Beverages Recipes for Tropical Fruits and Vegetables

Papaya Punch

    Unripened papaya with light green color can be used as a meat tenderizer, it is usually tasteless, it needs other ingredients to enhance its texture and flavor, for the more mature unripened orange color papaya, it looks and tastes almost similar like a carrot.


Date: Sept 3rd, 2017
Recipe: 01

Ingredients (2 portions):

300g Ripe papaya

100g Starfruit

100ml Coconut juice

5 Pitless dates

100 ml water

½ tbsp honey
4 Handful of ice

Method:
1. Boil the dates with water for 3 minutes, turn off heat, add 
    honey, let it cools down

2. In a Blendtec, mix everything together, add ice, blend

Roselle Tropical Punch 

   This is an alcoholic cheerful exotic punch, it will be great to serve your guests

under the summer sky.

Date: Sept 4th, 2017

Recipe: 10

Ingredients (24 portions):

750ml Chilled Champagne

4 liters Chilled sparkling water mixed with Roselle 

Cordial  (Prepare the Roselle cordial reduction concentrate 

by using roselle petals, vanilla  extract, sugar, and water)

150g Roselle reduction  jelly, brunoise, chilled

150g Pandan reduction  jelly, brunoise, chilled

150g Logan jelly, brunoise (Prepared by blending Logan, use the 

sieved juice to make jelly), chilled

150g Cooked sago/tapioca seeds, chilled

2 liters Coconut juice ice, shave 

Method:

1. Combine all the ingredients

2. Serve immediately

Soursop Tea

 
    Soursop is considered as one of the strongest natural antibiotics, its property is mainly hidden in its leaves. Its leaves is full of minerals and vitamins, the research said that it is also a natural chemo to cure cancer.  

        I saw many people showed in Facebook the incorrect way of how they prepared the soursop tea, which would not be as effective.

 
    The following method was how I used sour-sop leaves to cure my flu and other health problems miraculously, I consider it as a miracle tea. If you experience a sudden sore throat, prepare this tea, drink it throughout the day for two days, by the third day, you should recover fully. If you drink it once a week, your periodic migraine may not come bother you anymore. If you discover breast lump fast enough, if you persist on drinking it for 7 days, on the first three days, combine 50 sour-sop leaves daily with aloe vera, and by the seventh day, the lump should be gone.
  
     However, I was born stronger and healthier than anyone, if your sickness persists for a long time without much improvement due to you use Chinese medicine or herbs, I advise you visit an experienced western trained doctor as soon as possible.

Date: Sept 3rd, 2017 

    Recipe: 04

 

Ingredients (A pot of tea):

20 Sour-sop leaves

1.5 liter Water

1/2 Unripe sour-sop fruit, with skin, chop into smaller pieces,
optional
3 tbsp Honey, optional

  

    Method:

1.   Blend the sour-sop leaves with water

2.   In a pot, blended soursop leaves and water with chopped 

      soursop fruit

3.   Have a quick boil, turn to simmer for 15 minutes, turn off fire, 

      add honey  (optional) let the residue heat cook for another 

      15 minutes

4.   Sieve and reheat before serving

Sparkling Lemonade

   A most impressive picture for me when I visited Kiwi people's houses was almost all of them planted at least a lemon tree or other kind of citric fruit tree outside their house, this made me recalling how similarly Sarawakiens would plant at least a calamansi lime at home, but I saw rather a disturbance excessive rotten Kiwis' lemon or grapefruits dropping on the ground usually had turned into the compost instead. Most Kiwis people won't realize if they go to a supermarket to buy a lemon it may cost 50 cents, and in Malaysia, an Australian imported lemon may cost up to a dollar.

   Due to imported lemon cost a lot, but the kopitiam that I frequently went in the morning for breakfast always put excessive lemon slices into the lemon tea that customers ordered, I asked the owner why he was so generous, he told me bluntly, "Oh, I bought only expired lemons!"

   Parents usually would spend their money to buy expensive soda for their children instead of preparing homemade cordial drinks. They would only use lemon when they experience a sore throat to prepare honey lemon tea!

   Why I included this sparkling lemonade in this 99 recipe? Story dated back due to recently a friend wanted to organize an impressive party and she wondered what kind of non-alcoholic drink should be served. So I suggested her this sparkling lemonade that infused with pure lemon aroma yet people can't tell how to get such extra lemon fragrance.


