Serendib Kitchen

I promised you mocktail recipes! Here’s one. Soul Refresher: Watermelon & Rose Iced Tea (serves 6) Rooh Afza is a traditional syrup formulated in 1906 in Ghaziabad, British India by Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed, combining several ingredients commonly believed to be cooling agents, such as rose — its name is sometimes translated as “refresher of

(makes two) This is the delightfully simple cocktail you’ll want to sip as you dance through a rain shower, your pink sari plastered to your body, while your eyes flirt demurely with your stunningly attractive admirer. 1 c. watermelon chunks 1 oz. vodka 1 t. rosewater 1 t. kithul treacle (or honey) rose petals to

(makes 2) This is one of my more complex cocktails, and requires a few notes: a) It’s getting easier to find fresh jackfruit in American grocery stores; if you can’t find fresh, look for frozen. You can also buy canned ripe jackfruit, but that usually comes in a sweet syrup, so the end result will

I’ve started working on recipes for the little cocktail cookbook; I promised it as part of the Vegan Serendib Kickstarter. My goal is to do a mocktail version to pair with each cocktail; we’ll see if I can do that in an interesting way, rather than just taking out the alcohol. For example, for this

(25 minutes + marinating time, makes 8 skewers) This is a fusion-y sort of recipe, taking a shawarma-style approach, but with Sri Lankan flavors, adapted from a recipe found in Bon Appétit magazine. I was aiming for something I could easily prep on a weeknight and throw on the grill, and this worked really well

(Makes 24 mini-muffins or 12 regular muffins) You can certainly make these in regular muffin pans, but I was making these for my Patreon treat boxes, which have a fairy theme this month, so I went for mini muffins instead — smaller, cuter, fairy-sized. It does take a little longer this way to fill and