HOW TO MAKE GOND KATIRA SHERBET

• If you are suffering from heat stroke, constipation, sexual insufficiency or tumor then gond katira is what you only need. 
• For consuming this, there is an option of healthy and delicious drink, called gond katira sherbet.
• Gond katira or tragacanth gum is a kind of shrub mostly found in Iraq, Iran, and Western Asia.
• The gond katira gum originates naturally from the roots and stems. This gum is then collected and dried.
• It is a boost for summer season.
• It provides relief to the body from heat.
• This healthy mixture of rooh afza and gond katira have more benefits.
• This is not just a sherbet or a soothing drink. It is more than that.
• It won’t be wrong, if it is known as a health drink. 

How to Prepare This Delicious, Mouthwatering and Healthy Drink?

INGREDIENTS-

Basic ingredients in this drink are gond katira and Rooh Afza.

• Fluffed gond katira –two tablespoonfuls
• Chilled Water/ Milk – two cups 
• Rooh Afza- Two to three tablespoons 
• Sugar- one tablespoonfuls 
• chopped dry fruits 

First, how to prepare fluffy gond katira?

• For making fluffy gond katira, cover and allow to soak two pieces of gond katira in water overnight or for 8 to 9 hours.
• In the morning you will see the gond katira increases in volume, blooms and become jelly like.
• After soaking, if it becomes too tightened up then you can add some more water. 
• Strain the extra water from the soaked edible gum in a strainer and keep aside
• You can also refrigerate the soaked gond katira and used as required.

YIELDS-

• For one serving

METHOD OF PREPARION-

• If there are impurities then rinse with water in strainer to get rid of them.
• Rinse and then add 2 teaspoons gond katira in a Large bowl.
• Remember that just a few teaspoons of gond katira when soaked in water will give a bowl full of jelly like gond.
• Then add 2 cups chilled milk/water. 
• If the size of the edible gums is large, then break them in a mortar-pestle to get smaller sizes.
• In a serving glass, take 3 to 4 tablespoons of soaked gond.
• Add 2 to 3 tablespoon of rooh afza. 
• You can also add water instead of milk or half-half of both. You can even use almond milk instead.
• Add some ice cubes.
• Serve gond katira sherbet immediately. 
• If you want more healthy sherbet you can add some chopped dry fruits.
•  Almond milk can be used as a dairy free alternative. 

Recipe can be doubled

Instead of rooh afza you can use –

• Rose syrup
• Khus syrup
• Sandalwood syrup
• Lemon squash 
• Any fruit based syrup or squash.  

THINGS TO REMEMBER

• Take this refreshing sherbet once in the early morning to keep you cool and hydrated.
• Do not drink excess amount of gond katira sherbet.
• As excess amount of this sherbet can cause constipation, heart burn, gas formation, diarrhea and tooth erosion.