Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Ginger Lemonade




Ingredients

2 inches ginger, grated
3 tbsp lemon juice
1 cup sugar
4-5 cups water
2-3 lemon slices
mint leaves
ice cubes
kiwi or any fruit slice to decorate

Preparation

Combine the ginger and sugar with two cups of water in a pan. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring continuously until the sugar dissolves. Simmer for three minutes.
Strain the syrup with a tea strainer and set aside to cool.
Combine the syrup with two and a half cups of water. Add the lemon juice and stir well. Pour into individual tall glasses, add the ice cubes, lemon slices, mint leaves. Decorate the glass with kiwi or lemon slices and serve.

Sending this to Siri and Sara's Healing Food-Ginger and Garlic!

15 comments:

Shanthi Krishnakumar said...

Healthy and refreshing.

Kaveri Venkatesh said...

hai
Soothing ginger lemonade. Lovely blog. I would like to share an award which I received from Shilpi. Please collect it at my blog.

Shama Nagarajan said...

so refreshing dear

Chitra said...

Healthy drink. Perfect for summer ..

Indian Khana said...

Refreshing ....adding ginger a nice idea

Sushma said...

that luks so refreshing bookmarked

Tina said...

Refreshing drink...

Aruna Manikandan said...

looks very refreshing dear :)

Laavanya said...

Great combination - i love ginger and lemon together. Can't wait for the summer to try this.

Saji said...

Lovely summer drink

Unknown said...

looks yummy and delish dear...i wish i could have some!
Smitha
http://smithasspicyflavors.blogspot.com/

Siri said...

Almost summer vachesinatte undi Sharmi. yeh! can't wait for it. very refreshing drink :-)

Siri

aipi said...

This sounds amazing to me. I loooove ginger...and I can just imagine it all iced and cooling with the lemon. YUM!


US Masala

Pavithra Elangovan said...

WOw so refreshing.. absolutely love it.

Lakshmi ...Rasoi ki Malkin..northern and southern spices said...

Perfect and a good drink for evenings..