0000

Preparation time : 15 min.

This hot chocolate recipe is one of the favorite chocolate beverages which can be easily prepared at home. You may either serve it as hot or cold in this recipe it is served as hot, for cold serving chill it for few minutes in fridge and then serve with the topping.

Ingredients:

8 cup milk
1/3 cup sugar
¼ cup cocoa
¼ tsp vanilla
½ tsp cinnamon
whipped cream for topping
Chocolate stick or wafer for topping

Procedure:

1. In a sauce pan mix sugar, cocoa and 2-3 tbsp milk and then cook on slow heat until sugar and cocoa completely dissolve and make a paste form.
2. Then add remaining amount of milk, cinnamon and vanilla and cook until steam starts to come from the mixture, then pour it into the serving glasses. Top with the whipped cream and chocolate stick and then serve immediately.

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Cranberry Punch Recipe

talat — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:52:53 +0000

Preparation time : 5 min. | Serves 1 ½ quart

This cranberry punch recipe is prepared with cranberry, pineapple and lemon flavor hence it has sweet and sour taste. It can be presented as Halloween punch by adding freeze hands or dry ice in the punch bowl of cranberry punch.

Ingredients:

250 ml lemonade
½ quart cranberry juice
2 cup pineapple juice

Procedure:

In hand blender jug put all the juices mentioned above and blend with ice cubes. Pour the delicious pink punch in serving glasses.

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Black Halloween Punch

talat — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:52:57 +0000

Preparation time : 5 min. | Serves 24 glasses

This black Halloween punch is prepared with combination of grape juice, orange juice and ginger ale. Here in this recipe fruit mix is used which you can replace with fresh juice to enjoy good and fresh flavor. To give this punch a horrible effect, ice hand is used which is served in punch bowl and is prepared by freezing water filled glove.

Ingredients:

1 small envelope unsweetened grape juice mix
1 small envelope unsweetened orange juice mix
2 cup white sugar
3 liter cold water
1 liter ginger ale
1 disposable glove for making ghost hand

Procedure:

1. Fill the disposable glove with water and seal the mouth of glove with rubber band. Freeze it till hard ice would form.
2. Now blend together rest of the ingredients and then pour in punch bowl.
3. Take out the freeze glove and place in slightly warm water for just few seconds so that the ice take out easily from the glove and then place in the punch bowl before serving.

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Green Punch

talat — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:34:06 +0000

Preparation time : 5 min. + Chill time | Serves 4 quarts

This is one of a scary Halloween punch recipe, this green punch can be served at any occasion by simple putting the drink in glasses but if you present it at Halloween then do follow the presentation as given below to give it scary look.

Ingredients:

2 cup sugar
1 quart water
1 liter 7up
2 envelopes lime drink mix
1 can pineapple juice
1 quart ginger ale

Preparation:

1. In a jug completely dissolve sugar in water.
2. After that add rest of the ingredients to the sugar water syrup and stir well. Keep the punch in fridge to chill.
3. To serve this green Halloween punch, take two punch bowls of different sizes, fill half of the large bowl with dry ice and then place the second bowl onto the ice. Pour the prepared green punch in the small bowl which looks scary.

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Sherbet Punch Recipe

talat — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:38:37 +0000

Preparation time : 5 min. | Serves 16 glasses

This sherbet punch recipe is prepared with orange sherbet you may also use other sherbet to give some color to the punch and present it beautifully as the cool Halloween punch.

Ingredients:

14 oz sweetened condensed milk
12 oz frozen orange juice (thawed)
2 liter frozen ginger ale (thawed)
Orange sherbet as required

Procedure:

1. Combine condensed milk, orange juice and ginger ale in a punch bowl.
2. When a uniform mixture form then add some small scoops of orange sherbet in the punch bowl and serve immediately.

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Breakfast Shake

talat — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:13:06 +0000

Preparation time : 5 min. | Serves 4 glasses

This recipe of breakfast shake is prepared with banana bread hence become little denser than usual banana shake. In this recipe vanilla ice cream is used, you can also use any other flavor of ice cream but to enjoy banana only flavor vanilla ice cream is best.

Ingredients:

4 cup vanilla ice cream (or any flavor)
3 slices of banana bread (crushed)
1 cup milk (thawed)
1 ripe banana
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ cup light brown sugar

Procedure:

1. Put all the ingredients in blender and shake well so that every ingredient combine with each other and form smooth mixture.
2. Pour the prepared breakfast shake in glasses and serve with banana bread. You can also reserve some crushed banana slice and use as topping for shake.

