Let's refresh our summer in a natural way! How? Preparing something refreshing, fresh and tasty at home, based on seasonal fruit
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousLet's freshen up our summer in a natural way! How? Preparing something refreshing, fresh and tasty at home, based on seasonal fruit.
Here are some tips for the homemade preparation of ice creams, popsicles, smoothies, slushes and natural drinks, useful for quenching the heat and thirst during the hottest days.
Gelato
Ice cream can be made at home with or without ice cream maker, traditional version or vegan. In vegetable ice cream, cream and cow's milk are replaced by vegetable almond, rice or soy drinks and by the respective preparations for whipping cream or vegan cooking cream in the various versions available on the market. The most refreshing ice creams are the fruit ones and, not surprisingly, summer offers us plenty of them.
Icicles
Prepare gods natural icicles in the house it is very simple. All you need is fresh fruit, freshly squeezed fruit juices, water and traditional or vegetable yogurt. The combinations are infinite and the fruit it can be blended or cut into slices to insert in the popsicles, creating a beautiful decorative effect.
Icicle cocktail
Have you ever thought you could transform yours fruit cocktail real favorites icicles? Again the possibilities are numerous. The blog EthicMe presents five of them, among which we find the limoncello popsicle, the green or red margarita popsicle and the peach and bourbon flavored popsicle.
Ginger drink
Lo ginger in winter it is precious to protect us from coughs and colds, but let's not forget to use it also in summer. It is in fact the basic ingredient for the preparation of a refreshing drink, the "ginger drink". To prepare it, all you need is a piece of fresh ginger, water and lemon juice.
Lemon granita
In summer there is nothing better than a homemade lemon granita, with organic lemon juice. The preparation is very simple, you will need lemon juice, water and raw cane sugar. You will find the recipe to follow step by step in this article.
coffee freddo
How to enjoy cold coffee? If you love the taste of coffee, here it is three refreshing alternatives: the coffee granita, the coffee cremolato and shaken coffee. Prepare the shaken coffee it's very simple: just put coffee, ice and brown sugar in the shaker, shake, and it's done. To prepare the Coffee slush, mix cold coffee with a sweetener of your choice and place it in the freezer in a small glass, stirring occasionally, until the granita has reached the desired consistency.
Smoothies
Prepare your smoothies from fresh seasonal fruit, adding simple water, freshly squeezed fruit juices or vegetable drinks. For an even more refreshing effect, prepare them in style milkshake, with frozen fruit or with the addition of ice cubes. For even healthier smoothies, you can add some fruit to the fruit vegetables, for example spinach or lettuce leaves.
Cold vegetable milk
Plant-based milk can be enjoyed cold like refreshing drink, at breakfast or as a snack, or it can be used as an ingredient for the preparation of smoothies. There are several variants of vegetable milk. We offer you the recipes to prepare soy milk, rice milk and hemp milk at home. Prefer organic ingredients for their preparation.
Read also:
- How to make soy milk at home
- How to make rice milk at home
- Organic hemp milk: how to prepare it at home
Cold tea
Avoid buying powdered preparations for making iced tea. They may contain dyes, preservatives and excess sugars. There home preparation iced tea is very simple. If you want to sweeten it, alternatives to white sugar can be: whole cane sugar, rice malt, stevia or organic honey. An alternative to tea is le herbal teas of herbs, flowers or fruit, to be eaten cold.
Mellone frost
The gelo di mellone is a typical Sicilian preparation based on watermelon. To garnish, cinnamon sticks, jasmine flowers and dark chocolate are used. To sweeten the preparation of the frost it is possible to use whole cane sugar, adjusting the quantities according to the taste of the watermelon.
Marta Albè