Chicken A La King

Ingredients
3 cups cooked chicken or turkey, chopped
1/2 cup green pepper, chopped
1/4 cup onion, chopped
1/2 cup celery, chopped
1 jar (2 oz.) pimento (or chopped red bell pepper)
1 can (4 oz.) mushrooms pieces, drained
2 cans (5 oz. cans) cream of chicken soup
1 package (10 oz.) frozen peas

Method
Combine all ingredients except peas in crockpot.
Stir well.
Cover and cook on low 6 to 7 hours.
One hour before serving, turn to high and add peas.

Watermelon Slush

Ingredients:
4 cups - chopped watermelon, deseeded
1/4 tsp - vanilla essence
1 glass - water
14 to 15 - crushed ice cubes
1/2 tsp - salt

Method:
Blend watermelon, sugar, salt into pulp.
Chill the pulp till half set.
Just before serving - in a blender add pulp, essence and water.
Add 5-6 crushed ice-cubes.
Blend very lightly till slushy.
Fill 1/2 the glasses with the remaining crushed ice.
Pour the slushy mixture in the glasses.
Stir it.
Use wide straw for serving

Plum Squash

Ingredients:
1 litre - plum juice
¾ kg - sugar
750 ml - water
2 tbsp - lemon juice
1 tsp - plum essence
few drops - red colour
few - fresh mint leaves (to garnish)

Method:
Wash the plums and cook in a pressure cooker till 2 whistles.
Peel off the skin and deseed.
Extract the juice and measure it.
Keep the juice in the fridge.
Accordingly make a sugar syrup by mixing the sugar and water.
Boil in a heavybottomed steel vessel.
After a boil add 2 tbsp lemon juice and continue boiling till 2 more boils.
Remove from gas and cool completely.
Strain the syrup and add the plum juice, essence and colour.
Mix well.
Store in dry sterilised bottles and keep it in the fridge.

To Serve:

In a tall glass pour 3-4 tbsp plum squash and add sufficient water and crushed ice.
Garnish with finely chopped mint leaves and serve chilled.

Orange Sharbat

Ingredients:
1 litre - juice of oranges (app 3 dozen small oranges)
1 litre - water
11/2 - sugar
2 tsp - orange essence
juice of 4 lemons
juice of 2 lemons (to spoon off the dirt)

Method:
Remove the orange juice, strain and keep in an airtight container in the fridge.
Boil the water along with the sugar.
Boil till the sugar dissolves completely.
Add juice of 2 lemons and mix well. Give 2 to 3 boils.
Remove from gas and cool completely. Strain.
Add the kept aside orange juice, orange essence and juice of 4 lemons. Mix well.
Store in dry airtight sterilised bottles.

Lemony Salad

Ingredients:
2 cups chicken pieces
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 tomato, chopped
2 capsicum, chopped
1/4 cup grated cheese
1 cup bread croutons
1/2 cup Caesar salad dressing
1/2 cup whip cream
2 cups shredded lettuce leaves
1 cup chopped spring onion

Method:

Marinate chicken pieces with lemon, pepper and salt

Refrigerate for 1 hour

Saute in a pan till cooked, cool

Mix dressing and whipped cream, till smooth

In a salad bowl, mix all the remaining ingredients

Add chicken pieces

Pour dressing

Toss it well

Serve