4 healthy refreshing summer drink recipes

Chill with these healthy drinks this summer.

If the unrelenting heat is getting to you this summer, we can totally understand your plight. With temperatures soaring above 40 degrees, it's bound to get uncomfortable with all the sweat, heat wave, humidity and summer-related health problems. Summer is notorious for a number of conditions like dehydration, diarrhoea, migraine, kidney stones and others. One of the best ways to stay healthy even when the sun is blazing outside is to hydrate yourself, not just with water, with some other natural cooling drinks too. Here are some healthy recipes for refreshing summer drinks.

Badam elaichi shake

Ingredients

Milk 3 cups

Almonds (peeled and chopped) cup

Honey 1table spoon

Cardamom powder tsp

Saffron 5 strands

Vanilla ice cream 2 scoops (optional)

Method

Mix the milk, almonds, honey, coriander powder, saffron and vanilla ice cream.

Blend all these ingredients in a blender.

Froth it up and serve chilled. Garnish it with almond flakes

Orange green tea

Ingredients

150 ml green tea chilled

20 ml maple syrup

20 ml homemade ginger syrup

15ml lime juice

1 lime wedge

2 slices fresh ginger

2 slices Malta orange

1 pinch salt

Method

Take a Boston Shaker and muddle 2 slices of orange and ginger together.

Add homemade ginger syrup.

And shake it and double strain into a tall glass.

Fill the glass with ice and add maple syrup and green tea and stir.

Have you tried barley or jau sherbet?

Almond and soya milk smoothie

Ingredients

Almond Flakes 100 g

Soya milk 750 ml

Honey 150 g

Whole almonds 350 g

Banana 200 g

Method

In a mixer jar, take whole almonds after removing the skin. Add soya milk, honey and banana in it.

Blend it well and garnish with roasted almonds flakes.

Ginger soda

Ingredients

Ginger pur e 1/2 tbsp

Pure maple syrup 1 tbsp

Lemon juice 1 tbsp

Black salt A pinch

Soda 250 ml

Ice cubes

Method

Muddle ginger, lemon, pure maple syrup or make pur e.

Top it with soda and ice.

Have you tried making gulkand thandai?

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