Panakam recipe
Paanagam or Panakam is a sweet healthy jaggery based drink traditionally made on Sri Rama Navami occasion.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Jaggery crushed
- 2 Cardamoms crushed or powdered
- 1 tsp dry ginger powder / Sonth
- Lemon juice from one lemon
- 2 cup Water
- 1 tsp Black Salt
- 1/8 tsp Black pepper
- ice cubes
Instructions
- Add jaggery in water and leave it untill the jaggery is dissolved.
- Strain the jaggery water to remove unwanted particles.
- Add rest of the ingredients mentioned herein above and mix well.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning, if needed.
- Serve chilled by adding ice cubes.
Notes
- If you don't have ginger powder/Sonth, go for fresh ginger juice of same quantity.
- As we had ample of time between preparing and serving Paanagam, so we took water at room temperature to soak jaggery because jaggery takes much time in dissolving in cold water. But if you are short of time, take cold water to soak jaggery.
- Alternatively you can soak jaggery in less amount of water on room temperature and then add cold water later when the jaggery is dissolved. Choice is yours. Only requirement is that Paanagam should be chilled while serving.