Nam Manglak Spritzer Recipe

Max Falkowitz
Nam Manglak Spritzer Recipe
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  • Yield:serves 2 people
  • Active time:2 minutes
  • Total time:2 minutes
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Spice Hunting: Chewy Drinks with Basil Seed

[Photograph: Max Falkowitz]

Nam manglak can be as simple as water, crushed ice, basil seed, and some sweetener. This is ever so slightly more gussied up: flavored with rose, lime, and honey, made effervescent by sparkling water. It's an unbeatably refreshing combination for the hot sticky days to come.

This version of manglak isn't too sweet, but if you want to replicate the intense sweetness of many bottled basil seed drinks, add some simple syrup (infused with ginger if you're feeling ambitious) to the honey. More honey on its own would be overpowering.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sparkling water
  • 2 teaspoons basil seed
  • 3 tablespoons honey, or to taste
  • 1 teaspoon rose water
  • 1/2 to 1 teaspoon lime juice, to taste

Directions

  1. 1.

    Divide sparkling water into two glasses, then basil seed. Stir well to coat basil seeds with water until jelly-like coatings form. Stir in honey, rosewater, and lime juice to taste. Serve with crushed ice.

Max Falkowitz
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As a native of Queens, New York, Max developed an early hunger for dosas, dumplings, and Korean barbecue. Now he explores the city's evolving international food world by day and night. When not slurping noodles over a rickety table, he's in the kitchen tinkering with his ice cream maker on a never-ending quest to develop the best ice cream-making techniques.

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