Ingredients
Gond katira or Tragacanth gum – 2 tbsp or 1 ounce
Water – 3 cups
(Soak gond katira in 3 cups of water for overnight)
Sugar – 1 kg
Water – 1 litre
Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
Afza essence – 1 tsp
Kewra essence – 1 tsp
Red food colour – few drops
Method
Take a pan, add sugar and 1 litre water and cook. Clean water along cooking. When syrup thickens a bit, add soaked gond katira along water and cook until thickens. Strain, add red colour, kewra, Afza essence and cardamom powder, mix well. Let it cool down. Store in a clean bottle, out of refrigerator. Enjoy whole summer with homemade sharbat (Drink) Rooh Afza.
