Roasted Plum Juice is a healthier and tastier version of plum panna in which plums are roasted and different spices are added to enhance the overall flavor & health benefits. Roasting helps in caramelizing the natural sugar of plum fruit and help in bringing out all the hidden flavor of plums. Kids love it and this is a great way to add healthy seasonal fruits in my kid’s diet. Ready to enjoy a yumlicious plum juice drink? Read on…!
Plum Juice Health Benefits
Plums are good for boosting immunity and help with indigestion. The most common treatment to treat constipation in babies, is adding prune juice in the baby’s diet. Since, plums are the fresher version of prunes, it is equally good for treating tummy problems, which are so common in growing kids. Plums are not just good for kids but helps in maintain healthy heart, controls cholesterol levels and helps in maintaining the electrolyte balance of a body. Plums are loaded with immense range of healthy components, vitamins and minerals. It is a great source Vitamin C and rich in antioxidants. When you combined these two elements you get a radiant and a healthy skin.
Seasonal Fruit Delight – Plum Panna
Plum is a seasonal fruit and in season for a short period of time, which is around May to October. Perhaps no version of fruit can beat the taste of a fresh juicy bite of plum, still I like to try and consume it in different ways. Plums are available for such a small period that you would like to enjoy this nutrient dense fruit in all possible avatar. One of that versions is this delicious sweet, sour and savory plum juice drink, which I am sure you are going to enjoy it in a same way like my friends and family love it every single time.
Enhanced Plum Juice or Plum Panna Recipe
The addition of fresh green mint, roasted cumin seeds and black rock salt to enhance its taste makes it ideal cooler to beat the heat of hot summers in addition to a perfect digestive drink. To make this drink you need to roast the plums first, it can be boiled as well but I chose to roast them rather because roasting takes it to a next level by intensifying its flavor, color, juice and its natural sugar.
Roasting Plums to make Plum Juice
Do you know that medium of heating can change the way natural sugar reacts? So, roasting is a dry heat method of cooking which helps in caramelizing the natural sugar of fruit and help in bringing out all the hidden flavor of fruit and if the plums are sweet enough not very sour then probably you don’t even need to add any additional sweetener to this drink. There is one more reason of roasting over boiling that plum contains high percentage of water-soluble vitamins and fibers. Roasting help to keep those nutrients intact in fruit itself.
Homemade Healthy Fruit Drink for Kids – Plum Juice
Being a Mom of school going kids one question always bugs me, i.e. what to pack as drink for them? The juices available in the market are nothing but a flavored sugar syrup with unwanted ingredients and chemicals in them. Freshly squeezed juices need to be consumed as soon as it is prepared unless they are treated with heat; hence, the choices are not much when it comes to packing drinks for school. This plum juice drink at least gives me few days of relief from that, whenever I prepare it. I, usually pack this drink in an insulated flask or bottle with lots of ice in it to maintain the temperature, the cooler the tastier isn’t it.
Enough of talking for now as you must be eagerly waiting for the plum panna recipe to begin. So, without wasting a single second let’s check out what all you need to make this drink.
Plum Juice (Plum Panna) Ingredients:
- Plums- 6 slight firm plums or 1.5 lbs
- Fresh Mint- 1/2 cup leaves
- Jaggery – 2 tbs (adjust the quantity as per the sourness of the fruit)
- Spices/herbs
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Black rock salt– 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds– 2 tsp
- Black pepper– ½ tsp
- Dry mint powder (optional) – 1 tsp
Plum Panna Method:
- Roast the plums in oven at 450oF until soft around 20-25 minutes, if you have air fryer you can roast in that too.
- Once roasted, discard the pits and put the pulp with skin in a blender.
- Blend this pulp with fresh green mint.
- Then sieve the pulp to remove any unblended skin.
- Add crushed roasted cumin seeds powder, black salt, black pepper, sugar/jaggery as per the sweetness you like into the sieved pulp. Just roast the regular cumin seeds on low heat in a pan and crush it roughly in a mortar and pestle. You can also save the roasted cummin seeds for use in other recipes.
- Add water and ice to adjust the consistency.
Chill before you serve. Enjoy!
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Suggested Snacks or Small Plates to go along with Plum Panna:
Roasted Plum Juice is a healthier and tastier version of plum panna in which plums are roasted
and different spices are added to enhance the overall flavor & health benefits. Roasting helps in caramelizing the natural sugar of plum fruit and help in bringing out all the hidden flavor of plums. Kids love it and this is a great way to add healthy seasonal fruits in my kid’s diet.
- 1.5 lbs Plums 6 slight firm
- 1/2 cup Mint leaves Fresh
- 2 tbs Jaggery Adjust the quantity as per the sourness of the fruit
- 1/2 tsp Salt As per the taste
- 1 tsp Black rock salt
- 2 tsp Cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp Black pepper
- 1 tsp Mint powder Dry (Optional)
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Roast the plums in oven at 450oF until soft around 20-25 minutes, if you have air fryer you can roast in that too.
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Once roasted, discard the pits and put the pulp with skin in a blender.
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Blend this pulp with fresh green mint.
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Then sieve the pulp to remove any unblended skin.