How to make strawberry lemonade at home. Strawberry lemonade with basil. Strawberry lemonade with mint

Homemade lemonade is much healthier than store-bought lemonade; after all, it does not contain dyes or preservatives. And making this drink is quite simple. Lemonade can be made from fresh seasonal berries or frozen. I decided to make strawberry lemonade, it turned out not only tasty and aromatic, but also very beautiful and bright.

To make homemade lemonade, I took frozen strawberries and thawed them first. I didn’t drain the juice from the berries; it complemented my strawberry lemonade perfectly. You can take any sparkling water.

Wash the lemon and scald with boiling water. Pour filtered water into a saucepan, add sugar and put on fire. Boil the sugar mixture for 2 minutes, then remove from heat and cool completely.

Place the strawberries along with their juice into the blender bowl. If you use fresh berries, wash them and dry them. Squeeze the juice from one lemon and add to the strawberries. Blend strawberries with lemon juice until smooth.

Pour sugar syrup, berry puree and sparkling water into the pan. Mix everything well. Before serving, add pieces of ice to the carafe and pour in our lemonade.

Serve strawberry lemonade. For children, I pour lemonade into small bottles and insert cocktail straws.

Bon appetit!

Strawberry lemonade can rightfully be called one of the most summer drinks. This cool drink will not only help you cope with the summer heat, but also make it as tasty as possible, using one of the most popular and beloved seasonal berries. We decided to devote this material to several variations of this refreshing lemonade.

Strawberry lemonade - recipe

This version of lemonade is full of strawberry flavor because the berries are completely pureed when cooked, leaving a drink with a rich strawberry flavor.

Ingredients:

sugar – 65 g;
water – 950 ml;
– 115 ml;
strawberries – 210 g.

Preparation

Dissolve sugar in a glass of hot water and cool the resulting syrup. Puree the peeled strawberries and, if necessary, additionally rub through a sieve. Mix strawberry puree with lemon juice and dilute everything with the remaining cold water. Top the lemonade with syrup and serve with ice.

Strawberry lemonade with mint

You can make the drink even more refreshing with fresh mint. 5-6 sprigs are more than enough to give lemonade a characteristic taste, but fresh herbs can be replaced with mint extract.

Ingredients:

juice of 5 lemons;
zest of one lemon;
granulated sugar – 145 g;
plain water – 190 ml;
strawberries – 210 g;
– 5-6 branches;
sparkling water – 590 ml.

Preparation

Start with a light citrus syrup by heating plain water with lemon zest and sugar. When the syrup boils, it must be strained and left to cool.

Puree 2/3 of all the berries and pass through a sieve if desired. Cut the remaining strawberries into small pieces. Pluck mint leaves from the sprigs and place in the container chosen for preparing the drink. Pour the remaining sparkling water over the mint and strawberries, pour in the citrus juice and leave the drink in the cold for 5-6 hours, then serve.

How to make strawberry basil lemonade?

If you want more original combinations, then make strawberry-basil lemonade. Sprite will add sweetness to this drink, but it can be replaced with tonic or any sweet soda to taste.

Ingredients:

strawberries – 20 berries;
"Sprite" - 1 l;
juice of one lime;
a handful of fresh basil.

Preparation

Puree the peeled strawberries and divide them into four glasses. Pour lime juice over the strawberry puree and add basil leaves, after pureeing or simply tearing them. Fill the glasses with Sprite and add a few pieces of ice.

Strawberry-ginger lemonade

This aromatic lemonade will help you fully enjoy the taste of strawberries. Sweet and sour berries go well with spicy ginger syrup.

Ingredients:

water – 490 ml;
sugar – 135 g;
ginger – 15 g;
strawberries – 10-12 berries;
sparkling water – 1.4 l.

Preparation

Start by preparing the syrup. Boil sugar with half the water and pieces of ginger. When the ginger syrup comes to a boil, cover and remove from heat. Leave to steep until cool, then strain.

Puree the strawberries, cover with the remaining water, cooled syrup and add ice to taste.

Homemade strawberry lemonade

You can make strawberry lemonade even out of season using frozen berries.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Place the first three ingredients in a high-speed blender and dilute the finished berry puree with water. The finished drink is quite chilled due to the use of frozen berries, but you can add additional ice if desired.

Picked seasonal berries, which give a pleasant pink color, will help us make a healthy soft drink also elegant. Strawberry lemonade with mint delights with its taste, aroma, and beautiful appearance - you must admit, bright glasses always create a festive mood! And with the addition of ice, you get a real delicacy, which is not difficult to make using a proven, simple recipe.

You will learn how to make homemade lemonade with mint and strawberries so that it retains all the beneficial qualities of the berry in our master class.

Ingredients

Strawberries fresh or frozen— 250 g + -
- 1 PC. + -
- 3 tbsp. + -
— 1 l + -
Fresh mint – 50 g + -

How to make homemade strawberry lemonade

The advantage of this recipe is that you can vary the ingredients at your own discretion, not only replacing the quantity, but also influencing the composition, for example, using lime instead of lemon, and adding brown sugar instead of white.

