Morning or evening, summers call for a cold refreshing drink. Lets make a tasty and healthy drink with our list of healthy summer drink recipes.
We all love to have refreshing drinks in the summer. The joy becomes double if it is healthy, without compromising its nutrient values. In this article, I am going to narrate below the recipe of 13 healthy drinks, that anybody can make in a minimal amount of time. These drinks are healthy, super easy to make, and the ingredients are very much available in any Indian Supermarket.
The Benefits of Healthy Drinks
- Healthy drinks just kick-start your system. Staying hydrated is extremely important. All healthy Drinks consist of a considerable proportion of water. Adding even more to it, all these drinks are made out of nutritious ingredients.
- Nutritious health drinks help you to boost your physical activity level to a maximum. Intense exercise in the high heat of summer sucks out a lot of nutrients from our body. To fill back the nutrient gap we can very well rely upon these summer-friendly health drinks.
- Healthy, liquid-based smoothies and health drinks keep your brain function on point. It also stops nagging headaches to appear. Headache is a red flag that indicates your body is dehydrated.
- The summer smoothies are filling. Thus, it controls your recurring hunger pangs. The smoothies are a reservoir of antioxidants. It strengthens your immunity system and fights back diseases to occur. These smoothies trick your lymphatic system and detoxify the internal mechanism.
- Healthy Summer Drinks prevent Kidney stone formation in your system. It flushes out mineral crystal clumps from your urinary system tracks. Higher fluid intake increases the volume of urine, and the kidney, therefore, remains highly functional.
- Last but not least they help the formation of new tissues and cells into your body that keeps your skin young, healthy, and glowing.
Why to Avoid Packaged Drinks
Avoid consuming packaged drinks for all the right reasons.
- Packaged drinking Fruit Juices are completely devoid of a bunch of healthy nutrients. Fruits lose the goodness of Vitamin C when the extracted juices from them are boiled. To maximize the shelf-lives of packaged drinking goods the juices go through heat treatment. This heat treatment completely sucks the Vitamin C out of the juice.
- The packaged drinks are also without fibres. Fruits are known to be the storehouse of fibres. A great proportion of our daily consumption of fibres comes from fruits. But these packaged fruit juices are low in the share of fibres. They sometimes replace Natural fibres with additives. But that does not replace the nutrition proportion of the same.
- Canned or bottled fruit juices, and all other variants of packaged drinks, e.g. Lassi, MIlk shakes etc. are full of sugar. Sugars make you gain a lot of unwanted weight. Also, once you get addicted to sweetness the hunger just doesn’t stay in control. Thus, even if you consume 2 bottles of packaged drink, you are still going to stay hungry.
- The packaged drinks contain many acidic substances for preservation purposes. These acids snatch away the whiteness from your teeth. Excessive sugars sometimes cause a cavity.
Easiest Summer healthy Drinks Recipe:
1. Tangy mango juice
Ingredients
- 1 cup of Mango Cubes
- Chilled/Normal water
- Mint
- Jaggery
Instructions For The Recipe
- Blend the mango pulp in a Food Grinder
- Sieve it through a Stainer.
- Add water to it.
- Now again blend both— the strained pulp and the water
- Now in a Mortar slightly dash a few Mint leaves. Add it into the liquid. If you want the mint flavour to be strong, you can blend in together with the pulp and the Water.
And You are Done!
2. Refreshing Water Melon Juice
Ingredients
- 1 ½ Cups of diced watermelons
- 5 black grapes
- Coconut Water
- ½ of a lemon (juice)
- Pepper powder
- Mint Leaves
Instructions for the Recipe—
- Grind the watermelon dices, and sieve it through a strainer.
- Squeeze out grape juices.
- Then with the blender blend the watermelon juice, coconut water, grape juice, and the lemon juice
- Sprinkle some pepper powder into it
- Dash a few mints leave in the mortar and pestle. Add it to the juice.
- If you want you can add some ice cubes too.
And voila! The juice is ready.
3. Pine-Apple Juice
Ingredients
- 2 cups of Chopped Pine Apples
- 1 ½ Cups of water
- 6 ice cubes
- Black Salt
- Roasted Cumin Powder
Instructions to follow
- Blend the peeled, and the chopped pineapples in a blender. Wait, until it becomes very smooth
- Sieve it Through a strainer
- Pour the water into the pineapple pulp
- Mix the pulp and the water in a blender, or preferably go for a hand blender in this step
- Add on a pinch of black salt
- Top it off with some roasted Cumin Powder. That’s it!
4. Rose Lassi
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Chilled Curd
- 1 cup chilled water
- 1 tsp Rose Essence
- 1 tsp Rosewater
- Few dried Petals of rose
- Chopped Pistachio
- Chia Seeds
Instructions for the recipe
- Blend Curd and water, and all the other things leaving Pistachio
- You are done with the drink. Just top it off with some dried pistachio and Chia seeds.
