Frozen Yogurt Fruit Cups

When its hot and humid outside, everyone wants something cold to eat or drink. How much ice cream or shakes you can make? Here , a new and a healthy way to beat the heat. Its called frozen yogurt cups, This is a basic recipe, just vanilla Greek yogurt , some fruits and freeze it and its ready. For variation, you can add granola first, then yogurt and then fruits or Granola, yogurt and peanut butter and fruits. If you dont have Greek yogurt, you can hang the curd, add honey and vanilla essence  and use it.



Ingredients for 6 cups

1 cup Greek  Vanilla yogurt
1 tsp Honey
Few Blue berries, strawberries
2 tbsp melted peanut butter

Method :

In a bowl, take yogurt and honey and mix it.

Take a muffin pan, add the muffin wrap in it.

Put 3 tablespoons of the mixtures in 6 muffin tins.

Add as per your desire, peanut butter and fruits.

Freeze for at-least two hours

Take it out , removed the wrapper and enjoy

You can make it in Popsicle molds also.

Super Easy Vegan Mango Gelato with Kesar Keri

We all crave for some cold things when the outside temperature heats up. But same old ice cream even kids can't stand then why we have to eat same old same old? We make kulfies with variations, make new flavors ice creams too but this time I tried something new and very refreshing everyone's favorite, Mango Gelato. When we go out for ice cream, I always prefer gelato than ice cream. So I was in search for this cool dessert recipe and finally found one and sharing with you all too. I have added just a tablespoon of grated ginger and it gives nice kick in this sweet mango. If you use different mango and its not sweet then add brown sugar or agave to give little sweet taste but mine was already sweet enough so didn't add any sweeter. Ginger only for some kick, for that you have to be gujju, when we make aam ras (mango juice) we always add ginger powder so that's the only reason I added ginger in it. This will be ready in five minutes if you have frozen mango in hand.

The basic difference between ice cream and gelato is , It is churned at a much slower rate, incorporating less air and leaving the gelato denser than ice cream. Gelato is served at a slightly warmer temperature than ice cream, so its texture stays silkier and softer. Because it has a lower percentage of fat than ice cream, the main flavor ingredient really shines through.

Ingredients : 

3 chopped mangoes - frozen
1 tbsp. grated ginger - optional
1-2 tbsp.  cup brown sugar / agave syrup - optional
1/4 cup Almond Milk or your preferred milk

Method:

Cut the mangoes in long slices and froze it for good 4-5 hours.
Take it out and chopped it roughly so its easier to process it in mixture.
Add sweetener if you are using it and ginger.
Blend for a minute or until its broken down in tiny pieces and then add milk spoonful at a time to give nice thick consistency.
Scrape it from sides, if there is any mango is still there.
Make nice thick gelato and scoop it from blender and serve.
My favorite way to enjoy it , is with some leaves of fresh mint.

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Mediterranean Couscous Salad with Cactus pear smoothie

Well, I don't eat too much in lunch, because if I eat too much in lunch I can not eat at dinner time, so I try to eat very light and if possible just have some smoothie out of fruits and I am done with my lunch. Since my in laws was with me during summer, I try to make some healthy lunch for them along with smoothie so its light but filling. So one day I made this and it was delicious and just perfect for hot summer day. You can add your choice of vegetables but since I made it Mediterranean, I added few ingredients which is very essential in it. But as usual , you can have it with your pantry items.

Ingredients : 

1 cup uncooked couscous
2 cups vegetable stock

Boil the vegetable stock and add couscous in it and turn off the gas and cover it.
open it after five minutes and fluff it with fork and your couscous is ready and its now two cups of couscous.

1 cup cherry tomatoes cut it in half
1/2  cucumber - I get English cucumber chopped in cubes
1/2 yellow capsicum - chopped
few strings of basil and mint chopped
1/2 cup Feta cheese- crumbled
2 tbsp. corn - optional - I had it so used it
lots of black pepper powder and salt to taste - Feta has lot of salt so taste it and then add salt
2-3 tbsp. balsamic vinegar
2 cloves of garlic

Method:

Take cooked couscous in a bowl.
Add all the vegetables in it and cheese too.
Add basil and mint and black pepper powder along with balsamic vinegar.
Serve immediately as it is or just like I had it with smoothie.

