The weather has warmed up a bit and I am craving smoothies and protein shakes. Banana Kiwi Smoothie is a delicious creamy beverage prepared by blending banana, kiwi, milk, chia seeds and honey. The addition of chia seeds to this drink gives you added fiber and nutrients. This banana kiwi smoothie is a meal in a glass, and really tasty, too!

With a base of frozen banana and fresh kiwi, play a great smoothie which is rich in fiber to keep our systems in good working order.

It can also help ensure to start the day with a dose of nutrition, which can be reassuring if they are sometimes reluctant to eat their fruits and veggies in other forms.

Banana Kiwi smoothie is slightly thick and naturally sweetened with honey, I didn't use sugar. It's a fantastic way to start your day. This yummy smoothie blend with kiwi's, bananas and all of your favorite fruits in a blender with low-fat yogurt or skim milk. Isn't it so yummy 😋😋

The trick to a tasty KIWI BANANA smoothie with chia seeds is to make sure that you use the skimmed milk or toned milk which has no cream and very light in weight, as compared to full cream milk. For my vegan friends, they can use soy milk or almond milk also. There is no need to soak chia seeds, use it as raw seeds. Even you can add yogurt instead of milk. Serve immediately!

This is sugar free smoothie, I have used honey into to it to work as a sweetener, if you don't like honey.. you can use sugar too or make it simple with no sweetener. and I must say it's a STRESS BUSTER smoothie.

Delicious smoothies are an awesome way to pack tons of nutrition into a delicious treat that you can anywhere. This smoothie will give you energy and keep you feeling full for hours.

You can try these thick and creamy
cantaloupe banana smoothie and
apple cinnamon smoothie with toasted almonds
Time : 10 min
Preparation time : 5 min
Course : Smoothie/Beverage
Serves - 1 to 2 (makes 3 mini glasses)
Author : Jolly Makkar

INGREDIENTS :

Small sliced frozen banana - 1 no
Kiwi, peeled and sliced - 1 medium
Skimmed Milk / Toned milk - 1 cup
Chia seeds - 1 teaspoon
Honey /Sugar - 1 tablespoon honey, optional

PREPARATION METHOD :

1. Slice the banana and freeze it for 1 hour.

2. Add all the ingredients in a blender and pulse until smooth.

3. Pour into a glass and serve with chopped kiwi, banana and chia seeds on top to taste.


This recipe is a part of A to Z recipe challenge, this is my 10th post for the challenge. We choose key ingredients alphabetically to cook and post a dish every month.
This month alphabet is "K" so I choose KIWI and make a easy peasy smoothie from it.

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This eggless carrot coconut bread is moist, easy and delicious recipe to make. A loaf of sweet bread is a great way to start the morning in our house. This loaded carrot coconut cake is one of my all time favourite desserts. A total delight to my tastebuds😍😍.

Best Wishes to everyone. Wish all my fan and readers A VERY HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR 2020 💛💛

Hope you had a great fun on this day, and did all dhoom masti. We enjoyed this day at home, we usually avoid this day to go out because everywhere is so crowded and party place that day, loud music. For our toddler, we avoid it and enjoyed our day at home.

Enjoyed the last sunset of 2019 on 31st december and later on enjoy the food and dance at home 💃💃😀 Sharing few pictures of sunset with you, more you can view on my Instagram profile !!

MY BALCONY VIEW - SUNSET CLICKS IN BANGALORE - 31ST DEC 2019

What is carrot coconut cake?

This eggless bread is very tender and light cake recipe to make without any fuss. Fabulously tropical carrot combined with crunchy coconutty flavours, that's awesome. It was soft, dense and a little crispy on the outside, which is exactly what a loaf cake should be.

We are in the first week of January, I just can't  believe how last year (2019) flies has flown by! This the time of the year where you'll get fresh seasonal veggies and carrot is one of them.

When my husband saw fresh orange carrots again into the market, they will take it immediately and said me to make some yummy carrot cake again for this New Year Eve.

My husband is a huge fan of homemade cakes! Like it’s his favorite cake and I hardly make it for him, unless he requests it for this New Year again, so I said okay.

Few months back I have tried eggless recipe of both the cake with single single flavours

 I really don't need a chance to bake a cake 😃 For me, it's like a stress buster😍! So on that special day of New Year, I made this cake.

