Classic Aam Panna Recipe

Classic Aam Panna Recipe – Aam Panna is a traditional indian drink made with refreshing raw mangoes .This fresh green mango drink is tangy and sweet and helps to keep you cool in summers.

What is Aam Panna ?

Aam Panna is one of the best homemade drinks you can have in summers. It is made using raw green mangoes, with just 3 main ingredients- one of them being the raw mangoes,sugar, water and a few spices.

It is refreshing, rejuvenating,tasty, cool, and a really healthy drink for summers. This drink has a very cooling effect on the body, and prevents you from catching the heat during the hot sultry summers.

This is really good for kids as well. They love the sweet, sour ,tangy taste of this homemade cooler.Try it, I’m sure they will love this mango drink. My little one does like the sweet tangy flavour 🙂

I remember during my summer vacations in Agra – at my naani’s place , fresh chilled aam panna was made everyday, and we kids as well as the grown ups used to love having this chilled homemade nectar – mornings and evenings.

Benefits of having Aam panna in Summers

Aam panna made using raw mangoes is really nutritious, as Raw mango has loads of benefits. It is loaded with antioxidants ,potassium and vitamin C. You can include these in your meals in the form of drinks, chutney’s, pickles, snacks,jams, preserves.

Check out the raw mango chutney recipe on my blog.

Some of the benefits of having aam panna drink are below-

Re-hydrates, Maintains Electrolyte Balance and Prevents Loss of Iron

Rich in Nutrients

Cures Digestive Disorders

Helps relieve heat stroke

Boosts immunity

Apart from the benefits, aam panna tastes as good as it can get.Im sure after reading these benefits, you would surely want to have this mighty drink all summers.

How to make Classic Aam Panna at home ?

This is really simple to make, you can also store it in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, and have it as and when you want.

For this recipe of classic aam panna ,I used peeled mangoes, as it is much easier to prep this one up. You can boil washed , peeled mangoes, with a little water in a cooker for 10-15 minutes or 2-3 whistles, till mangoes are all soft and pulpy.

If you do not have a pressure cooker, just boil the mangoes in a little water (water level a little above mangoes), in a covered pan for 15-20 minutes, till mangoes are soft.

Once the mangoes have boiled, add sugar and mix well.

When raw mango, and sugar mix has cooled down, crush/mash the boiled mangoes nicely  using a masher, so that the pulp is separated from the seeds/pit. If you like the mango bits in your aam panna you can leave it like this. If you want a smooth drink, blend the mangoes well with a hand blender, so that there are no mango bits left. I like the mango bits in my recipe for aam panna , so I do not blend the mangoes.

Now add the spices- salt,ground black pepper, black salt, roasted coarsely ground cumin seeds, crushed mint leaves(this is optional).Mix everything well, and adjust the seasoning as per your taste.

At this point, the raw mango preserve or concentrate for making aam panna is ready. If you want you can store this as is in the refrigerator, to be used whenever you want. It will stay good for almost a week in the refrigerator.

Preparing aam panna from the concentrate or preserve

To prepare ,add 2-3 tbsp of this preserve, add ice cubes, and chilled water and serve this.

If you are making aam panna fresh and instant and not from the preserve , then add 3-4 glasses of cold water to the ready mango pulp, add ice and serve chilled.

This recipe of my classic aam panna will rejuvenate your senses , and help you fight the torrent heat during summers, keeping you refreshed and cool.

And if you love fresh fruits drinks in summers, you must try this Plum drink too.

Variations and Tips to make the best aam panna at home

Make sure you use fresh raw  unripe  tart mangoes to get the perfect zing and taste in your drink.

There are a number of variations and tips to make the most delicious recipe of aam panna at home

1. You can boil the mangoes with the skin on- this gives a very nice flavour to the drink. Wash and boil the mangoes, and take out the skin once cool. I make it both ways, depending on my wish.
2. To make a healthier version you can use Jaggery inplace of sugar.Add Jaggery powder, or crushed jaggery when the mango pulp is still hot and mix. Let the mixture cool.Rest of the procedure remains the same.
3. If you are not using the whole lot of the drink in one go, you can make the Aam panna concentrate (explained above), and store it in a glass bottle in the fridge.When you want to have it, just add 2-3 tbsp of concentrate (adjust this as per your taste) , add water, ice and your aam panna drink is ready.
4. A real nice version of this drink is made using roasted raw mangoes. That gives a really nice smokey flavour to this drink. To make this version, roast the raw mangoes on flame till they are a little charred, and are nice and soft. If you do not have access to flame, you can roast these in the oven- Pierce the raw green mangoes with fork or make slits, brush with a little oil, and roast on a baking tray @200 degrees C for 10-15 min, turning in between till all sides are a little charred and soft.
5. The classic Aam panna drink is made using water, but to give it a nice twist I sometimes make it using sparkling water, which I call sparkling Aam panna  and it tastes really nice.

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