Summer coolers

Watermelon Cooler
Ingredients
2 cups watermelon, cut in small pieces
1 ½ tbsp lemon juice
2 tsp ginger juice
2 tbsp sugar
½ tsp black salt
Pinch of black pepper powder

Method
In a blender place watermelon, lemon juice, ginger juice, sugar, pepper and salt together and blend until smooth.  Add ice and blend it again until the ice is crushed. Pore the drink in a glass filling the glass up to ¾ and add ginger ale. Serve immediately.

Tulsi Lemonade
Ingredients
½ cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice
4 cups of cold water
1 cup of fresh tulsi/basil leaves
Stevia to taste

Tulsi Lemonade

Method
Place tulsi in the bottom of a pitcher and muddle it by slightly by crushing the leaves.
Combine lemon juice and water and pour over tulsi leaves. Add stevia to taste.
Chill, and serve over ice.

Spicy Papaya Sunrise Cooler
Ingredients
¾ cup diced papaya
1 cup diced watermelon
1 tbsp lime juice
¼ red chillies, sliced and deseeded to reduce heat
Ice
Slice of lime

Spicy Papaya Sunrise Cooler

Method
Puree papaya, watermelon, lime juice, and ¼ deseeded red chillies in a blender until smooth.Strain and chill. Serve over ice and garnish with a slice each of lime.

Cucumber-Honeydew Cooler
Ingredients
¼ cucumber
(peeled and cut
into 1-inch pieces)
1/2 cup diced
 honeydew melon
Ice
Cucumber peel

Cucumber-Honeydew Cooler

Method
Puree cucumber and honey dew melon in a blender until smooth. Strain and chill.
Pour into a shaker and shake with ice.
Strain into a glass and garnish with cucumber peel.

Black Angoor Sharbet
Ingredients
4 cups black grape juice
¾ tsp cumin seeds
½ tsp carom seeds
1 tsp fennel seeds
3 tsp black salt
1 cup tamarind pulp
Crushed ice

Black Angoor Sharbet

Method
Roast cumin, carom and fennel seeds in a pan at medium heat. When done, grind with black salt to make a fine powder. Pour black grape juice into a jug and add the ground spices and tamarind pulp. Mix well.Add crushed ice and mix well. Garnish with mint leaves and serve over ice.

Sweet Lime & Cucumber Juice
Ingredients
2 medium sized cucumbers
3 sweet limes
10-15 mint leaves
½ tsp black salt
4 tsp honey
1 cup crushed ice cubes
5 mint leaves
1 cup ice cube

Sweet Lime & Cucumber Juice

Method
Peel cucumber and sweet lime into small pieces. Grind with crushed ice and mint leaves. Strain the mixture to get juice. Now add honey, black salt and mix well. Take a glass, add ice cubes and pour juice and garnish with mint leaves and cucumber slice. Serve chill.