Pink Guava, i dont get this ultimate fruit here in Paris, but still am posting a fabulous smoothie which i blended together with an another incredible ingredient. I had an immense chance to enjoy this fruit thoroughly during my last year's trip to India. Its was a peak season in India during my travel and i dished out couple of dishes out of this fantastic fruit. After making some juice, lemonade and lassi with both green and pink guavas, my today's post is this simple but yet a delicious healthy smoothie prepared with pink guava chunks with yogurt, rolled oats. Definitely this smoothie is a very refreshing drink and dont forget to make some if you get this tropical fruit easily.

Its summer here, obviously the local farmer markets is stuffed with summer fruits, watermelon is one among those varieties of summer fruits we never forget to buy once they starts showing their heads. Watermelon this fruits is our family favourite, i can start my day with this fruit and end my day with it as well. I tried even doing a watermelon diet as i love this fruit that much. This fruit is one among the cheaper summer fruit easily available in the market obviously who will fail to get them. During one of our recent visit to the farmer's market pulled us to get a super huge watermelon, back home i tried salad with feta cheese, lollies, gaspacho and this smoothie. Even i didnt trashed the white rinds, i cook delicious dishes out of it. So apart from the outer green skin everything from watermelon can be used in different way in cooking.

After oranges, our favourite fruits is clementines, this incredible fruits are loaded with vitamin C.Regular consumption of clementine fills your body with vitamin C, which helps to keep various diseases like high blood presure and hardening of arteries etc. Vitamin C also play an important role in boosting the human immune system and fighting cardiovascular disorders.Do you know clementines contains high concentrations of dietary fibers which ensure the smooth function of our digestive system.Obviously we try to keep this fantastic vitamin C rich frutis quite often in our diet especially while winter is around to boost ourselves to tolerate the weather.

Pina colada is a sweet and rum based cocktail made usually with rum, cream of coconut,pineapple juice served either blended or shaken with ice. Since i chosed mocktails as this week's theme for blogging marathon am posting today a non alcholic delightful pina colada. Do you know, pina colada has been the official beverage of Puerto Rica since 1978.Coconut and pineapple blended together makes this incredible mocktail and trust me we enjoyed thoroughly. With loads of icecubes, eventhough the weather was super down and nasty we couldnt stop ourselves having this beautiful drink.

I went for storebought coconut milk and fresh pineapple chunks which i blended together as fine paste with a scoop of vanilla icecream, the addition of icecream turned this mocktail seriously very delicious. A super creamy mocktail to enjoy thoroughly while the weather is too hot,an incredible thirsty quencher definitely.Whoever love this exotic combination of drink will definitely go crazy if they taste this delicious mocktail.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#40. 

Weather is still cold and rainy but sometimes Sun god show his head to kick start our lazy gloomy days. However i dont bother to make some fresh juices or smoothies to keep ourself cool while the weather was quite chilled though.Actually we dont need any excuse to enjoy fresh drinks or smoothies. Recently one of my trial with amla aka gooseberries is this incredible punch. Look at the picture, and tell me how wonderful this drink looks and trust me for the taste i can say that the mild sourness and the sweetness of gooseberries along the rose flavour of the rose syrup will definitely take you to an another world. Yes seriously this punch tastes fantabulous and they were refreshing as well.

This week is going to be mocktails or non alcholic drinks as i chosed as mocktail delights as theme for this week's blogging marathon. Obviously the next two days of my posts are going to be interesting and different mocktails from me, which can have their important place in your dining table if you are planning to make some mocktails for a lunch or dinner party...Sending this post to Ahlan Ramadan-The Healthy Way.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#40. 

After making an interesting side dish with plantain stem and dal as thogayal, here comes an another interesting drink with healthy plantain stem. In India especially South Indians makes juice with this healthy plantain stem and they drink earlier in the morning to get ride of kidney stones. If you walk earlier in the morning,you can see peoples drinking plantain stem juice, wheat grass juice, aleo vera juice etc. The juice list goes for a long, but instead of making a simple juice with plantain stem i tried my hands in making this interesting, spicy and delicious masala lassi.

Actually, my kids doesnt liked the juice with plantain stem which i tried long back. Since i want to feed them with this healthy stem i transformed that usual juice into interesting lassi. Trust me, the mild flavour of ginger,cumin and chaat masala powder will definitely make the difference, they have masked completely the addition of plantain stem. But the colour of the lassi will be bit different from the usual one. Try making this lassi, am sure you will prepare this lassi quite often.

