Time
30 min
Serving
4 persons
Calories
0
This homemade citrus refresher recipe will certainly surprise you! The taste of the drink is pleasant and refreshing - a perfect choice for hot weather! This beverage is healthy and can be offered even to kids without any hesitations!
Ingredients
- water: 1 litre
- lemon: 1 piece (small)
- lime: 1 piece
- orange: 2 piece
- cinnamon sticks: 3 piece
- cilantro: 2 tsp
- nutmeg: 0.25 tsp
- sugar: 300 g
- instant coffee: 2 Tbsp
- vanilla essence: 0.5 tsp
- soda water: 200 ml
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Lets’ start with making brown syrup for the drink. There is no sense to use any food dyes. Instead, take a pot, pour 1 tablespoon of water and add 5 tablespoons of sugar into it. Place the pot on small fire and keep stirring it for about 5 minutes to get the light brown syrup.
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In a minute, the water will evaporate.
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Then the sugar will start melting.
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Finally, the syrup will become light brown, but make sure it is not too dark! As soon as the syrup becomes brown, carefully add 1 glass of hot water and boil the syrup on strong fire for 20-30 seconds. Turn the fire off.
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Wash the fruit and peel the zest.
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Juice the fruit carefully, having removed the white part of them first.
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Take another pot and mix zest, cinnamon sticks, cilantro, nutmeg and 3 tablespoons of sugar in it. Pout 1 liter of water and boil for 1 minute.
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Turn the fire off. Add fresh juice, vanilla essence and sugar syrup into the pot. Now, pour 2 tablespoons of coffee with 150 ml of hot water and wait for 10 minutes. Sift the drink and add it to the syrup.
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Wait until your citrus refresher cools down a bit and place it into the fridge for several hours. Then sift the drink and serve it with soda water in 1:1 proportion. Do not forget about ice! Enjoy the drink!
