Sunday, March 18, 2012

Grape Squash–Let’s welcome the sunny days

I planned to make some wine and asked AJ to get some grapes. He got 2 kgs and the bottle I had for wine would fit only ½ kg of grapes. Both of us are not really fond of grapes and I wondered what to do. I knew google would help me out to find a solution and I was right -  grape squash.
But all the recipes called out for some preserving agents like sodium benzoate and citric acid. I did not want to use them and so came up with my own recipe. This tastes really great and I am not sure about the life of it. I stored it in my refrigerator and its about 3 – 4 weeks now – still great. I shall update about the life as much as I keep it J
You know what, It has been a year that I wrote the above and somehow missed to post this. Now I can tell you about the life of the syrup. Definitely a year plus if kept under refrigeration J
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Ingredients(Yields 1.5 litres):
Red Ripe Grapes   --   1 kg
Sugar                       --   2 cups or more according to your taste
Lemon juice          --   ¼ cup
Water                      --   1 cup
Preparation of Squash/syrup:
Cook the grapes with one cup of water. Mash the grapes in between as much as you can. You can use a potato masher/pestle. Make sure that all the grapes are cooked.
If you are not able to mash it well, give a pulse in the mixer.
Strain the juice with a strainer with large holes so that you get some pulp too. Now add the sugar and let it boil again until it forms a thick syrup. Add the lemon juice and switch off the flame. let it cool, pour into clean and dry bottles and refrigerate.
To Serve:
Take ¼ glass of the syrup and then fill the glass with chilled water. Top with ice cubes and serve. Its simply refreshing in the summer.
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Recipe Courtesy: Myself

18 comments:

  1. Very refreshing drink marking the arrival of summers,Awesome last click!!How did u manage to get that click,simply superb!!
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  2. Woww.. refreshing and yummy drink.. perfect shots too.. thanks for sharing :)
    Indian Cuisine

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  3. Awesome, loved it. A perfect thirst quencher.

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  4. Beautifully captured splash picture...looks superb n beautiful color

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  5. woww!! simple recepie and super pics :)

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  6. Wonderful grape juice (homemade squash style)n lovely clicks!!

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  7. hi nitha, how r u? nowadays im not getting ur post in dashboard....really missed ur recipe da...squash looks yummy and perfect for this summer....lovely colour!

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  8. Wow! Nice recipe and the splashing picture looks really great.

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  9. Nitha, yummy n refreshing squash....awesome presentation...

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  10. I love the second Pic with the splash .. lovely blog you have Nitha.. am glad to follow you...

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  11. So refreshing n yummy drink, awesome clicks.

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  12. omg...how did u click dat...fab colour..adore ur clicks

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  13. Great squash and lovely presentation. Very very nice!2nd clik was just awesome.......
    Maha

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    1. yummy drink..i love that second click..awesome

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  14. That's so cool...and nice pictures !

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  15. wow... delicious drink and fantastic photography...

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  16. wow... refreshing drink and fantastic photography...

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