Hello everyone! I bet everyone is battling with the scorching summer heat. The temperatures are soaring day by day. It’s very difficult especially for the older and quite younger generation to beat the heat. Many kids complain lack of appetite and just get dehydrated. The mantra to beat the scorching summer is in our hands. Drink plenty of water, fluids like juices, coconut water, and fresh salads! The fruits to include in our daily intake are musk melons, water melons, mangoes, sweet limes, grapes, papaya, oranges, guavas, litchis, and pineapples. We give you few recipes that you will find refreshing and tasty to gorge on!!!
Papaya salad:
Ingredients:
Mint : 3 sprigs/ 2 tblespn
Honey : 3 tble spns
Lime juice : 1 tspn
Pomegranate seeds : 1 tblespn
Paneer, grated : 1 tblespn
Method:
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Wash, peel and cut the papaya into pieces.
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Wash, clean and slightly chop the mint leaves.
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Mix the cut papaya, mint leaves and honey in a mixing bowl.
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Add lime juice and refrigerate.
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Garnish it with pomegranate seeds and grated paneer.
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Serve chilled.
Paanakam / jaggery water:
Jaggery water or paanakam is well known to all the
people of Andhra Pradesh as its served especially on
the auspicious day of SriRamaNavami festival. But do
you know it has anessential quality of keeping the
body temperaturedown! Let’s make the paanakam with
a twist.
Ingredients:
Jaggery, grated : 1 cup
Black peppercorns : 1tspn
Green cardamom : 4-5 no.s
Lime juice : 1 tspn
Water : ½ litre
Method:
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Crush the black peppercorns and green cardamoms and keep it aside.
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Mix the grated jaggery powder and water in a deep vessel and stir till the powder dissolves.
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Add the crushed peppercorns, green cardamoms and lime juice to the jaggery water.
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Serve chilled.
Masala majjiga/ masala buttermilk:
Ingredients:
Cumin seeds powder : 1 tspn
Ginger : 1 inch piece
Green chilies : 2 no.s
Curry leaves : 1 sprig
Coriander leaves : 2 tblespns
Salt : to taste
Method:
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Beat the curd into a smooth texture. Add water and whip it again.
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To make cumin seeds powder, fry cumin seeds in a pan and let it cool. Grind it into a fine powder.
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Crush ginger and green chilies with a pestle and add it to the buttermilk.
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Tear curry leaves into small pieces and add it to the buttermilk.
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Chop the coriander leaves and add it to the buttermilk.
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Adjust the salt according to the taste and mix the buttermilk thoroughly.
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Refrigerate it for 2 hours and strain it in a vessel.
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Serve chilled in a tall glass with a sprig of mint and coriander leaf.
Water melon and mango smoothie:
Ingredients:
Mango : 1cup
Raspberries : ½ cup, optional
Honey : 1 tblespn
Lime juice : 1 tspn
Mint leaves : 1 sprig
Method:
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Cut watermelon into cubes and deseed them.
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Wash, peel and cut ripe mango into pieces.
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Blend watermelon, mango, raspberries, honey and lime juice in a mixer into a smoothie.
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Serve chilled and garnished with a sprig of mint.
Sweet lassi:
This is a common coolant for summer. The ingredients used in the recipe helps to keep the body temperature cooler.
Ingredients:
Curd : 2 cups
Sugar : 2 tblespns
Rose essence : 2 tblespns
Almonds, pistachios : 1 tspn
Rose petals : a few to garnish
Rooh afza : 2 tblspns, optional
Method:
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Beat the curd with little water and sugar in a blender.
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Add rose essence and blend again.
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Refrigerate it for an hour.
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To serve, take tall glass and glaze it with roohafza, add ice cubes,
pour the chilled lassi and garnish it with chopped almonds,
pistachios and rose petals.
- hima bindu
Raw Mango squash:
Ingredients:
Raw mangoes : 1 kg
Water : 3 cups
Sugar : 1 ½ kg
Potassium bi sulphate : 2 tspn
Citric acid : ½ tspn
METHOD:
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Peel the mangoes and cut into pieces. Boil the pieces in 1 cup of water.
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Remove from flame and let it cool.

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Grind it into fine paste and strain for smooth pulp.
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In a vessel, add water, sugar and citric acid and stir it till everything dissolves.
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Strain the above mixture for impurities.
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Keep it on the flame again and add raw mango pulp to the mixture and boil it.
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Keep it aside and let it cool. Add potassium bi sulphate to it and mix it well.
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Store the squash in a glass bottle and use it when required.
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To make a one glass of squash, add a quarter of the mixture and ¾ of the water.
COOL SUMMER COFFEE WITH MINT FLAVOR:
INGREDIENT:
Sugar : 4 tspn
Mint leaves : a few leaves
Ice cubes : a few
METHOD:
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Boil water with sugar and mint leaves.
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Add coffee powder and boil for 2 minutes. Remove from flame and let it cool.
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Strain the beverage and cool it in the fridge for an hour.
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Serve the chilled coffee in a glass and garnish it with a mint leaf and ice cubes.
- Siva Sankar Mahanthi
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