After a whole day without food or drink, the body naturally becomes tired and dehydrated. At iftar it needs a drink that gives energy while keeping the body cool and fresh, and milk and tokma sharbat can be the answer.

Combining the cooling effect of tokma seeds with the nutrition of milk, this drink does more than quench thirst: it quickly lifts the tiredness of fasting. This healthy, nutritious sharbat can be made at home with simple ingredients. Here is the recipe.

First boil the milk and let it cool. Thirty minutes before making the sharbat, soak the tokma seeds in a glass of drinking water. After half an hour, mix the soaked seeds into the cold milk. Then add sugar and Rooh Afza and mix well. Finally add crushed ice and mix thoroughly. Serve this healthy, tasty sharbat chilled.

Source: Jagonews24. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.