Author: Atsa
Refreshing cold drinks are not to be missed during iftar. Thirst immediately disappears instantly and it feels so refreshing if you break the fast with a cold sweet drink. So that you don’t get bored with the same drinks, we present 10 delicious and refreshing iftar menu ideas.
1. Cucumber Suri Ice
Material :
Cucumber suri – 1 piece
Cocopandan syrup – 1 bottle
Boiled water – 2 liters
Ice cubes as needed
How to make :
- Peel the cucumber and remove the seeds. Cut into dice shape. set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together water, syrup, cucumber suri, and ice cubes. Stir well.
- Transfer into a serving glass, ready to serve.
2. Bird’s Nest Ice

Material :
Agar powder is red – 1 pack
Water – 500 ml
Granulated sugar – 4 tbsp
Complementary:
Melon, take the fruit with a baller – 1/2 fruit
Kiwi, cut into pieces – 2 pieces
Nata de coco – 200 grams
Basil seeds, soaked in a little warm water – 1 tbsp
Red syrup – 1/2 bottle
Water – 1 liter
Ice cubes as needed
How to make :
- In a saucepan, mix all the bird’s nest ingredients. Stir well and boil until boiling. Remove and pour into a square tin. Let it harden. Grate the jelly lengthwise with a cheese grater. set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix the melon, nata, kiwi, grated agar, syrup, water and ice cubes. Stir well. Add basil seeds.
- Ready to serve in small glasses.
3. Avocado Ice

Material :
Ripe avocado – 2 pieces
Evaporated milk (1 can) – 380 grams
Nata de coco, and water – 250 grams
White sweetened condensed milk – 60 ml
Basil – 1 tbsp
Pandan paste – 5 drops
Ice cubes as needed
How to make :
- Dredge the avocado flesh, set aside. Then soak the basil in water until it swells, set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix evaporated milk, nata de coco and water, sweet white condensed milk, and pandan paste. Stir until well mixed.
- Add the avocado flesh and basil then stir well.
- Add ice cubes or chill in the refrigerator.
- Avocado ice is ready to be served.
4. Aloe Vera Ice

Material :
Aloe Vera – 500 grams
Salt – 1 tsp
Betel lime – 1 tbsp
Pandan leaves – 4 pieces
Granulated sugar – 100 grams
Lemon, squeeze the juice – 1 fruit
Basil seeds, soak in hot water – 1 tsp
Melon syrup – to taste
Boiled water – to taste
Ice cubes as needed
How to make :
- Peel the skin of the aloe vera and then cut the flesh into dice. Wash clean and drain.
- In a container, mix water with salt and whiting. Stir well. Soak the aloe vera pieces for 1 hour. Rinse the aloe vera until the mucus is gone. Drain well.
- In a saucepan, boil water with sugar, pandan leaves and lemon juice.
- Add aloe vera and mix well. Cook for 5 minutes over medium heat. Lift and drain. Set aside the cooking water.
- In a serving glass, put aloe vera, basil, and ice cubes. Give enough syrup and pour the cooking water.
- Ready to be served.
5. Fruit Soup

Material :
Dragon fruit – 500 grams
Avocado – 400 grams
Mango – 500 grams
Grapes – 250 grams
Papaya – 500 grams
Dried basil seeds – 2 tbsp
Pandan – 2 sheets
Granulated sugar – 150 grams
Water – 1 liter
Sweet heavy cream – 200 ml
Nata de coco – 250 grams
How to make :
- Cook water, sugar and pandan until the pandan leaves are cooked and the water is fragrant. Set aside and leave at room temperature.
- Dice or scrape the avocado using a tablespoon.
- Dredging uses round dredges for dragon fruit and papaya
- Cut the grapes into quarters.
- Soak the basil seeds in warm water and let the seeds swell.
- Solution: Put in a container sweetened thick cream, pandan water, basil seeds and red dragon fruit. Then stir well after that gradually add nata decoco, mango, grapes, papaya and lastly avocado.
6. Ice Kopyor

Material :
Unflavored jelly – 1 pack
Instant coconut milk – 1 pack
Granulated sugar – 3 tbsp
Salt – a pinch
Pandan leaves – 2 sheets
Boiled water – 500 ml
Ice cubes as needed
Coco pandan syrup – to taste
Sweetened condensed milk – to taste
How to make :
- Add agar-agar, coconut milk, granulated sugar, salt, pandan leaves and boiled water into a saucepan and stir well.
- Cook over low-medium heat while continuing to stir until it boils. Turn off the fire.
- Let stand for a while until the hot steam dissipates, then strain the mixture into a clean container.
- Prepare large ice cubes in a container, pour the mixture spoonful by spoonful onto the ice cubes, do it until the mixture runs out. Strain and drain the kopyor that is formed.
- Prepare a glass, add cocopandan syrup, ice cubes, then kopyor and finally add sweetened condensed milk. Serve.
7. Manado Ice

