Drinks

Lemonade

Name: Lemonade
Total time: 7 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 6 lemons; 4 tbsp sugar; 4¼ cups cold water

Sugar syrup cooked until clear, cooled and mixed with freshly squeezed lemon juice and cold water; sometimes with muddled mint, and served cold over ice.

⏱ 7 min

⚖ Pareve 🥬 Vegetarian 🌱 Vegan 🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

1
Heat the sugar with ½ 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
Let the syrup cool.
3
Squeeze the lemons.
Lemon juicerFine sieve
4
Mix the lemon juice and the syrup in a pitcher.
Pitcher
5
Add the water and stir.
6
Pour into glasses and serve cold.
Glass (for drinking/serving)

74calories

1 gprotein

18 gcarbs

0 gfat

● protein 5%● carbs 92%● fat 3%

Per serving (350 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

Lemon: measured in pieces: one ≈ 58 g · 29 kcal per 100 g · More about Lemon →
Sugar: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 12 g · 387 kcal per 100 g · More about Sugar →
Cold water: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 240 g · 0 kcal per 100 g · More about Cold water →

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

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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⚙️ What you can change

Possible additions: Ginger · Mint · Mint blended with water (how much water) (½ cup) · Water for the syrup in the list · Rose water · Chill in the fridge (at least 2 hours) · Ice · Lemon slices · Garnish (Mint leaves) · Everything in the blender with the ice (time) (30 seconds)
Water for the syrup: ½ cup