Fresh Orange Green Juice (Cucumber)

Another combo I tried last week was Orange with cucumber. It was different and yet good to my taste buds. After all it's only orange and vegetable, not poison isn't? Ha ha ha :)

Simply add chopped cucumber and orange in a blender with water, sugar or honey. You might have to peel the skin off the cucumber and then chop.

What's better than some fresh home made juice.

Blueberry Apple Smoothie

I love blueberry and always ate it as fruit when I traveled. The other day when I went to my local grocery store found a pack, and marveled of-course it's expensive and imported.  I had to pay Rs.450 for merely 125 gm of packed blueberries.

It's summer here in Kerala and yes what's better than a good smoothie for breakfast. 125 gm would hardly make one large serving of smoothie. I combined it with some sweet apple, yogurt and viola - had a breakfast and another cup at midday.

You may use apply Fuji or golden as they are sweeter than other ones.

Simply wash and use the fruit. In a blender add the fruit, finely chopped apple, honey, milk, yogurt and ice cubes. Blend to get a creamy textured smoothie.

Enjoy this for breakfast or anytime during the day.

Kiwi Lettuce Juice with Green Grapes ! All Green

Kiwi is an expensive fruit in India as they are being imported. Best to have with fruit salads or juice. Ensure you use well ripe fruit while making juice. Most of my juices are made with fruit and vegetable combination or with more than one fruit as combo.

Here I have used 2 kiwi, couple of lettuce leaves, handful of green grapes to make around 750 ml of juice. It;s not concentrated but diluted with water.

Cut kiwi in small pieces. In a juicer or blender add everything with required water and sugar or honey. Blend well to form a frothy juice. You may dilute with more water if required. Strain and serve chill. I usually store in a bottle and refrigerate consume throughout the day.

Exquisite Summer Delight - Orange Pear Juice

Summer is on full swing in most of the countries all we crave for is water or juice or something cold. There is nothing better than some cold fresh fruit juice over sodas and coffee.

I have experimented this with Orange and Pears. Both are rich in water content and equally good. Orange I removed the seeds and pears with skin. Blend them together with little sugar and water. You would get a nice frothy juice.

Strain and serve as desired.

Fresh Juice - China Pear & Carrot Combo

Another colorful combo. This time with pears and carrots. You may you any pears that's available in the stores nearby you and combine it with carrots.

Pears you may use with skin. Carrots wash and peel off the outer skin, then slice it. Add these two in a blender with little sugar and water as required. Blend well, taste the juice and add sugar if needed.

Strain and serve chilled or with ice cubes.

Fresh Juice - Water Melon + Lettuce Combo

For Green lovers, here is another one. Yes, if you dislike green leafy vegetables but under compulsion simply blend with fruits to make a juice.

Here is another post with Lettuce with Grapes

Try to remove seeds from the water melon chunks. In a blender Add 2 lettuce leaves, water melon chunks, little sugar and water. Blend to form a frothy juice. Strain and serve chilled or with ice.

Fresh Juice - Green Fantasy ! Grapes Lettuce Combo

Liking for colorful fresh juice yet nutritious - here is the one for you.

Cucumber, green grapes and lettuce. Be generous on using grapes and cucumber, reduce lettuce if you like more of fruit flavor. If you add more than 2 leaves, your juice might turn dark green, just to avoid that scary look :)

Blend all ingredients with little water and sugar to a frothy liquid. Strain and server chilled.

Home made Juice - Grapes Lettuce Combo

This summer has been great so far as I got to try my hands on various juice combination mixing fruits with vegetables. My favorite pick from vegetables so far are Cucumber, Lemon, Lettuce and Carrot.

Use seedless grapes. I have used black grapes, green grapes and couple of lettuce leaves for 2 large servings. You may use the grapes as it pleases you. Sugar to taste.

Blend everything and strain before refrigerating. You may server chilled or add ice cubes too if you may like.

Mango Apple Smoothie - a healthy breakfast

In addition to my earlier posts on smoothies, I am happy to present another combination I tried.
It;s quiet interesting with apples and mangoes.

Simply slice mango pulp, cut apple without skin in small pieces. Crush some almonds for topping up although it's optional I like to make my smoothie rich.

Add the fruits along with little milk, ice cubes and sugar to taste in a blender. Run slow to high until you get a frothy creamy smoothie. Stir intermittently if needed when you find fruit chunks inside.

Refrigerate and server chilled.

Ice Tea with ginger and Lime

I am not a great fan of ice tea and never had one, but experimented this at home and enjoyed every sip of it; on a hot summer day or when you have mild headache ginger and lime with tea helps to ease the pain.

Ingredients:

1. Water to brew tea
2. Tea powder or 1 tea bag that’s available at home
3. Few ice cubes
4. Ginger julienne
5. Thinly Sliced lime – 2
6. Honey – 2 tbl spn or as needed
7. Tulsi/basil or mint leaves (optional)

How to prepare:

1. Warm water in a pan, and add the tea powder. Let it brew in low heat for 5 minutes.
2. Remove from heat and allow to bring it to room temperature
3. In a glass place the lime slices at the bottom, top it with few ginger julienne followed by ice cubes.
4. Pour honey followed by the brewed tea
5. Stir lightly to mix the honey with tea and ice
6. Decorate with mint/Tulsi leaves, left over ginger julienne and lime
7. Sit back and enjoy the mixture of flavors along with tea.

Note:

• The same steps can be followed if you prefer hot lime tea or ginger tea. Omit the ice cubes. A easy method.
• You may also add the ginger julienne while brewing the tea if you prefer strong tea.