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Two recipes for homemade Coca-Cola without dyes and flavors
Unbearable summer heat makes us think more often about soft drinks. But many of them, unfortunately, consist only of sugar and all kinds of chemistry.
A natural alternative is homemade Coca-Cola, two recipes of which we offer readers.
If your kids are constantly demanding Coke, offer them our drink. There is a note of the well-known cola in it, but all the ingredients are natural, and it will take no more than half an hour to cook.
Homemade Coca-Cola Recipe with oranges, lime and cinnamon Ingredients
Preparation
Recipe with rosehip syrup and chicory
The ingredients
Preparation
The children will be delighted, and you will be calm for their health. What are the benefits of this drink? Chicory contains inulin - a substance used to improve digestion. And blueberry and rosehip syrups are natural immunostimulants and a storehouse of vitamin C.
A natural alternative is homemade Coca-Cola, two recipes of which we offer readers.
If your kids are constantly demanding Coke, offer them our drink. There is a note of the well-known cola in it, but all the ingredients are natural, and it will take no more than half an hour to cook.
Homemade Coca-Cola Recipe with oranges, lime and cinnamon Ingredients
- 1 liter of water
- 1 lemon
- 300g sugar (5 tbsp for caramel, the rest in syrup)
- 1 lime
- 2 oranges
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 0.25 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
- 2 tbsp natural coffee
- 0.5 tsp vanilla essence
Preparation
- Pour into the pan 5 tablespoons of sugar, pour a tablespoon of water.
- Set on a very low fire, stirring constantly.
- After a couple of minutes, the water will evaporate, and the sugar will dry and look like salt.
- Keep stirring, after a while it will begin to melt and begin to darken. It gets dark very quickly and it is important not to bring it to black. As soon as the bubbles appear, gently pour a glass of hot water. Boil this mixture for 20-30 seconds and turn it off. The natural dye, thanks to which the home Coca-Cola will get its signature color, is ready.
- Wash the citrus well.
- Take off the citrus peel and film. Squeeze the juice.
- Cedar, cinnamon, coriander, nutmeg and sugar pour a liter of boiling water. Boil one minute.
- Turn off the fire. Pour citrus juice, vanilla extract and cooked dye. Pour coffee with a cup of boiling water (150 ml), strain and add to the other ingredients. If you give a drink to children, you can not add coffee. But with it comes that special taste.
- Chill the syrup, put it in the fridge and strain it overnight.
- Serve this: a leaf of mint, a piece of ice, half a glass of syrup and half a glass of carbonated water.
Recipe with rosehip syrup and chicory
The ingredients
- 1.5 liters of carbonated water
- 2 tbsp rosehip syrup
- 2 tbsp blueberry syrup
- 3 tbsp chicory
- 5 tbsp sugar
Preparation
- Mix in a glass of syrups, sugar, chicory and pour some water. Thoroughly stir the mixture until the loose components are completely dissolved.
- Filtrate the resulting essence through 2 layers of gauze.
- Now slowly and carefully pour the mixture into a soda bottle. The slower you do that, the less foam will come out of the bottle.
- Ready, our useful homemade Coca-Cola is ready!
The children will be delighted, and you will be calm for their health. What are the benefits of this drink? Chicory contains inulin - a substance used to improve digestion. And blueberry and rosehip syrups are natural immunostimulants and a storehouse of vitamin C.
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