Mint Juice (Pudina Juice)
The best drink to sip on for rejuvenating your senses on a hot summer day is this Mint Juice. Call it Mint Juice, Pudina Juice, Lemon Mint Juice, Pudina Sharbat, Mint Panna or whatever your heart desires, this beverage acts as a natural coolant for the body and can be stirred-up quickly. With or without the spices, this Mint Juice recipe is absolutely a must-try during the summer season.
The Mint Stint
Mint or pudina is one herb that grows very easily without the use of any special seeds. All you have to do is use the mint stems which have roots on it, push them in the soil in a pot, water and wait till the mint plant eventually flourishes with tiny leaves coming out of the stem.
Whenever you want to use the leaves, just snip them from the stem. You don’t have to remove the whole plant from the mud like for coriander or other herbs. Just cut the required quantity, the plant will continue to grow.
More on this Mint Juice
This Mint Juice is one of those many other creations of mine that has fresh mint leaves from my balcony garden. It is simple, nutritious and a super summer cooler apt to beat the sweltering heat and level-up the energy levels instantly.
The best combination that there can ever be is that of fresh mint and lemon. Thus, I have added lemon juice in this drink. You can also garnish this Lemon Mint Juice with lemon wedges while serving. The punch from the cumin powder makes it extra awesome.
Since I used jaggery as a sweetener in this Pudina Juice, I did not have the beautiful green color at the end. Using sugar along with lemon juice while preparing will retain the bright green hue in this Juice.
My balcony garden is overflowing with mint shrubs most of the times. So, in addition to this juice recipe, I end up making a lot of other beverages like Chaas, Watermelon Juice and Mint Tea.
Mint also lends an amazing flavor in salads, chutneys and rice dishes. Some of my favorites include this Fruit Salad, Kachumber Salad, Mint Chutney and Pudina Rice.
Health Benefits of Mint Juice
Mint is always a preferred choice when it comes to health benefits. So, it obviously makes this juice too a great choice for health and nutrition.
These are some of the reasons why it is really effective for your body, mind and system:
- Mint is good for digestion. Thus, this Pudina Juice is the perfect recipe to tackle the problems of the digestive tract. The cumin powder in it also adds to this.
- It has detoxifying, antiseptic and cleansing properties. So, automatically the Lemon Mint Juice becomes a good choice if you want to follow a detox diet.
- It is super for the skin, imparts a lovely glow and makes the skin radiant.
- This Pudina Juice is a great source of vitamins and minerals due to the presence of mint leaves in it.
In addition to all these points, this Lemon Mint Juice is known to be effective in tackling morning sickness, nausea, stress, anxiety and hypertension as well.
Expert Tips
- You can add sugar or honey instead of jaggery in this recipe. The sweetness can be adjusted according to your preferences.
- Make sure to remove the mint leaves from the stems as using the stems might add some bitterness in the juice.
- Depending on your taste preferences, you can skip the cumin powder and/or add chaat masala too while serving. You can also consider adding some ginger to the juice.
- The best way to serve Mint Juice is chilled with ice cubes. In case you don’t want to do so, you can use chilled water to make the drink and consume it immediately.
- Preserve the bright green color of the drink by using sugar and lemon juice instead of jaggery.
- While it is best to drink immediately after making, Mint Juice stays good for a few hours in the refrigerator. You can freeze the leftover juice into ice cubes or popsicles for refreshing treats.
Step by Step Photo Guide Above
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh mint leaves (pudina)
- 9 to 10 tablespoons jaggery powder or sugar, add as required
- ¼ cup water or add as required
- ½ teaspoon black salt or regular salt
- 1 teaspoon Cumin Powder (jeera powder)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Remove the mint leaves from the stems. Rinse in water for a couple of times. Drain all the water.
- Add all the rinsed mint leaves, jaggery or sugar, salt, cumin powder, lemon juice and water in a blender and blend to a smooth and fine paste.
- Strain the juice mixture.
- Take ¼ amount of the strained mint juice in a glass. Add ¾ amount of water. Mix well.
- Add a few ice cubes and serve the Mint Juice cold.
