Recipe- Healthy Refreshing Summer Treat Panakam Popsicles

A healthy refreshing summer treat using jaggery spiced with pepper,dry ginger and flavoured with cardamom.

Panagam is a spiced drink made using jaggery, water spiced with black pepper, ginger powder and flavoured with cardamom and lemon. Panakam is a special drink made for Rama navami festival.

Ingredients

2 and 1/2 cups water
1/2 cup powdered jaggery
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
1/4 tsp dry ginger powder
1/2 tsp pepper powder
1/2 lemon
a tiny pinch of salt

Method

* First to begin with take jaggery powder in a mixing bowl.

* Add freshly crushed pepper,ginger powder, cardamom powder to it.

* Next add lemon juice to it.

* Mix it well.

* Jaggery dissolved completely.

* Strain.

* Now pour into popsicle moulds.

* Repeat to finish.

* Close with lid.

* Keep im freezer and freeze for 8 hrs minimum or overnight.

* I freezed it overnight. So next day it looks like this.

* Now for easy demoulding,take water in a bowl.

* Dip each mould in water.

* Gently pull out the popsicles.

* Panakam popsicles ready.

* Enjoy.