Chilled Watermelon Juice
Chilled watermelon blended with sweet lime, lime, honey and ginger, and a sprinkle of chaat masala makes this juice a good way to beat the heat of the Indian summer.
Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Total Time 30 minutes mins
Course drink
Cuisine global vegetarian
- half medium to large fresh water melon cut into chunks
- 1 sweet lime (musambi) juice of
- 1/2 lemon juice of
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 1/2 tsps fresh ginger juice
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp chaat masala (optional)
Put the chilled watermelon chunks and all the other ingredients into the blender jar and blend till smooth.
If you do not like the grainy texture of mixture, strain and serve. I prefer to keep it as it is. Do add sugar if you feel your watermelon isn't sweet enough. Pour into tall glasses and serve garnished with mint.
If you prefer ice in your cold drinks, adding ice to these watermelon coolers only dilutes them and makes them taste awful. Here are two suggestions to overcome this. You can pour out a couple of glasses of the watermelon concoction into ice trays and freeze them for use in these, instead of ice.
You can also chill the watermelon cooler in the freezer for about halfan hour to an hour till the top layer just freezes. Break this layer, mix and serve this slush-like mixture.