Make a colourful lime juice using simple ingredients

Red spinach can be used to add colour to the drink. Photo: Bincy Lenin

Drinking a glass of cold lime juice on a hot day is the most refreshing feeling. Moreover, they are excellent for satiating thirst and replenishing your body with minerals. These days, ‘magic’ lime juice in red and blue colours is served in juice bars. However, artificial colourants are added to these to make them look appealing. Here is how to make colourful ‘magic’ drink at home without adding artificial colours.

Ingredients
Lemon juice as required
Sugar as required
2 cups cold water
¼ cup red spinach
½ cup water
1 tsp poppy seeds

Preparation
Soak the poppy seeds in some water
Take lemon juice, sugar and cold water in a mixer jar
Blend well
To make coloured ice, boil the chopped red spinach in half a cup of water
Allow this to cool down
Strain the stained spinach water
Add 1 tsp lemon juice and sugar to this coloured water
Pour into an ice tray and keep in the freezer
Add the coloured ice cubes to the serving glass
Pour the lemonade too
Finally, add the soaked poppy seeds
Magic lemonade is ready

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