Nimbu Paani Recipe | Lemon Date Cooler

How to Make Healthy Lemon Juice

When life give you lemons, make extra yummy Lemon Juice!

Nimbu Paani is a refreshing, cool, thirst quenching lemon cooler which flows freely especially during the festival of Ramanavami.

This cool, thirst quenching drink is made with mainly fresh juicy lemons and jaggery or sugar. Since both sugar and jaggery are processed sweeteners, we show you how you can make this with dates.

Nimbu Paani is a welcome relief during the sweltering summer in India. Lemons are a rich source of Vitamin C and antioxidant phytonutrients. They are believed to ‘cool down’ the body.

So when life give you lemons, make extra yummy Lemon Date Cooler!

Nimbu Paani / Panaka / Lemon juice

Course: Beverage, Juice, Snack, Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian Recipe
Servings: 2 glasses
Prep Time: 5 minutes

INGREDIENTS

1 Lemon
4 tbsp Date Syrup
1/8 tsp Cardamon powder / Elaichi
1/8 tsp Pepper Powder
1 1/2 glasses Water

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Squeeze lemon juice in water, add other ingredients. Mix well. Serve cool.

Plant Based Chef Pro Tips for Delicious Nimbu Paani / Panaka

1. Fresh grated ginger is usually added to this panaka.
2. Mint juice can also be added for extra flavours.

Nutrition Science Highlights for WFPB Nimbu Paani Recipe

1. Why not honey, sugar or jaggery? Sugar and Jaggery are processed foods. Although jaggery is healthier than brown sugar, which, in turn, is healthier than white sugar, all forms of processed foods are unhealthy when compared to whole plant foods. Honey is healthwise as good as jaggery, which isn't saying much. In addition to not being very healthy, honey production kills millions of bees every year, affecting our environment adversely. The best sweetener alternative is a whole fruit or dry fruit. The easiest method of using these is date syrup, as it does not involve peeling or chopping.