This rose lemonade with basil seeds is refreshing and easy to make summer drink.

Soak 1 tsp of sabja seeds in 1/4 Cup of water for about 15 minutes for complete swelling of seeds.

Take a small sauce pan, add 1 cup of water and sugar, bring it to boil.

Once it started boiling, add dried rose petals and simmer it for 5 - 8 min until the essence of rose was steeped into water.

Once done switch off the heat and let it cool. At this stage you can optionally add the rose extract if the flavour of rose syrup is not enough.

Once the prepared syrup is cooled, add freshly squeezed lemon juice, note here colour of the syrup turns vibrant.

Filter out the syrup to remove rose petals.

Now add soaked basil/sabja seeds to the filtered syrup. Rose lemonade syrup is now ready.

The above prepared syrup is concentrated, so dilute it to 1:2 (syrup to water) ratios. That is One part of syrup and two parts of water.

I have about 2 cups of syrup and hence added 4 cups of water to make lemonade juice. Once diluted with water, colour of juice becomes pale pink colour.

Store this lemonade in refrigerator. Serve chilled!!!

TIPS:
Can store this lemonade either as syrup or diluted.
Can add mint leaves or other herbs too.