Are you looking for some cool, refreshing, healthy as well as exotic experience? Here are some summer coolers for you, which are very part of Indian cuisines and can be supplemented with any Indian meal. Try them for yourself and others.

Plum passion

Ingredients: 600 gm fresh plums;10-15 gm rock salt;140 gm of sugar;700 ml icy water;250 gm trodden ice;4 lemon segments;

Guava guzzler

Ingredients: 300gm guava seedless;500 ml of guava juice;10-12 gm rock salt;60 gm of sugar;200 ml icy chilled water;100 gm trodden ice;4 lemon slices;10-15 freshly picked mint leaves

White gazpacho

Ingredients: 4 slices bread (crust removed);150 gm almonds, blanched and skinned;3 garlic clove;60 ml extra virgin olive oil;50 ml white wine vinegar;2 tsp salt; 150 gm white grapes, halved and seeded

Scorching summer, sweaty weather has again made its existence felt, in its every possible way. Now what is your strategy to fight back or to give it up? In case you opt for latter one, here’s how . All the seasons bring with them definite do's along with don’ts. So does this sweltering and blazing summer, especially Indian summers.

Avoid oily food

Eating excess of fried food causes lethargy. So go for grilled stuff, steamed, boiled and roasted eatables instead. Such food not only keeps you healthy but also makes

Reduce ingestion of beverages

Consuming excess of tea and coffee increases your urination period, leading to more water loss. You can always go for required amount of such drinks, but as they dehydrate your body fluids, so keep a proper check on their intake level.

Avoid eating stale foodstuffs (fruits and vegetable)

Do not cut Fruit and vegetables much earlier since it leads to water loss thereby causing degradation of their nutritional content that is why it is always recommended to consume only freshly peeled and chopped fruit and veggies. Make sure you avoid stale food because such a Food might be breeding floor for various bacteria.

Avoid excessive smoking and alcohol intake

Avoid both drinking alcohol and smoking cigars and cigarettes, as they dehydrate the contents of our body taking away the required oxygen substance from the blood vessels thereby causing suffocation in our lungs.

Avoid drinks rich in acidic contents

Try to Avoid such soft drinks since they produce gases in our body which leads to digestion problems like gastrointestinal distresses like stomach aches, diarrhea, vomiting etc. so, instead of feeding yourself with such processed carbonated drinks you can consume lemonade, lassi, jaljeera and home-made drinks like mango panna. These drinks help in maintaining the electrolyte balance of the body. Also, yoghurt if consumed with sugar reduces the acid that gets produced in the body because of former carbonated drinks.

Eat in less quantity

Over eating in any season is bad. Make sure your Chew your food bites properly and leave the habit of eating in hurry. In such sweltering summer, go for light meals, particularly at night. Otherwise you may go through indigestion, loose motions or vomiting. Avoid long gaps between meals too. Eat three times a day, interspersed with frequent snacks like salads, sprouts and fruits.

Here are some refreshing and mouth watering soggy cheesy salad recipes for all food lovers.

Marinated mushroom salad

Ingredients:
1 cup sliced fresh button mushrooms;2 tbsp olive oil;1 tsp(chopped)garlic;1 tsp(chopped)ginger;1 (chopped)onion;1 tsp paprika flakes;1 tsp Soya sauce; 1 tsp red chili sauce;1 tsp green chili sauce;1 tbsp tomato ketchup;1 tbsp white wine(optional);red and yellow capsicums shredded;1 cup lettuce leaves; salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Clean the mushrooms well using Maida and then wash under a running tap slice each into 3-4 slices and keep in cold water. Heat olive oil in a pan, sauté the garlic and ginger in a pan, add the onion and the mushrooms and toss well. Cook for just about 2 minutes and remove. Cool and mix all the sauces and paprika etc, season well and chill the same. Arrange the assorted lettuce leaves on the serving plate and arrange the chilled marinated mushroom salad on it. Top with red and yellow capsicum juliennes.

Baby corn and Soya chunk salad

Ingredients:
1 cup baby corn sliced;1 cup soyabean chunks soaked in hot water for 20 minutes;1 tsp garlic (chopped);2 tbsp olive oil;1 tbsp red chili sauce;1 tbsp imli chutney;1 tsp chaat masala;1 tsp lime juice;1 tbsp peanut butter dissolved in 3tbsp water; salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Heat olive oil in a pan, sauté the garlic for a few seconds, add the baby corn and toss well. Add seasonings to taste and the peanut butter, soyabean chunks which have been soaked and then drain. Toss well for 10 seconds and remove. Serve the salad chilled over a bed of lettuce leaves. Drizzle with the sauce and chaat masala.

Mix vegetable salad with coconut dressing

Ingredients:
1 carrot peeled and diced;2 capsicums diced; 2 cucumbers peeled and diced;1/2 cup cherry tomatoes;1 white radish peeled and cubed;4-6 baby corns sliced;1/2 cup small onions peeled; 1 cup iceberg lettuce eaves

For dressing:
½ cup mayonnaise sauce;1/2 tsp mustard paste;1 tbsp peanuts(chopped);1 tbsp tomato ketchup; ½ cup sliced tender coconut

Method:

Prepare the veggies for the salad. Chill until tossed in the salad. For the dressing mix all the ingredients and toss with veggies and arrange the salad on a bed f crisp lettuce leaves and garnish with roasted peanuts. Serve chilled.

It’s summer time! The scorching heat is bothering all of us. Our body consists of almost 70%of water, so it becomes very essential to maintain this content for proper functioning. Fruits are the body’s best friends as they help in maintaining the nutrient level in the body by compensating the loss of minerals due to excessive sweating in this blistering and sweltering weather. Various fruits like watermelon, musk Mellon, cucumber and others provide adequate fluids and electrolytes for the support of healthy functioning of body. No doubt they make a good snack too. Here are some refreshing delights for all you people out for who wants to beat this boiling temperature through various juicy flavorsome quenchers, lemonades which can be prepared in minutes and relished at home.

Mango mint cooler

Ingredients:
2 cup mango pulp;1 freshly pureed mango;1 sprig mint leaves shredded;1 tbsp lime juice; ice cubes as required;175 ml aerated drink of your choice;1/2 tsp chaat masala

Method:

In a blender combine together the mango pulp and the freshly made pulp with some limejuice and crushed ice. Pour a mixture in a tall glass and top with some aerated drink like orange fanta or mirinda. Serve chilled.

Melon delight

Ingredients:
2 large pieces of water melon(so as to make 300 ml of juice);2 medium size cucumber(to make 100ml of juice);1 piece of ginger; salt to taste.

Method:

Peel, remove seeds and cut into pieces the melon, the cucumber and the ginger. Blend into blender. Strain the juice. Serve with ice cubes and salt and pepper to taste.

Red riding hood

Ingredients:
200ml carrot juice; 100ml tomato juice; ice cubes; rock salt to taste.

Method:

Blend the carrot juice and the tomato juice. Mix the rock salt and add the ice cubes.
It’s now ready to savor up.

Black and white wonder

Ingredients:
1 scoop of vanilla ice cream, 100 ml of black grape juice; 100 ml soda water; some mint leaves.

Method:

In a tall glass, make 2 layers with the ice-cream at the bottom and then grape juice. Top with soda water. Garnish with mint leaves and serve as and then.

White wonder

Ingredients:
water of one fresh cocout;200 ml of pineapple juice; 2tbsp pineapple pieces,2 almonds(optional)chopped into pieces; pinch of cinnamon powder.

Method:

Mix the coconut water and pineapple juice. Mix in the pieces and almonds. Garnish with cinnamon powder and serve chilled.