Recipe- Refreshing For Summers Pudina Sharbat

Pudina sharbat (adrak wala) or refreshing ginger mint drink – One of the simplest summer drinks but very very effective & delicious one too. Such pudina sharbat is so widely available in Northern India during summer, you can see a lot of street food vendors are selling those mint drinks but many of those vendors have their own specialty in such drinks to attract customers. Some vendors add extra flavor to this whereas some vendors make it extra spicy.

Ingredients

Mint leaves/pudina patta - ½ cup
Ginger/adrak - 1 inch
Lemon juice/nimbu - 3 tsp
sugar/ sakkar - ½ cup
Chaat masala - 3 tsp
Black salt/kaala namak - pinch of
Soda water - 300 ml
Plain water - 150 ml
Ice cubes - ½ cup

Method

- First, mash ginger and boil it in water for 6-7 minutes, then remove ginger from water, rest that boiled water for 5 minutes

- Add ice cubes to that ginger flavored water to make it cool, you can even keep it in refrigerator for cooling, wait for next 5-10 minutes

- Now add mint leaves, sugar and pour it into a mixie and blend it to make nice sweet aromatic water

- Then add chaat masala, black salt & lemon juice to that water and pour it into three glasses equally

- Now fill rest of the glasses with soda water and stir slowly to mix.