Magical Iced Beverage (Non-Alcoholic)

Submitted by COOKGIRl

"A Middle Eastern-flavored iced beverage from a local source. Shhh!! You have my blessing to play with the ingredient amounts as you please."

 

• Ready In: 10mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 5 cups

ingredients

• Beverage

• 4 cups tamarind juice (recipe below)
• 1⁄2 cup fresh lemon juice
• filtered water
• tamarind syrup
• 2 teaspoons rose water
• 2 teaspoons orange blossom water
• 1 teaspoon pomegranate syrup
• honey, to taste (superfine sugar or agave nectar)

• Garnish

• ice cube
• lemon slices (we like both) or orange slice (we like both)
• fresh mint leaves

directions

1. To make tamarind juice: for every 1 cup of water add 2-3 tablespoons tamarind syrup. Tamarind syrup is available at Middle Eastern and Indian/Asian stores. The ratio on the bottle I have in the pantry is 3/4 cup water to 1/4 cup tamarind syrup. Adjust amount to your preference.
2. Mix beverage ingredients together in a pretty pitcher and chill.
3. Serve over ice with lemon/orange slices and fresh mint for garnish.
4. Add more sweetener if necessary.

Reviews

[Baby Kato]

Wow, was this good. It is so very refreshing. I love that you can taste all the tropical flavors, the tamarind, rosewater, orange blossom water and pomegranate molasses. I made my own tamarind simple syrup to use in this wonderful drink, I also used Wildflower honey. So very happy that I tried this lovely treat. Thank you for sharing my friend. Made for Beverage Anyone Tag Game.

 

[Muffin Goddess]

So refreshing! I may have added a bit too much Mexichef tamarind concentrate to the tamarind juice (I didn't have tamarind syrup), so this came out pretty tart, but I just added more agave syrup to sweeten it. I really liked how subtle the rosewater was, because I found that I don't care for things that taste too strongly of rosewater. I"ll definitely be making this again, thanks for posting :)! Made for The Queens of Quisine for ZWT6 NA*ME (Sand and Spices Challenge)

 

[sjkotylak]

Well after a trip to the Middle Eastern grocery and finding all the ingredients, this has been made! It doesn't taste like anything I've ever had before and I love it! My boyfriend says it's great - kinda like weird and wonderful iced tea... Made for ZWT #6!

 

[evelynathens]

So refreshing - lovely, bright and aromatic. My Syrian brother-in-law supplied me with the tamarind syrup and it was go from there. Made up a pitcher and filled it with ice and had it with our dinner. It's fruity, sweet, floral and VERY refreshing. Thanks for such a great recipe!

 

[UmmBinat]

Absolutely delicious. I made this with tamarind paste with the seeds in rather than tamarind syrup as that is what I had on hand and I just mixed and strained it to taste in spring water. I added a bit of extra orange blossom water as I love it. I used regular white sugar to sweeten. Made for April 2010 FLAVOR of the Month - Tamarind!