Top Stevia-sweetened refreshing recipes for Father’s Day

The best gift you can give Dad on Father’s day this summer is his favourite drinks, smoothies and desserts even if he is diabetic. When it comes to preparing his favourite summer recipes, you can use stevia in practically anything that has sugar or a similar caloric sweetener like honey or maple syrup in it. It works well in drinks, smoothies, desserts, and even various sauces. Whether you decide to fully or partially replace the caloric sweetener in your recipes, you can keep the sweet tastes he love, but without all the calories.

Among the many strategies to consider for reducing added sugars in the diet is the use of natural sweeteners like Stevia. Plant based Stevia sweetener is natural, safe, zero Calorie, easy to work, sustainable and offers great taste for every taste bud.

Stevia can be part of a healthy lifestyle when it comes to looking for ways to reduce sugar and calories for your Father, says Sohan Singh, Technical Manager South Asia, PureCircle. Try these great tasting and refreshing summer recipes sweetened with Natural Sweetener Stevia at home to make his day special and refreshing.

Fruit Custard (No Added Sugar)
Sweetened with Natural Sweetener Stevia

Fruit custard made using custard powder and fruits.
Ingredient (1 Serving)
1. Custard Powder (1 Tablespoon)
2. Milk-250ml
3. Cold Milk (1 Tablespoon)
4. Sugar free green-9.5 scoop

Recipe
1. Combine custard powder and the cold milk in a small cup. Stir until smooth.
2. Place custard mixture, sugar free green and remaining milk in a small saucepan over medium-low heat
3. Stir constantly until custard comes to a boil and thickens. Simmer, stirring for 1 minute.
4. Keep the custard in the fridge to cool before adding the fruits
5. Chop the fruits, once the custard has cooled add the fruits and mix well
6. Serve garnished with some more fruits and pomegranate arils


Yogurt & Fruit Parfaits (No added sugar)
Sweetened with Natural Sweetener Stevia

Ingredient (1 Serving)
1. Muesli-5 Teaspoon(25g)
2. Yogurt-100g
3. Mango slice-2 slice
4. Pomegranate -half cup (25g)
5. Walnut- 4 pieces
6. Almond -2 pieces(broken)
7. Mint leaves- 2-4 leaves
8. Any other seasonal fruit e.g.- apple, pineapple, kiwi
9. sugar free green- 4 scoop

Recipe
1. Take a glass mug or a long glass.
2. Fill bottom of glass with muesli.
3. In a separate bowl take curd and add sugar free green. Mix them well.
4. Pour half of curd into the glass, and then add fruits.
5. Pour remaining curd in glass and then add dry fruits, and few more fruit.
6. Garnish with mint leaves.

Ginger Mint Lemonade (No Sugar Added)
Sweetened with Natural Sweetener Stevia

Ingredient (1 Serving)
1. Water 1cup (2000ml)
2. Lemon -1 tablespoon
3. Mint -15-20 leaves
4. Ginger- 1 teaspoon
5. Sugar free green 2 ½  scoops

Recipe
1. Take a cup of water in a pan and add 1 tsp fresh ginger.
2. Simmer for 10 minutes at low heat then keep aside and steep for another 30 minutes.
3. After 30 min strain the ginger extract in a bowl.
4. Lightly Crush mint leaves in another bowl with help of rolling pin or in pestle mortar.
5. Add lemon juice, ginger extract, sugar free green & remaining water (cold).
6. Mix all ingredients, remove mint leaves.
7. Pour the mixture into glasses and garnish with a slice of lemon.


MANGO LASSI (No Sugar Added)
Sweetened with Natural Sweetener Stevia

Ingredient
1. Mango pulp/mango slice-1cup (100g)
2. Curd-1/2 cup (50g)
3. Water-1cup (100g)
4. Cardamom powder-1 teaspoon (0.5g)
5. Sugar free green- 3 scoops
Recipe
1. Pour mango pulp in a blender and add curd, cardamom powder, water & sugar free green.
2. Blend it for 2 min or until it form a smooth blend.
3. Pour blend in a glass, garnish with few mango cube shape pieces.

Happy eating!