Lassi is a summer drink, we love to drink while the weather is hot outside. Not only during summer, i love to drink this fantastic drinl even during the weather is cold or rainy. Amla aka gooseberries have so many medicinal value and its advised to have this fabulous healthy berries quite frequently in our diet. For my surprise, we are getting super fresh gooseberries in Indian groceries often here, obviously i cant forget to get them and add them in my cooking.

One of my recent favourite lassi is this healthy,aromatic and refreshing drink with gooseberries and fresh basil leaves. Trust me this combination works simply fabulous and i just loved drinking this healthy drink. If you want to make something different with these healthy gooseberries just make this summer drink.Sending to my event Healthy Diet- Heart Healthy Recipes guest hosted by Sandhya..

Cantaloupe is a summer fruit and its a peak season here until september, they cost very cheaper during summer, we never forget to get them from the nearby farmer's market.We love this super flesh fruits as salads,juices or as icecreams.

Its hot here, when its too hot the first thing that comes immediately to our mind is to enjoy chilled fresh fruit or vegetable juices. Here comes a quick,refreshing and simple healthy lemonade with fresh cantaloupe chunks and lemon juice.This  A prefect drink to enjoy without any guilt while its super hot outside. With loads of ice cubes, this lemonade will definitely satisfy you, a fabulous thirsty quencher too.Today is the last thursday of the month and its time to post for Vegan Thursdays, an vegan event running twice a month.Sending to Pari's Only Food for Pregnancy.

Thick smoothie suits prefect for breakfast, obviously i love to kick start my day mostly with fruity smoothies. Since i had some kiwi and nectarine in my fruit basket, i combined those both fruits with few leftover grated carrots to prepare this wonderful looking,healthy and super filling smoothie.Nectarine are a variety of peaches and its believed that nectarines are crossbreed between peaches and plums.Nectarines are sweeter than peaches and they can be either white or yellow inner with red outer skin.We do get necatarines and peaches abundantly in summer and this weekend i got some nectarines from our usual farmer's market.

Apart from having nectarines in fruit salads, i never tried them in juices or smoothies. But finally thank god, i tried this smoothie and everyone at home enjoyed thoroughly this healthy,vitamin packed smoothie for their breakfast.Sending to Viji's SYS-WS - Apple & Carrot and to my event Healthy Diet-Diabetic Friendly Recipes.


1/4cup Kiwi (peeld & chopped)
1/4cup Grated carrot
1/2cup Nectarine (peeled & chopped)
1cup Yogurt
Honey as per need

Take the chopped kiwi,grated carrot, chopped nectarines,yogurt and honey in a blender.

Blend everything well as a smooth paste.

Serve immediately.

Paris weather is neither sunny or rainy, its quite like we are living on the top of  the hill. Obviously we dont run behind summer drinks or thirsty quenchers, but somehow i couldnt keep myself away from sarasparilla aka the famous nannari sharbath.Nannari or sarasparilla syrup is a body cooler and i never failed to pick them from Indian stores before the summer starts. Instead of preparing the same usual sharbath, for a change i tried adding few strawberries in our sharbath. Seriously the addition of strawberries makes the difference from the usual sharbath, if you get strawberries rite now dont forget to make this drink with nannari syrup.

Today am posting this drink coz am a part of this Vegan Thurdays, a group owned by me. Few of my fellow food bloggers will be posting monthly twice a vegan dish on thurdays without any particular theme and main motto of this event is to share vegan dishes. Most of the Indian foods are vegan and obviously its not a big deal for an Indian to showcase some vegan foods atleast twice a month for this wonderful event. If you want to be a part of this group, do leave me your email address with your blog's name,i'll contact you through mail.


1/4cup Nannari syrup/Sarasaparilla syrup
2tbsp Sabja seeds (soaked in water)
1no Lemon
12nos Strawberries (sliced or chopped)
Ice cubes

Take the syrup,soaked sabja seeds, chopped strawberries in a vessel..

Add enough chilled water, squeeze out the juice from the lemon.

Add the icecubes,mix well and serve.

No need to add any sugar, since the syrup will have enough sugar.

Serve immediately !

