Orange Squash
Orange Squash - homemade squash made from fresh oranges.
Prep Time 25 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 40 minutes mins
Course Beverages and Drinks
Cuisine Indian
Servings 12
Calories 420 kcal
- 2.5 Kilograms oranges peeled and chopped
- 1 kg sugar
- 1 litre water
- 4 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon potassium metabisulphate
- 2 pinch saffron / kesar
Put sugar in a pan and water on medium flame
Add lemon juice and stir and let the water boil.
Bring the flame to low and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
When a slight thick solution is made, remove the pan and let it get lukewarm.
Filter the syrup for impurities.
Add saffron leaves in the syrup.
Blend oranges in your blender by pulsating, strain the orange juice.
Add the strained juice to the sugar syrup an stir
If you are straining the juice in batches - then go on adding to syrup side by side otherwise juice will become bitter.
Take some orange squash in a bowl and add potassium metabisulphate.
Add this to syrup.
Pour the orange squash in sterilized bottles and tight the lids.
Let it as it for 3 to 4 days in fridge.
Calories: 420kcalCarbohydrates: 108gProtein: 2gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.03gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.05gSodium: 5mgPotassium: 384mgFiber: 5gSugar: 103gVitamin A: 469IUVitamin C: 113mgCalcium: 87mgIron: 0.3mg
Keyword cold drink, drink, squash