Mixed Berry Smoothie

 A quick and easy breakfast with cranberry juice and berries !

 You will need Cranberry juice, Frozen mixed berries, Yogurt and Honey or Sugar.

 Begin by adding a cup of Yogurt to your blender.

 Followed by 3/4 Cup frozen mixed berries

 and 3/4 Cup Cranberry juice.

 Blend for a few seconds on high speed or until ingredients are thoroughly combined. 

I am also adding 1 Tbsp of Wheat germ.Wheat germ is an excellent source of many vitamins and minerals: vitamin E, most of the B vitamin group, folic acid, and a number of minerals such as iron, calcium and zinc.

Add 1 Tbsp Honey or more for sweetness and blend it again for few seconds.

 Pour into a glass.Grab a straw and sip.

Feel the cranberry love.

RECIPE  (Servings:2)

Ingredients:
Frozen Mixed berries - 3/4 Cup
Cranberry Juice - 3/4 Cup
Yogurt - 1 Cup
Honey or Sugar - 1Tbsp

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a blender.
Blend for a few seconds on high speed or until ingredients are thoroughly combined.
Serve cold.

Vegetable Fried Rice

 

 

Simple to make and full of flavor.You will definitely want to try this !!

 

Let me begin by sharing few secrets to fabulous fried rice:

• Use a day old cooked rice preferably jasmine rice.Warm or hot rice will release its starch when fried and make our fried rice mushy.
• A hot wok.A wok is ideal but a large pan or a skillet will do.
• Use Sesame oil.It gives your fried rice a different flavor.
• The fried rice with oyster sauce is simply irresistible.
• Do not put too many veggies in ratio to rice or the rice will get soggy.
• Do not crowd the pan or the veggies will steam instead of cooking crisp and make the final dish soggy.
• Cook 1 to 2 servings at a time.

 

 

 

Let's start by making the rice.You will need any medium or long grain rice,water and salt.

 

 Take 4 cups of water in a pan and bring it to boil.

 Add 1 Tbsp of Salt

 When the water is hot, add 3/4 cup of rice.

 Once the rice is fully cooked..

 Strain it and

 transfer it to a bowl and refrigerate it for atleast 5 hours or overnight.

To make the fried rice you will need : Cooked rice,Sesame oil, Garlic, Onion, Green chilli, Carrot, Peas, Egg, Soy sauce , Oyster sauce, Fish sauce(optional), Scallions and Black pepper.

 Start with a carrot . Chop it .You will need 2/3 cup of chopped carrot.

 Next chop half a medium onion.You will need 1/4 cups.

 Next chop a garlic and green chilli.

 and finally 1/4 cup scallions.

 Heat 2 Tbsp of Sesame oil in a wok

 Add the garlic

 Onion and green chilli.

 Next add the carrots and fry it until they are tender.

 Meanwhile in another skillet scramble an egg.

 When the carrots are cooked,it might take 2 minutes or so, add 1/2 cup frozen peas

 and egg and stir the around for a couple of minutes.

 Add in 1 tsp Soy sauce

 1 tsp Oyster sauce

 1 tsp Fish sauce, if using fish sauce.

 Then add the cooked rice

 and using a spatula mix the rice with all other ingredients.

 Finally sprinkle 1/4 tsp Pepper

 and 1/4 cup Scallions.

  And once more stir it and cook it for 2 minutes.

Dig in !

RECIPE ( Servings - 2)

Ingredients :

For the rice

• Any medium or long grained rice preferably jasimine rice - 3/4 Cup
• Water - 4 Cups
• Salt - 1 Tbsp

For the fried rice

Sesame oil - 2 Tbsp
Garlic - 1 Tsp
Onion -1/4 Cup
Green chilli - 1 chopped
Carrot - 2/3 cups ( 1 carrot chopped)
Peas - 1/2 Cup
Egg - 1 scrambled (optional)
Soy sauce - 1 tsp
Oyster sauce - 1 tsp
Fish sauce - 1 tsp (optional)
Cooked rice - 1 1/2 cups(a day old)
Scallions - 1/4 cup
Pepper - 1/4 tsp

Directions :
Cook rice in water with salt.Once it is fully cooked, strain it and refrigerate it atleast for 5 hours or overnight.
For making the fried rice,in a wok or large skillet, heat oil over medium heat.
Add garlic,green chilli and onion and cook, stirring occasionally.
Then add the chopped carrots.Stir fry until tender.
Mean while scramble an egg.
Add the egg and peas to the wok and stir fry until thoroughly heated.
Now add the rice,soy sauce,oyster sauce and fish sauce and blend all together well.
Finally sprinkle chopped scallions and pepper and enjoy hot.

