Lime & Lemon Grass Cooler

#Drink #Lemon #Lime

Serves: 4

Prep Time: 1h 20 mins (incl. 1h marination)

Cooking Time: 15 mins

Source: Cookshelf Thai

Ingredients:

2 limes

1 small lemon grass stalk

3 tbsp caster sugar

4 ice cubes

125 ml/4 fl oz water

4 lime slices

soda water

To decorate egg white (ensure Lion mark)

caster sugar

Method:

To decorate the glasses, frost the rims. Pour a little egg white into a saucer. Dip the rim of each glass briefly into egg white and then into caster sugar.

Cut each lime into 8 pieces and coursely chop the lemon grass. Place the lime pieces and lemon grass in a blender or food processor with the sugar and ice cubes.

Add the water and process for a few seconds, but not until completely smooth.

Strain the mixture into the frosted glasses. Add a lime slice to each glass and top up to taste with soda water. Serve at once.

COOK'S TIP

It's important not to blend the limes for too long-a few seconds is enough to chop them finely and extract the juice. If you process to far, the drink will have a bitter flavour.