Refreshing Drinks Recipes: #1. Banana & Vanilla Cookie Milkshake

Very refreshing summer drink with high levels of potassium!

(Servings: 2 - 3)

Ingredients

• 2 ripe Bananas, sliced 
• 250 ml. Milk
• 10 pcs. Vanilla organic cookies  (you can also use other types of cookie that you prefer i.e. Chocolate Chip Cookie, Oatmeal Cookie)
• Syrup (50 ml. hot water & 1 tablespoon brown sugar)
• 10 Cubes ice

Preparation

• In a blender, combine bananas, milk, and cookies.

  

• Make your own simple syrup by dissolving brown sugar into hot water, stirring constantly.

 

• Pour the syrup into the blender.

 

• Blend the ingredients until bananas are chopped.  Add the ice cubes. 

 

• Blend further until the drink is smooth.

 

• Transfer to a serving glass. 
• Put banana slices on the lip of each serving glass for garnish, and...

 Serve Immediately!

Easy Asian Recipes: #3. Thai Stir-Fried Minced Beef with Basil Leaves (Non-Spicy Version)

Ingredients 

• 250 g. minced beef
• 2 cups of basil leaves 
• 3 cloves of minced garlic 
• 1 tablespoon of fish sauce (or salt)                                     
• 3 tablespoons Cooking oil

* Optional side dish: Fried egg & Steamed rice 

   

How to cook

• Peel and crush the garlic or chop it finely 

• Wash basil leaves and set aside

• Heat a pan or wok on a high heat, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil

• Add garlic and stir until light golden brown

• Add the minced beef, and keep stirring until browned

• Add fish sauce, stir for 1 minute, taste the food, if not flavorful enough, add some more sauce.

• Add about half of the basil leaves. Let everything simmer for 2 minutes longer, stirring often. 

• Remove from heat, place on a serving plate and set aside. 

• Heat 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in a pan over medium-high. Add the other half of the basil leaves to the hot oil and quickly stir them around until they stop bubbling and are crispy. Then turn off the heat.

• Place the crispy basil leaves on top of the Stir-Fried Minced Beef with Basil Leaves as garnish. 

Best served with fried egg and steamed rice!

Easy Asian Recipes: #1. Omu-Rice (Japanese Omelet Rice)

Easy High-Fiber Meal!

(Brown Rice is a great source of fiber, B vitamins, manganese, selenium and iron)   

Ingredients

• For Ham fried rice:
• 1 cup of ham, diced
• 1 tbsp. fish sauce (or salt)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup of chopped onions
• 2 cups of steamed brown rice
• 1 tbsp. ketchup for garnish
• 1 tbsp. cooking oil
• For the omelet:
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tbsp. milk
• 1 tbsp. fish sauce (or salt)
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tbsp. cooking oil

How to cook

• Make ham fried rice: 
• Heat the cooking oil in a large frying pan at medium- heat.           
• Add the diced onion and sauté until soft. 
• Add ham and egg; continue cooking until they are cooked through.
• Add the cooked rice to the pan and mix everything together, adding fish sauce or salt. 
• Stir fry the ingredients for about 2 minutes, until the rice has dried out slightly. 
• Then turn off the heat. Set ham fried rice aside.

• Make the omelets: 
• Beat 2 of the eggs together in a bowl with 1 tablespoon of the milk, and 1 tablespoon of fish sauce or a pinch of salt and pepper.  
• Heat 1 tablespoon of cooking oil in a frying pan over medium heat, then pour the egg mixture into the heated pan and tilt the pan to spread the egg mixture thinly across the pan. 
• Fry the omelet until the edges have set. 

• Add the ham fried rice filling in the middle of the omelet. 

• Gently lift one edge of the omelet.  Fold one side of the egg over the filling.

• Repeat with the other side. 

• Fry until the egg is golden brown. 

• Flip omelet onto a serving plate. Garnish omelet with additional ketchup such as a smiley face. 

Ready to serve!