Recipe: Ranveer Brar's Paan Shots and Melon Salad

Celebrity Chef Ranveer Brar shares two recipes that can be prepared in under 30 minutes and require no cooking.

The Paan Shots have a great interplay of the flavours of betel leaves, gulkhand, coconut and cherries.

The fruity Melon Salad is from fresh, seasonal, local produce.

Paan Shots

Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 4 betel leaves
• 4 tbsp gulkand or rose petal jam, easily available in grocery stores or online
• 3 tsp saunf or fennel seeds
• 2 tsp desiccated coconut
• 2-3 glazed cherries
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 3 scoops vanilla ice cream
• 10 ice cubes
• Shot glasses to serve

Method

• Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend well.
  Transfer into a bowl and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  Pour into shot glasses and serve chilled.

Melon Salad

Serves: 4

Ingredients

For honey ginger dressing

• 1 tbsp honey
• ½ tsp ginger juice
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• ¼ tsp lemon zest

For the salad

• 1 cup cubed mangoes
• ¾ cup cubed kiwis
• 1 cup scooped (lemon-sized) musk melon
• 1 cup scooped (lemon-sized) watermelon
• Mint leaves, for the garnish

Method

For the dressing

• In a bowl combine the honey, lemon juice and zest, ginger juice and stir well.
• Mix all the cut and scooped fruits in a large bowl.
  Add the dressing and toss.
  Garnish with mint leaves and serve cold.

Ranveer Brar, celebrity chef and television personality, posts his recipes under the Instagram handle @ranveer.brar

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