In the summer, when it gets insanely hot outside, I just want to drink something refreshing. Do not buy harmful carbonated drinks, it is better to prepare lemonade at home.

Classic lemonade at home

Making lemonade with this recipe is very simple. From the specified amount of ingredients, 4 liters of the drink will be obtained.

The required composition of the products:

  • two liters of water;
  • five glasses of sugar;
  • a little more than a liter of fresh lemon juice;
  • ice, lemon, mint - for serving.

Cooking process:

  1. Prepare a large pot, put sugar, water and lemon juice in it.
  2. Heat over low heat and cook for about 15 minutes. Sugar should be completely dissolved. Then remove from the stove and let the mixture cool.
  3. Pour lemonade into a glass dish and refrigerate.
  4. Before serving, add ice cubes, mint slices and lemon slices to the drink.

Oranges Recipe

Homemade lemonade can be made from juicy oranges. It turns out bright and children will certainly enjoy it.

The required composition of the products:

  • liter of mineral water with gas;
  • four oranges;
  • 100 grams of sugar.

Cooking process:

  1. We wash the fruits well, remove the skin from them, leave only the pulp.
  2. Place slices of oranges with sugar in a blender and beat until a homogeneous mixture is formed.
  3. Pour into a large container, add the specified amount of mineral water and remove the lemonade in the refrigerator. Serve when it is completely cooled.

Cooking from Lemon

If you want to get real lemonade, such as it was before, then we prepare it from lemon.

The required composition of the products:

  • a glass of sugar;
  • six lemons;
  • six glasses of cold clean water.

Cooking process:

  1. First you need to carefully squeeze the juice out of lemons.This is best done using a juicer, but if there is no appliance, first press the lemon against the table with your palm, roll on the surface for a while, then cut and extract the juice.
  2. Prepare a four liter container, such as a jug. Put the juice there, the indicated amount of sugar and water.
  3. Stir the drink thoroughly, try, if necessary, add more water. Put in the refrigerator before serving to cool the drink.

Unusual ginger lemonade

It would seem that this ingredient is completely unsuitable for the drink, because most often it is used for other dishes. In fact, ginger lemonade quenches thirst very well in hot weather.

The required composition of the products:

  • two lemons;
  • 200 grams of ginger root;
  • two large spoons of sugar;
  • three liters of pure water;
  • four tablespoons of honey.

Cooking process:

  1. Peel the root, rinse and grind on a fine grater.
  2. Pour a liter of water into the pan, add chopped ginger there.
  3. Peel the lemons, finely chop the skin and put it in the pan too. Squeeze the juice out of the pulp in any convenient way and set it aside.
  4. Pour sugar to lemon and ginger, mix and bring the mass to a boil.
  5. As soon as the process has begun, immediately remove from heat, filter and let cool.
  6. Pour lemon juice, honey there, mix and dilute with the remaining batch of water.
  7. Cool well and can be served.

Cucumber drink

The required composition of the products:

  • two lemons;
  • 0.4 kg of cucumbers;
  • a glass of sugar;
  • one and a half liters of water and another glass for syrup;
  • mint to taste.

Cooking process:

  1. Pour into the pan all the specified water, bring it to a boil. We take the glass for syrup, and let the rest cool.
  2. We combine a glass of water with sugar, bring to a boil, continue to cook for about two minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and cool.
  3. We cut the cucumbers, send them to the blender together with mint leaves and interrupt in a homogeneous mixture, strain it.
  4. Squeeze the juice carefully from the lemons, mix with water, syrup and cucumber mass. Chill and serve.

How to make strawberries

The required composition of the products:

  • half a liter of sugar syrup;
  • six lemons;
  • two and a half liters of water;
  • 500 grams of strawberries.

Cooking process:

  1. We wash the lemons, squeeze the juice out of them well, and finely chop the skin.
  2. Pour juice, sugar syrup into the water, put the zest, mix well.
  3. Add strawberries to this mixture, which we preliminarily knead with a fork in mashed potatoes.
  4. Filter the drink and cool. You can serve by decorating with whole berries, mint leaves or lemon balm.

Pear lemonade

Pear lemonade is a real salvation from thirst. Take only ripe fruit for a drink.

The required composition of the products:

  • one liter of water;
  • 200 grams of pears;
  • four tablespoons of sugar;
  • one lemon.

Cooking process:

  1. We wash the pears well, remove the skin from them, cut them in half, cut out the hard core and seeds, grind them into small cubes.
  2. We spread them in a blender, fill in only 200 milliliters of cold water and interrupt to a homogeneous consistency.
  3. From the remaining water we make syrup. Add sugar to it, bring to a boil and cook until it is completely dissolved, then cool.
  4. Mix the pear puree, syrup, lemon juice and a few slices of it. We put it in the refrigerator and serve when the drink becomes cold.

Watermelon refreshing drink

The required composition of the products:

  • liter of cool sparkling water;
  • two lemons;
  • kilogram of watermelon pulp;
  • three tablespoons of sugar or to taste.

Cooking process:

  1. Be sure to peel the pulp of watermelon, there should be no seeds.
  2. Rinse the lemons and squeeze out the juice very carefully, it is best to use a juicer for this.
  3. Put the pulp of watermelon, lemon juice and sugar in a blender, beat for a couple of minutes. Sugar is optional, if the watermelon is already very sweet, see to your liking.
  4. Pour sparkling water into the resulting mass, turn on the blender again.You should get a fairly liquid drink.
  5. Chill lemonade, serve with ice cubes, fresh mint leaves or fragrant catnip.

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