Summer beverages from different countries: simple and tasty
May 12, 2020 | 11:35 |2089
Summer, as weather forecasters promise, will be hot. It's time to remember what homemade beverages best quench your thirst.
Lemonade
Lemonade is very popular in Turkey in summer. Housewives make it as follows: they dissolve 100 grams of sugar in a liter of hot water, add the finely grated zest of one lemon and orange, then squeeze the juice from these fruits, let the drink cool and infuse for a couple of hours. That is all, it is ready to drink!
Doogh
A good housewife in Iran always prepares a cold “doogh” (a sour-milk drink that resembles tan or ayran, where salt and mint or even powder of dried rose petals are often added), and “Ab Doogh Khiar” (a kind of okroshka: however, there is no kvass in it, and finely chopped cucumbers or garlic is customarily poured with “mast” (thick yogurt), and salt is adding). On hot days, Ab Doogh Khiar perfectly satisfies hunger, especially if it is eaten with bread.
Aguas frescas and mate
Agua fresca is made in South America. Any ripe fruit or berries - strawberries, melon, pineapple or mango - is rubbed through a sieve, and water, sugar and lime are added to the obtained thick juice. Sometimes, rice boiled in water or milk with cinnamon or tamarind and hibiscus flowers are used instead of fruits.
In Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay people drink mate in hot weather. This drink is similar to tea, but another plant - yerba mate - is brewed, and it is drunk through a straw or from calabash - a bottle made of calabash gourd.
Sugarcane juice is preferred in Brazil. It is squeezed out using a press and sold in street stalls. Locals drink a sugary sweet drink of a muddy yellow color undiluted, and tourists ask to add lemon juice, pineapple and mint.
Just insert a straw in a coconut
A coconut with a straw is instead of a glass, the juice of this plant is instead of water. So thirst is quenched in the Caribbean and other tropical resorts. No additives! And this is perhaps the most natural drink that can be imagined.
Cuba is considered the home country of mojito - a drink of mixed sparkling water, sugar, lime and mint.
Chal
In Turkmenistan, camel’s milk is used to make the favorite cold drink (chal) of the population of our country.
Chal is the name of the traditional sour-milk drink, which is made from camel’s milk by its natural fermentation in the hot sunlight. And all that is needed to make this drink is the fresh camel’s milk, and ferment which is yesterday’s chal.
Chal has a lot of useful properties. This sour-milk drink contains a large number of microelements, and three times more vitamins C and D than in cow’s milk. Chal is considered an excellent dietary and therapeutic product. Its regular consumption supports the functioning of digestive track parts, promotes a good state of health and activity.
