What is lemonade? Why should we drink lemonade? Well, generally lemonade is a sweetened drink prepared with lemon juice. You can add some other ingredients to make it special & delicious. You can make lemonade with any easily available flavorful fruits, spices etc along with lemon juice. It is often served with soda water to make it more enjoyable. Anybody make make this lemonade at home with those ingredients. Such homemade lemonade drinks help us to keep our body hydrated as well as refreshed. But how to make homemade lemonade with lemon juice? How do you make those lemonade step by step at home? Here is a list of 5 amazing homemade lemonade for you.
# Green mango lemonade
IngredientsGreen mango - 1 small size
Honey - ½ tbsp
Sugar - 1.5 tbsp
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Water - 4 glasses
Method- Peel green mango and blend in mixer grinder
- Now add it to water and boil for next 5-6 minutes and switch off the fire
- Add honey to that boiling water and mix and rest it for 10 minutes before keeping inside refrigerator
- Now refrigerate it for two hours and then add sugar and lemon juice and again blend in mixie
- Now take crushed ice (if you want) in a glass and pour green mango drink and serve chilled refreshing drink.
# Cucumber lemonade
IngredientsCucumber / kheera - 1 medium size
Lemon juice - 4 tsp
Sugar - ¾ tbsp
Water - 2 glasses
Method
- Cut cucumber into small pieces and boil in water for 10 minutes
- Now remove cucumber pieces and add sugar and mix properly in boiled water
- Now rest it for 10 minutes and keep it inside freezer for one hour
- Now take it from freezer and add lemon juice to it and blend it in mixie to make it consistent
- Pour it into glasses and serve it with crushed water.
# Shikanji lemonade
Ingredients4 tsp lemon juice
½ inch ginger
2 tsp roasted cumin powder
1 tsp chaat masala
1 tbsp sugar
2 glasses chilled water
4-6 ice cubes
Method- Add grated ginger, lemon juice, roasted cumin powder, chaat masala, sugar and water in a blender and blend
- Now strain it into a large bowl
- Add ice cubes in a glasses and pour chilled shikanji (shikanjvi) & serve.
# Sparkling mint lemonade
Ingredients
1 cup fresh mint leaves
1 lemon
2 tablespoons sugar
Pinches of rock salt
2 glasses of soda water
1.5 glass of chilled water
1 small bowl of ice cubes, optional
Method
Mint extracts- Collect fresh mint (pudina) leaves, wash it under running water
- Take it in a blender, add ½ cup water and blend to make a smooth puree
- Strain it into a large bowl
Sugar water- Add sugar & 1 cup of water and blend to make sugar water
Prepare Sparkling mint lemonade
- Combine mint extracts and lemon juice and pour equally in three glasses
- Add rock salt and sugar water according to your taste and rest fill with soda water
- Serve this with ice cubes, optional.
# Natural spicy lemonade
Ingredients
2 glasses of fresh sugarcane juice (ganne ka juice)
3 teaspoons lemon juice (nimbu)
1 cup fresh mint leaves (pudina patta)
½ teaspoon chaat masala
½ teaspoon roasted cumin powder (bhuna jeera powder)
1 tablespoon sugar, optional (if sugarcane juice is not sweet enough)
Method- Take everything in a blender, Now blend to make a smooth drink
- Strain this drink in a large bowl and pour natural & spicy lemonade into two glasses
- Serve this with extra mint leaves & lemon slices.