Mixed Fruit Smoothie

An experi-mental, nutritious, cooling smoothie which is a delight on the palate especially for summer with the sun scorching down on you!! Why should there be only mixed fruit juices...why not a mixed fruit smoothie?? Summer for me means spring colours, scent of the various flowers, strong smelling champa ( here I show you two varieties),  the smell of raw mango, the jars being replenished with freshly made pickles.......the list goes on. At this point I cannot help but think of Kashmir where so many songs have been shot in the spring season, that  reminds me of an eternal song sung by the great Mohammad Rafi saab, it goes ....Aap aaaaaye bahaar aaaaayyeeeee .... o..o..oooo..oo....picturised on the Jubilee Kumar, Rajendra Kumar and the eternal beauty Sadhana. Being a  B ollywood crazy person I will link anything to films and get happy about it!! Ok....., so now for the recipe

Ingredients

Pieces of half an Alphonso mango
Pieces of 1 peeled chikoo
 Pieces of 1 ripe banana 
5 walnuts
1/2 a litre of skimmed milk

3 tspns of sweet basil seeds/ sabja seeds to be added later

Method

in a blender mix all the ingredients except the basil seeds to a smooth paste adding milk slowly, transfer into a bowl add the seeds and chill the smoothie, in the meanwhile the seeds have enough time to swell up too. Serve chilled on a sultry afternoon as a mid day refresher.