We have a subscription fruits & veggie service called Odd Bunch. We always get lots of limes. So Rachael has requested a recipe for some sort of salted lime soda drink so we can use up the limes.
Chanh muối
This Vietnamese drink is made from salted, pickled limes.
Chanh muối is a salted, pickled lime in Vietnamese cuisine. Its name comes from the Vietnamese words chanh and muối. To make the chanh muối, many limes are packed tightly in salt in a glass container and placed in the sun until they are pickled. During the process, juices are drawn off the limes, which dissolves the salt and produces a pickling liquid which immerses the finished chanh muối.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanh_muối
Chanh muối are used to make a drink (with added sugar and water or soda) called nước chanh muối
To prepare the drink, a small piece of chanh muối (containing both peel and flesh) is cut, placed in a glass, and crushed slightly with a spoon or other utensil to release its juices, then the other ingredients are added
Here’s a recipe for making the salted limes:
No doubt this recipe is not authentic, and I would love anyone who has a real Vietnamese grandmother to share the authentic version. But one of the nice things about multicultural Australia is the …
https://witcheskitchen.com.au/vietnamese-salty-lime-soda-chanh-muoi/
Nimbu Soda
This is an Indian-style lime soda I found from Serious Eats:
There may be no better drink for beating the heat than a nimbu soda, a lime-and-soda drink that's ubiquitous in India.
https://www.seriouseats.com/nimbu-soda
The tip is mixing the sugar and some salt into the lime juice before adding soda.
And, using Kala namak, a particular kind of black salt from India.