Make your Summer Favourite Drink with these Easy Steps

Remember our grandmothers making a chilled glass of shikanji after our time out in the sun? Not just a much needed respite, shikanji works wonders for our bodies.

However, if you have been lately experiencing heat flashes, mushy bowel movements and difficulty falling asleep, then your pitta composition may be disturbed, which is why a soothing concoction like basil shikanji can do the trick, explains blogger and YouTuber and “aspiring Ayurvedic chef” Amrita Kaur on an Instagram post.

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“Basil Shikanji – Here’s another #CalmThatPitta recipe for you all,” she captioned the post.

Here's an all-natural way to prepare it:

Beat the heat with this all-time summer favourite drink.The good-old shikanji can come to your rescue to tide over the summer heat. Follow these steps:

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Ingredients Required:

Lemon juice

1/4tsp – Rock salt

Few basil leaves

Matka cold water

Mishri for sweetener

Pinch of roasted cumin powder

Pinch of fennel powder

Method:

Take out the juice of a lemon in a glass. Added 1/4 tsp rock salt. Mix it well until salt dissolves completely in the lemon juice.

In addition,Take basil leaves.

Furthermore, add matka cold water, mishri as a sweetener followed by a pinch of roasted cumin powder and fennel powder.

Pro tips:

*Mixing lemon juice with rock salt helps in reducing the sharpness of lemon which helps cool the body effectively.

*While Kaur used Italian basil leaves, one can use Thai ones or tulsi or mint.

Would you try it out today?

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