hello, food lovers greetings 🙏 Now here is summer and today is quite a hot day. thinking about something refreshing and I remember a Long time back I made a refreshing drink for the @qurator contest the cucumber drink. Today making some changes. It is very popular in the summer season and very refreshing after tiredness. It is known as (Khire ka Sarbat in the Indian language) Indian summer is very hot and has lots of humidity in the air so need some drink to hydrate the body and cooling of the soul. we also use some spices in drinks in the hot summer because the body needs to maintain balance. earlier I wrote one post about the health benefits of cucumber.
my cucumber lime mint sarbat.
The ingredients:
1 medium-sized cucumber
1/2 cup of fresh mint
1 lemon 1/2 frozen and half juiced
25 grams sugar cane jaggery
2 pinches of roasted cumin seed powder
2 pinches of roasted fennel seeds powder
2 pinches of salt,
1 pinch of black salt
2 pinches of dry raw mango powder
1 tbsp basil seed. (tulsi seed)
1 tbsp dried mint leaves
1/2 tbsp sugar
1-2 tbsp pomegranate kernel.
very small piece of fresh ginger
4 ice cubs of mint water
Make jaggery syrup by adding 1/2 cup of water to around 25- grams of jaggery
and cook it until the jaggery dissolves.
Filter it and keep it aside.
Roast fennel seed and cumin seed on low heat and make powder of it.
Soak tulsi seeds in 1/4 cup of water.
Grete frozen lemon with peel.
Wash and half-peel and slice the cucumber. for natural color save some peel.
Here all things are ready to mix or blend.
In the mixer place cucumber pieces, ginger and mint leaves. (save some mint and a few cucumber slices for garnish). and blend it finely with ginger add cumin and fennel powder, salt, black salt dried mango powder. Make a fine paste.
Strain the mixture. add ice cubes and. the cucumber drink is ready.
Rim the glass: crush the dry mint leaves mix little sugar and a pinch of salt in. dip the glass in the syrup pan and then in the dry mint mixture.
Before serving add tulsi seeds to the drink and pour it rimmed glass and garnish with cucumber slice and pomegranate with mint top.
here is the refreshing cucumber drink ready. for summer days like this, it is antioxidizing, hydrating, cooling, and refreshing healthy drink.
Thank you.