Dry Fig Juice

Ingredients

• • Fig (dry) - 50 grams
• • Jaggery (grated) - 50 grams
• • Cardamoms - 2
• • Lemon - 1
• • Ginger - ½ inch piece
• • Tulsi leaves - 1 teaspoon
• • Salt - ¼ teaspoon
• • Water - 500 milliliters

Method

• 1. Soak figs in 200 milliliter water for 2 or 3 hours.
• 2. Crush ginger and cardamom separately.
• 3. Grind Tulsi leaves with little water.
• 4. Grind soaked figs until smooth paste.
• 5. If it is very thick dilute with water and strain through a large eyed mesh strainer.
• 6. Mix little water to grated jaggery and keep in a reduced flame until jaggery is dissolved completely.
• 7. Dilute it with enough water add ground figs, crushed ginger, cardamom, salt, tulsi leaves and squeeze lemon juice to it.
• 8. Taste and adjust the water according to sweetness required.
• 9. Serve chilled.