When I usually bake something I am trying to adding few other ingredients which is my favourite one. Few months back, I made a coconut cake. So thought to combine carrot with coconut, I still went ahead and baked this delicious and really easy carrot coconut cake.

For my big sweet tooth, this delicious treat was sorted for couple of few days..hehehe 😃😃

This cake are a perfect treat to any get together or Christmas or New Year Eve party. The flavors are making me crazy excited!

So I hope you will love this carrot coconut loaf cake! It is:

** Super yummy
** Rich and Decadent cake
** So Flavourful

Let's see this how to make easy and soft, moist carrot coconut bread recipe with step by step photos method.


Total Time : 1 hour 20 minutes
Preparation Time : 30 minutes
Baking Time : 50-55 minutes
Cuisine : American, International Cuisine
Course : Baking, Bread
Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients for Bread :

Dry Ingredients :

Whole Wheat flour/Atta - 3/4 cup
All purpose flour/Maida -  3/4 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1 cup
Baking Powder - 1 and 1/2 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Fresh Grated Carrot - 1 cup
Dessicated coconut - 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp (for sprinkle that is totally optional)
Roughly chopped almonds and walnuts

Wet Ingredients :

Oil - 1/3 cup
Buttermilk - 1/2 (you can use milk)
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp

Other Ingredients :

butter paper
loaf pan

Preparation Method :

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F) or 180 degrees (C). Lightly grease a loaf pan; set aside.

2. In a large bowl combine sieve the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and add cinnamon powder.

3. In a separate bowl, beat the oil, buttermilk and sugar together until it looks melted.

4. Add the grated carrots, the vanilla essence, mix it well.

5. Carefully fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture until mixed in, then gently swirl in the coconut flakes.

6. Pour mixture into prepared pan, sprinkle the top with chopped crushed dry fruits(almonds and walnuts), and place pan in oven to bake for 55-60 minutes, or until the top is golden and a cake tester comes out clean.

7. Allow loaf to cool in the pan for at least 10 minutes before removing and transferring to a cooling wrack to completely cool.
               
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Healthy No Bake Date Energy Bar with simple step by step photos recipe - These no bake date bars are one of the best date recipes and perfect snack you can make! Sweet, chewy, and wholesome bars are chock full of nuts and have no added sugars.

You can’t beat how easy, healthy, and simple date bars they are. These are a perfect munching snack box treat for festivals time or holidays season. I also love having them on hand for those times I need a treat terribly but know that I don’t really need a treat. They are perfect craving busters.

What are the benefits of eating dates?

Dates are a great food to include in your kids day. Not only are the packed with fiber (almost a full gram of fiber per date) they are portable and delicious.  This makes them easy to take an eat on the go. They are higher in calories than other fruit which is great for picky eaters. That’s what makes these bars an even better snack, kids can eat dates with healthy dry fruits all day long.

Because dates are so sweet, dates provide the perfect natural alternative to added sugars in any date recipe. In fact, dates are such a great source of natural sugar, they have been processed to make natural sweeteners such as date juice, date sugar, dehydrated dates, date paste, ground dates, and even diced dates that you can add to recipes you want to sweeten up naturally.

I remember my mom used to soak almonds and give it to us all siblings in morning time when we were kids. Soaked almond are really cool for our body, they never gives heat to it. Otherwise almonds are so heated snacks, while having or eating them as raw. I used to soak almonds at night, for me and for my kiddo and husband and next day morning peel the almonds and give them as a snack in breakfast or with milk.

Can I eat dates every day?

You can! One serving of dates is 5-6 dates, which is really easy to do when you blend them in a mixer and make delicious no bake date bars like this!


This superfood energy bar recipe is 100% kids friendly and the perfect wholesome snack recipe. Easy, nutritious and much less expensive than the store-bought bars.

You can use cashews or apricot also to make such nut bars. Mix and match dry fruits as per availability. There is no need to add any liquid ingredients. I think a high power blender or food processor could be used to make these, but I haven’t tried it myself. I have tried it normal mixer grinder.


So let's see how to make make this vegan, gluten free and sugar free date energy bars with simple steps.

