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Sparkling, cool, refreshing – the cucumber lemonade is a different treat for hot summer days. You can make it easily and quickly from natural ingredients – even sugar free – and enjoy it immediately. A detailed cucumber lemonade recipe with exact quantities and step-by-step instructions can be found below.
Refreshment with difference
Cucumber lemonade may sound strange to some at first. But it actually tastes good. Just try the drink. It is next to flavored water or kvass a pure refreshment, but just different.
If you like your lemonade light in flavor, you should just put the cucumber puree in a strainer and drain the juice, but don’t squeeze the puree. If you want your lemonade to taste more pronounced, squeeze out the cucumber puree.
Alternatively, you can squeeze the cucumber puree well and then dilute it with more mineral water, depending on your taste. This way you get a bigger portion of lemonade.
Spice it up with any herbs
I have refined my cucumber lemonade with fresh basil. This gives it a special aroma. Plus, its already unique flavor thanks to cucumbers is enhanced with basil.
You can spice up the cucumber lemonade, just like the homemade classic lemonade, with other herbs of your choice. For example, peppermint goes very well with it.
If you want your cucumber lemonade to have a strong mint flavor, puree the herbs together with cucumber. If you prefer the drink to taste only slightly of mint, add a few fresh mint leaves to each drinking glass when serving the lemonade.
Sugar free cucumber lemonade
Your cucumber lemonade, as well as the lemon iced tea, you can also make sugar free. You then simply omit the sugar in the recipe. In this case, you do not need to cook sugar syrup, so the preparation is even faster.
You can drink the lemonade with cucumber pure, if you like. Or you can add some of a natural sweetener, such as agave syrup or maple syrup.
This lemonade with cucumber is
- sparkling,
- refreshing,
- delicious,
- aromatic,
- cool,
- with basil – also possible with other herbs,
- moderately sweet,
- made from natural ingredients,
- easy and quick to make,
- times a different pleasure for hot summer days.
Simple cucumber lemonade recipe
The cucumber lemonade recipe you’ll find here at the end of the post in the recipe box is very simple. If you want to make it sugar free on top of that, it will be ready even faster.
So first you boil sugar syrup from some water and sugar and let it cool. Omit this step if you want the drink to be sugar free.
Then you puree cucumber with basil, pass it through a sieve and catch the juice.
Now mix the cucumber juice, freshly squeezed lime juice, the sugar syrup and mineral water. Serve the homemade cucumber lemonade with ice cubes.
How to make cucumber lemonade: tips and tricks
- Instead of making the syrup yourself, you can use ready-made sugar syrup** from the supermarket for the recipe.
- You can adjust the amount of sugar syrup to taste, depending on how sweet you like the drink.
- You can make the drink sugar free. Then either add no sweetener at all or add some agave syrup, for example. Read my notes on this above.
- I make the drink with sparkling water that comes fresh straight from my sparkling water maker**. But you can also make it with non-carbonated mineral water or tap water.
Did you make cucumber lemonade with basil using this recipe? I’m looking forward to your result, your star rating and your comment here below, how you succeeded and tasted the drink.
Also try my aromatic syrup and liqueur recipes:
- Strawberry syrup recipe – how to make summer fruity all-rounder
- How to make orange syrup – aromatic 4-ingredient recipe
- Strawberry liqueur recipe – to enjoy or give as a gift
Cucumber lemonade with basil
Ingredients
- 1 l sparkling water
- 1 cucumber big
- 15 basil leaves
- juice of 1 lime freshly squeezed
- 70 g sugar**
- 30 ml water
to serve
- ice cubes
- lime slices
- cucumber slices
Instructions
- Place sugar and water in a small saucepan and bring to a bubbling boil, stirring so that the sugar dissolves before the syrup boils.
- Take the sugar syrup off the heat and let it cool.
- Cut cucumber into cubes and place in a blender.
- Add basil leaves to the cucumber in the blender and puree everything.
- Put the cucumber puree in a strainer and catch the juice.
- Add the cucumber juice, lime juice, and the sugar syrup to a water carafe and stir.
- Pour it with sparkling water and stir again.
- Serve the cucumber lemonade with slices of cucumber, lime and ice cubes.
Notes
- Instead of making the syrup yourself, you can use ready-made sugar syrup** from the supermarket.
- The amount of sugar syrup can be adjusted to taste, depending on how sweet you like the drink.
- You can make the cucumber lemonade sugar free. Then you either add no sweetener at all or add some agave syrup, for example. Read my notes on this above.
- I make the cucumber lemonade with sparkling water, which comes fresh straight from my sparkling water maker**. But you can also make it with non-carbonated mineral water or tap water.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the cucumber lemonade at the top of the post.
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