Tomato and Beet Mocktail

This is a dish inspired by a television cookery show. It was not a bad idea afterall to make a mocktail entirely using vegetable juices, although Tomato isn't strictly a vegetable but a fruit. Going simply by the taste, my husband called it a liquid salad :-)

Ingredients:

Serves Two

1/2 a large Beet cut into quarters
3-4 tomatoes
7-8 Basil leaves
salt to taste
1 tsp pepper powder
Juice of 1/2 a lemon

Method:

Puree the beets and keep aside. Now blend smoothly the tomatoes and basil seperately with some salt. In a mocktail glass, first add the beet juice to about half of it. Now with a spoon gently add the tomato-basil juice to form a layer on top of the beet. Now drizzle some lemon juice on top and sprinkle some pepper powder. Garnish it with a basil leaf in the centre and some castor sugar on the rims of the glass.