Preparation Time : 15 minutes 
Cooking Time : 0 minutes
Total Time : 15 minutes
Recipe type: Snacks
Serves: 8 to 12 bar
Author: Jolly Makkar

Ingredients :
                                                                                 
Dates seeds removed - 1 and half cup(1.5 cup)
Walnut - 1/2 cup
Almonds - 1/4 cup
Dessicated coconut - 1/4 cup
Sunflower seeds - 2 tbsp

Preparation Method :

1. First of all, clean the dates and remove seeds.

2. In a mixer or food processor add walnut, almonds. Pulse for 10 seconds. Repeat this until dry fruits are broken into pieces. Add

3.  To this add seeds and coconut. Pulse for 10 seconds.

4. Add dates, pulse for 20 seconds. Repeat this for 2-3 times till dates are crushed and mixed with dry fruit mixture.

5. Line a parchment paper in a baking pan or in a plate.

6. Pour this mixture in the pan and set it with the help of a spatula. Spread some sunflower seeds on top. Set them and keep in the fridge until they firm.

7. Remove the bars from the pan and cut into pieces using a sharp knife. Enjoy these bars cold or frozen. Store in an air-tight container in the fridge or freezer.

8. This recipe was adapted and inspired by no bake dry fruit energy bar from Preethi Cuisine. I have made few changes as per my taste buds.

This recipe is under Recipe Swap Challenge & this month my partner is Preethi who blog at preethicuisine.com. This month our challenge theme is "Holiday Dessert Ideas"

You can also try 

No Bake Date, Coconut and Almond Rolls

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Green Chutney or Hari chutney is an easy and quick spicy accompaniment made with fresh green coriander leaves along with some spices. This hari chutney plays an important role in Indian Cuisine and best going with street foods like papdi chaat, 
aloo tikki, khaman dhokla, samosa and many variety of Indian snacks. 

What is Green Chutney ?

Green chutney is a flavourful side condiment made with fresh green coriander leaves,  ginger, garlic, onion, lemon juice for tanginess and green chillies for some spiciness into the chutney. In Hindi, we pronounced this "Green = Hari " i.e hari chutney. 

It is often used in Indian Cuisine, especially for chaats like papdi chaat, khaman dhokla, savory kordois, veg uttappam and many variety of Indian snacks. 

This is tangy spicy coriander chutney. This is one of the basic chutney that is eaten with all Indian snacks, meals and street food etc. 

This chutney at my home are an important part of our daily meals and my meal is incomplete without it.

For this green chutney we need green coriander leaves(hara dhaniya), green chillies(hari mirch), garlic(lahsun), ginger(adarak) and few other spices. 

You can increase or reduce the chillies according to your preference. This is actually a gluten free and nut free recipe. 

No need add water in this chutney because we have added tomato in it. 

Some of the best chutney recipes from my blog, you may love to try:

Coconut Dal Chutney
Peanut chutney
khatti Meethi kacche aam ki chutney
Dates Tamarind Chutney

Furthermore, you can skip garlic, some people don't like raw garlic. For this recipe, I used cumin powder..this is enhance the whole taste of the chutney. 

I added a bit of chopped carrot to thick the consistency of chutney and make it less watery. Though it freezes well, but I generally don't. 

Whenever I am prepared this hari chutney, I made a small batch of fresh chutney, eat it and make again another batch. This hari chutney best going with street foods. The hari chutney recipe keeps fresh for 7 days, if stored in clean and sterilized glass jar. 

Prep time : 5 minutes
Cooking Time : NIL
Total time : 5 minutes
Course : Indian dip/chutney
Cuisine : Indian
Servings : 1 small jar
Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients :

Fresh chopped Coriander Leaves/ Dhaniya patta - 1 bunch(approx 1 cup)
Ginger/adrak - 1 inch piece
Garlic cloves - 1 or 2 piece
Roughly chopped onions - 1/2 no
Red Carrot/Orange carrots - 1 small 
Chopped Tomato - 1/2 no
Lemon juice - 1 no (increase as per your choice)
Green Chillies - 3 to 4
Red Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste

Preparation Method :

1. Wash the coriander leaves thoroughly to remove any dirt and dust that might be on them. Roughly chop the leaves to make it easier for blending. We will need around 1 cup of chopped coriander leaves. Keep aside.