Apple Orchard Punch

A quick and easy punch for any celebration !

 

For this you will need : Apple juice, Cranberry juice concentrate, Lemon-lime flavored soda and Orange juice.

 

 Mix everything and punch ready.Garnish with apple slices.

 

RECIPE  (allrecipes.com)

Ingredients:

1 (32 fluid ounce) bottle apple juice, chilled

1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen cranberry juice concentrate or (64 oz) bottle cranberry juice

1 cup orange juice

1 1/2 liters lemon lime flavored soda.

1 apple

 

Directions:

Chill all the juices.

Mix equal parts of apple juice and cranberry juice.

If usinge cranberry juice concentrate, mix 32 oz of apple juice with 6 oz of cranberry juice concentrate.

Add 1 cup of orange juice to every 32 oz of apple juice.

To this add 1 1/2 liters of lemon lime flavored soda.

Garnish with apple slices.

 

 

Sweet Corn Chicken Soup

There is nothing quite as comforting as a big hot bowl of  soup.

To make this sweet corn chicken soup you will need: Corn,Chicken,Salt,Pepper,Butter and Cornstarch. Egg is optional.
 

An easier way to make this ever popular sweet corn soup is to make it with a store bought can of cream style sweet corn.But let's make this with homemade cream style sweet corn.

To make the cream style sweet corn you will need: Corn, Corn starch, Butter and Salt.

First, put a small bowl upside- down inside a larger bowl.

Remove the husk and the silk of the corn.Keeping the small bowl as base, begin slicing off the kernels

 Just keep going another round. But this time go all the way down to the cob.

 

 

Still there is some good stuff inside the cob.It is the cream of corn and it is delicious.Using a sharp knife scrap the corn all the way down to get all that milk and pulp.

And this is how your corn should look like when you are finished.

Next heat 1 Tbsp butter in a pan

Add the corn and let it cook on a low flame stirring constantly for 5 minutes.

Add 1/4 tsp Salt and taste the corn.If the corn is not as sweet as you like then add 1/2 tsp Sugar.

Next mix 1/2 tsp Corn starch

in 1/2 cup water

Once the corn is nice and tender, add the cornstarch

and cook it again for few minutes until it thickens. 

 

 

And this will give you 1 Cup of  cream style sweet corn.

Now let's start making the soup.

Cook the chicken piece in 2 Cups of water.Add 1/2 tsp Salt

and 1/4 tsp Pepper.

Once the chicken is cooked, remove the chicken and pour the chicken stock through a strainer in to a clean bowl.

After it's all drained transfer the stock back to the pan and boil.

Meantime shred the chicken.You will need 1/4 cup of shredded chicken and add it to the boiling stock. 

 

 

Then add the cream syle corn and cook it for 5 minutes.If you like to add egg, gradually add the beaten egg now while stirring the soup.

Mix 3 tsp of cornstarch in 3/4 cup of water

Pour into the boiling corn soup, and continue cooking for about 2 minutes, or until thickened

Homemade soup is beautiful !!

RECIPE  (Taken from : bettyskitchen,www.khanakhazana.com)

 

Servings: 2

 

Ingredients:

Corn - 1

Corn starch - 1/2 tsp in 1/2 Cup water

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Sugar - 1/2 tsp (optional)

Butter 1 Tbsp

Shredded chicken - 1/4 Cup

Corn starch - 3 tsp in 3/4 Cup water

Egg - 1 (optional)

 

Directions:

Cut the kernels off the cob.

Heat butter in a skillet.

Add the corn,salt and sugar (if needed)

Cook it on low flame.

Add the corn starch and continue to cook till it thickens.

Boil the chicken piece with salt and pepper.

Once cooked drain the stock and transfer it back to pan and boil.

Add the shredded chicken and corn.

Finally add the egg and corn starch.