Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, sorrel or hibiscus or zobo drink. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sorrel or Hibiscus or Zobo Drink is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Sorrel or Hibiscus or Zobo Drink is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
However, the drink has become very popular all over the country and it is rare to meet a Nigerian who does not know of zobo. This drink is not unique to Nigeria though and is known over the world by different names. It is known in the french speaking parts of west Africa as jus de bissap, and particularly popular in the Caribbean Islands as Sorrel.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sorrel or hibiscus or zobo drink using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sorrel or Hibiscus or Zobo Drink:
- Make ready Drink
- Prepare 3 small cups of dried hibiscus flower
- Take 1 cinnamon stick
- Get 8 cloves
- Make ready 1 1/2 tspns of ground ginger
- Prepare 1 water
- Get 1 half a pineapple
- Take 3 garlic pieces
Apart from making the drink, the leaves are also used in making jams, syrups, sauces and spices. Zobo drink is a favourite drink in Nigeria ìt is also known as sorrel drink or roselle. It is said to have health benefits, I love how its easy to prepare and how refreshing it is. Find below how I prepare mine.
Steps to make Sorrel or Hibiscus or Zobo Drink:
- Put leaves in a pot and Wash the leaves in cold water
- After 5 mins of cooking on medium heat pour the remaining ingredients add more water then let it boil for almost 30mins to allow the leaves and pineapple to be soft .
- After 30mins of cooking turn off and set aside to cool down
- When cool, sieve out the juice from the leaves and other ingredients leaving only the juice in pot
- At this point you can also add any artificial flavour of your choice…some people might choose to add sugar I wanted mine a bit natural so I added honey and a bit of artificial flavour and stirred it
- Pour into a bottle or a water jug and refrigerate
- Try it out and upload pictures
This is Nigerian zobo drink, For Jamaican style sorrel drink click link. Sorrel is "the favourite drink of Jamaicans at Christmas time, made from the sorrel plant, a low bushy shrub with red stems and calices, which comes into season toward the end of the year. No Jamaican Christmas is complete without bottles of red drink brewed with rum and ginger," Enid Donaldson wrote in The Real Taste of Jamaica. Sorrel drink is a sour tasting dark red drink which is made from the sorrel plant's petals. While the Jamaicans refer to it as sorrel drink it has other names depending on where you drink it.
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