Summers are here! I have always loved summers since childhood. It meant vacations, friends, lots of playing around in the garden and lots of nice interesting things to drink! So, I thought how about a drink which is healthy and tasty and at the same time has a gentle hint of intoxication? Sounded like a great idea. You can make this drink easily in your home with easily available ingredients in your kitchen.
It’s a Pro-Biotic Carrot drink also called Kanji. It’s an Indian version of health porn :P
It’s an awfully enjoyable drink to sip along that book or the tv show your binging on these days. Imagine getting healthier while being a couch potato! What more can you ask for :-D
Ingredients
Black Carrots 250 grams, (you can use normal carrot or mangori etc in place of black carrot). However, black carrot gives the preparation an excellent purple colour making the drink very attractive.
1 tsp common salt
½ tsp red chillies powder
½ tsp black pepper powder
½ tsp black salt
1 tsp yellow mustard (Rai)
1 ltr Water
The Recipe
Boil the water and keep it separate to cool in a glass jar.
Ground the mustard to a fine powder (you can also use mustard powder available in market)
Clean and cut black carrots in to small pieces.
Mix mustard powder, common salt, black salt and chili powder or black pepper in a bowl.
Once the water cools down, add the above powdered mixture in water and add cut black carrots in the mixture.
Keep it in direct sunlight for 2 days.
Then Keep it indoors for 1 day.
Do not forget to stir this solution every day in the evening for the 3 days of storing in the sun and indoors combined
Finally once again keep in sunlight for an hour before bottling the whole solution.
Store in an airtight broad mouthed glass bottle. Do NOT use plastic or metal.
Shake well before every use. Every glass of drink can have 2-3 pieces of carrot.
If you keep it outside it has a shelf life of 1 week. If you refrigerate the drink it will have a shelf life 20 days.
A drink of this a day is quite a healthy habit.You have this exotic Pro-biotic drink ready for you to savor along with your meals. Also It’s exotic enough to serve to your guests.
We hope you enjoyed the recipe as much as we enjoyed making it. If you wish to know anything about Indian recipes do mention in the comments and we will be happy to share the same with you.
