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Summer is here and homemakers are looking for summer recipes to keep
themselves and the families cool. With summer come the seasonal
vegetables and fruits.
Summer recipes include not only the summer drinks but also many tempting snacks and other dishes that help in cooling the body and keep the hunger pangs away.
Tender coconut water / juiceThe homemaker or the person who cooks does not feel like spending a lot of time in the kitchen in front of the stove in the hot weather.
We feel tired for no reason. Even just sitting around the home in summer is difficult. You do not feel like going out except in the evenings.
Though many vegetables and fruits are available the whole year, summer season gives a special taste to them. The body cooling ingredients can reduce the effects of the hot summer.
Tender coconut water / juice is one thing that gives you instant satisfaction and nutrition in a hot summer afternoon or anytime during the day.
Body cooling foods - Ingredients
Below is the list of few body cooling foods ingredients. So use them more in your recipes for summer.
The vegetables with higher water content should be used more.
The body cooling vegetables are Broccoli, Cabbage Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Cucumber, Okra, Potato, Sprouts.
Leafy vegetables - Lettuce,Spinach.
Fruits - apple, banana, coconut, dates, figs, grape, melons, pears, pomegranate.
The body cooling grains to consume in summer are barley, wheat, rice.
The cooling spices are coriander seeds, saffron.
Among legumes, green beans - Moong/mung, chana(garbanzo), rajma(kidney beans) .
Summer Foods - Drinks - Snacks recipes
Summer Drink Recipes
Kairi Panha - Aam panna
- Kairi - Aam Panha, Raw green mango drink for hot summer. Summer festival.
Mango lassi is made with mango, an Indian summer fruit and yogurt as a snack or for breakfast.
When mangoes are not in season, this can be made with mango pulp, store bought or home preserved.
How to make Tomato juice
Homemade tomato juice for breakfast or a snack or cool summer drink. Tomatoes are available through out the
year.
About Lassi Recipes :-Cool Indian Yogurt Smoothie Recipes.
Salty Lassi - Cool Low fat drink Recipe.
Summer Raita Recipes
- Homemade yogurt / Dahi / Curd to use in raita and other dishes or to eat plain or flavored.
You can make lassi with yogurt.
Indian Summer Sweets
Aamras - Indian mango puree
Aamras is a summer special dish.
Serve it as a desert by itself or with chapati or poori.
How to make Shrikhand - Srikhand - Hung curd dessert
Festival sweet - Curd/ Yogurt based dessert recipe, flavored with saffron and cardamom.
Carrot halwa - Gajar ka halwaCarrot Halwa -Gajar ka halva
Easy To Make Sweet with Carrots and milk. Keeps in fridge for a week.
Dalia sheera / halwa
- Healthy breakfast recipe with broken / cracked wheat.
To make it vegan, use coconut oil / vegetable oil instead of desi ghee.
Badam Kheer - Almond Kheer
Kheer - Diwali - Deepavali recipe
KhusKhus kheer - Ghasghase Payasa - Poppy seeds Kheer - South Indian Recipe
Summer Rice Recipes
Spicy Mango rice - Mavinkai chitranna
Mango rice made using sour green mango. Recipe from South India.
Easy to make South Indian rice recipe for festivals, breakfast and when you want a one dish meal.
How to make Moong dal and rice khichadi - Huggi
Easy to digest rice and mung bean lentil recipe. One Dish Meal.
Cook in pressure cooker or on the stove top.
Curd Rice - Cool Curd rice
Summer Snack / side dish Recipes
Ambe dal or kairichi dal is a Maharashtrian summer recipe, made with green mango and chana dal.
Chickpeas - chana - kadle sundal
Made with kabuli chana - garbanzo beans, prepared on festivals such as Ganesh chaturthi and distributed to the devotees as prasad, also served as a healthy snack.
Dahi Vada -Dahi Bhalle
A popular yogurt based snack recipe. Good for festivals, summer season and as a party dish.
Known as thyir vade - mosaru vade in south Indian languages.
- Fried ChickPeas
- Fruit snacks - Fruit chaat - Make your fruits tastier with this fruit chaat.
- Dahi Puri - Cool curd (yogurt) based snack.
Summer Vegetable - side dish Recipes
Besan kadhi is made with gram flour and buttermilk or yogurt.
Serve as hot beverage or with plain rice or dal khichadi.
- Avial - Kerala Onam recipe
- Aloo bhaji - Potato subji Vegetable side dish
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