Sol Kadi/Solam Kodi Recipe
Sol Kadi/Solam Kodi Recipe
This post is specially dedicated to my Handsome Husband, FLoyd and Beautiful Sister In law, Sophie.Till date, I've never come across anyone who gets crazier than these two monkeys upon seeing this drink! hahaAnd with their madness, they've managed to rope me into going gaga over this drink too!!Healthy, cooling on the tummy & super delish 🙂 🙂P.S. The elders say that this drink is very good for digestion.
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 250 gms Grated coconut (1 Medium sized coconut)
- 12 Solam (kokum)
- 1 Spicy Green Chilly
- 1 inch Ginger
- 2 small Garlic cloves
- 1 tspn Cumin Seeds (jeera)
- 1/2 cup Fresh Coriander (Chopped fine)
- 1/2 tsp Black/PInk Salt (Or Table Salt)
- 1/2 cup Hot Water
- 1 cup Room Temperature Water (This is for grinding. You may need more or less)
Instructions
- Soak the Kokum/Solam in the Hot water for about 10 minutes. Try and extract maximum juice from this so that we get a nice pink colour at the end
- In a mixer jar, add the grated coconut,chilly,garlic,ginger and cumin seeds. Add some water and grind these ingredients together.
- In a bowl, Extract the juice of this mixture twice by either using a muslin cloth or a fine flour strainer
- Add the salt and the juice of the kokum/solam to this extracted juice. Please Do not add all the kokum juice at once. Add little by little and taste and check how much you require.
- Mix it well
- Garnish with fresh chopped coriander
- Cover the bowl and place it in the refrigerator till nice and chilled.
- Enjoy this drink nice and chilled after your meals
- You can also have this drink at room temperature, either way, tastes yummm!!
- You can also enjoy your Sol Kadi/Solam kodi with hot rice!Enjoy 🙂 🙂