Recipe for a Ramadan Special Cooler Drink ‘Jhil-Mil’

 

Ingredients

• 200 gms Dates(with Seeds)
• 2 Cups Water(For soakingthe Dates)
• 150 gms Fresh grated Coconut
• 450 ml room temperature water(For extracting the Coconut Milk)
• 6-7 strands of Saffron(soaked in 1 tspn Lukewarm water for 15-20 minutes)
• 1 Tbspn Sabja(Soaked in ½cup room temperature water for 1 hr)
• 15 gms Sugarcane Jaggery
• ½ Tspn Green Cardamom Powder
• 4-5 Pistachios(chopped fine)
• 1 Tbspn Pomegranate seed

• Instructions

  •  De-seed the Dates and keep aside
  •  In a vessel, bring 2 cups of water to a boil and turn the gas flame off
  • Add the de-seeded Dates,Cardamom Powder & Jaggery into the hot water and keep aside to cool.
  • Once the Date Mixture has come down to room temperature, blend the Date mixture into a smooth runny paste.
  • Place a fine Net strainer or Muslin cloth over a vessel and transfer the Date paste into the strainer.
  • Strain this mixture into the same vessel used for soaking the dates
  • In the same mixer Jar, add the fresh grated coconut and 200 ml water, extract thick Coconut milk and using the same fine net strainer, strain the Coconut Milk into the same bowl in which the date mixture in strained
  •  After extracting the Coconut Milk, add the coconut remains back into the mixer jar. Add 250ml water and extract Thin coconut milk and follow the same procedure(you have to extracts Coconut Milk twice, basically)
  •  After extracting the Coconut Milk, add the coconut remains back into the mixer jar. Add 250ml water and extract Thin coconut milk and follow the same procedure(you have to extracts Coconut Milk twice, basically)
  • Add the Saffron water,soaked Sabja seeds, chopped Pistachios and Pomegranate seeds and give it a gentle stir
  • • Tuck the bowl into the refrigerator until chilled. You can add some Ice cubes if you wish
    • Once nice and chilled, Our Jhil-Mil cooler is ready to be served