Material :
Soursop – 1 fruit
Whole young coconut – 1 fruit
Nata de coco – 250 grams
Basil, soak boiled water – 1 tbsp
Sweetened condensed – 100 grams
Granulated sugar – 100 grams
Water – 300 ml
Avocado, cut into squares – 1 piece
Mango, cut into squares – 1 fruit
Jelly :
Agar agar plain – 1 pack
Plain jelly powder – 1 tsp
Water – 1 liter
Granulated sugar – 150 grams
Food coloring (red, green, orange) – to taste
How to make :
- Agar-Agar: Mix all the ingredients for agar-agar together except the food coloring, cook until boiling. Divide into 3 equal parts, then add red, green and orange coloring to each. Cool, then set into small cubes.
- Peel the soursop, remove the seeds then blend with sugar and 300 ml of water.
- Put the soursop juice in a container, add the young coconut meat and its water, condensed sweet and basil, mix well. Lastly add the pieces of agar-agar, avocado and mango, mix well.
- Add ice cubes or store in the refrigerator until cold.
- Ready to serve after chilled.
8. Teler Ice

Material :
Avocado, dredging the flesh – 1 fruit
Jackfruit, shredded – 2 seeds
Young coconut, take the water and dredge the meat – 1 fruit
Sweetened condensed milk – 4 tbsp
Ice cubes, crushed – to taste
How to make :
- In a serving glass, put enough ice cubes. Give a little coconut water (about 5 tbsp / portion)
- Add the avocado flesh, young coconut and jackfruit.
- Flush with sweetened condensed milk.
- Ready to be served.
9. Ice Selendang Mayang

Material :
Hunkwe flour @ 1 pack – 80 grams
Rice flour – 50 grams
Water – 600 ml
Sugar – 2 tbsp
Vanilla powder – 1/2 tsp
Pandan paste – to taste
Red food coloring – to taste
Coconut milk solution:
Coconut milk – 300 ml
Pandan leaves – 1 sheet
Salt – 1/2 tsp
Sugar Solution:
Brown sugar – 200 grams
Granulated sugar – 50 grams
Water – 150 ml
How to make :
- Prepare a bowl, mix hunkwe flour, rice flour, sugar, vanilla powder and water. Stir until everything is evenly mixed.
- Divide the dough into 3 containers. Fill the first container with 4-5 drops of pandan paste, add the second container with 4-5 drops of red food coloring.
- Heat the first container (green) using a saucepan while continuing to stir until it thickens, then place it in the container/pan. Heat the container containing the white mixture (without color) until it thickens, then pour it over the green mixture. Do the same for the red dough.
- Wait for the dough to set and harden then cut into pieces, set aside.
- Making the Coconut Milk Solution: Heat the coconut milk, pandan leaves and salt to a boil while continuing to stir so that the coconut milk doesn’t break, remove and set aside.
- Making the Sugar Solution: Heat the water, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until it boils and all the sugar dissolves. Remove and set aside.
10. Red Bean Ice

Material :
Red beans, soak overnight – 200 grams
Water – 1 liter
Brown Java Sugar – 3 pieces
Granulated sugar – 3 tbsp
Salt – 1/2 tsp
Vanilla powder – 1/2 tsp
Thick coconut milk – 100 ml
Condensed sweet – to taste
Cocopandan syrup – to taste
Shaved ice – to taste
How to make :
- Soak red beans overnight, then wash thoroughly. Boil red beans using water until tender. If less water can be added.
- Add brown sugar, granulated sugar, vanilla powder and salt to the red bean stew. Boil until the water shrinks and thickens. Remove and set aside.
- Heat the thick coconut milk until it boils while continuing to stir. Remove and set aside.
- Prepare a bowl, arrange the red beans on the bottom of the bowl. Add enough ice cubes then top with sweetened condensed milk, cocopandan syrup, thick coconut milk, and red beans.
- Red bean ice is ready to be enjoyed.
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Atsarina Luthfiyyah (Senior Editor)
Has educational experience in the field of Catering and Journalism. Hobbies are writing, traveling and cooking. S2 Gadjah Mada University in Communication Studies
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