Mint Lemonade - The Most Refreshing Drink Ever!

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Mint Lemonade - The Most Refreshing Drink Ever!

This Mint Lemonade is the most REFRESHING drink ever! Cheap to make and easy enough to mix up in just five minutes (active time), it’ll become your go-to drink for hot summer days!

Prep Time5

Cook Time5

Resting Time30

Total Time40

Course: Drinks

Cuisine: Mediterranean

Servings:

Calories: 201kcal

Author: Myra

Ingredients

For Simple Syrup

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup water (filtered (through a Brita, etc) or bottled)

For Mint Lemonade

handful fresh mint (this is a flexible recipe, use what you have on hand)
1 cup water (filtered)
2 lemons (or 1/4 cup frozen lemon juice)*

Instructions

Whisk 1/2 cup water and sugar together, in a medium sized pot over medium-high heat. Just before it boils, the sugar should be completely dissolved in the water.** Remove it from the heat.
Rinse mint, pull the leaves off (stems can be bitter) and stir the leaves into the hot simple syrup. Cover with the lid of the pot and leave to steep for about 30 minutes - until the liquid has cooled off and absorbed the taste of the mint.
In the meantime, juice lemons.***
Once syrup is cool, mix together 1/4 cup lemon juice, 3/4 cup mint simple syrup (or more, or less, to taste) and 1 cup of filtered water. This recipe doubles or triples easily. Chill, or if it's cool enough, serve over ice. Enjoy! :)

Notes

* Also, if you've been stocking your freezer with frozen lemon juice like we have, feel free to use it in this recipe! You won't even notice a difference!

**If you're not sure you can touch it and rub your finger and thumb together - there should be no graininess.

*** Did you know that if you microwave a lemon for 15 seconds before you cut it and juice it it (certainly seems to) release more juice?

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