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Whey Protein Shake

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:47:00 +0000

Preparation time : 5 mins. | Serves 2 glasses

Whey protein shakes are very much popular among the young people as they are helpful in building up strong muscles. So there are variety of whey protein shakes are prepared for this purpose with different fruits including banana, strawberry, blueberry, peach, etc.

Ingredients:

30 gm whey protein powder (

vanilla flavor)
8 oz orange juice
4-5 ice cubes
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 banana
2-3 strawberries (fresh or frozen)
3 tbsp brown sugar

Procedure:

1. Take a hand blender and put all the above ingredients to blend well.
2. After that pour the shake into the glasses and if you like add some topping of whipped cream on this delicious whey protein shake.

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Spiced Tea Recipe

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:56:00 +0000

Preparation time : 2hrs. (approx.) | Serves 10 persons
This spiced tea recipe is generally called Kashmiri Chai in Paskistani cuisine and is very much popular there. It can be prepared in two flavors either sweet or salty with the same method. the key to prepare best kashmiri tea is to cook it for long time for instance if you want it to have it in morning then it is better to cook it over night which would result in excellent flavor.

Ingredients:

1 kg water (6 large cups)
3 tsp green tea leaves
2 star nuts
6 green cardamoms
500 gm milk
Finely chopped pistachio and almonds

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Procedure:

1. Put star nuts, green cardamoms and tea leaves in water in a deep sauce pan and let it boil on high flame.
2. After the tea starts boiling reduce the flame to medium and let it cook for at least an hour until the water reduce to two third.
3. After that add same amount of cold water which is being reduced (i.e, one third amount of cold water) and let it cook again for 15 mins. on medium heat until boiling point.
4. After that strain tea water only using strainer and the add milk to the tea, stir the tea continuously using ladle for 10-15 mins. more so that the color starts to turn into pink.
5. After that add sugar and cook it for further 15 mins. and then serve it as hot. Sprinkle finely chopped almonds and pistachio on top of the tea.

Coffee Smoothie

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:06:00 +0000

Preparation time : 5 mins | Serves 2 cups

This coffee smoothie is available at many coffee shops, now you can make it at home in just few minutes as instant coffee is used to make this delicious smoothie. You may adjust flavors according to your taste.

Ingredients:

1 tsp instant coffee
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp sugar
Ice cubes
2 tsp chocolate syrup

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Procedure:

1. Add all the ingredients to the blender including instant coffee, milk, vanilla extract, sugar, ice, and chocolate syrup in a blender. Try to use good quality blender to make smooth drinks and in this recipe of smoothie particularly because coffee needs to blend properly.
2. Blend them all until become smooth and creamy.
3. Serve in beautiful serving glasses and add some whipped cream on top.

Strawberry Smoothie Recipe

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:08:00 +0000

Preparation time (approx) : 5 mins | Serves 2 persons

Strawberries are rich in calcium and Vitamin C. Nearly all drinks prepared by the addition of strawberries have splendid taste. Chocolate strawberry drink is a very easy to make strawberry smoothie and is made by adding chocolate chips to it. This is the reason why kids enjoy this nutritious fruit drink

Ingredients:
1 cup strawberries (fresh or frozen)
2 bananas
1 cup plain vanilla yogurt
2 tablespoons chocolate syrup

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Procedure:
1. Put all the ingredients in the hand held blender and blend it until the mixture will become smooth.
2. After that pour it in the glass and garnish it with banana pieces and strawberries.

Servings:
Strawberry smoothie can be served with different cakes.

Fruit Smoothie

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Preparation time (approx) : 5 mins | Serves 2 persons

Any fruit can be used to make mix smoothie. There is no hard and fast rule for selection of fruits but to make a healthy fruit smoothie, you have to use soft pulpy fruits instead of juicy fruits for instance banana, mango and peach will add more taste in smoothie. I mostly use banana in most of my fruit smoothies.

Ingredients:
½ cup mango chopped
½ up banana chopped
½ cup apple chopped
½ cup apricot chopped
½ cup fresh cream
Sugar to taste
1½ cup milk

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Procedure:
1. In blender, blend all the fruits and sugar to make smooth paste. I prefer to use cuinart immersion blender to get fine smoothie.
2. Add milk and cream in it and mix well.
3. Pour the shake in glass and put in freeze to chill it.

Servings:
Fruit smoothie can be served with different cakes.