2. Put the chopped onion, carrot, green chillies in a mixer jar. Mix it well.

3. Then add chopped tomatoes, red chilli powder, jeera powder, blend it well into a rough paste. You will have to stir it once or twice in between to get a rough paste. No need to add water.

4. Then add coriander leaves,blend it well to get a smooth paste. You will have to stir it once or twice in between.

5. Remove in a bowl, now add the lemon juice and salt . This will help maintain the color of the chutney. If you don’t add lemon juice, the chutney will keep on getting darker.

6. Store this chutney into a bowl or sterilized glass jar and use as required. This will yield around 1 small jar of chutney.

7. You can serve this chutney in chaats like tomato omelette, aloo tikki chaat, dosa and idli many more snacks.

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Jaggery Tea with step by step photos recipe - This is rich, milky, deeply coloured, steaming hot, and flavoured with grounded spices beverage. A cup of milk tea (chai) in morning always refresh your mood and put you on track of long hard day. 

Tea is one of the most popular hot beverages in World and especially in India. It can be prepared with milk or milk powder or without milk and various types of plain or flavored tea powders. 

This recipe prepares using with milk, jaggery, tea powder, water and flavoured with spices.  

What is Jaggery Tea?

The word chai just means tea. Jaggery chai, on the other hand, is a hot beverage consumed during winters. Jaggery = Gud | Chai = tea. i.e "Gud ki Chai".

Gud ki chai is an aromatic tea, it is served in small glasses and it's called "cutting chai" in India because it's so strong ("cutting" is the transliteration of the Hindi word for "half"). The green cardamom gives an earthy and comforting flavor. The fennel seeds are good for digestion.

Indeed, jaggery tea is a magical and versatile beverage for me. It always works for me. Not everyday or whenever I was ill, I used to drink hot cup of gud ki chai. 

As I have mentioned in my earlier post chai spiced banana bread, that I am big fan of chai. I can't start my day without a sip of tea. Chai cannot only wake me up but also soothes me and warm my soul whenever I feel down in the dumps!!

Every person has their favourite brew - black, milky, hot, cold, plain, jaggery, green tea, lemon tea and so on.

I have used Jaggery and chopped it into small pieces, you can add jaggery powder also or melted jaggery too. After adding jaggery into tea, make sure you won't boil too much your tea. 

Green Cardamom and fennel seeds are ground into a perfect blend to bring out the most original and authentic taste in Jaggery Tea. Don't miss this, give it a try at home I'm sure you loved it.

Let's see how to make gud ki chai recipe with step by step photos

Prep Time : 2 minutes
Cook Time : 10 minutes 
Total Time : 12 minutes
Course : Beverages
Cuisine : Indian
Servings : 2 person
Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients :

Toned milk /full cream milk - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Cardamom (crushed) - 2 no
Fennel Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Chopped Jaggery -  2 tbsp (adjust it according to your taste)
Tea Leaves - 2 tbsp

Preparation Method :

1. Crush the cardamom along with fennel seeds to a coarse mixture, set it aside.

2. Add a cup of water in a pan. Switch on the gas, then add crushed spice mixture and Add tea powder to it, Let it boil.

3. Boil for at least 2 minutes then add a cup of milk into it.

4. Boil for a minute, let it come to a rolling boil. Swirl the pan and simmer for a minute.

5. Add chopped jaggery and use a steel spoon, stir it once in the pan and then switch off the gas.

6. Strain the tea and serve hot with jeera biscuits and any namkeen/mixture.

This recipe is a part of A to Z recipe challenge, this is our 8th post for the challenge. We choose key ingredients alphabetically to cook and post a dish every alternate month.
This is my 9th dish in the A to Z challenge series,
A- Homemade Apple Jam (no preservatives)
B - Beetroot Carrot Sandwich
C - Black Chana Masala (chickpeas)
D - Dates, Almonds and Coconut Rolls
E - Breakfast Egg Muffins
F - Dahi Methi Poori (fenugreek)
G- Guava Cheese(Goan special sweet)
H- Honey Nut Brittle

This time alphabet is "J" so I choose Jaggery and I already have few jaggery recipes in my blog like jaggery dosa, jaggery pancakes, jaggery cake..so this I thought of sharing my favourite beverage that is winters special. 

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