Cucumber lemonade with basil
Sparkling, cool, refreshing – the cucumber lemonade is a different treat for hot summer days. You can make it yourself easily and quickly from natural ingredients with this recipe and enjoy it immediately.
Servings 1.3 l
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.