Lassi – An Eastern yogurt smoothie

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:34:00 +0000

Preparation time (approx) : 2 mins | Serves 1 person

Generally smoothies are made from fruits but it can also be made from dry fruits and yogurt. These type of smoothies that are prepared with yogurt are very common in Pakistan and India. Yogurt smoothie is called “Lassi” in traditional language and it is of two types one is sweet in taste and other is salty. Yogurt smoothie is very good for health.

Ingredients:
1 cup yogurt
Sugar – to tase.
2 tbspn milk

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Procedure:
1. In a blender mix all the ingredients.
2. Pour in glass and leave for few minutes in freeze

Mint And Saunf (fennel) Drink Recipe

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:09:00 +0000

Preparation time : 15 mins. | Serves 4 persons

Its very different juice and hardly anyone knows about it. Its very healthy and nutritious because of mint and fennel and good for those who has some gastric and heart burning problems.

Ingredients:
1 bunch of mint leaves
½ cup fennel seeds (saunf)
3-4 green cardamom
Sugar to taste
2 glass

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Procedure:
1. Blend all of the above ingredients in the blender.
2. Using drainer or soft cotton piece drain out all the blended liquid so that no particles are in the liquid.
3. Mix 1 glass of more water in it and sugar (if required).

Serving:
Serve in glass with sprinkle icing sugar and mint leaves over on top of it.

Mango Juice

admin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:00:00 +0000

Preparation time : 1hr. + Cooling time | Serves 10-15 persons

Mango juice is no doubt everyone’s favorite but raw or fresh mango juice is hardly known in most of the western countries as it originates from South Asia where mango are found in vast quantity and in different varieties. Some people boil raw mango but its actual taste develops when it is roasted on an iron skillet and then taken out all its pulp to make juice. Its very healthy juice and also prevents from illness during extremely hot climatic conditions .

Ingredients:
1 kg raw mango (Karee; try to use those having very small seed inside or of small size)
½ kg sugar or more (as you required; depends upon taste of kairee)
Water as required

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Procedure:
1. On an iron skillet put all the kairee on it and cover it to cook on low heat. Turn the side of them when cook from one side after 15 min or its color changes to black. Don’t cook it on high flame otherwise it would not completely tenderize.
2. After 30 mins when kairee completely cooks remove it from stove and let it cool in fridge.
3. Remove the skin from each kairee and separate all the pulp from the seed.
4. Now in blender, blend the pulp of kairee with little water (2-3 cups) so that smooth paste is formed.
5. Pour the paste in the deep pan and cook it with sugar until it boils (15 min. approx).
6. Cool it by stir continuously otherwise a white layer is formed on the top and it’s very difficult to drain it.

Servings:
Pour 2-3 table spoon on this juice in glass after it cools and mix with water, carry juice is ready to drink.

Servings:
Mango juice is usually served with differenr desserts or with cake like lemon pound cake.

Banana Smoothie

admin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:40:00 +0000

Preparation time : 10 mins | Serves 2 persons

Smoothie can be prepared by anyone at anytime. Just mix milk and fruit in a blender or if you have one of those smoothie makers , your job will be more easier . One way or the other smoothies are easy to make . But to prepare good a smoothie , cream, condense milk,chocolate and other flavors can also be added. In this recipe I added chocolate and ice cream to give more taste and flavor to the original banana smoothie recipe.

Ingredients:
1 banana
1 cup vanilla icecream
½ cup chocolate chips
2 tbspn cream
1 tbspn coffee
½ cup milk
Condense milk to taste

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Preparation:
1. Put all the ingredients in the blender and blend well.
2. Pour the smoothie into the glass and pour some chocolate syrup drops on it. Delicious chocolate and banana smoothie is ready to serve.

Servings:
Banana smoothie can be served with any cake like pineapple upside down cake or banana bread.

Pina Colada

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:56:00 +0000

Preparation time : 5 mins | Serves 4 Persons

Pina Colada is a kind of coconut flavor drink with addition of other juice flavor like pineapple juice or orange juice. In this recipe pineapple juice is used and you can see it clearly as it is reflected from the color of drink in the above picture. Coconut milk and cream both are used to give coconut flavor to this drink. This drink is perfect for any dinner , hi-tea or most likely as a party drink.

Ingredients:
1 can pineapple
1 cup coconut milk
1 cup coconut cream
Sugar to taste

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Procedure:
1. Add all the ingredients in blender and blend well enough to make smooth thin paste.
2. Pina colada is ready to serve in glass.

Servings:
Pina colada is served with any meal like baked chicken.