Notes
- Use fresh and tender mint leaves. Try not to use the stems as they can make the juice taste bitter.
- Adjust the amount of jaggery or your preferred sweetener, lemon juice and salt according to your preferences.
- Any fruit or herb juice is best served as soon as it is made. So is the case with this mint juice. If there are any leftovers then refrigerate for a few hours only.
- Scale the recipe to make more quantities of the mint juice.
Nutrition
This Mint Juice post from the blog archives first published in June 2012 has been republished and updated on 16 May 2022.
Hi dear, can I prepare mint mixture strain and keep in fridge and use it next day. Please help.
yes you can this way, but the flavors will change. i would suggest to make the mixture and keep for a few hours only in the fridge.
Good recipes
Wonderful. Have to try this. I usually make mint juice with a handful mint leaves, a small piece of ginger and make a paste of it. To this I add some water, sugar, a dash of lemon and sometimes a pinch of chat masala or pepper.
Have to try your version… Thanks for the recipe…
surely try shruthi and let us know how it was? thanks for sharing your version and you are welcome.
This drink is wonderful…do you have any ideas how to conservre it?I believe this could be shared and sold to like minded people
thanks mike. you will have to add artificial preservatives.
Can the mint juice be preserved?
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Revathi
no the mint juice cannot be preserved.
Yes. I can be. Dry the mint leaves.make a powder of mint leaves.add cumin powder, powdered jaggery and black salt. Mix all the ingredients and store in jar. To make sharbat add this powder and lemon to water with ice cubes 🙂
People with body heat may use it in winters also 🙂 make sure you have enough of mint leaves dries for the winter 😉
thanks for sharing this method.
Hey Dassana…thanks a lot for the tips on how to grow mint leaves in my backyard. I have been searching the net for info on the same, but without any effective help. And BTW nice yummy looking sherbet and great photography too! Sure gonna try this cooler !!!
thanks for this positive comment. apart from mint, you can grow other useful herbs and plants at home like coriander, tulsi, curry leaves etc.
what a good web site is it to make pudina jucies
hello dassana ur recipe made my cooking fun….i am homemaker and i lik to try new recipes n u help me a lot….
thanks ekta
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Loved reading your interview… it’s so good to know more about you… You are truly a beautiful person… inside out!
thanks anisha….. will hop to your blog once i am back from my vacation.
This is just awesome a drink starring mint. I too have mint growing in my balcony garden…used up a lot of them making mojitos, it won’t be long when I will have more growing up… I would love to try this drink… though it’s raining here I’m sure I’ll make it on a sunny day.. 🙂
Wow….
Its so easy to make… 😛
Thanks for sharing… 🙂
hey Dassana..i m just slurping over the pics..too good..and ur interview was a nice one..if i were to interview u i would hv asked many more questions as u are a pleasing personality and would like to know more about u, ur belief in spirituality etc..anyways good to know ur recognition is widespread God Bless!
thanks suhani… my recognition is not widespread. not much people know about me or my blog. but i enjoy what i do and have fun with my blogging and photography 🙂
Surely, Mint leaves goes well with many preparations and its aromatic fragrance enhances the taste and flavour to a great extent. It has also many medicinal value and is supposed to enhance the digestive capacity of the lever. It’s a coolant too and your recipefor a Mint sherbath would go a long way to beat the summer heat.
thanks ram. i did not know about the liver fact. yes it a really good cooler drink for the summers.
What a refreshing and amazing drink.
This sounds delicious. I grow mint, but I can’t grow enough so that I can eat it as often as I’d like — I’d need a whole row of pots and a sunnier climate.
Sure a healthy twist…nice refreshing drink and lovely clicks too!
Hey…surely refreshing drink for summers, I also like mint leaves a lot and use them in my routine cooking, I liked the mint leaves pic.
thanks anamika. more pics and a post on my balcony garden will come soon 🙂
That was one impressive interview! It truly reflects your personality, which actually caught my attention before your recipes.
Your mint juice is something I want to try soon. I have mint growing in my pots like weeds. I actually planted the stems even without roots. They had withered away in winter and came back to life in Spring.
thanks family cook 🙂