Watermelon Cooler

One Divine Drink : The summers seem never-ending here and temperatures rising day by day. Standing in the kitchen and cooking a meal gets me drenched in sweat. It's like taking a shower all over again. Day by day, i have started replacing solid food for lunch and prefer drinking some fruit juice, Aam panna or some Kokum sharbat. ( Making sure i have a heavy breakfast). Sometimes, just a fruit or fresh salad does the needful. My poor 4 legged angel babies also have to be kept in the AC and the walks have become short with the timings being early morning and late evening :) Summer fruits have started making way in the markets like watermelon, litchis, mangoes, papaya, muskmelon etc. Watermelon is one fruit which i can have any time of the day. Can eat it at breakfast, a juice in the evening instead of coffee or even as a dessert or sometimes, a midnight snack. It fills you up because of the water content and keeps you hydrated. I love to bite on the juice and when it drops down the sides of my mouth when i am trying to have a big bite!!! ( Yes, just like kids ! )It's fun when you become kids while eating food at times... Having the milk moustaches, the chocolate sauce on the cheeks or even some daal or curry spilled on your clothes...

Yeah yeah, i know, you must be thinking, this is one crazy girl, but honestly, don't we all like it? Coming back to my post, i made this watermelon cooler recently and it tasted "Divine"... a true thirst quencher. Add it to any alcohol and make a cocktail, add any other fruit juice and make a mock-tail out of it or just have it as it is!!! You wouldn't want anything more...

Note : Usually, i don't believe in throwing away the pulp as it has it's own set of fibre and nutrients. So if you are having this drink as it is, don't throw the pulp, but if you are making a cocktail, better strain the juice. 

A glass of this, a book in hand and some nice music... get set to enjoy a beach holiday right at your home :)

Ingredients:

Watermelon - 2 cups chopped pieces

Lemon juice - of 1 medium sized lemon

Sugar - 2 tsp

Black salt - little to taste

Pepper powder - little to taste

Mint leaves - to garnish and/or you can add it crushed to the drink

Ice cubes - as needed

You can even make it without the lemon juice, just adding the mint leaves.

Recipe:

Put watermelon pieces, sugar or lemon juice in a blender. Blend until smooth. 

Add in black salt, pepper and mint leaves.

Top with ice cubes or crushed ice ( crush ice in blender or blend along with watermelon )

Now you can even mix everything together, blend in mixer and take out the juice. 

Garnish with watermelon pieces in the juice or at the side of the glass as shown with a mint leaf.

Now wouldn't you want that right now?

Happy cooking :) ( or should i say, Juicing? )