Tasty and Easy Recipes

Ingredients:
1 kg Mango (Aam)
200 gms powdered Sugar (Cheeni)
1/2 litre Milk (Doodh)

Method:
Wash mangoes.
Peel and cut into small pieces.
Keep the seeds aside in a little water.
Grind the mango pieces in a mixer and strain the juice.
Mix sugar in the cold milk and add to the mango juice.
Add water for required consistency.
Serve chilled with puri or paratha.

Ingredients:
1 large butternut, or (cut up) hubbard squash (about 2 or 3 pounds)
3 apples, peeled and cored or 2 cups orange juice
1 large onion, chopped
Salt and pepper, to taste
2 or 3 cups liquid (water, broth, vegetable cooking water, even milk)

Method:
Poke a few holes in the squash, and microwave for about 10 minutes. This will allow you to cut the squash in half, so that you can remove the seeds, and peel it easily.
Put the squash with the remaining ingredients into a large pot, and simmer gently until the vegetables and squash are very tender.
Pure’e the mixture with a stick blender, or cool and use processor. If the pure’ is too thick, add more liquid; if too thin, add potato flakes.

Ingredients:
1 large onion, minced
Some garlic, minced
A little olive oil, to fry
1 1-liter bottle tomato juice
Several carrots, diced
Seasonings, to taste

Method:
Fry a large onion and some garlic in olive oil.
Add one bottle of tomato juice. Fill the bottle with water, add to pot.
Add several carrots. Season according to taste.
Cook for about an hour. Serve garnished with fresh herbs.

Options:
Thicken with cornflour (cornstarch) at the end.
Add a can of corn (rinse first)