Sparkling Panakam

Name: Sparkling Panakam
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters 1.25 oz/35 g fine-grain natural cane sugar or muscovado sugar; 0 teaspoons ground cardamom; 2 teaspoons ground ginger; 1 cube Ice; 1 Tbsp fresh lime juice; 0 teaspoons fine-grain sea salt; 946 milliliters 1 liter sparkling water, chilled

Sparkling Panakam might be just the side dish you are searching for. This gluten free, fodmap friendly, and vegan recipe serves 4. One serving contains 57 calories, 0g of protein, and 0g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up ice cubes, ground cardamom, sparkling water, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

In a medium pitcher, make a thick paste by stirring together the sugar, ginger, cardamom, lime juice, salt, and a small splash of the sparkling water. Stir until any lumps have dissolved.

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Sparkling Water

Lime Juice

Cardamom

Ginger

Sugar

Salt

Add more water, a little at a time, stirring all the while. The mixture will get quite fizzy, so just take it slow.

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Water

Serve as cold as possible with as many ice cubes wedged into the pitcher as possible.

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Ice Cubes

Reprinted with permission from Super Natural Every Day: Well-loved Recipes from My Natural Foods Kitchen by Heidi Swason. Text and photographs copyright © 2011 by Heidi Swanson. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.Writer, photographer, and designer HEIDI SWANSON is the creator of 101 Cookbooks, the award-winning culinary blog and recipe journal. She is also the author of Cook 1.0 and Super Natural Cooking. Her work has appeared in Food & Wine, Saveur, Glamour, the Washington Post, Time, Fast Company, Utne Reader, and the Vegetarian Times, as well as on Salon.com and NPR.com. Heidi lives, cooks, and writes in San Francisco. Visit www.101cookbooks.com and www.heidiswanson.com.

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Wine