Beetroot Juice

This is an easy and interseting recipie for moms who are finding it difficult to make their kids have beet root .It looks colourful and they will never know its the beet root that they hate.This is an equally tasty and refereshing drink for adults.You can replace the soft drink cans in your refrigerators by this healthy and tasty juice...

Ingredients

Beetroot - 1 kg
lemon - 5 nos
Sugar - 1 kg
Grape essence ( optional)- 1 tbsp

Method

1.Peel off the beetroot skin and cut into small pieces.
2.Pressure cook the cut beetroot slices in enough water (the slices should be well immersed in water )for 5 whistles.
3.Squeeze the juice out of lemon and keep it aside.
4 Make syrup out of sugar by stiring it in enough water in a hard bottomed vessel.
5.Now drain the juice from the pressure cookered beetroot slices using a filter and throw off the beetroot slices(the slices would have lost all its color into water now)
6.Set aside until the sugar syrup and the drained beetroot juice is cool.
7.Now mix beetroot juice, sugar syrup and lemon juice together and stir well adding 2 tbsp of grape essence.

(this is a concentrated beetroot syrup and can be diluted with water according to the desired taste of the person while serving.Can be refrigerated in closed bottles and can be used for long)