Cucumber Chia Fresca Recipe – Cucumber Chia Drink Recipe with step wise pictures.
Cucumber Chia Fresca is a delicious drink on a hot day. Refreshing easy cucumber lemon juice or cucumber lemon chia drink which taste so yummy on this hot summer days.
This is a drink which taste so delicious. If you want you can add a small piece of ginger in with the juice. Cucumber has lots of water content and having this during hot summer days will make you so hydrated.
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Do you know! Chia seeds has as much calcium as a glass of milk, more Omega-3s than a serving of walnuts, as many antioxidantsas blueberries. It is one of the highly nutritious seed.
Chia seeds contains,
- Essential Fatty Acids
- Protein
- Vitamins A, B, E and D
- Minerals like calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, copper, zinc, magnesium, manganese, niacin, thiamine, and others
- Antioxidants
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
- Cucumber - 3 cups peeled and chopped
- Lemon Juice to taste
- Sugar to taste
- Chia Seeds - 1 tblsp
- Soak chia seeds in water for few hours so it can bloom.
- Take cucumber in a blender and puree till smooth.
- Strain it.
- Add lemon juice and sugar. MIx well.
- Chill for few hours.
- Serve cold.
Pictorial:
1)First Bloom chia seed as mentioned here.
1)Take cucumber and lemon
2)Peel the cucumber
3)Remove the seeds
4)Chop into small pieces
5)Take it in a blender
6)Puree till smooth
7)Place a strainer over a bowl.
8)Pour it in
9)Press and extract as much juice as possible
10)Clear cucumber juice
11)Add lemon juice
12)Add sugar to taste
13)Mix well.
14)Add bloomed chia seeds in
15)Mix well
16)Serve
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