Grape Juice

My mother used to make this great summer drink often when we lived in Chennai (nee Madras). And many people used to ask her the recipe. It uses just three ingredients.

The colour of my grape juice is not vibrant only because I used white grapes, bought from Pollachi.

Recipe : Mrs. Radha Parameswaran, my mom.

Ingredients:
Grapes - 1.7 Kgs , with stalk
Sugar - 1 cup (more or less according to your family's taste)
Cloves - 4

Method:
Wash the grapes thoroughly.
Remove all the stem and wash again.
Pour just enough water to nearly immerse all the grapes.
Bring to a boil and keep covered for 2 minutes.
Turn off flame after 2 minutes.
Cool.
Use a mixer to pulp.
Sieve this pulp.
Boil sugar with 1 cup water and sieve to remove grime. Cool.
Powder the cloves and mix it with the sugar syrup.
Add the sugar syrup to the sieved grape juice.
Mix well and store in a glass bottle.
You kight have to add some water at the time of serving.

For serving:
Add glass cubes to a glass and add the sweetened grape pulp and adequate water.

Pictorial:

Water just enough to nearly immerse

post boiling / cooking

Making sugar syrup

cooled after cooking / boiling