Cactus pear Smoothie :

2 cactus pear
1 Banana
1 cup mango pulp
1/2 cup cranberry juice

Method:

Take the skin out of pear and Chopped Cactus pear and  add with rest of the ingredient in blender.
Make fine puree till all blend nicely.
Take it out in glass and enjoy.

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Cardamom Flavor Eggless Banana Marble Bread

I love cardamom in any form, to start the day with, I love it in my tea. Then in cooking also while making rice or some curry for koftas I always add whole or crushed cardamom in it. Even if I am not cooking I am always chewing cardamom , its better than any mouth fresher ,  So I had two bananas sitting on my counter top, I was hoping after two days that kids wont eat that so I can make banana bread. You guys love my previous post on WW eggless banana bread  and Eggless banana and oats bread. So I was confident that,  me as well as all of you also will love this delicate flavor simple breakfast bread. I wanted to play with the bread too so I take out one cup of batter and put a cocoa powder in it and give a marble effect. After all,  I have good baker bloggers friends , I have to learn something from them. Right? So the effect and the taste is out of this world. Oh one more thing, I am allergic to walnuts so I put cashews in it but you can go with walnuts too.

Ingredients :

1 and half cups Whole Wheat flour (you can use AP flour too)
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. Baking soda
pinch of salt
1 tbsp. cinnamon powder
3 tsp. cardamom powder ( I added 4 because of my love to cardamom)
1/4 cup broken cashews
1/2 cup sugar (since its bread , u don't need too much sweet, but if you like sweet, add more)
2 tbsp. oil
1/2 cup milk
2 ripe bananas
2 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder

Method:

Preheat the oven at 400 F. Grease your baking pan with oil in it and keep it aside.
Mix all dry ingredients in bowl. from Flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cardamom powder, cashews, leave some cashews out to top it off and sugar.

In a mixture, add peeled bananas, oil, milk and make a fine puree.
Now add this wet mixture in dry mixture and mix thoroughly.
Pour it in bread pan and reserve one cup of mixture.

Add cocoa powder in that mixture and mix it.

Then add this cocoa mixture in rest of the mixture and with butter knife , give swirl effect.

Top it off with rest of the cashews.

Put it in the oven and bake it till toothpick comes out clean around 30-40 minutes. check in between.

After its baked, take it out from the oven and leave it on counter top till its cold.
Remove it from the mold and cut it as per your choice, thick or thin slice. As per my suggestion, thick slices are better.

 See the marble effect inside. Its awesome. Warm it when you needed, apply little butter or jam and have it as your breakfast or light snack too.

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Eggless Tutti Frutti And Chocolate chip Cake

First of all thank you all who made this cake during the month of December, which inspired me to bake this awesome cake , But every one made it with only tutti fruitti so I wanted to do something different and what is good in cake than chocolate chips so I added that and cut back on sugar and yes made it with whole wheat too. I made it twice , first time regular cake and recipe , it became too sweet for me, so second time I cut back sugar and added chips in it so it was perfect for after diner , dessert with whipped cream on top. It was cold when I made it so ice cream was out of question, otherwise it goes very well with ice cream. Just warm up little slice of cake in microwave and put a dollop of ice cream on top, you will love it.

Ingredients :

1 cup Whole wheat flour
1/2 cup AP flour
1/2 cup orange juice - I use Tropicana
1/4 cup sugar , you can add more if you like sweet
1/2 cup oil
1/3 cup tutti fruitti mixed with tbsp. of flour
1/3 cup of chocolate chips mixed with tbsp. of flour (you can mix both in same cup in tbsp. of flour too)
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla essence
pinch of salt
5 tbsp. non fat milk powder

Method:

Preheat the oven at 350 F.

Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl, both flours, sugar, baking powder and soda and salt, milk powder.
Mix wet ingredient in other bowl., Orange juice, oil, vanilla essence. mix it nicely.
Now add little by little dry ingredients in wet one and mix it.
Batter should be thick  not runny.

Grease the baking pan with oil and pour this batter in it.
Bake it for 30-35 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean.

Allow to cool it outside in same pan for sometime before taking it out. When its cold, put it in wire rack.

when its completely cool, cut them in desired shape.

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