Sol Kadhi
a digestive drink made with kokum, coconut milk and spices.
Servings 4
Ingredients
- ½ cup kokum
- 1 cup fresh coconut (grated)
- 1 to 2 green chilly
- 2 cloves garlic
- a small piece of beetroot (optional)
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves
- Salt as per taste
Instructions
- Soak the kokum pods in 1 cup of warm water for 30 minutes to an hour.
- Mash and squeeze the soaked kokum to extract juice.
- Pass it through a strainer and discard the kokum from the water
- Keep the kokum water aside.
- Grind the grated coconut, garlic,green chillies, beetroot with half a cup of water in a mixer, to make a smooth paste.
- Squeeze the coconut milk from this paste and keep aside.
- Add around ½ a cup of water to the dry remains and run the mixer again. Extract the milk again.
- This process can be repeated till all the milk is extracted from the coconut.
- Add coconut milk to the kokum water.Add salt and mix well.
- Garnish with chopped coriander.
- Serve chilled.