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Homemade Mint Lemonade
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Homemade Mint Lemonade

A fresh, thirst-quenching homemade mint lemonade — fresh lemon juice with mint, do-it-yourself. Perfect for summer.

⏱ 15 min🍽 2 servings 🌍 Mediterranean👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 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.
    Lemon juicerFine sieve
  4. 4
    Lightly muddle the mint in a pitcher, until the mint is fragrant.
    PitcherCocktail muddler
    💡Muddle the mint gently, just until fragrant: muddling too hard brings out bitterness.
  5. 5
    Mix the lemon juice and the syrup in a pitcher.
    Pitcher
  6. 6
    Add the water and stir.
  7. 7
    Pour into glasses with the ice and serve cold, garnished with mint sprigs.
    Glass (for drinking/serving)
136calories
1 gprotein
34 gcarbs
0 gfat
● protein 3%● carbs 94%● fat 3%

Per serving (665 g), of 2 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (6) · 🍳 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)
  • Cocktail muddler · Also works: Wooden spoon (Mash with the end of a wooden spoon handle)
  • 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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