KOKUM/ BINDA/ PUNARPULI JUICE easy to make, great to health

KOKUM/ BINDA/ PUNARPULI JUICE easy to make, great to health

Kokum juice is very popular in South India all through the year especially during summer. As tempting as it looks, it is very cooling to the body. It helps in preventing dehydration and sunstroke in hot summer. In South India many herbal stores (granthike shops) sell dried skins of kokum.

It is said that Kokum aids weight loss, relieves indigestion, constipation, acidity and flatulence. This juice is very easy to make. After eating the fruit, preserve the skins by drying in the sun light which have a shelf life of more than a year.  

            

                               Kokum Whole Fruit                                   

 The edible part inside        

Kokum skin  when fresh     

 Skin when dried

You Need

6-8 pieces of dried kokum skins

2 glasses of water

Sugar as per your taste

Salt – a pinch (black salt tastes better

¼ tsp cardamom powder (optional)

Pinch of pepper powder (optional)

1.    Wash the dried skins of kokum and soak in water for a minimum of half an hour or more in half a glass of water.

2.    Squeeze out the juice from the soaked skins changing the water twice.

3.    Sieve the squeezed juice in to a vessel and add sugar, salt and pepper and cardamom powder.

4.    Stir well and serve.

Tip:

·     You can soak the skins and squeeze out the juice whenever you are free. Store the juice in a clean glass jar/steel vessel in the refrigerator. Just before serving add the other things.

·        Fried and powdered cumin/jeera also tastes good if you don’t like pepper/cardamom flavour/taste.

     If you have kokum dry skins at home, you may also like to try  this easy rasam KOKUM/ BINDA/ PUNARPULI RASAM