In the heat it's so nice to get a jug of homemade lemonade from the fridge, pour it into a glass and enjoy the refreshing taste of a cool drink. We recommend options for making lemonade at home from lemon, from which you can find the most attractive.
How to make lemonade from lemons at home - recipe
Ingredients:
- lemons - 650-850 g;
- purified water - 245 ml;
- water carbonated - 1,4-1,9 l;
- sugar - 225 g.
Preparation
A glass of purified water mixed with sugar in a ladle and put on fire. Let the contents boil, stirring, and make sure that all the sugar crystals are dissolved. We leave the syrup to cool down, and we start to lemons. We wash fruits, cut in half and squeeze out of citrus juice. For the preparation of lemonade, we need one glass of lemon juice with a volume of 250 ml, so depending on the juiciness of the fruit, they may need more or less.
Mix the cooled syrup with the juice in a jug and top up the soda water to the desired concentration of lemonade.
Recipe for lemonade with ginger and lemon
Ingredients:
- lemons - 315 g;
- ginger root - 210 g;
- honey - 145 g;
- water purified boiled - 3 liters;
- sugar - 40 g.
Preparation
Ginger for the preparation of lemonade must be cleaned and processed on the smallest grater. Lemons are rinsed, squeezed juice from them into a separate container, and the pulp is crushed and mixed with ginger mass and granulated sugar. Now fill the mixture with a liter of water and heat it on the stove to a boil. After cooling, squeeze the broth with a gauze cut, mix the liquid concentrate with honey and dilute to the desired taste with cool boiled water.
How to make homemade lemonade from lemons, oranges and mint - recipe
Ingredients:
- oranges - 360 g;
- lemons - 240 g;
- mint - 1 small bundle;
- purified water - 1.9 l;
- sugar - 205 g or to taste.
Preparation
To prepare lemonade from oranges and lemons with mint, carefully place citrus fruits, place for a minute in boiling water, after which we cut the fruits in thin slices and put them in a jug or another container for making lemonade. There we also send the leaves of fresh mint, having preliminary cut them off from the washed and dried branches. We also add sugar and mash the fruit-mint mass with a wooden pestle or crush. Now we pour all the water, which must be pre-boiled and cooled, mixed and let the drink stand for a couple of hours on the shelf of the refrigerator.
Recipe for lemonade from lemon and mint
Ingredients:
- lemons - 680 g;
- mint (leaves) - 0,5 glasses;
- purified water - 3 liters;
- sugar - 290-320.
Preparation
To prepare a drink according to this recipe, rinse lemons, cut them in half and squeeze juice from them. Pulp cut into large and put in a container for making lemonade. In a glass of water, heated to a boil, dissolve the sugar. Its quantity is determined depending on how much sweet drinks you prefer.
Now pour the resulting syrup to the lemon pulp, add the same pressed lemon juice, a little mashed leaves of mint, mix and put on the shelf of the refrigerator for several hours.
Lemonade at home from lemon and green tea
Ingredients:
- lemons - 380 g;
- liquid honey - 120 g or to taste;
- purified water - 1,5 l;
- green tea (dry tea leaves) - 3 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
The first step is to prepare the lemons. We rinse citrus fruits and cut them with small cubes or thin slices. We put the lemon mass in a jug and proceed to the preparation of green tea. Three tablespoons of dry tea leaves are poured in a suitable container with hot water (90-95) degrees and let the content to stand under the lid for ten minutes. We filter the tea into a pitcher with lemons, and throw out the green leaves. Add the liquid honey to the liquid, mix it and send it to the refrigerator shelf for several hours.