How to make Chilled Watermelon Lemonade.

Drinking Chilled Watermelon Lemonade brings back memories of sitting back in the sun, eating chilled watermelon slices.

As with most of these cooler recipes the base can be made in advance and finished later. We are adding soda water and stock syrup to the watermelon juice to add sweetness and fizz. If that’s not to your liking, try using a good quality lemonade to mix with the watermelon juice.

And don’t forget to look up our home page on Easy Summertime Coolers for more summertime drinks.

You will need –

• Blender, ether jug or hand type will do.
• Med Pyrex bowl
• Fine sieve
• Small ladle
• Liquid measure

Chilled Watermelon lemonade.

Makes about 750ml.

• ½            medium watermelon
• juice of 2 limes, roughly 50ml
• juice of 2 lemons roughly 65ml

To mix the lemonade.

                        soda water

                        stock syrup

To serve.

• fresh mint leaves
• thinly sliced orange
• thinly sliced lemon
• Ice cubes

Making the Watermelon juice.

Peel the watermelon keeping some long strips of peel to use as a glass stirrer. Cut the flesh into pieces and pop into the blender. Don’t worry about the seeds as we can remove them later. If you don’t have a jug blender, the stick version will work fine. Puree the fruit in the blender using the pulse control. Don’t over blend the fruit at full speed or the seeds will be crushed and make the juice bitter.

Now Sieve the juice.

Pass the juice though the fine sieve into a Pyrex bowl. The best way to do this is to rub the juices through the sieve using the back of a small ladle. You will be surprised how well this works, leaving only the seeds and some watermelon fibre behind.

The watermelon juice can be kept in the fridge for up to three days or frozen.

To finish the drink.

Take a mixing jug and add 1 part of stock syrup to two parts of watermelon juice. Mix in 1-part chilled soda water and stir together, i.e., 100ml syrup, 200ml watermelon juice, 100ml soda water.

Add some ice cubes to a tall glass and drop in a couple of slices of orange and lemon. Tear of chop two or three leaves of mint, add them to the glass and fill the glass with the cooler. Decorate with some fruit and a stick of watermelon peel then serve.

Enjoy Life !

John.

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