Fresh Cucumber Mint Lemonade
A delightful lemonade flavored with cucumber, lemon zest and fresh mint.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Drinks
- Method: No-Bake
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cucumbers
- ¼ bunch fresh mint
- ½ teaspoon lemon zest, grated
- ½ cup lemon juice
- 4 cups hot water
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- For garnish:
- ½ cup ice cubes
- 1 cucumber, thinly sliced
- Fresh mint leaves
Instructions
- Wash the cucumbers very well.
- Leave their skin on and grate them in a bowl.
- Pound the mint leaves and lemon zest in a mortar and toss in the bowl.
- Stir with a spoon and transfer them in a piece of cheese cloth.
- Squeeze the juice into the bowl. Set aside. You can use a blender instead, but the flavors stand out with this method.
- Mix sugar and lemon juice in hot water until sugar dissolves.
- Combine this syrup with cucumber juice flavored with lemon zest and mint.
- Chill it at least for an hour and serve with ice cubes, mint leaves and cucumber slices.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 269
- Sugar: 23.9 g
- Sodium: 207 mg
- Fat: 10.6 g
- Carbohydrates: 35.3 g
- Protein: 9.4 g
- Cholesterol: 24.9 mg
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