Hot and fiery summer is here. It is equally important to have a refreshing break. Watermelon mint cooler is an excellent drink to quench your thirst. Chilled juice is great to cool you. You may also mix watermelon and lime juice for kids. You can also mix apple and blend it. Strain and serve. Serve it as mock-tail with plain soda for adults. Cold pressed watermelon juice recipe tastes best fresh and ice cold. This is a perfect recipe to cool your heels in the hot sun.All you need to have is a juicer and some mint leaves. If you want you can strain it and add some rock salt to it. Tastes great. You can see a lot of vendors selling watermelon juice in various cities of India.
Traditionally, there were no colas and soft drinks. Fruit juices and butter milk sold in small earthen cups or 'kulhad' continued to give a relief to travelers. Works better than colas even now. Healthy and tasty too. After all ,our body is a temple, if you want your gut issues resolved, one has to eat and drink healthier. Ensure the fruit is cut fresh in front of you, while having it outside. This saves you from germs.
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Benefits of watermelon
- Watermelon and mint is perfect to cool your system internally. It hydrates without giving you additional sugar shots.
- It is one of those fruits which has 91% water and only 6% sugar.
- Even rind is full of nutrients like zinc.
- It is very low in calories. You get only 30 kilo-cal when you have 100 gm of watermelon.
- Perfect for weight-loss.
Equipment
- Blender
- sieve
Ingredients
- de-seeded water melon cut into smaller pieces.
- Few sprigs of mint
- Pinch of Himalayan salt/rock salt
- Pinch of crushed pepper optional
- Dash of lemon
Instructions
- Add all ingredients in a blender.
- Pulse for 10-20 seconds.
- Filter using a sieve.
- Serve fresh chilled.
Variations
Other ways of having watermelon is in fruit chat, where different fruits are served together with a garnish of rock salt or black salt and some lime. I recently saw a Korean way of having watermelon. Soft serve ice cream served on watermelon slices. Although, I have not tried it yet but it certainly looks delicious.
Substitutions
You can also juice watermelon along with rind and add other fruits and vegetables to it. Apple, celery, lemon, ginger and navel oranges.
Storage
Store watermelon slices in a cling film when cut open. Always have your juice fresh.
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Watermelon mint cooler
Equipment
- Blender
- Sieve
Ingredients
- 1 de-seeded water melon cut into smaller pieces.
- Few sprigs of mint/5-7 mint leaves
- Pinch of Himalayan salt/rock salt
- Pinch of crushed pepper optional
- Dash of lemon
Instructions
- Add all ingredients in a blender.
- Pulse for 10-20 seconds.
- Filter using a sieve.
- Serve fresh chilled.
FAQs
It is full of zinc and helps give it a great flavor.
It is a diuretic.
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