richard-in-cincy
Well-known member
I may have mentioned this before, but I absolutely love this stuff.
I saw a big bottle of it beckoning seductively during a trip to the Indian market, with it's deep ruby color, and the exotic colorful label full of roses, flowers, herbs, etc. Also, with my recent forays into Egyptian/Arabic cuisine and, subsequently, the intense flavor world of Sharbats/Shorbits (Sherbets in English, but Arabic Sherbets are intensely concentrated fruit syrups used to flavor iced water for a cooling and refreshing beverage), I had no choice but to drop the exotic bottle of Sharbat Roohafza into my basket.
I’ve been using it to make mango lassis, just a tsp pureed into the mango, joghurt, and ice, give a wonderful, exotic, and perfumed treat to a drink that I have to make several times a week now.
So I finally translated the ingredients list (it’s in Latin and Hindi) to see what all was in this magical potion. Since I love this stuff so much, I thought I’d post the ingredient list with my hearty endorsement of it should you happen upon a bottle at your Indian market.
Sharbat Roohafza Ingredients: pineapple, coriander, Queen Ann’s Lace root (wild carrot), purslane, watermelon, spinach, wild mint, Egyptian loohfa, chicory, grape, sandalwood, vetiver, lichen, white water lily, sedge, screw pine flower, orange juice, citron, and Damascus Rose oil.
Yummy stuff!
I saw a big bottle of it beckoning seductively during a trip to the Indian market, with it's deep ruby color, and the exotic colorful label full of roses, flowers, herbs, etc. Also, with my recent forays into Egyptian/Arabic cuisine and, subsequently, the intense flavor world of Sharbats/Shorbits (Sherbets in English, but Arabic Sherbets are intensely concentrated fruit syrups used to flavor iced water for a cooling and refreshing beverage), I had no choice but to drop the exotic bottle of Sharbat Roohafza into my basket.
I’ve been using it to make mango lassis, just a tsp pureed into the mango, joghurt, and ice, give a wonderful, exotic, and perfumed treat to a drink that I have to make several times a week now.
So I finally translated the ingredients list (it’s in Latin and Hindi) to see what all was in this magical potion. Since I love this stuff so much, I thought I’d post the ingredient list with my hearty endorsement of it should you happen upon a bottle at your Indian market.
Sharbat Roohafza Ingredients: pineapple, coriander, Queen Ann’s Lace root (wild carrot), purslane, watermelon, spinach, wild mint, Egyptian loohfa, chicory, grape, sandalwood, vetiver, lichen, white water lily, sedge, screw pine flower, orange juice, citron, and Damascus Rose oil.
Yummy stuff!