Watermelon Aqua Fresca

Watermelon Aqua Fresca:

Watermelon is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa. It is a large, sprawling annual plant with coarse, hairy pinnately-lobed leaves and white to yellow flowers. It is grown for its edible fruit, also known as a watermelon, which is a special kind of berry referred to bybotanists as a pepo. The fruit has a smooth hard rind, usually green with dark green stripes or yellow spots, and a juicy, sweet interior flesh, usually deep red to pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, or white, with many seeds.

A watermelon contains about 6% sugar and 91% water. As with many other fruits, it is a good source of vitamin C and is low in fat and sodium. The amino-acid citrulline is produced in watermelon rind. Watermelon pulp contains carotenoids, including lycopene.

                            Watermelon Aqua Fresca recipe

Recipe Cuisine: American  |  Recipe Category: Beverage
Prep Time:10 mins    |  Cook time: 0 mins     |  Serves: 2

Ingredients

Watermelon - 1 cup

Ice cubes- 4nos

Sugar/Honey - as needed

Chilled water - 1/4 glass

Mint leaves -4 nos

Lemon - 1/2

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 Method:

• First chop the fruit and add it to a mixer / blender and blend it well with honey and chilled water.
  
  
  
•  In a glass add the mint leaves chopped into 2 and add the lemon juice.
• Pour the ground mixture into the glass and set it in fridge for 5mins as mint leaves need to combine with the juice. Dont grind the mint leaves as the juice will become strong.
  
• Serve chilled!!