Healthy Pineapple, Lemon, Ginger drink

Recipe for Healthy Drink

Pineapple, Ginger, Lemon, honey is optional- something to pour it in

Peel and chop up ginger and blend - or use ginger paste

Wash and zest lemons, then juice or squeeze out lemon juice

Add lemon zest to water and simmer until lemon aroma is in the air

Wash and cut up pineapple, then blend

Using a fine sieve, put garlic in the bottom and pour lemon zest water over the top and press liquid out with a spoon. Throw fibers away. Add lemon juice to sieve and throw away seeds.

Add pineapple to the lemon juice, water, and ginger and stir until completely mixed together.

Sample and add filtered water as needed, add honey if added sweetness is desired.

Portions are a personal choice - more sweetness larger amount of pineapple, tartness more lemon, spicy hot add ginger. Honey makes it sweeter while staying organic, and adding water will make it thinner.

This is a drink that starts sweet, hits the the back of your jaw with tartness, and burns a little in the throat. It is really good!

Sister Grace shows how to make this Healthy Pineapple, Lemon, Ginger drink

Sister Grace is the Relief Society president of the North Ridge Ward in Accra, Ghana. When I was gone one week they made this drink in Relief Society at a Saturday meeting. I have been looking forward to Sister Grace coming to show me how it is made and was excited that today was the day!!

Sister Grace washing green lemons

Elder Dumevi went to the market and brought back pineapple, ginger, green lemons, and plastic bottles with caps.

Elder Dumevi washed all the ginger

Easy Steps: First wash the fruits and implements in filtered water. This is supposed to be a healthy drink and Sister Grace was very particular to make sure everything including the grater was washed.

She washed all the lemons and then put the zest of the lemons in water.

Cut up ginger and green lemon zest in water

Since I had peeled all the ginger before Elder Dumevi brought Sister Grace to my house, I cut it up in a bowl.

Then she cut all the lemons in half and squeezed the juice out. I did not have a juicer - I'll need one if I make this drink very often.

Sister Grace wanted the lemon zest in water to simmer until the lemon zest flavored the water.

Lemon zest on to simmer 

She blended all the garlic up with a little water to make a paste.

Blended garlic

The next step was to peel, cut, and blend up the pineapple. Sister Grace took the lemon zest off the stove and poured it into a bowl. We needed to use the pan as it was the only container big enough to put all the blended juices in.

The next step was to prepare the pineapple: Peel, chop, and blend with a little filtered water.

Chopping up the peeled pineapple

She was very quick with the peel and chop

Blending the pineapple in little batches

Using the biggest pan (and container) I have, Sister Grace took a sieve and added the ginger paste and  the lemon zest water. She used a spoon to push as much liquid as possible out of the ginger fiber and lemon zest

Pushing all liquid out.

After dumping the fiber out of the sieve, she poured the lemon juice and then threw out the seeds.

Pineapple blended

Add all together and mix thoroughly! Sample, taste and adjust.

Sister Grace added about a liter and a half of water and a little honey also.

Pouring the drink into the serving size bottles

Finished and ready to go! We left a little room as we are going to freeze it and bring it on Sunday to Relief Society to give to the ladies

I had so much fun and learned a little about Sister Grace. She is young, talented, enthusiastic and concerned about her ladies.

Elder Dumevi has become very important to me as he is the go to and from man. He picks up ingredients, picks up people, and then drops them all off. I don't know how I'd plan any activity without him.  Sister Grace is really a cool, nice lady.