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Sri Lankan GInger Beer

Inguru Drink

Ingredients
  

  • 50-75 mm piece ginger crushed
  • 1 litre water
  • ½ cup sugar or kithul treacle
  • Juice of 1–2 limes
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 cinnamon stick optional
  • 2-3 cloves optional
  • Soda water optional

How to make it
 

  1. Boil water with crushed ginger, cinnamon, and cloves; simmer 10–15 minutes until aromatic, then cool completely.
  2. Strain out solids, dissolve sugar or treacle into the liquid, and stir in lime juice and salt.
  3. Chill, and top with optional soda water upon serving.