Virgin Cider Mojito

Hello mates,

Today, I am posting the recipe of a drink. This is very quick to assemble if you have all the ingredients at home, and it tastes great. For non-alcoholics, it is a great refreshing drink as it is loaded with mint leaves and lemon. Well, I am talking about Virgin Mojito. We can fuse various fruit flavours with the drink. I made this one with apple juice fused in it. It tasted delicious. The following recipe would make 2 glasses.

Ingredients:

2 lemons (each cut into 8 pieces)

2 tbsp lemon juice

Mint leaves (about 30 pcs)

2 tsp brown sugar

Ice cubes 

Lemon based aerated drink (I used Limca)

2 cups apple juice

Garnishing: 

Lemon slices, Apple slices (1 cm thick - like a french fry)

Method:

1. Take a glass. Put 4 lemon pieces in the glass. Also add 1 tbsp lemon juice.
2. Put 10-12 mint leaves in the glass.
3. Add brown sugar to the glass. Muddle a bit. You can crush it with the back of a spoon, so that it is lightly muddled, and the essence of lemon and mint is mixed with sugar.
4. Add ice cubes.
5. Fill 3/4^th of glass with lemon based aerated drink.
6. Fill the remaining glass with apple juice.
7. Garnish the rim with lemon slice and put 2 apple slices in the drink)
8. Ready to serve.

Tips:

You can experiment with different fruits like pomegranate, peach. You can just replace apple drink with any other fruit drink of your choice. Add same fruits for garnishing.

Pasta with Broccoli and Onions in Cream Sauce

It has been 2 weeks that I wrote down any recipe. Ok, I have not been really busy, but been very lazy. Now when we had my husband's cousin over for dinner, I wanted to try something new in pasta recipes.

I was browsing through net when I found this yummylicious pasta recipe and it can be made in a jiffy, really. It is a white sauce recipe. Of late, I had started making tomato-based pasta recipes as white sauce was all about butter and cheese. But this recipe, I just had to try out once. And it came out so perfect, even my husband loved it, who is an ardent cream sauce hater. So, do try it once. Th original recipe can be found here: 

http://www.ivillage.com/baked-macaroni-and-cheese-broccoli/3-r-487597

Ingredients:

2 cup pasta

1 and ½ cup broccoli

3 tbsp grated cheese

2 cups milk

2 heaped tsp all-purpose flour (maida)

2 tsp butter

½ cup diced onions

¼ tsp black pepper

Salt to taste.

1 tsp butter for greasing baking tray.

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degree Celsius for 10 minutes. Grease baking dish with butter.
2. Take a large pot. Add ½ tsp salt and 1 tsp refined oil to the water. Boil water and cook pasta in it. Add broccoli to water 3 minutes before pasta will be done. Drain pasta and broccoli and return to pot.
3. In a large pan, add 2 tsp of butter. As it melts, add 2 tsp of maida and whisk it thoroughly so that no lumps are formed. Add onions and mix it properly.
4. Add 2 cups milk and simmer it till it is no more watery. If it gets thick, u can add more milk. The white cream sauce is ready.
5. Add salt and pepper. Mix the boiled pasta and broccoli to the white sauce. Coat it properly.
6. Transfer to a baking dish and sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until the cheese is slightly brown.
7. Ready to serve.

Tip:

You can sprinkle bread crumbs as well along with cheese.

Cheese can be added in the white sauce itself, if people don’t prefer cheese to be sprinkled above.