SOL KADHI

Solkadhi is a refreshing, digestive tasty drink popular in Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka (Konkan Region). It is made from dried kokum fruit or kokum juice and coconut milk. Relish it as a drink or as a curry for rice.

Ingredients:

· Dried Kokum – 10-12

· Grated Coconut – 1.5 cup OR 1 to 1.5 cups thick coconut milk

· Garlic – 2 cloves

· Green chillies – 1-2

· Asafoetida (hing) – a pinch

· Sugar – a pinch

· Salt

· Water to adjust the consistency

· Coriander leaves

*****If you don't like the flavor of garlic you can replace it with cumin seeds (jeera) - 1 tsp.

Method:

· Soak the dried kokum in about ¾ cup water for 2-3 hours.

· Take a mixer jar, add grated coconut, garlic and chillies together with little water.

· Grind it and use a strainer to strain the milk. Now again grind the left-over dry coconut remains, extract the milk by adding little water.

· Repeat this process 2-3 times till all the 'milk' gets extracted from the coconut.

· Now add discard the kokum from the water and add the coconut milk mixture into the kokum water, mix well to get a pink coloured solkadhi.

· Add hing, sugar, salt and garnish with coriander leaves.

· You can refrigerate it and before serving stir the sol kadhi once.

****You can also use Kokum Juice which is easily available in many stores, instead of using the dried kokum. For this you can add crushed garlic and chillies in the cocconut milk mixed with kokum juice and other ingredients. Strain it while serving it.