Aam Panna

Kumkum Chatterjee
Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Aam Panna is a tangy refreshing summer drink made with unripe sour green mangoes, fresh mint, sugar, salt, black pepper, and roasted cumin powder. This beverage is popular in India during the scorching summer months for its heat-resistant properties. This seasonal tropical fruit when raw and unripe is boiled and blended with the addition of an assortment of spices which makes it all the more flavourful. The spices and raw mangoes when cooked and blended with spices has a cooling effect and prevent loss of sodium due to excessive sweating and also helps in gastronomical problems. This drink can be made fresh and consumed immediately or made into Aam Panna Concentrate. This concentrate can be refrigerated and stored for 6 months by adding preservatives. Add just 2 to 3 tbsp of concentrate in a glass and dilute with chilled water and top it with ice cubes and fresh mint leaves. Serve chilled.

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Ingredients

30 minutes
10 servings
  1. 300 gmsraw mango
  2. 1.5 cupssugar
  3. 4 cupswater
  4. 2 tbspmint leaves paste
  5. 1 sprigmint leaves for garnishing
  6. 2 tsproasted cumin powder
  7. 1 tspblack pepper powder
  8. 1 tspblack salt
  9. As per tastesalt
  10. 1 pinchgreen food colour(optional)
  11. 1/4 th tsp sodium benzoate

Cooking Instructions

30 minutes
  1. 1

    Peel mangoes and cuts them into cubes. Pressure cook them with 1 cup water up to 2 whistles. Release the pressure after 5 minutes. Cool and make a paste of it in a mixer grinder along with mint leaves. Strain the pulp in a strainer so that there are no lumps in it. Pour this pulp in a wok. Add 3 to 4 cups water in it and mix well.

  2. 2

    Add sugar to the pulp and boil. Adjust sugar if the mangoes are very sour. Now add roasted cumin powder, black pepper powder, black salt, and salt to taste. Add a pinch of green food color. Add sodium benzoate to increase the shelf life of Aam Panna. Boil 5 minutes more and remove from heat.

  3. 3

    Cool and store in a glass bottle. Refrigerate and use Aam Panna concentrate to make a refreshing cool drink to beat the summer heat. Add 2 to 3 tbsp of concentrate in a glass and dilute with chilled water. Garnish with mint leaves and serve chilled with ice cubes.

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