Pomegranate Coconut Rhapsody and my visit with mom.

Whenever I visit my mom in Cochin, I love our trips around the city together. Visiting friends, relatives, shopping, shopping, shopping…

And with the traffic and afternoon heat, I am always relieved when I see the vendors selling fresh coconut water by the roadside. I absolutely love scooping the flesh out, after I have finished the water.  The coconuts in Singapore are very different. Sweeter and more perfumey.

My moms’ friends were coming around for a tea party and we wanted to have a special welcoming drink for them to beat the heat.

It was my idea to use coconut water as the base.. because I just find it to be the most refreshing drink.. especially if chilled! Then we wanted to add the perfect juice blend… And I found a really tasty store-bought pomegranate juice that worked out beautifully.  We needed ice-cubes but didn’t want the watered-down flavor, as the ice melts, so I decided to make pretty ice cubes that add beauty to any drink.

And to bring it together, into a cocktail like ‘cooler’ we used mom’s ginger-chili sweet syrup. She always has a big jar of this stuff in the kitchen. We add it to lemonade, tea.. even tang. It’s a favorite of my daughters as well..

One day I will add the recipes of all my moms’ syrups. She’s got quite a few and they really work magic on drinks and desserts!

So here it is our joint creation. Pomegranate Coconut Rhapsody! I thought it was the perfect name – free-flowing, contrasting and improvised.

Excerpt from Wikipedia: A Rhapsody in ‘music’ is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, color and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations.

Pomegranate Coconut Rhapsody | RAS Special Mocktail

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Making the syrup  with roasted/ smoked dried chilies, a mixture of small fresh chilies, and fresh ginger :

Key Ingredients: Tender Coconut Water, Tender Coconut Flesh, Pomegranate seeds, Pomegranate juice, Sugar, Water, Ginger, Chillies.

EAT AND TELL!!!

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