Anshu's Food Odyssey

Litchi Rose Agua Fresca  is a refreshing and cooling summer drink infused with beautiful flavors of litchi fruit and rose.  If you have been reading through my blog, you must be well aware that litchi is my favorite summer fruit. As it gets available for only a short duration of time, I try to make most of it majorly by experimenting with it in different drinks and coolers. Some of the refreshing drinks that I have made using litchi in past include LITCHI LEMONADE , LITCHI AND CHERRY LEMONADE and LITCHI & COCONUT LEMONADE . This Litchi & Rose Agua Fresca is yet another of my experiments and it came out absolutely amazing. If you too are a litchi lover like me, then this recipe is a keeper. Do try!  Litchi Rose Agua Fresca INGREDIENTS (Serves 2 to 3) Litchi - 18 to 20 Sugar - 1/4 cup Water - 1/2 cup Rose syrup - 4 to 5 tbsp Lemon juice - 1 tbsp Quantities of sugar and rose syrup can be adjusted according to your sweet preference. Litchi Rose Agua Fresca MET

Loaded with the sweetness of ripe mangoes and a refreshing tartness from lemons, Mango Lemonade is a perfect drink to instantly rejuvenate you on a hot summer day. I have added to it, some mild spices like chaat masala and rock salt too to elevate its taste, if you wish, you can skip adding these and just make the plain mango lemonade; that will taste equally good. If you are looking for some refreshing summer drinks , do check out my HOMEMADE MANGO FROOTI , RAW MANGO & JAGGERY PANNA , LITCHI LEMONADE , LYCHEE COCONUT LEMONADE and MANGO ICED TEA recipes too. Easy Homemade Mango Lemonade Easy Homemade Mango Lemonade INGREDIENTS (Serves 2 to 3) Chopped ripe mangoes - 1 cup Lemon juice - 1/4 cup Sugar - 1/4 cup or according to your sweet preference Water - approx. 3 cups Chaat Masala, optional - 1 tsp Black salt/ rock salt, optional - 1/2 tsp Black pepper powder, optional - a pinch Few mint or basil leaves - for garnishing Easy Homemade Mango Lemonade

"Aam ka Panna" or "Kairi ka Panna" is a popular Indian summer drink made using raw mangoes, which is flavored with fresh mint and a subtle hint of spices. This drink is quite healthy, not only known for its cooling properties but also for its digestive health benefits. Coming to the recipe, aam panna is made in several different ways with every household having its own recipe. While some families make this traditional thirst quencher by roasting the raw mangoes while many households follow the age-old way of boiling the raw mangoes and then blending the pulp with handful of mint leaves, sugar and spices. What I am sharing with you today, is my family's heirloom recipe with some little modifications for all the ease and convenience; just for example, along with raw mangoes, I have also used one ripe mango which gives it a beautiful flavor. Also, rather than boiling whole mangoes, I have peeled and cubed the mangoes before boiling which makes the entire proce

Lychee or Litchi Lemonade is a quick and refreshing drink to soothe your senses in the sweltering summer heat. As we all know in India, summers bring with it, nature's tremendous bounty in the form of some amazingly delicious fruits such as Mangoes, Plums, Jamuns, Peaches, Apricots, Cherries and Lychees. And with all that goodness of these beautiful fruits around, I am always on a mission putting them to use in different drinks and beverages . Tried the Homemade Mango Frooti , Mango Iced Tea and Cherry Iced Tea lately and they were all loved by everyone in our family. This time, when we had a batch of lychees at home, after enjoying few of them, decided to make this rejuvenating lemonade with the remaining ones. Litchi Lemonade | Lychee Lemonade Recipe INGREDIENTS (serves 1) Lychees - 5 to 6 Sugar - 2 tbsp Lemon juice - 1/2 to 1 tbsp Black salt - a pinch Mint leaves - for garnishing Ice cubes - as needed Water - 1/2 cup Litchi Lemonade | Lychee Lemonade Recipe

Mango Iced Tea is a refreshing and cooling drink to rejuvenate your senses in the scorching summer heat. As the name suggests, the drink is infused with the sweetness and deliciousness of mangoes, which makes it much more delightful than the regular iced tea . A very easy recipe, all you need is just few basic pantry ingredients and you are all set to enjoy a soul-soothing and preservative-free drink in the comfort of your home. If you are a mango lover and enjoy to try out new and easy summer drinks  made with mangoes, then this recipe is a keeper and worth bookmarking. MORE MANGO RECIPES - HOMEMADE MANGO FROOTI - MANGO PEACH LEMONADE Mango Iced Tea INGREDIENTS Ripe mangoes - 2 to 3 Raw mango or a sour variety of mango such as Sindoori - 1 Granulated sugar - 1/4 cup Lemon juice - 2 tbsp Black tea leaves - 1 tsp Water - 4 cups Mint leaves - a few Mango Iced Tea METHOD Wash, peel and cut the mangoes into cubes. Discard the pit. Blend the mango cubes to a fine puree.

Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means, at no extra cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click and make a purchase through them, helping me retain and maintain this blog. One of my most favorite summer drinks that I can relate with my childhood days is MANGO FROOTI. So refreshing and bursting with flavors, it was one of the go-to drinks whenever we returned from school. However, growing up, I realized that all these packaged drinks including our very favorite store bought Frooti had so many preservatives and was loaded with sugars, artificial flavoring and colors. Therefore, there came a time (precisely when I started food blogging) when I stopped consuming all these packaged drinks and started trying out fresh drinks made with real fruits at home. This HOMEMADE MANGO FROOTI is one amongst many such drinks. Let me tell you, it is absolutely refreshing, absolutely tasty and yes, preservative free and color free too. Not to mention, a perfect healthy

Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means, at no extra cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click and make a purchase through them, helping me retain and maintain this blog. Come summers and all I need is, some refreshing and cooling drinks that can not only keep me cool and hydrated throughout the day, but, also provide all the vital nutrients to the body. Therefore, I try and innovate various drink recipes that are preservative free and make use of fresh seasonal fruits. This Fresh Cherry Ice Tea is one amongst them and needless to say, is quite rejuvenating, healthy and absolutely tasty. Do try it out and I am sure you would love it. The recipe is divided in two parts - first, making the cherry syrup and second, brewing the tea. In the end, all you need is assemble and serve chilled.  LOOKING FOR SIMILAR RECIPES? CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING... AAM PANNA - RAW MANGO COOLER JAMUN PANNA - INDIAN JAVA PLUM COOLER M

Mango Mastani happens to be one of the most popular street foods of Pune, Maharashtra . Come mango season and you will find this soul-soothing beverage at every ice-cream parlor and cold-drink joint across the city. Basically, a thick milkshake, made with fresh mango pulp, chilled milk and huge scoops of vanilla ice-cream topped with all those dried nuts, candied fruits and glazed cherries, it is definitely a treat to your taste buds and off-course, a huge respite from the blazing sun in hot Indian summers. It is said that Mastani, the beautiful warrior princess of Bundelkhand and the love interest of legendary Peshwa ruler, Bajirao, was an ardent lover of mangoes; and this drink was invented as a tribute to her culinary taste buds. If you happen to visit Pune, do not forget to try this wonderful drink at two of the city's most famous Mastani joints: Sujata Mastani and Gujjar Cold Drinks. BTW, in these pandemic times, till the time you