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Homemade Lemon Sharbat
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Homemade Lemon Sharbat

A refreshing homemade lemon drink with mint and rose water, perfect for summer days

⏱ 20 min🍽 2 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona
⚖ Pareve🥬 Vegetarian🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Heat the sugar with cup water in a small saucepan, stirring, until the sugar dissolves completely and the syrup is clear.
    StoveSmall saucepan
    💡Sugar dissolves in the hot syrup, not in cold water: make it ahead and let it cool, and only then mix it with the lemon juice.
  2. 2
    Let the syrup cool.
  3. 3
    Squeeze the lemons and strain the seeds out of the juice.
    Lemon juicerFine sieve
  4. 4
    Mix the lemon juice and the syrup in a pitcher.
    Pitcher
  5. 5
    Add the rest of the water, the rose water and the mint and stir.
  6. 6
    Chill in the fridge at least 2 hours.
    Refrigerator
  7. 7
    Pour into glasses and serve cold.
    Glass (for drinking/serving)
826calories
2 gprotein
212 gcarbs
0 gfat
● protein 1%● carbs 99%● fat 1%

Per serving (1099 g), of 2 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (6) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Refrigerator · Also works: Freezer (Chills faster; don't let it freeze) · Ice bath (Ice bath)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)
  • Lemon juicer · Also works: Fork (Squeeze by hand around a fork; seeds get in)
  • Glass (for drinking/serving) · Also works: Serving bowl (Small bowls)
  • Pitcher · Also works: Jar (Large jar)

Helps, not needed: Fine sieve

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🧩 Built from…

Lemonade

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