Best 3 Traditional Bangladeshi Drinks You Can Prepare for Iftar
Homemade foods feel fresh and healthy. During the Ramadan, we all feel a little bit intimidated by drinks, cold shooting drinks. I guess all of you will agree with me, you must be. Due to the COVID-19, people are stuck at home and if you are craving for satisfying and cold home-made drinks like you used to drink in restaurants, you should look at these recipes an try them home.
Sweet Lassi
Sweet Lassi is a very creamy and milky cold drink widely consumed in Bangladesh and the Indian subcontinent. After the whole day of fasting, we are always in a hurry to drink something sweet and soft. Water is the most preferred drink though but if we can drink a glass of lassi it brings enough joy to our fast-breaking and we feel really happy. You might have drunk this before many times and now you are feeling a little intimidated. Don’t worry if you are really craving this delicious drink, you can make it home. It is really easy to make this drink at home. You need yogurt, milk, sugar, and crushed cardamom seeds. Properly mix everything until the yogurt and sugar dissolve and become very smooth.
Jira Pani
This is hot summer and Jira Pani can be the welcome drink for breaking your holy fasting. Jira Pani is famous and provides a better-flavored drink for removing your whole day tiredness. In the month of Ramadan, drinks are the most desired thing in the evening time. It was easy to purchase from the market but due to the present situation, you will need to make it home, can you make it home? Yes, it is a very easy recipe and you need molasses, sugar, hot water, lemon juice and tamarind paste, roasted cumin and black salt. You need to mix and simmer molasses and sugar in hot water. The water needs to be completely cool before you mix all the other ingredients. After mixing the ingredients, you need to wait for 10 minutes so that you get a good flavor.
Lemon Sharbat
The best part of lemon is, it is a great juicy fruit found throughout the year and you can use lemon for all sorts of cooking purposes along with making lemon drinks and lemonades. Bangladeshi people use this for making Lemon Sharbat which comes really handy and provides freshness and removes your thirst. Ramadan is a great time to use Lamon and you can make various types of lemon drinks at home in no time. It is an easy to prepare recipe and you just need lemon, cold water, salt, and sugar. You can also add another flavor including ginger or mint. Just mix everything properly and Lemon Sharbat is prepared to drink during the break of fast.
There are many other drinks recopies in Bangladesh which is being served fro long and you can take them home easily. The Jira Pani, Sweet Lassi, and Lemon sharbat are very simple and provides enough electrolytes during the fasting break. If you are craving for any of these during your fasting and want to provide something healthy then these are some of the best options you can make home easily. All the ingredients are easily found and most of them remain in your refrigerator.
