Just as last post I was talking about how much of blackberries I have and I will be posting some recipes cooking with blackberry. However, if I don’t have any ideas, no time, too busy, or just lazy, I might have to pack them up and freeze them, again, yes again! I still have some frozen berries in my freezer!
So, this blackberry-mint lemonade was just my last minutes idea since my original idea was to just make lemonade, so, I thought, let’s put some berries…and mints! Yeah! Here it is…the prettiest pink lemonade I’ve ever made! It’s so good and so refreshing that I will definitely make it again and again and again and again!
This recipe makes 1 big pitcher:
4 cups
filtered water
1/2 cup
fresh blackberry
1 cup sugar
1cup water
1/2 cup
fresh squeeze lemon juice
5 sprigs
fresh mint or about 1/2 cup mint leaves
1 medium
lemon thinly sliced
- over the
medium-low heat, add 1 cup of water and 1 cup of sugar in a small saucepan to
make simple syrup, as soon as the sugar is dissolved, turn off the heat
- add the berries
and some of mint leaves into the warm syrup and use a the back of spoon to
mashing the berries and mints and let the mixture stand for a few minutes to
blend the flavor
- pour the
berry mixture through a fine sieve directly into a pitcher, and discard the
seeds
- add lemon
juice and 4 cups of filtered water, add the rest of mint leaves and lemon
slices into a pitcher, stir well, and chill
- serve over
ice cube or crushed ice as you desired… with the additional garnish with a few
berries, mint leaf, and lemon slice!
Enjoy!
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