Gulkand cooler, i quickly whipped up this summer cooler with homemade eggless gulkand icecream,rose syrup,almonds and chilled milk. An excellent summer drink,definitely a fabulous cooler to beat the heat. Sometimes i usually make foods quickly but to name it i'll break my head everytime. This time, i didnt break my head and obviously one of my blogger buddy helped me to decide a name for this wonderful drink.Thanks sweet heart else i would have struggled a lot.

 Finally here comes this beautiful drink, this summer cooler will definitely satisfy your tastebuds and a prefect drink to enjoy without any guilt while its hot outside.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#27.Sending to my own event CWS-Almonds guest hosted by Preeti of Simply Tadka.


10nos Almonds (soaked and skin removed)
1tbsp Rose sryup
Few scoops Eggless gulkand ice cream
2cup Chilled milk
Chocolate syrup (while serving)

Blend the almonds and chilled milk, rose syrup as smooth paste, i didnt strain it.

Finally add enough eggless gulkand ice cream and blend for few more seconds.

Serve it immediately topped with chocolate syrup.

One of the summer drink we never failed to enjoy during summer is this famous nannari sarbath. Actually we can prepare sarasaparilla syrup at home with dried roots. But somehow this syrup is quite available at stores and we usually get it from Indian stores. Coming to my version of sarbath, i prepared it more interesting by adding some badam pisin aka almond gum.Badam pisin is a cooling agent, quite available in herbal medicines shops and its quite different from the goond used in North.Usually this cooling agent is used in famous drink called Jigardhanda,prepared with rose syrup.


Sarsaparilla root cools body and thats why they are widely used in summer.It also works as an excellent blood purifier. Sarsaparilla drink naturally cools the body,it is also believed to help skin problems, chronic rheumatism, urinary infection and stomach heat problems. Sarsaparilla drink is an excellent tonic that would refresh the body during extreme heat. Dont forget to prepare this drink during summer and beat the heat with it.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#27.


1/4cup Nannari syrup/Sarasaparilla syrup
2tbsp Sabja seeds (soaked in water)
1no Lemon
Few soaked badam pisin/almond gum
Ice cubes

Take the syrup,soaked sabja seeds, soaked badam pisin in a vessel..

Add enough chilled water, squeeze out the juice from the lemon.



Add the icecubes,mix well and serve.

No need to add any sugar, since the syrup will have enough sugar.

How to soak almond gum:
Soak few pieces of almond gum in water overnite and let them sit in room temperature.

The next day,you can see the soaked almond gum turned as transparent jelly like texture. Drain the soaked water, remove the impurities and wash again.

Use it in juices as per need. 

Even the weather in Paris is between sunny,rainy and windy, we love to have a glass full of healthy shakes. We love dried fruits, needless to say we never stop ourselves munching them, i'll try atleast to feed my kids daily with dry fruits. But sometimes its quite a hard task for me to feed them, so i'll mix and match according to their mood. Dates and raisins, they just hate it to the core,obviously i'll grind and mask it in many of my bakes but thank god my kids just love dried figs.

Dried figs is full of goodness and its rich in iron,calcium,potassium,zinc,copper,phosphorus.Figs can be eaten fresh or dried and they are usually used in making jam. Figs have a laxative effect and contain many antioxidants. Somehow the dried figs are the most commercial product than the fresh ones,these fruits are rich in fiber than most of the fruits and vegetables.You can feed very well your kids with this incredible dried figs, if they dont like just make this kind of refreshing shake and am sure they will just love it.You can even serve this delicious shake for a summer breakfast to kick start a hectic hot day.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#27.


6-7nos Dried figs
2cups Chilled milk
3scoops Vanilla icecream
Honey (as per need)

Soak the dried figs overnite in a warm water.

Next day, blend the soaked figs,chilled milk,vanilla icecream and honey as a thick shake.

Serve it immediately.

Summer is yet to come here, but some healthy summer drinks are always welcome at home.Here we start again a week of blogging marathon with seasonal as theme. Obviously Amla aka gooseberries are seasonal here and they have so many health values.Indian gooseberries are eaten as raw, and also cooked in many other ways, the most famous is the amla pickles.

We get rarely amlas here and its quite expensive here when compared to India, obviously i get rarely and use them immediately.This time without any hesitation i tried making a summer drink with fresh amlas. This lemonade is definitely a thristy quencher, body cooler and definitely a healthy drink. If you get amlas abundantly dont forget to give a try to this refreshing lemonade.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#27.



