In my region, a hot summer was surprising: the sun is very actively divided into its warmth, and the rain, even small, is in no hurry to appear on the horizon ... everyone suffers from the heat - both adults and children. And, of course, they require something to drink - a delicious, lightweight, refreshing. On such days I am preparing a wonderful drink (as an alternative to all sorts of compotes) - home lemonade with mint and lemon. He really gets very tasty, moderately sweet and perfectly quenched thirst. I really like that the recipe for a homemade lemonade with mint is quite simple, easily and quickly prepared.
In addition, all the ingredients are quite available for him: lemon, mint, sugar and water. These four components are incredibly tasty lemonade with mint at home. Especially good such a drink when guests come: since lemonade with mint and lemon like everyone without exception - and adults, and children, you have a win-win option than treat and large, and small. So, how to make lemonade from mint and lemon - step-by-step recipe for your service!
Ingredients:
- 1 big mint beam;
- 1 large lemon;
- 1 glass of boiling water;
- 10 tbsp. sugar spoons without a slide;
- 1.5-2 liters of filtered water or drinking water with gas.
How to prepare lemonade with mint and lemon:
We tear the leaves from the twigs of mint, and we dry them.
Limon we jump boiling water and cut arbitrarily, on small pieces. If in Lemon a lot of stones, then I advise you to remove them - they can give a small bitterness to the future lemonade.
We lay out in a comfortable larger cubiety, lemon and fall asleep sugar.
Then we are equipped with a blender and crushing mint with lemon and sugar. Our task is to make me to grind mint leaves and lemon pieces as much as possible. Lemon immediately let juice immediately - this is normal. Usually, this shredding goes for a couple of minutes.
And now we fill the crushed lemon with mint and sugar cup boiling water. Mix and leave until complete cooling.
During this time, the mint will darken a little and the mass will not be very beautiful. It is not worth upset because of this, it will not be seen in the finished home lemonade with mint.
With the help of gauze or a small creek, make me mint with lemon. We obtain the lemonade concentrate, about 300 ml. Cake, which remains after the filping, you can eject or use or use to brew tea.
So, we have concentrated lemonade. It can be immediately diluted with drinking water (with or without gas). Such a number of concentrate must be diluted with 1.5-2 liters of water. You define the exact amount yourself, depending on how saturated lemonade you want to get. And you can make lemonade not all right away, but by portions. Then on a glass of 200 ml need to add 1.5 -2 tbsp. concentrate.
Natural mint lemonade - very tasty and useful drinkwhich will also be appreciated by adults and even children. Homemade mint lemonade It will be an excellent alternative to the purchased soft drink that children love so much. This drink is perfectly cooled and quenched thirst on hot days!
Take advantage of our detailed step-by-step recipe with photo and prepare the most delicious, useful, refreshing mint lemonade.
Ingredients
- Mint fresh 15-20 g
- lemon 1 PC.
- sugar 100 g
- water 1 liter
Cooking
My mint. 
Mint leaves separated from stems and cut. 
My lemon, cut in half and squeeze the juice from it using the juicer for citrus, or just with your hands. Soca is still posing, he will need it later, but do not throw the skin from the lemon - it is now useful for us. 
First weld the mint base for lemonade. To do this, in a saucepan, put the leaves of mint, peel from lemons and poured with 1 liter of cold water. We put the saucepan on fire, bring to a boil and cook about 5 minutes on slow fire. 
We remove the saucepan from the stove, add sugar and mix until the sugar is completely dissolved. 
We cool up to the warm state, we take lemon crusts, and then filter through the sieve or gauze. 
Now add lemon juice and remove our lemonade into the refrigerator until complete cooling. 
Cold lemonade We break over the glasses, you can add a lot to it and a twig of mint - it will decorate your drink very much. Ready, drink it yourself and treat your guests! 
In the summer heat, we always remember your favorite domestic drinks - places, kvass and, naturally, lemonade. The last drink is best quenched thirst, but this is not the only advantage.
Due to the fact that it includes the most natural ingredients, it has a beneficial effect on the body, saturates with vitamins and useful substances. You may ask why cook it at home, because in every kiosk there is a large selection. Unfortunately, what we see on the store shelves is delicious, but not the most useful things. The homemade lemonade to taste is not inferior to the purchase, and its benefit is incomprehensible. Also for health is very useful, to prepare which is even easier.
According to tradition, lemonade is prepared with lemon, but recently people are increasingly striving for an unusual and original, they began to add a variety of additional ingredients. So there was a mint lemonade, which is now extremely popular thanks to his divine aroma, a light pleasant taste and the ability to calm down, raise the mood. At home, it is not very difficult to prepare, the more recipes there is a sufficient amount.
