Blueberry Lemonade – Sugar Spun Run

My blueberry lemonade makes use of a recent or frozen blueberry easy syrup for a surprising taste and coloration. It’s refreshing and ideal for summer time, and it tastes nice spiked too! Recipe features a how-to video!

The Finest Blueberry Lemonade

Able to up your lemonade recreation? This blueberry lemonade is the newest addition to my assortment of flavored lemonades right here on the weblog. It’s so fairly, flavorful, and easy to make! And it tastes SO significantly better than the store-bought sort.

Why strive my recipe:

• Refreshing taste: It’s a vibrant and summery twist on a conventional do-it-yourself lemonade.
• Straightforward: We’ll merely cook dinner the berries right into a syrup, pressure, and mix with lemon juice and water–that’s it!
• Attractive coloration: Cooking the berries attracts out their juices and creates a stunning coloration. I discovered that merely pureeing uncooked berries created a not-so-pretty coloration–extra on this beneath.
• Good for spiking: Add a splash of your favourite vodka or gin for an grownup deal with!

This recipe makes use of the identical preparation methodology as my raspberry lemonade, which suggests we shall be making a berry easy syrup. This methodology is just not fairly as fast because the one utilized in my strawberry lemonade, but it surely’s each bit as tasty and price the additional minutes!

What You Want

Significantly, simply 4 substances. Apart from water, you will have:

• Blueberries. As we speak’s recipe works effectively with recent or frozen blueberries (when you’re making an attempt to work your manner by a surplus of recent, strive my blueberry cheesecake subsequent!). Having tremendous ripe candy blueberries makes a giant distinction within the taste of blueberry lemonade, so if recent blueberries aren’t in season, you may very well be higher off choosing frozen.
• Sugar. Common granulated sugar will work simply tremendous right here. In the event you’d like to make use of a special sweetener, scroll all the way down to the FAQ part beneath.
• Lemons. Sure, I like to recommend utilizing squeezing your personal lemons for this blueberry lemonade! Whereas bottled lemon juice will work, recent squeezed merely has an unparalleled taste (generally the bottled stuff can style like cleaner!). I discover I usually want about six lemons to get one cup of juice, however your mileage could fluctuate.

SAM’S TIP: To get the moist juice out of your lemons, strive rolling them between your palm and your counter earlier than slicing and squeezing. Microwaving your lemons may even offer you extra juice. Right here is the citrus software I like to make use of for juicing!

Bear in mind, that is simply an summary of the substances I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the submit!

Tips on how to Make Blueberry Lemonade

1. Prepare dinner the berries, sugar, and 1 cup of water over medium-low warmth till the sugar dissolves and the berries are juicy. Stir often whereas this combination cooks and be affected person, as it could take 10 minutes or so.
2. Pour the berry combination by a fine-mesh strainer right into a heatproof container/pitcher. Press the berries by the strainer with a spatula to get as a lot juice as doable, then discard the remaining pulp.
3. Stir within the lemon juice, then both pour over ice and revel in instantly or place within the fridge to relax.

SAM’S TIP: At all times stir lemonade earlier than serving, because the substances settle because it sits.

Continuously Requested Questions

This lemonade would pair properly with iced tea. Or, when you actually have a candy tooth, pair it with my candy tea!

Take pleasure in!

Let’s bake collectively! I’ll be strolling you thru all of the steps in my written recipe and video beneath! In the event you do this recipe, make sure you tag me on Instagram, and you too can discover me on YouTube and Fb

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