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.
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Ingredients:
· Dried Kokum – 10-12
· Grated Coconut – 1.5 cup OR 1 to 1.5 cups thick coconut milk
· Garlic – 5-6 cloves
· Green chillies – 1-2
. Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
· 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. Or you can add both.
Method:
· Soak the dried kokum in about ¾ cup water for atleast one hour.
· Take a mixer jar, add grated coconut, garlic, cumin seeds 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 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 and coconut milk which is easily available in many stores, instead of using the dried kokum and extracting milk from the coconut. For this you can add crushed garlic and chillies in the coconut milk mixed with kokum juice and other ingredients. Strain it while serving it.
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