3nos Gooseberries
1/2cup Sugar
2nos Limes
Water as per need
Ice cubes

Remove the seeds from the gooseberries and grind as fine paste with enough water.

Extract the juice from the grounded amla paste.

Meanwhile squeeze out the juice from the lime and mix the lime juice, amla juice together in a vessel.

Add sugar and enough water to the juice.

Add icecubes and serve immediately.

Am not a breakfast person, sometimes i will totally skip them and have my lunch earlier. But once i went to my family doctor,she was just shocked to know this and she adviced me to have atleast shake or smoothie with my favourite fruits or vegetable for my breakfast. From that day onwards,if i dont feel like having my breakfast, i'll quickly blend some fruits with yogurt or milk and have it instead of skipping. Even my daughter started following it,have her smoothie or shake before she leaves to her school.Here am starting my second week of blogging marathon from today, as usual i'll be running for three days with an interesting theme called cooking with electric appliances. Such a very interesting theme na, my kitchen is loaded with electric appliances, i cant spend a day without them.

I start my day with them and end my day with them,yep the appartment we live dont have gas connection so obviously my stove top goes for electric induction stove. For my first day, i chosed to showcase my favourite Butterfly blender, i carried from India during my last trip, you can either use it as mixer,juicer, whipper as well as blender. I quickly prepared this healthy smoothie  few days back with the magic ingredients of this month's Magic Mingle Challenge,as Kalyani chosed both cucumber and walnuts for this month's challenge along with my favourite grains.Sending this smoothie to my own event Healthy Diet-Filling Smoothies & Shakes by Veena and to my own event CWS-Oats guest hosted by Amruta Pore.Check out the bloggers running this 24th edition of blogging marathon here.Sending to  Siri's Celebrating First Anniversary.


1cup Cucumber (peeled &chopped)
10nos Walnuts (deskinned)
1/2cup Rolled oats (dry roasted)
2cups Yogurt
Honey (as per need)

Blend together the chopped cucumber,walnuts,dry roasted oats,yogurt with honey as thick smoothie.

Transfer it to a glass and enjoy immediately.

My fruit basket will always have bananas and apples, its a peak season of grapes here and we couldnt stop ourselves having them quite often. Some tastes super delicious while some tastes somewat sour, as i dont want to trash them i simply finished them as this wonderful juice by combining together with red apples. This combo works out wonder and simply went for honey instead of sugar for making this juice. With loads of icecubes, this juice is definitely a fantastic thirsty quencher and suits prefectly for a hot summer days.Sending this healthy juice to my own event Healthy Diet-Healthy juice guest hosted by Kiran.


2cups Grapes
1cup Red apples (chopped)
Honey as per need
Chilled water as per need
Ice cubes

Blend together the grapes and chopped red apples with chilled water  as per need as smooth paste.

Strain the juice, add enough honey and water,give a stir and serve with ice cubes.

Its been a long i wanted to try this banana & orange combo in juice, finally i tried this beautiful combination of my two favourite fruits a day back, a super refreshing and fantastic juice to enjoy without any hesitation. Paris climate is very much hot nowadays and we are literally running behind chilled foods and drinks. With loads of ice cubes,we simply enjoyed having this healthy and sugarless juice as i used agave syrup.Sending this healthy juice to my own event Healthy Diet-Healthy juice guest hosted by Kiran.


2nos Bananas
3cups Fresh Orange juice
Agave syrup or Honey
1/2cup Chilled water
Ice cubes

Blend the banana with chilled water and agave syrup as smooth paste, add finally the fresh orange juice, give a stir.

Serve immediately with icecubes.

Last week, hubby came back home with 2kgs of apricots from farmer's market, after having them simply as fruit salad and honey drizzled apricots, there were some leftovers. I quickly blended them with some fresh mint leaves as this thick and super refreshing juice. Mint gives a wonderful flavour to this easy breezy juice and with loads of ice cubes, you can enjoy this thick juice at anytime of the day while its hot outside.Sending this healthy juice to my own event Healthy Diet-Healthy juice guest hosted by Kiran.


1cup Apricots (chopped)
Honey or sugar as per need
4nos Mint leaves
Icecubes
Chilled water

Take the chopped apricots,sugar or honey,mint leaves and chilled water in a blender, blend them for few minutes until they turns thick and smooth.

Serve it with loads of ice cubes.