When Rekha emailed me for a guest post, I was excited as well as worried. I have to admit that she is one of the best things that has happened to me as a part of blogging. A very good friend, a down to earth person and a sweetheart. One of that little group of people who has given me a lot of positive vibes in blogging. Even though we live in two different areas, I have always loved my interaction with her. She makes it a point always to leave a comment on all my posts, irrespective whether she has time or no, or whether I have gone over and dropped in a comment or not!!!
Deciding on what to give Rekha was not easy at all. Fi
rst of all, I am in love with her photography. The way she makes her food look is just out of the world. I spent quite some time drooling at her pictures before going to the recipe! Just to take an example of this honey and cinnamon drizzled teacake she posted last week… I felt they were right there in front of me asking me to gobble it down! My photographs are nowhere close to what she does, to say the least! So I was really jittery. But then the sweetheart she is, she just made me understand that she would take anything from me. So after scratching my head a lot, thanks to something that I got in my hand, there you go… What I had to give to her was a nostalgic post that surrounded my favorite drink back home – Karimbu juice/ Sugarcane juice… To read more and the recipe, do hope on to Rekha’s space here. Hope you would all enjoy reading the post as much as I enjoyed drafting it through… 🙂
Karimbu Juice/ Sugarcane Juice - My 16th guest post for FoodOlicious Pictured
Ingredients
- 1 foot long piece of sugarcane
- 1 small piece ginger
- 1 small lime
- Cold water as required
- Sugar as required
Instructions
- Start by peeling off the outer skin of the sugarcane. It is a little bit of work, but what you need to do is run the knife slowly at the edge and pull it down, so that it peels. I cut the sugarcane into three pieces – you need a really sharp knife to do it – and peeled off the skin per piece. Peeling off the outer thinly will also do.
- Once peeled, chop into medium sized pieces.
- Add the pieces along with the ginger, lime and cold water into your blender and blend on high speed for a couple of minutes till the ingredients are all well mashed up.
- Pour through a sieve into a jar and squeeze off the additional liquid from the blend sugarcane till you cannot squeeze anymore.
- Check for sweetness and add sugar if necessary. The sugarcane I used was not very sweet so I added a couple of tablespoons to reach the correct sweetness.
- Serve cold and enjoy!!!
Thank you Rafee for doing the post and those nice words for me 🙂 Pleasure having over Sweety
it's my pleasure as well, rekha… so glad i did this post for you… 🙂
Rafee n Rekha….love you both! Rafee,karimbu juice kandittu feel like having it right now..I am coming over to yur place 😉
oh so sweet of u priya… vannittu kaaryalyallo, theerun poyi… 😛
Awesome home made sugarcane juice and of course all those briyani recipes of yours.
thank u so much nava…
Luks nice rafee, will check the recipe at rekha's space….
thank u so much razina…
looks too good.. 🙂
thank u so much laxmi… 🙂
Beautiful guestpost Rekha & Rafee. Though the recipe is simple but the memories associated with it are cherished forever. This is how I relate my food & believe food & memories go along each other. Inseparable.
Hugs to both of you.
thank u so much humi… vat u said is so true… a lot of memories are attached to food…
Enloyed reading your post and galking at that juice,at Rekha's space. The nostalgia is right close to the heart.Couldn't help giving a sigh when I thought abt those 'unsahikable summers' in Kerala 🙂
So u r from malappuram! me too.. were in mlpm exactly? may be we could meet next vacation time, inshaallah:)
so nice to see ur comments after so time dear… i'm from tirur malappuram… InShaAllah, we should meet up next time u come down there… 🙂
nice guest post Rekha & Rafee. Refreshing juice..
thank u so much veena…
lovely juice there… love it but its ages since I had it… haven't seen sugarcane anywhere here… and that glass of juice is making me tempt
thank u so much anupa…
Salaam Rafeeda…:)…adipoli blog u've dear !! Love it…:))..n sweet of u 2 stop by my lil blog ..:)…Karimbu juice super..kudikyaan thonnu nnu…
thank u so much for coming by… 🙂
homemade sugar cane juice .. appreciate the effort n patience .. great Rafee..
thank u so much smitha…
reminding back home memories. Good work.Refreshing juice……….
thank u so much eliza…
Refreshing guest post Reafee… i never thought we can make sugarcane juice in a mixer… thanks for sharing
thank u so much preetha chechi…
hey rafeeda, Karimbu juice!! off to rekha's space. nice guest post dear.
thank u so much lisha…
sho njan banglore vittathil pinne karimbu juice marannu irikkuvarunnu…enthina enne ingne kothippikkunne?? gonna check the recipe in Rekha's place 🙂
Athenthe Chennaiyil karimbille mole??? Thanks a lot Rani… 🙂