In the summer I want to drink something cool, tasty, and most importantly, healthy, so that the drink was made only from natural ingredients. Watermelon lemonade, the recipe of which we will consider, is easy to prepare. You will definitely have only good impressions from such a drink.
What is needed for cooking?
Watermelon lemonade is just a salvation from the heat. This drink is made exclusively from natural ingredients.
Ingredients that are required (resulting in a total of 2.5 liters of lemonade):
- one kilogram of juicy ripe watermelon;
- three to four whole lemons (medium in size) or lime;
- 150 grams of mint (we will use it separately for mint ice and separately for lemonade);
- 150-200 grams of sugar (liquid honey can be, it’s even tastier);
- cold water (you can take sparkling water, it also works out well);
- ice;
- five to six strawberries (optional and to taste).
Step One: Ice
Before making homemade watermelon lemonade, prepare mint ice. Take molds for ice, finely chop mint, if the leaves are small, then you can put them whole in molds. Of course, it is better if the latter are rubber, since ice is better pulled out of them. You can also cut fruits, such as strawberries, but this is optional. Next, fill everything with water from above and send it to the freezer for a couple of hours.
Step Two: Remove the Pulp
While mint and strawberry ice reaches the desired state in the freezer, we need to extract the flesh from the berry. To do this, cut the watermelon in half. Then we separate the pulp from the peel. Further, its mode into slices, and then into squares. After that, we extract all the bones from them. Throw it all into a blender and beat thoroughly until smooth.
If there is no blender, then you can use a mixer or just crush the flesh with something, such as a crush or just a wooden spoon. After that, you need to pass the watermelon juice through a fine sieve. This is necessary in order to get a homogeneous mass. If you don’t strain the pulp, the consistency of our lemonade will look like a smoothie, but it already depends on your preferences.
Step Three: Add Lemon
For the next step, we need five to six medium-sized lemons. So, first we rub the zest of all citrus fruits with a special grater. After add to the watermelon juice. We leave lemons without a zest, later we will squeeze them through a juicer. Before you do this, you should clear all the seeds from citrus fruits (they are clearly not needed in the drink). Freshly squeezed lemon juice is added to the watermelon lemonade. After we mixed these two components, you can once again beat the drink with a blender. Then you can proceed to the next step.
Step Four: Sweet Pleasure
Next, we need to make sugar syrup. How to do it? To do this, take five to six tablespoons of sugar, fill with water and put on the stove for about four to five minutes, until the liquid boils. After that we send the syrup to the refrigerator. When it cools, you can add watermelon juice to it. Syrup can also be replaced with sugar or honey (also to taste).
Step Five: Mix
If you have not forgotten, mint and strawberry ice is frozen in the freezer. It's time to get it. Add watermelon juice to your mint and strawberry ice as you wish. After that, we need to dilute it with cold water. You can take slightly sparkling water or even a Sprite drink. By this you will definitely not ruin your watermelon lemonade! We add as much water as the juice itself. Although, of course, it is better that the last component was more than water.
Step Six: Decoration
Here you have practically and ready watermelon lemonade, made at home . The last thing left is the decoration of the drink. Indeed, the very first impression of it depends on the appearance of the cocktail, as well as the appetite with which you and your guests will drink it. We will decorate this wonderful summer and cooling watermelon lemonade with slices of lemon and mint. We will start decoration with a glass. To begin, let's cut a slice of lemon, make a small cut on it and draw this slice along the edges of the glass. Then we need to pour a little sugar in a flat plate. Then dip the edges of the glass into it. Next, gently pour watermelon lemonade and decorate it with mint on top. Thanks to the smeared edges, when you drink a fragrant drink, you will still feel a slight aftertaste of lemon with sugar.
It will give watermelon lemonade the right taste. He will not be too cloying, but he will not turn out to be sour. That's all, now you can safely serve to the table, delight your guests with delicious and fragrant watermelon lemonade.
Little conclusion
Now you know how to make a delicious cold berry drink . It is prepared quite simply, so anyone should cope without problems. Good luck!