Lemonade with mint
Ingredients:
- lemon - 1 pc.
- mint - 1 beam
- sugar - 3 table. Spoons
- water - 1.5 l
Three on the grater all lemon along with the skin, sprinkle with sugar, send here and mint leaves. Top their slightly spoon, so that the fragrance stood out. Pour this mixture with water, it is better not to drink immediately, but after a few hours. So lemonade will acquire a more rich taste. Before using the lemonade with the desired amount of cold water.
Mint-ginger lemonade
Components:
- lemons - 4 pcs.
- water - 3 l
- mint - 0.5 beam
- ginger - 50 g
- sugar - 50 g
We bring to boiling a glass of water with sugar and grated ginger. We insist the syrup a few hours, putting the leaves of mint in it, pre-cramped. Then filter lemonade and mix with lemons juice, we feed with ice.
Mint lemonade with citrus
Products:
- water - 2 l
- mint - 0.5 beam
- lime - 2 pcs.
- orange - 1 pc.
- lemons - 2 pcs.
- sugar - 4 tbsp. Spoons
- pomegnet syrup - 1 table. a spoon
All citrus fill boiling water, clean from the skins. Fill with boiling water zest, add freshly squeezed juice and sugar, bring to a boil. We add to the beverage mint, which you first need to be confused, and cool in vivo. After a few hours, it is filled with lemonade and add a spoonful of pomegranate syrup for originality.
Strawberry Lemonade with Mint and Tarkhun
Components:
Let's squeeze juice from citrus juice in a jug, add strawberries, Tarkhun and mint twigs, a zest. All mix with sugar, pour hot water And insist. Before using dilute cold water And apply with ice.
Mint Lemonade from Green Tea
Ingredients:
- green tea - 500 ml
- lemons - 3 pcs.
- mint - 1 beam
- water - 2 glasses
Mix fresh tea with lemon juice And the leaves of mint, mix well, dilute the water, insist. Optionally, you can take tea with some additives, for example, jasmine.
Spicy lemonade with mint
Components:
- mint - 1 beam
- cinnamon - 0.5 h. spoons
- lemons - 3 pcs.
- water - 1 l
- vanilla - to taste
- citrus liquor - 50 ml
- sugar - 0.5 glasses
- lyme Zestra - 1 h. spoon
Cut the lemon zest with thin straw, mix with sugar and water, cook. For piquancy, add some cinnamon and vanilla, as well as Lyme Cedar. The leaves of mint rubbing, add to the decoction, insist and cool. Then mix it with lemon juice and citrus liqueur.
Finally, summer has come. But, here's real heat, many have not yet been waited. When she comes, it would be quite good to be ready for her. In the heat, as you know, you need to drink more often. Of course, you can drink ordinary water, but it can be replaced by more pleasant and tasty drinks. For example, the same home lemonade. Recipes such lemonade there are a lot.
Today I present you one simple (even very) recipe for a home lemonade, this time cook it we will be on the basis of mint. I am sure that its taste likes many, that is why mint is often added to various drinks, ranging from kvass and ending with lemonade.
Spring, this is the right time to collect gentle and juicy leaves of mint. This plant refers to those that are easier to plant than then bring out from the site. So when you will plant mint at yourself, then it is best to get it up from that part of the garden, where vegetables grow. Otherwise, she quickly floods and muffle your vegetable plantings.
Preparing a simple mint lemonade.
The recipe is actually very simple, both in its components and according to the technology of its preparation. There are two, more complex recipe Lemonadov. Here is one of them - ginger, and the other of the oranges. As for the lemonade of a mint, for him we will also need to take lemons (enough 2 pieces), mint (navitite a bundle, grams 30), sugar (quantity can adjust your taste), and, water (pour a liter 2.5th or 3, 5, again, what concentration you want to receive).
Why do mint need a young?
Because, her leaved is very gentle and easily give their juice. We are not needed stems, so we break the leaves (we will use them), and the stalks we remove to the side.
From the lemons we will need to squeeze the juice. To do this, it is best to cut them in half, and further with a juicer or manually squeeze juice from them.
The leaflets of the mint along with the crusts of the lemon will need to pour water and boil the minutes 3. When the cooking process will be approached by an end, add the desired amount of sugar. 5 sugar spoons for such a volume is quite enough. Of course, this amount you yourself can correct for yourself in any side.
Lemonade with a lot of sugar thirst removes much worse than less sweet. After that, the mint lemonade is almost ready, it is cooling it and filter.
We pour into it the juice squeezed from the lemons. You can pour it on the glasses and again emphasize its "Origin", decorating it with mint leaves.
But also a similar video recipe for the preparation of such a lemonade with mint. Watch video
