Amla lemon ginger squash | a drink made of Indian gooseberry lemon and ginger
This drink concentrate can be stored in refrigerator for three to four months. To prepare the drink, fill one third of glass with this concentrate, and then add water, Drink is ready. If you like you can use soda instead of water. You can add ice cubes and serve it chilled in summers.
Servings Prep Time
31 litre bottles 20minutes
Cook Time
10minutes
Servings Prep Time
31 litre bottles 20minutes
Cook Time
10minutes
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. In a grinder, add amla slices, and one or two tablespoons of water. Grind it into smooth paste. If all the slices cannot be grinded together, divide it into two parts, and grind. Use a sieve and drain out all the juice from the pulp. (See embedded video)
  2. In the same way extract juice from ginger slices as well.
  3. In a large vessel, take sugar, and add about half litre of water to it. Heat it so that sugar dissolves completely. Add amla juice and ginger juice to this solution, and allow it to simmer for a minute or two. Now switch off the gas.
  4. Extract lemon juice, and add it to the prepared solution. Also add black salt and roasted grounded cumin seeds. Mix everything properly. Allow the liquid to cool down.
  5. Take sterilized glass bottles. Pour the concentrated solution that we prepared, into these bottles. Close the lids tightly. Store these bottles in refrigerator.
  6. Fill one third of a glass with this concentrate. Add water and also ice cubes if required. Serve chilled, decorated with lemon rind and mint leaves.
Recipe Notes
  • Store the concentrate in clean bottles in refrigerator.
  • Adjust the quantity of sugar according to your taste.
  • In place of water you can add soda to the concentrate, and create a fizzy drink.
  • To increase flavor, you can add mint leaves to the drink too.

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