How to Make Lemon Grass Drink

Serve: 4

Preparation time: 5 mins

Cooking time: 1 ½ hours

Ingredients needed to make Lemon Grass Drink:

• 8 cups water
• 6 tbsp sugar
• 6 large fresh lemon grass stalks, halved crosswise

Cooking instructions for Lemon Grass Drink:

• Trim off the base of the root and rinse it under cold running water.
• Peel off the outer leaves and pound them with a mortar and pestle at the juiciest part of the stalk to crush it.
• Plop the lemon grass into a pot of water and heat until it starts boiling.
• Reduce the heat and bring the mixture to a simmer.
• Continue to do so for about 1½ hours or until the water turn light greenish in colour.
• Spoon in the sugar and stir them into the lemon grass water until it dissolves.
• Pass it through a strainer to remove the lemon grass bits and pour it into four tall glasses.
• Plop in several ice cubes in each glass and serve chilled.

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Last Updated on February 14, 2013 by