Basil Seeds Drink or Sharbat Aragh Naana va Tokhm sharbati

Basil Seeds Drink

1/2 cup basil seeds

1 cup mint water

water

1 cup suger

1 cup ice cubes

First stir a little warm water with suger, when suger dissolved, add the rest of ingredients and stir it for a minute.

Basil seeds are going to the bottom of jar fast therefore you must stir it with a spoon before drinking.

You can make this drink with rose water, wild willow water, chicory water and orange blossom water.  Eventough these drinks has a same apearance but every kind of these drinks has a uique taste.  You can replace basil seeds with chia seeds too.

Nushe jan.

Sharbat Aragh Naana or Mint Water Drink

Mint Water Drink

Mint Water drink is one of cold Iranian drinks.  Iranians use to drink Sharbat during hot days that is combination of water, sugar and water or disstillation of diffrent vegetables or flowers like mint, willow and etc.  These Sharbats or drinks are non-alkoholic and have lots of benefits for body.

Ingredients

2 cups ice

1and 1/2 cup suger

7 cups water

1 and 1/3 cup Mint water

First stir and mix two cups of warm water with suger.  When sugar disapears, add 5 cups of cold water, mint water and ice the stir all together.

You can serve it with a little mint and some more ice in a glass.