Refreshing Middle Eastern Apricot Drink “Amar el Din”

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Also knows as “Amardeen” or “Amar al Deen”, this refreshing apricot drink is easy to make and full of delicious nutrients. In the Middle East it is an welcome part of every Ramadan meal, but you can use this recipe to enjoy it all year round, especially in the hot summer months!

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*Ingredients*
► One package of dried apricot paste. https://a.co/d/9YRcJeB
► One cup of sugar
► 6 cups boiling water

*Directions*
► Cut the paste into squares.
► Place the squares in a bowl and soak them in the boiling water for 2 hours
► briefly blend the mixture with the sugar (more or less, according to your preference) so that some small chunks of apricot paste remain.
► Refrigerate and serve cold

*Enjoy!*
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[Music] hi everyone welcome to ness’s Mediterranean Kitchen today I’m going to show you a unique drink made out of dried apricot paste it’s called amaran let’s start here is the dried apricot paste it comes in packages and you can buy it in any Arabic store or you can order it online from Amazon so what I will do is I will open it and cut it into small pieces it’s usually made in Syria because they have the best apricot this is how it looks like from inside I’m going to cut it to small pieces so Amar they use it during the month of Ramadan it’s one of the most important drinks that they have on the table and also there is another dish that they make with Amarin it’s like a pudding that I will make in another episode I think it’s easier to use scissors to cut it to small pieces and I will put it in a bowl here and then I will add boiling water because the whole idea is to let it melt in boiling water and then we’ll blend it with sugar and let it cool because you’re supposed to uh represent it cold it’s a cold drink smells very nice and some people including me like to eat it as is it’s a dried apricot it tastes very sweet and delicious so it is sweet but not really it’s like semi sweet so that’s why I have here half a cup of sugar I’m not going to use the sugar now step one is to soak it in boiling water and then step two is to blend it with the sugar in the blender so step one is to add six cups of boiling water on one package of Apple OT of dried apricot paste and leave it for 2 hours and then we are going to blend it so I will see you in two hours and I will show you the next step now the Amar jeene or the dried apricot paste is ready to be Blended I left it for two hours it melted uh like 90% you see the pieces are very very soft and it’s easy now to blend it so I’m going to transfer it to my blender then I’m going to add a half2 cup of sugar I will put the lid and turn it on low first I blended it for one or two minutes it’s very nice if you have little tiny pieces of apricot inside and so I I blend did it but not too much so I can keep a little bit of pieces of apricot my Amar Jean is now ready and you present it cold and enjoy on a hot summer day thank you for watching my episode today and hope you can give it a try and let me know in the comments below how it goes see you next [Music] time