Date: Sept 4th, 2017
Recipe: 05

 

Ingredients (4 portions):

2 Lemon, juice
200ml Water
1 Tsp of Lemon zest
2 handful of lemongrass, blend with water
6 Tbsp Sugar
1 Big bottle of Sparkling water
1 slice Ginger, smashed (optional)

Ice cubes

 

Method:
1.  Boil and simmer water with crushed lemongrass and lemon zest,
     reduce to half
2.  Sieve and reheat the liquid with sugar, thicken the lemongrass syrup
     but don't caramelize it. Let it cools down.
3.  According to your sweetness preference, mix lemongrass syrup,
     lemon juice, sparkling water, and ice.

 

 "Headhunter" 

   This imaginary cocktail drink was derived from the real Borneo Island headhunters of how once they used to hunt human skulls, they would pour the rice wine into a freshly "harvested" human skull, then directly drank the dripping bloody rice wine from the base of such skull. Well, it's nothing disgusting, do you like to eat sashimi, the bloody uncooked fish with a "cup" of Japanese sake? Maybe the human blood with rice wine tasted even better for those headhunters.


Date: Sept 18th, 2017
Recipe: 28


Ingredients (1 portion of 250ml Cocktail glass):
25ml Watermelon juice
25ml Red Dragonfruit juice and 5 Macedoine dragonfruit
25ml Tomato juice
25ml Roselle cordial
1 Stalk Lemongrass straw
50ml Lemon juice
1 tbsp Icing sugar
One shot Shochu, 25ml

30ml Oolong tea, chill or sparkling water

50ml Pandan cordial jelly

30g Mixture of pineapple, watermelon & Honeydew balls, use melon baller

Shaved coconut juice ice 

A piece of papaya cut in shape of skull, pineapple or starfruit, garnishing

A pinch of fine salt

1 pinch of cayenne

1 pinch toasted ground black pepper

 Method:

1. Using a lemongrass stem to make a straw by removing its

    center stem.  Soak in lemon juice mixed with icing sugar

2. Mix watermelon juice, Roselle cordial with dragonfruit juice 

    and its fruit cubes in a cocktail grass. Freeze.

3. On the freeze mixed fruit juice, pour the pandan jelly, it will

    freeze instantly. 

4. Wait until the bottom is half-melting, dust the lemongrass 

    straw with icing sugar, insert the lemongrass straw through

    the jelly into the mixed juice.

5. Fill the top of jelly with mixed fruit balls

6. Pour in the mix of Oolong tea/sparkling water and Shochu

7. Fill some shaved coconut juice ice

8. Garnishing with a piece of papaya, pineapple or starfruit 

    dusted with salt, black pepper, and cayenne

Pandan Cordial

   Obviously, Thai chefs explored pandan more than other chefs in other S.E. Asian countries, until recent years through the economic airlines and internet, pandan's popularity and different cookery method has been widely developed not just in desserts but in main and entree.

   Pandan is a herb because it helps gout's problem, but it is also a spice due to it smells so good, it is an Asian version of vanilla.

Date: Sept 22nd, 2017

Recipe: 38

Ingredients:
100g Sugar
300g Pandan leaves
1 tsp Lemon juice
1/s tsp Vanilla extract
300ml Water


Method:
1. Blend the pandan leaves with water and lemon juice.
    Sieve twice.
2. Melt the sugar with some water over a pot, boil the
    sugar until just turning a little color, add the pandan
    juice immediately.
3. Add vanilla extract, boil the pandan cordial once.
4. Serve immediately by mixing with coconut juice and
    coconut juice shaved ice or sparkling water and ice.

Fragrance Mint Tea

   Mint would come last in my thought during food preparation unless I was cooking Thai, Vietnamese food, preparing sauce for roast lamb or garnishing a dessert.  When they have grown lushly in my little garden patch now and greeted me every day, it finally inspired me to prepare mint tea for my Beijing visitor this afternoon.

Date: Sept 24th, 2017

Recipe: 43

Ingredients:

2 handful Mint sprigs

1 handful Red jujube, get rid of pits

1 Pandan leaf

1 liter water

2 tbsp Honey

Method:

1. Blend mint sprigs, pandan leaf, jujube with water.

2. Boil then simmer. Add honey.

3. Pour the tea into a stainless steel French press pot

    filter coffee plunger.

4. Drink with canapes.