We wash the strawberries, let them drain in a colander, and then remove the stems. We wash the mint and also leave it to dry on a towel. Wash the lemon and cut it into mugs.
Grind one half of the berries in a blender, cut the other into halves. Combine strawberry puree, slices, lemon and mint in a saucepan.
In another bowl, dilute the sugar syrup - completely dissolve the grains in 200 ml of very hot water and pour it over the berries and fruits. We leave everything to steep under the lid for 20 minutes, and then add the remaining cool water.
Keep the strawberry lemonade covered at room temperature or, if it is very hot, put it in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
Strain the finished drink through several layers of gauze so as not to miss small strawberry seeds and pour it into a decanter. Serve chilled.

You don’t have to chop the strawberries, but then the taste will be less intense, but it will be easier to strain the lemonade. If the carafe is transparent, you can put a few berries in it for decoration.

Sparkling strawberry mint lemonade

As in the previous recipe, we use the same proportions. The drink turns out to be incredibly tasty and healthy, which is especially important for children.

Chop the strawberries - this time you can use all of them.
We cut a lemon (or lime), combine everything with washed mint leaves, which we also chop so that they give flavor faster.
Prepare 200 ml of syrup and pour hot fruits and berries in a saucepan.
Let it sit under the lid for at least 3 hours, and then strain through a thick layer of gauze.
We dilute the resulting berry infusion with sparkling water from a bottle (1 - 1.5 l) - the main thing is that it is not too carbonated. You should pour the soda in portions so as not to overdo it and make the drink tasteless.

Serve the finished homemade lemonade with strawberries and ice immediately before the gas escapes. Bon appetit!

As you can see, there is nothing difficult in making strawberry lemonade with mint with your own hands, but it will bring a lot of joy to your family and friends! Try it - it will be delicious!

Delicious, aromatic, refreshing, beautiful, bright, cool - strawberry-basil lemonade.

A drink that will decorate any party and will not go unnoticed.

Don't be put off by the basil in this drink, it complements the strawberry and lemon flavors in an orgasmically delicious way.

Have a nice weekend in good company.

Preparation of ingredients:

I wash the strawberries, peel them from the greens, and cut them into 2 parts.

Leaves from one branch I cut into small pieces. I leave the leaves from the second branch whole. There are about 10 leaves in total.

I cut half a lemon into slices.

Sugar 4 tablespoons + water 2 tablespoons = heat until sugar dissolves.

Strawberry-basil lemonade - preparation:

Half a strawberry (150g) + sugar syrup = puree in a blender (can be mashed with a fork) + chopped leaves + 3 lemon slices = stir, pressing lightly with a fork to release the juice.

I pour it into a transparent, beautiful container + 1.5 liters of water = mix, place in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes + ice (amount as desired) + lemon (all that is left) + strawberries 150g + green basil leaves.

Ready. Drink with pleasure.

History of lemonade:

Since the 17th century, lemonade has been a drink made from lemon juice and a large amount of water. Hence its name - Limonade. Lemon added), which means “limonized.”
In 1767, the English chemist Joseph Priestley invented a pump ( ssakator), which saturated the water with gas produced during the fermentation of beer. Industrial production of such pumps was started by Jacob Schwepp. And so the first company to commercialize carbonated drinks was J. Schweppe & Co”, founded by Jacob Schweppe, which later began producing waters with fruit and berry syrups. Since natural syrups were expensive, they began to be replaced with acids and essences.
Citric acid was the first to be synthesized, and lemonade became the leader in fruit sodas throughout the world in 1833, and “ Lemon's Superior Sparkling Ginger Ale"("Superior Sparkling Lemon Ginger Ale") was the first registered trademark of a soft drink.

You will need for 1 liter of drink:

400 g strawberries
5 tbsp. l. granulated sugar
3-4 lemon slices
1 tbsp. l. lemon juice
2 stalks fresh mint
ice to taste
0.5 l sparkling mineral chilled water

How to make strawberry lemonade with lemon and mint:

1. Rinse the ripe strawberries in water and remove their stems. Pour them into a deep container. Add granulated sugar. If desired, you can also add a little ground cinnamon or vanilla sugar.

2. Puree the strawberries using an immersion blender for 2-3 minutes into a homogeneous mass. This can also be done in the bowl of a food processor.

3. Pour the strawberry puree into a jug or carafe. Add chopped lemon slices and lemon juice to it. Let's peel the leaves from the mint stems. By the way, if you don’t have lemon juice on hand, you can replace sparkling water with lemon-flavored Sprite or Fanta.

4. Add ice cubes to the jug and fill with sparkling mineral water to the top.

5. Serve strawberry lemonade with lemon and mint immediately after preparing it so that the ice cubes in it do not have time to thaw. If the drink does not seem very sweet to you, then you can add a little more granulated sugar or honey to it at any time.