Mogra Sharbat Recipe | Refreshing Jasmine (Motia) Drink for Summer
Mogra Sharbat Recipe is a fragrant summer drink made by infusing fresh jasmine flowers with sugar syrup and chilled water.
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
FOR MAKING CONCENTRATE
- 50 gram Mogra/Motia/Jasmine flower (about 1.5 cup)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 4 green cardamoms
FOR SERVING (1 GLASS)
- 1/4 part Mongra concentrate
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 3/4 part water chilled
- Ice cubes
Instructions
- Wash mogra very well. You may remove the green part of it, if you want. We are making the sharbat with the greens intact.
MAKING OF CONCENTRATE
- Add water and sugar in a pan.
- Let it come to roll boil. Discard any impurities if visible floating over the surface of water.
- Add green cardamoms and Mongra. Mix well.
- Just one boil.
- Remove the pan from the heat.
- Put a lid and leave it soaked from overnight to 24 hours.
- After the said period, strain the liquid.
- This is mogra concentrate.
MAKING OF DRINK
- Take a service glass and add 1/4 part of mogra concentrate.
- Also add lemon juice.
- Fill the rest of the glass with chilled water & ice cubes.
- Serve chilled.
Notes
- Take the organic flowers which are free from any cent or spray.
- This is purely a personal choice to remove stem (green part) of the flowers. With green part, syrup becomes more strong so left them intact.
- There's no requirement of making a sugar syrup of any consistency, like one or two string. Just a normal sugar syrup.
- Soak the flowers in sugar syrup for minimum overnight to 24 hours at the maximum for strong flavours.
- During the resting time (overnight or 24 hours), no need of keeping the syrup in refrigerator.
- Mogra concentrate can be stored in refrigerator for 2 to 3 weeks, as it has no preservatives.
- To enhance the life of mogra concentrate upto 5 or 6 weeks, add a pinch of citric acid or 1/4 tsp of lemon juice whike the syrup is boiling. These (any of) ingredients will work as a preservative.