Strawberry lemonade

Fresh Strawberry lemonade. Let's make this easy, quick recipe of refreshing summertime drink using fresh strawberries and lemons. All you need to make this homemade drink is few basic ingredients and a few minutes to make it. It’s fresh and it tastes delicious!

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Course: Appetizer, drink, Drinks

Cuisine: American, continental

Keyword: easy homemade lemonade, strawberry lemonade, strawberry vodka lemonade

Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 5

Servings:

Calories: 83kcal

Author: Rekha Kakkar

Ingredients

½ cup sugar
½ cup water
2 cups Strawberries
¼ cup lemon juice
¼ cup mint leaves

Instructions

Prepare Sugar Syrup:

First You need to prepare simple syrup. It is a sugar and water syrup that is made by boiling an equal amount of refined sugar and water. This mixture is boiled and cooled till all sugar dissolves. Then this mixture is cooled and used as required.

Making Strawberry crush

For this take fresh strawberries, remove the green leafy part and stalk. In a blender or food processor add a little water and blend it to make fresh strawberry puree or juice. I do not strain it as it is easy to blend fruit. Save 3-4 strawberries and slice them.

Lemon Juice

Squeeze Fresh Lemons to extract lemon juice. I like to strain it mostly to avoid tiny seeds.

Extras

I like to add a few mint leaves and a few slices of lemon, strawberries to be used as a garnish.
Now to stir up lemonade, in a pitcher add sugar syrup, strawberry juice and fresh lemon juice along with a few crushed mint leaves or basil leaves as per your taste preference. Also add a few ice cubes and stir it with a stirrer.
Pour it in serving glasses and enjoy a cool strawberry lemonade to chill on a summer afternoon or as a pre-dinner drink.

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Notes

Tips to Make Best Strawberry Lemonade

It is a very forgiving recipe but by taking care of a few things you can make the best strawberry lemonade.
Pick fresh, ripe and juicy strawberries. Frozen strawberries work okay but nothing compares to the taste of fresh strawberries when it comes to this refreshing summer drink.
Only use frozen strawberries when fresh ones are not in season or not accessible easily. I use whole crushed strawberries but if a tiny seed bothers you you can strain the strawberry puree.
This lemonade can be made without mint or basil but Mint adds a nice brightness to the lemonade.
To extract maximum juice from lemons, roll whole lemons onto a flat surface before cutting and then extract the juice.
You will get a good extra amount of lemon juice. A little bit of lemon zest will add more flavour to strawberry lemonade

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