Lemon Ice Tea with Normal Tea

Lemon Ice Tea with Normal Tea

Hi Friends,

After a long hectic day you need something lite and refreshing to freshen you up. which is not complicated to make, don't required fancy ingredients, tasty and healthy. means it could be a cup of tea/coffee/shake etc but sometimes crave for something different. So one fine evening i was feeling same and thought to have ice tea which i use to make with store bought Ice tea packet but this time i was out of stock so thought to make with available ingredients. 

I chose normal tea which is always available in any household. I was bit doubtful about the taste as i don't take tea and don't like its taste except masala tea. I went ahead and amazed with the outcome. Which amazed me most was color of the final prepration. I totally loved it. I am the person who can die for the colorful things and if its food then somebody should not dare to think of sharing from me. I made it few times later also. If you want this amazing color then be careful while boiling tea and water, you just need to simmer it and switch off the flame and sieve immediately more you let it on flame more dark color you get. This totally up to you how much dark you need it. Try it and get your color. 

Ingredients:-
Water- 2 cups
Tea-1 tsp
Cardamom-2 (optional)
Lemon-1
Honey-2 tsp or as required

Method:-

Grab your Ingredients

Heat water in a pan

Add tea and cardamom seeds

 give a boil and switch off the flame

Sieve it

Add honey

squeeze lemon

Mix well and let it cool down 

Now take a glass and fill with few ice cubes

Pour cooled tea in it

Garnish with a lemon wedge

See the beautiful color

I love this color

You can also boil water and tea more to get nice dark color like this

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Notes:-

1. You can boil tea as per your preference. If you want tea dominating ice tea then boil it more or one boil is enough.
2. Adjust honey and lemon as per your taste, add more or less.
3. If you want to avoid ice then after boiling tea cool it and keep it in fridge to enjoy chilled ice tea.

HOPE YOU WILL LIKE IT

Love
PariCash

Super Healthy Soup/ Power Packed Soup/ Mix Veg Soup/ Cauliflower Peas Potato Soup Mix Veg Soup without flour and thickening Agent

Super Healthy Soup/

Power Packed Soup/ 

Mix Veg Soup/

Cauliflower Peas Potato Soup/

Mix Veg Soup without flour and thickening Agent

Hi Friends,

I always make tomato soup in winters. I was always afraid to try any other soup. This time i wanted to try some soups which have less chances of failure. I have searched for so many soups and found Broccoli soup is very simple. wanted to try that but broccoli was out of my reach. So finely decided to make Mix Veg Soup as my fridge was full of peas and cauliflower.

I have gone through so many recipes and all recipes use flour/cornflour etc to thicken the soup. somehow i am not in favor of using that. So tried my own way to make this soup. It came out good. I used less spices. You can add lots of spices like cinnamon, clove, black cardamom etc to give it a nice flavor. I used olive oil to make it more healthy. I have seen so many soup recipes showing thick creamy soup. This is very close to them and i am happy that i made this without any flour or thickening agent. You can have it anytime like in breakfast, dinner, lunch with a slice of toasted herb bread or as it is as it has so many so many small chopped saute veggies to give it a nice crunch. Hope you will try it and let me know the outcome.

Preparation Time- 5 min

Cooking Time - 25 min 

Whole method - 30 min

Serves - 4 people 

Ingredients:-
Cauliflower - 1 medium
Peas - 2 tbsp
onion- 1 medium
Potato - 1 medium
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Olive oil - 2 tsp
Black pepper pdr- 1 tsp
Salt- as per your taste

Method:-

Grab your ingredients

take small piece of onion and cauliflower and chop in small pieces

(it should be near about 1 tablespoon each)

Roughly chop remaining veggies 

add roughly chopped veggies in pressure cooker with 1 tsp salt and cook upto two whistles

Cooked

take this in a grinder

puree it

Now take 2 tsp olive oil in a pan or wok

cook it for few seconds

add chopped onion cauliflower

cook for few seconds and remove in a plate

in the same wok or pan

add pureed veggies

add 2 glasses water 

add salt

and pepper powder

Start Boiling on high flame for 5 min

Boil and keep on stirring as it will overflow

Sim the flame to medium and Boil for more 5 min

see it thickened now

add saute peas and cauliflower

Give another boil, don't boil too much

DONE

Ready to Serve

SERVE

It was very close to the market bought veggie soup

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http://cooksjoy.com/blog/2012/12/new-u-event-announcement.html 

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Notes:-

1. When we will start boiling the soup on high keep watch over it or it may overflow, if its going to overflow then sim the flame for few seconds then again increase the flame to high.
2. You can add any of your favorite veggie in it, but for me this is the best combo.
3. If you have less veggies and wanted to make in large quantity then add more water in the veggie puree and add 1 tbsp cornflour mixed in half cup of water and add when soup is boiling. 
4. You can garnish it with milk or cream. I avoided all this.
5. You can use butter or oil to cook the peas and cauliflower.

HOPE YOU WILL LIKE IT

Love
PariCash