Strawberry Milkshake

When i was busy preserving strawberries, my hubby sneaked-in to the kitchen and asked for his favourite milkshake. As i busy trying too many strawberry recipes, i totally forgot this simple yet delicious milkshake. Home grown strawberries tastes best in the form of milkshake.

Ingredients:
Strawberries - a handfull(hulled and washed)
Whole milk - 3/4 pint
Sugar - 1 tbsp

Preparation Method:

In a blender add the strawberries, milk , sugar and blend until smooth.

Kosambari (With strawberry)

Kosambari is a mung bean salad made in karnataka. There are plenty of versions of kosambari . It's tradionally made with split yellow mung bean ,cucumber ,coriander, carrot ,chilli, lime juice and grated carrots. Retaining the main ingredient yellow split mung bean i  wanted to try out a different combination . With my strawberrymania at the moment i couldn't help but slice in some of these berries into kosambari. This is the first time ever i'm adding a fruit to kosambari and it tasted heavenly.

Main Ingredients:
Yellow Split Mung Bean - 1/2 cup
Fresh lime - 1/4
Baby Chantenay Carrot- 1
Manzanilla olives with lemon and coriander dressing - 1/4 cup
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Black pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
Strawberries - 4

Optional Ingredient :

Finely chopped red onions - 1 tsp

Pre-Requisites:
Soak the yellow split mung bean for half an hour in water

Servings:
Serves 2

Salad Preparation Method:
Peel the skin of carrot and grate it.Chop the strawberries and reserve one for decoration. Mix all the ingredients by sqeezing in a dash of Lime.

With legumes, fruit, veg , onion and olive going in , i couldn't ask for more for my one of 5-A-Day!

Sending this entry to this month's challenge 'Legume Salad - No Croutons Required ' @ Lisa's Kitchen  :

Strawberry Juice Concentrate

          Today i literally counted the number of berries while picking, it was exactly 294 which is almost 300 . Every recipe i tried doesn't require these many berries .I had no other go and ended at following one of my routine preservation techniques. I made 2 batches  of concentrate and the recipe here is for  1 batch. Adjust the ratio according to your preference

 Ingredients:

Strawberries - 150(Approximately)
Water - 100 ml
Sugar - 1 kg

Preparation Method:
Step1:
 Wash and hull the strawberries and place it in a wide bottomed deep saucepan

Step2: 
Barely cover the fruits with water and boil for 20 to 25 minutes.

Step3:
Always choose a deep pan so that there's enough space left while foaming

Step :4
 Add sugar and boil until it dissolves.Do not boil more than 3 or 4 minutes once sugar is added

Step 5:
 Filter the boiled concentrate in another clean and dry bowl

Step 6:
Cool down and store away in clean preservation bottles and refrigerate it.