What is a good sweetener for a variyali sharbat?Usually rock sugar (mishri) is used to sweeten the drink. You can use jaggery, sugar or honey if do not have rock sugar on hand. You can further flavor the basic variyali sharbat with dried black raisins, laung (cloves) and/or cardamom. Another variation of saunf sharbat is the use of lemon juice, black salt and mint leaves.
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