Cactus Pear juice

Ingredients:
Cactus pear - 2 No's
Sugar - 2tbs ( can add more or less according to your taste)
Water - 1 and half cups
Lemon juice - 1 tbs

Preparation:

Cut the fruit into half and scoop out the flesh and put it in a bowl. Now take the blender and add water, scooped cactus pear, sugar,  lemon juice and blend well.  Drain using a strainer and server with few ice cubes.

Rosemilk Shake

Ingredients:
Milk - 2 cups
Rose milk essence - 2 tbs (i used rooh-afza)
Rose water -  few drops
Vanilla Ice cream - 1 or 2 scoop
Ice cubes - 3

Preparation:

Blend  milk, rosemilk essence, rose water, 1 scoop of ice cream and ice cubes  in a blender. Then pour in a glass  &  add the remaining scoop of ice cream & serve..

Dates Banana Milkshake

Ingredients:

Dates – 10 no’s

Banana – ½  of small banana

Milk – 1 ½ cup

Vanilla ice cream – 1 cup

Preparation:

Deseed the dates if needed and  blend all the ingredients together.  Pour into tall glasses , garnish with some chopped dates and serve immediately.

Ginger Ale / Ginger Beer

Source: Magazine

Ingredients:

Ginger – 1 cup (grated)

Water – 2 cups
Sugar – 1 cup

Black Pepper – 1tsp

Lemon Zest - few

Preparation:

Wash and peel ginger and  grate it using a grater. Take a bowl  add 2cups of water, black pepper, lemon zest & bring this to boil.  Boil this for 10 minutes & switch off the flame and let it sit for 20 to 30 mins. Then strain this using a strainer.

Pour this into the sauce pan. Add  sugar and boil this again. Mix well so that the sugar is dissolved. Now the ginger syrup is done. Allow this to cool down and store in bottle. Keep it refrigerated.

To make ginger ale, take a glass pour some ginger syrup ( 3 to 4 tsp) then squeeze some lemon juice and pour water mix well, put some ice cubes & serve.

Enjoy the drink…………..

Mango Lassi

Ingredients:
Yogurt – 1 cup
Mango – ¾ cup chopped mango (or) mango pulp
Sugar - 2 tbs. You can add more or less your choice
Milk - ¼ cup(optional)
Water – ½ cup

Preparation:
Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Keep it in refrigerator and serve chill. When you serve you can add ice cubes or add a scoop of ice cream on top if you want.
Note: If you want lassi to be thick or thin adjust the ingredients slightly more or less.

Chocolate Banana Smoothie

Ingredients
Banana -1 large
Milk – 1 cup
Sugar – 2 tbs
Coco powder - 1tsp
Vanilla essence – few drops
Ice cubes – as required

Preparation:
In a blender mix all the above ingredients and blend until it becomes smooth. Pour it into a glass, add ice cubes and serve immediately