Make the most of juicy red strawberries with this refreshing Sweet and Sour Strawberry Lemonade recipe. Don’t let a drop go to waste, discover 3 cocktails you can make using this aromatic lemonade.
Sweet and Sour Strawberry Lemonade Recipe
Makes about 1.5 litres
Ingredients:
150g caster sugar
2 lemons, zest and juice
300g strawberries, plus extra sliced to serve
Ice cubes
Fresh mint leaves, to serve
Method:
To make a sugar syrup, in a saucepan boil 800ml of water, with sugar and lemon zest. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Let it cool. Strain the mixture into a jug.
Hull the strawberries and put them in a blender. Add the lemon juice and blend to a smooth purée. Strain the strawberry purée, do not press the solids as this will make the syrup cloudy. Mix the strawberry liquid with the sugar syrup.
Serve lemonade with lots of ice cubes, extra strawberries and mint leaves.
Smart Tip:
Stay cool and refreshed! Use silicone ice cube shapes to make fruity ice cubes. Fill them with fresh fruit, herbs like mint, and water and freeze for a colourful addition to cocktails and mocktails.
Use the Sweet and Sour Strawberry Lemonade to Make These Cocktails:
Holiday Kiss
To make the Holiday Kiss, muddle fresh strawberries and mint then shake with 45ml of your favourite vodka. Pour over a highball filled with crushed ice and top with Sweet and Sour Strawberry Lemonade. Garnish with fresh mint leaves and a reusable straw.
Strawberry G & T Apéritif
Squeeze some fresh lemon juice over halved strawberries. Then, in a lowball glass with a single large ice cube, add 30ml of London Dry gin and top with equal parts tonic and Sweet and Sour Strawberry Lemonade. Garnish with a half strawberry previously soaked in lemon juice.
Strawberry Honey Bourbon
Fill a lowball glass with crushed ice and set aside. Muddle some strawberries with maple syrup or honey then add 45ml of bourbon and shake with ice until well chilled. Pour into the lowball glass with ice and top with 20ml of Sweet and Sour Strawberry Lemonade.
