Bell fruit -Raw Mango- Mint juice:

Summer is the season, when we need lot of water to keep our body hydrated. The humble bell fruit is one such fruit, which we had in our front yard while I was a kid. It is the most underrated fruit when I was growing and other than eating, fruits used to be wasted on the ground after it fell from the tree.

 Almost all the household has one or the other watery fruit plant in our native. It has several names like wax apple, java apple, water apple, Syzygium, Jambi fruit or jambu nerale.

Last week when I tried this otherwise bland, watery fruit with Raw mango and mint in the form of juice, we liked the flavour and enjoyed it.

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Recipe goes like this-

Ingredients:

Bell fruits – 8 to 10

Raw mango – ¼ piece of one mango

Mint – 1to 2 strings

Sea Salt – ¼ teas poon

Sugar – as needed.

Water – 2 cups

Ice cubes – if needed

Method:

-Wash, make half, remove seed and clean the bell fruit.

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-Chop mango

-Take one juicer jar and put everything and churn until sugar dissolves.

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-Strain the juice, pour this into a serving glass, put couple of ice cubes and serve.

Mint- Coconut chutney:

In Mangalore, we have one very famous ice cream parlour called Pabba’s and they serve not only ice creams, but also really tasty snacks as well. Beauty of the Cutlet that they serve is mainly because of this coconut chutney which goes really well with their mixed vegetable cutlet, this recipe which I have posted earlier.

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Ingredients:

Coconut – 1 cup

Green chillies – 3to 4

Pudina/mint leaves – little

Coriander leaves – little

Garlic – 4 to 5 cloves

Salt

Oil – 1 table spoon

Tamarind – peanut size

Seasoning: – oil – 1 teaspoon, mustard – ½ Tsp, curry leaves – 1spring.

Method:

-Wash; chop Pudina, coriander and chillies.

-Take one small kadai; fry these chopped items and garlic, by putting a little oil until it wilts, put grated coconut and fry for 2 minutes. Then switch off the gas.

-When it cools down, add tamarind, salt and grind this into a smooth paste by putting required amount of water.

-If you want, add seasoning with mustard and curry leaves.

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-Serve this with mix vegetable cutlet and enjoy your snack.