Sharbat (drink)

Not to be confused with Sherbet (frozen dessert) or Sorbet.
Two kinds of Iranian sharbat (center is lemon and right is cherry sharbat) along with Iranian tea (left)

Sharbat (Persian: شربت, pronounced [ʃæɾˈbæt]; also transliterated as shorbot, šerbet or sherbet) is a drink prepared from fruit or flower petals.[1] It is a sweet cordial, and usually served chilled. It can be served in concentrated form and eaten with a spoon or diluted with water to create the drink.

Popular sharbats are made of one or more of the following: basil seeds, rose water, fresh rose petals, sandalwood, bael, hibiscus, lemon, orange, mango, pineapple, grape, falsa (Grewia asiatica) and chia seeds.

Sharbat is common in homes of Iran, Turkey, Bosnia, Arab world, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India, and popularly consumed by Muslims when breaking their daily fast during the month of Ramadan.[2]

An Indonesian, especially Javanese, drink called serbat is commonly found during the month of Ramadan. The most popular is made by mixing cold water, simple syrup, and shredded cantaloupe, popularly known as serbat blewah or cantaloupe sherbet.

  1. ^ Molavi, Afshin (2002). Persian Pilgrimages. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 113. ISBN 0-393-05119-6.
  2. ^ "The World's First Soft Drink". Muslim Heritage. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24.