Paneer soda is a typical south Indian street drink just like sarbath. I knew there is one such drink even when I was a kid, through my mom, drooling when she says paneer soda. It's not the paneer – Indian cottage cheese, but this is rose water – Panneer.
It is used in Indian weddings by sprinkling over people to welcome guests. Also for mixing sandalwood powder and for puja purposes too. I so so love the fragrance of panneer. Be it in the rose ice (the triangle popsicles we get those days during summer) or any other sweets like jangri, I just go crazy about eating it.
And this panneer soda is also not an exception! I had a chance to drink it only 2 years back near a temple (Ettukudi) and loved it a lot. So only once that time, after that I had no luck drinking panneer soda.
Meanwhile here in SG, in pastamania we get Italian lychee soda (litchi as we say), which will be more like panneer soda only that, this will be more sweet. So I thought of trying my own panneer soda at home. And thought it would be helpful for all panneer soda lovers to try on their own. It's so simple and easy just 4 ingredients, you have delicious thirst quencher for this summer!
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Recipe card
paneer soda recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup Sugar
- ¾ cup Water
- 3 tablespoon Rose water/ panneer pure
- Plain soda - As needed for serving
Instructions
- Bring water and sugar to boil, continue boiling in medium flame for 3 minutes. Cool down.
- Add rose essence and stir well. Once cooled down, you can store it in airtight bottles and refrigerate it.
- When ever needed, at the time of serving, add 3 tblsp or 4 tblsp over few ice cubes placed in a glass as per your sweet preference and add chilled plain soda over it and mix well.
Notes
- You can replace rose essence with rose water we get in stores. In that case, use 2-3 tblsp in place of 3 drops of essence, as rose water is slightly diluted.
- Another way for enjoying this drink – if you have rose syrup at home, you can use that as well along with soda.
- Use always good quality essence. Consume as soon as you add the soda to enjoy the great taste. Always serve chilled.
Paneer soda method:
- Bring water and sugar to boil, continue boiling in medium flame for 3 minutes. Cool down. Add rose essence or rose water , stir well.
- Once cooled down, you can store it in airtight bottles and refrigerate it.
- Whenever needed, at the time of serving, add 3 tablespoon or 4 tablespoon over few ice cubes placed in a glass as per your sweet preference and add chilled plain soda over it and mix well.
Consume as soon as you add the soda to enjoy the great taste. Always serve chilled.
Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj
wow must be delicious aks... tasted this in small shop in my childhood...:)
JEYASHRI SURESH
Who will say no this panneer soda. It has been a very long time since we had this. Simple yet,Fantastic post
Chithra
yummy i loved a lot when i was young. thnk u 4 ur recipe. now i'll prepare at my home only
Sreemathy Mohan
Wow.. will try it for sure.. great photo
Anusha Rajendran
Just love this drink.. Thanks for sharing. Gonna try it out asap...
Sushma Madhuchandra
As a kid, I preferred the salty or the masala soda over the panneer one 🙂
Sowmya Madhavan
Nice one...
AparnaRajeshkumar
delicious 🙂 i always go for lemon soda ! never tried this paneer soda ! have to search or try my own !
EsVee
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EsVee
wow.. you've made nostalgia strike us all.. And the pics are simply superb.. Loved the first and last one with the refraction showing through.. science in clicking!
Priya Srinivasan
How much i love this drink, what fascinates more than the drink, is that bottle with the marble!!! 🙂 Truly Nostalgic, i have all the ingredients will try today!! 🙂 Thanks for sharing it Raji!!! 🙂
Wer SAHM
super easy panneer soda n its home made sounds cool...
Akila
Love panneer soda very much... Even now when I go to our kula theivam temple I used to drink this. after coming her switched to Lemon idea. Will try this now at home... Thank u so much Raji....
Shyamala S
ohh i cn feel it..daily me n my son hv in the eve aftr visiting srirangam tmple..thnks i cn do it n chennai too..
Shyamala S
ohh i cn feel it..daily me n my son hv in the eve aftr visiting srirangam tmple..thnks i cn do it n chennai too..
Priti S
bring back lot of memories for sure ....fab pics
prathibha Garre
nice clicks..best thirst quencher
ramsandhya
First time I am posting a comment in food blog! Nostalgia strikes me..Thanks for this wonderful post!!
Poorni
Awesome post Raks. I live in chennai. I have been craving for Paneer soda for the past few months of my pregnancy.I have been pestering my husband to buy it for me.He did not allow me to drink due to hygiene reasons.Today i'll make it at home and surprise him.I am so happy to see this post because i'll be able to drink paneer soda before my baby's arrival.Thank's a lot Raks
Premas Culinary
Nice post raji,love it...
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
This is such a wonderful post! brings back so much memories of childhood. I still drink this when I go back to my native ( a small village near Mayiladuthurai). My dad makes sure he gets a big crate of it, so I can gobble up as much as I can....thank you so much for posting it. I am going to try it soon 🙂
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
Agree priya! nothing like drinking this out of the bottle with the goli inside it 🙂
divya
Looks sooooooooooo inviting !
SANGI'S KITCHEN
Hi raks nice post i love paneer soda all ur recipies are fantastic and i tried most of them it came out well thanks i check ur blog regularly
Gayathri Ramanan
super cooler...wonderful click..
Veena Theagarajan
my fav! Love it super refreshing
Sangeetha M
this panneer soda is my H's fav drink...never knew that this can be made at home n its a very simple process...thanks for sharing..will try it sometime soon!
Shree
This must be really yummy !
madhuri raguram
I remember it drinking in typical soda bottle with a goli during my childhood whenever i have been to my dad's village...Thank You So Much for this recipie.....
Aruna Manikandan
wow...
wonderful post raji 🙂
love it...
Harini M
Wow thats wonderful,we always love to drink "kalimark panneer soda" :)your pics rock 🙂
Priya Suresh
Goli paneer soda, wat a nostalgic post..Beautifully done.
SHARMILEE J
Have tasted it few times, though not a big fan of it...looks very refreshing!
Second Helping
yum! Looks absolutely refreshing & delicious 🙂
Lavanya Ganesan
Thanks for sharing recipe . I tried it and it was the same taste we used drink in the petty shop.thanks Ramji
Lavanya Ganesan
Thanks for the post.I tried it and it was the same as we use to drink in the petty shop.
Raks anand
Thank you for your feedback 🙂
Raj
Hi,
Thanks for posting this. I'm a big lover of this drink and missing it ever since i moved out of India. 🙁
Will try this as soon as i go home today. Thanks once again for posting.
Raj
Prashanth Palanisamy
I used to drink this in Madurai every time i used to go there for my summer hols. My periamma used to buy this for me. Thank you soo much for getting this back !
Subramanian Iyer
The recipe and the Photography makes me so thirsty !!!! Had the Goli Panneer soda and Rose Milk ( what is me with Rose essence ??!! ) in Mylapore !!
Subramanian Iyer
The recipe and the Photography makes me thirsty !!! Had Goli Panneer soda during my last trip to Chennai !!