It’s all done!
5. Strawberry Shake
Ingredients
- Strawberry (8-10 pieces)
- 1 Tbsp Milk
- 1 Cup Chilled Yoghurt
- 1 tsp Honey(optional)
- ½ Tsp Rosewater
- Chia Seeds
Instructions
- Chop the strawberries and make a smooth puree of it
- Then with a hand blender/ Normal blender mix the puree with yoghurt
- Add the Milk to give it a lump-free or smooth consistency
- Add the honey and the rose water
- Top it off with loads of chia Seeds
Enjoy your healthy and tasty drink!
6. Banana Whey High Protein Smoothie
Ingredients
- Chopped frozen banana
- Vanilla Whey Protein Powder
- Almond Milk
- Chia Seeds
- Ice Cubes
Instructions For the Recipe
- In a high-speed blender Blend frozen banana, whey protein and almond milk
- Add the chia seeds on the top
- Put crushed Ice Cubes.
The drink is ready, for your guiltless gorging
7. Jaljeera Drink
Ingredients
- 1 cup hot water
- 1 tablespoon Jaljeera Powder
- 1 Tbsp Tamarind Pulp
- 1 tsp Black Salt
- 1½ Tsp Jaggery (You can skip this too)
- Few Mint Leaves
Instructions to be followed
- Add The Tamarind pulp, jaljeera powder into the hot water
- Add salt, and jaggery into it
- Mix everything till all the ingredients get mixed properly
- Add few mint leaves into it, after crushing them in a mortar and pestle
It only takes that much!
8. Kiwi Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
- 4 kiwi Chopped
- 1 ½ Banana Chopped
- ¾ th Cup Soy milk
- ⅔ rd Cup Yoghurt
- 2 Tbsp Oats
- Chia Seeds
- 1-inch ginger
Instructions To follow
- De-seed, and peel of the kiwi. Cut them into pieces.
- Peel the banana, chop it off
- Grate the ginger cube
- Transfer the fruits, the yoghurt, the soy milk, and the oats, and the grated ginger into the blender. Blend it till smooth, add the chia seeds on top, and just drink!
9. Cinnamon-Chocolate Roll Smoothie
Ingredients
- 2 scoops of chocolate whey Powder
- 1 cup soy milk
- ¼ th Tbsp Cinnamon Powder
- ¼ th Tsp Vanilla Essence
- 1 Banana Sliced
- 1 Cup Ice
- 1 cup water
- Chopped dry fruits
Instructions to follow
- Blend the whey powder, soy milk, cinnamon powder, vanilla essence, diced banana, and water. Add the ice cubes.
- Top it off with lots of dried nuts.
- You can also add chia seeds on top. Believe it or not— The thing is done! That Simple…
10. Mosambi or Sweet Lime Juice
INGREDIENTS
- 4/5 Mosambis/ Sweet Lime
- Roasted Cumin Powder
- Chat Masala Powder
- Ice Cubes
- Honey ( Optional)
Instruction to follow
- De-seed, and de-peel all the mosambis. Cut them into pieces. Blend them in a blender.
- Strain them through a strainer. Collect the extra pulp. Then with the help of a heavy wooden spoon press the pulp and collect the remaining juice.
- Now into this juice, if you want, you can add a little honey, which is optional.
- Add roasted spices, chat masala, and crushed ice cubes.
That is it, the juice is ready!
11. Coconut-Lime Juice
Ingredients
- 1.5 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 2 cups coconut water
- ½ cup water
- 0.5 tbsp honey( optional)
- ½ tsp grated ginger
- Black salt to taste
Instructions to follow
- Add everything into a blender, leaving the mint leaves.
- In the blended juice add dashed mint leaves.
- Add ice cubes or refrigerate.
Drink with a big smile!
Fruit Mocktail Smoothie
- 1 frozen banana, removed of its skin and diced
- 1 cups frozen strawberries, or cherries
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vanilla yoghurt
- 1/2 cup fresh orange juice
- 1 tablespoons honey( optional)
Instructions to follow—
- Blend everything in a jar.
- Strain it through and get the excesses removed.
- Add ice cubes and drink!
12. Grape Juice
- 1 cup Grape
- 1.5 cups water
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- ¼ th tsp chat masala
Instructions to Follow—
- In a blender blend the grapes. Strain the grape juice, and remove the excess.
- Add the water and the grated ginger, and again blend
- Sprinkle the chat masala.
- Add the ice cubes and drink!
A Word From Us Team VegFit
At VegFit we are more than eager to serve you with pieces of information that are going to take care of your health and nutrition. All these recipes we talked about are preservative and Sugar-free. They will keep you hydrated and cool in the summer days.
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