Lemon juice with Pudina

Recently I visited a friend who served me this  juice  and it was so nice especially in the Bangalore summer in April. Now that it is Summer in US I thought it will be useful to  blog this recipe. I am preparing this  juice regularly at home ,  as it is always  summer and rains in KL.

Ingredients :

1. Lime or Normal Lemon  2   ( what we call 'elumichampalam' in tamil and nimbu in hindi )   
2. Pudina or Mint leaves a small bunch.
3. Sugar  4 to 6 Table Spoons.
4. Ginger one small bit.
5. Salt little.

 Method:

Wash the Pudina nicely and take out each leaves without the stalk .  add the ginger and grind these leaves  with water  in the Mixer.

Take a strainer and strain the juice.  Once again put the leaves left in the strainer   in the mixer,   add water and grind it once again.  Strain it once again.  Add little salt to this and  keep this pudina juice  in a container in the Fridge.

Take out the juice from the two Limes.  ( I had to give so much explanation for the lime part as in US Lime  and Lemon are distinctly different varieties and  I never remember which one is which.... I use the round lime here not the linear one) Remove the seeds.  Use the strainer to take out the juice so that the seeds are left on the strainer.   add little salt.

Boil or Heat  a cup of water in the micro wave and add it to sugar in a different vessel and stir.    I add boiling or hot   water because the sugar dissolves in a jiffy ,  if you just stir.  Cool it and add  this to the lemon juice.  This you can make to about 4 to 6 cups depending on the lemon you are using.

  

What I do in addition  (which my friend did not do)  is take one stalk from the Aloe Vera plant in my garden remove the skin.   You get a jelly like thing which is almost colourless.  Clean this thoroughly about 3 to 4 times in water.  Cut these into small bits and add it to the lemon  juice.  Keep this juice also in the fridge.

While serving Take  two or three  table spoons of   pudina juice and add this to a glass of lemon juice with Aloe Vera and   serve or drink .   It is  refreshing just before meals or even in between meals.

This should be taken fresh.  I keep  Lime juice in the fridge for 2 days and the pudhina juice in fridge  for 3 days