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21 recipes

Latin American · 15 min · Easy

Agua de Jamaica

Dried hibiscus steeped briefly, sweetened while hot and chilled hard — tart, cranberry-deep and an almost unreasonable red. The most common agua fresca in Mexico.

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South Asian · 30 min · Easy

Aam Panna

Green mango simmered soft, pulped, and spiced with cumin and black salt into a pale, tart-savory cooler. Drunk across North India specifically to survive the summer.

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Latin American · 15 min · Easy

Agua de Tamarindo

Tamarind loosened in hot water and sweetened into a sour-brown cooler with a long, mouth-watering finish. Sharper and more savory than it looks.

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Caribbean · 20 min · Easy

Caribbean Ginger Beer

A fierce, unfermented ginger beer: fresh ginger blended, steeped and strained into a syrup, then topped with soda water. All of the heat, none of the waiting.

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North American · 10 min · Easy

Chocolate Avocado Mousse

Five minutes, one blender, no cooking — ripe avocado and cocoa whipped into a mousse so dark and silky nobody will guess the base. Chill it and it sets like the real thing.

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East Asian · 15 min · Easy

Chrysanthemum and Goji Cooler

Dried chrysanthemum flowers and goji berries steeped into a pale gold, honeyed-floral tea, served cold with the softened berries still in the glass.

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European · 5 min · Easy

Elderflower and Lemon Cooler

Elderflower cordial cut with lemon, cucumber and mint over a lot of ice. Barely a recipe, and the most refreshing thing in the book.

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South Asian · 10 min · Easy

Jaljeera

A dark, herby, aggressively savory spiced water — mint, cilantro, tamarind and roasted cumin. Drunk as an appetiser, and it genuinely works as one.

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Caribbean · 25 min · Easy

Jamaican Sorrel Drink

Hibiscus steeped with ginger, clove and orange peel — the Caribbean Christmas drink, deep red and warmly spiced rather than simply tart.

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Southeast Asian · 25 min · Easy

Lemongrass and Ginger Cooler

Bruised lemongrass and ginger simmered into a fragrant, faintly citrus syrup, then chilled and lengthened with lime. Clean and grassy rather than sweet.

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Middle Eastern · 10 min · Easy

Limonana (Mint Lemonade)

Lemon juice and a whole bunch of mint blitzed with ice into a pale-green frozen slush. The drink of every Levantine summer street.

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African · 15 min · Easy

Moroccan Iced Mint Tea

Gunpowder green tea brewed strong over a fistful of spearmint, sweetened hot and poured over ice. Bracing, fragrant and very sweet, as it should be.

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South Asian · 5 min · Easy

Nimbu Pani

Indian lemonade, made savory with black salt and roasted cumin. Sweet, sour, salty and faintly smoky — the fastest cure there is for a hot afternoon.

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Caribbean · 10 min · Easy

Pineapple Ginger Punch

Fresh pineapple blended with ginger and lime into a thick, golden punch. Sweet, sour and hot all at once, and it takes ten minutes.

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Middle Eastern · 15 min · Easy

Rose and Lemon Sharbat

A pale, fragrant cordial of lemon, sugar and rose water, diluted to order. Floral and cold and old-fashioned, and it keeps for weeks.

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Mediterranean · 20 min · Easy

Smoky Roasted Almonds

Raw almonds roasted low until fragrant, then tossed warm with smoked paprika, cumin and a pinch of cayenne. Filling and full of healthy fats — portion them out.

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North American · 15 min · Easy

Strawberry Basil Lemonade

Strawberries crushed into lemonade with a handful of basil. The basil sounds odd and is the entire reason to make it.

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Southeast Asian · 5 min · Easy

Vietnamese Lime Soda

Soda chanh — lime juice and sugar syrup in a tall glass, topped with soda water and stirred at the table. Three ingredients, correctly assembled.

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Latin American · 10 min · Easy

Watermelon Agua Fresca

Ripe watermelon blended with water and lime into something lighter and more drinkable than juice. Five minutes of work and it tastes like the middle of summer.

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Latin American · 20 min · Easy

Watermelon and Mango Pico de Gallo

Watermelon and mango cut small and salted early so they give up their water in a colander rather than in the bowl, then tossed with red onion, chili, lime and cilantro. Sweet, sharp and hot at once, and it stays a salsa instead of collapsing into juice.

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African · 15 min · Easy

West African Ginger and Lime Juice

Gnamakoudji — raw ginger blended, steeped and strained, then sharpened with lime and sweetened. Sold ice-cold on every roadside from Bamako to Abidjan.

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