Dried fruit shake

I used to like the dried fruit shake at Saravana bhavan. But never bothered to try it out at home. But today I had enough dates, raisins, cashews and outcome was a nice refreshing milkshake. I also used some frozen blue berries. So you could add any of your dried berries, apricots or just any dried fruit of your choice.

4-5 De-seeded dates
4 cashews
4 almonds / badam
1/3 cup of raisins
1/3 cup of berries
1 teaspoon sugar
2 cup milk
1 scoop vanilla ice cream

Method:
1. Soak all the fruit in water for about 1 hour until they are tender. Remove the skin from almonds.
2. Just remove excess water (do not squeeze) and run the dried fruits in a blender to a fine paste. No-coarse blending!
3. Then add sugar, milk, vanilla ice cream and pulse until smooth and creamy! Chill until served.

M ‘n’ M Shake

Interesting! What’s this M ‘n’ M shake?!?! Definitely not the candy M ‘n’ M though!! So…what’s this?!?! It’s a Melon / Mango milkshake!! Yummy creamy satisfying milk shake!

2 cups honey dew melon cubed
1/2 cup mango ice cream (or mango pulp, with some chopped almonds / pista / cashews)
2 teaspoon sugar (If your melons are really sweet omit sugar)
1/2 cup milk

Method:
1. Put everything into a blender and pulse them until creamy and smooth. Done!