Indian
Panakam Recipe | Panagam
Panakam is a tasty and healthy south Indian drink made with jaggery, pepper corns and lemon juice.
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- No separate cook time
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3 cups water (cold)
- 3/4 cup jaggery (grated)
- 10 peppercorns (black)
- 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
- 1/4 teaspoon dry ginger powder (sukku, sonth)
- tiny piece of edible camphor
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 10 tulsi leaves (holy basil)
Instructions
- 1
First of all take 3 cups water in a bowl.
- 2
To that add 3/4 cup tightly packed grated jaggery. Mix well and set aside for 15 minutes. Let it dissolve.
- 3
Once jaggery is dissolved filter it if needed.
- 4
Crush 12 black peppercorns and add to the jaggery water.
- 5
To that also add 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder, 1/4 teaspoon dry ginger powder, a tiny bit of edible camphor. Mix very well.
- 6
Next add 10 tulsi leaves and juice of 1/2 lemon. Also add 1/4 teaspoon salt. Mix well. Serve as required.