Pink Lemonade
Updated June 26, 2024
- Total Time
- 20 minutes
- Prep Time
- 5 minutes
- Cook Time
- 15 minutes
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Ingredients
Yield:10 servings
- 1pound fresh or frozen raspberries, halved strawberries, stemmed and pitted cherries or chopped rhubarb
- ⅔cup sugar
- ¼teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1cup fresh lemon juice, plus more to taste (from 5 to 6 lemons)
- Ice, for serving
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Nutritional analysis per serving (10 servings)
83 calories; 0 grams fat; 0 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 0 grams monounsaturated fat; 0 grams polyunsaturated fat; 21 grams carbohydrates; 3 grams dietary fiber; 17 grams sugars; 1 gram protein; 62 milligrams sodium
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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- Step 1
In a large saucepan, combine the fruit, sugar and 1⅔ cups water. Cook over medium-high, stirring occasionally and reducing the heat if bubbles start to rise out of the pan, until the syrup thickens a bit, at least 5 minutes and up to 15 minutes for frozen fruit. Stir in the salt.
- Step 2
Carefully strain the hot syrup through a fine-mesh sieve into a large liquid measuring cup, pressing on the fruit to extract juices then discarding the fruit. You should have about 1¾ cups syrup; if you have more, return to the pan and boil longer. (The syrup can be refrigerated, covered, for up to 1 week.)
- Step 3
To make a pitcher of lemonade, stir the syrup into 7 cups of cold filtered water. Add the lemon juice, then stir to combine. Taste, adding more lemon juice as desired. (The lemonade can be refrigerated, covered, for up to 1 week.) Serve over ice.
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GCR
At what point do you add the Vodka?
lucky13
It doesn't make sense to me to take some delicious refreshing raspberries or other fruit and cook the vitamins and the life out of them. Why not put the raspberries in a blender with a little water, blend and strain out the seeds? Add this to your lemonade. You can add sugar, or sugar syrup made by heating sugar with a little water. I'm going to make some pink lemonade today by adding the syrup from a bottle of maraschino cherries to my fresh squeezed lemon juice, sugar (or Stevia) and water.
Tricia
I make a similar lemonade spritzer: freeze lemon juice into large ice cubes. Add one to a medium size glass, add 1 tbsp fruit syrup (or more to taste), and fill glass with sparkling water. Stir to melt the ice cube. A little ginger grated into the fruit syrup gives a bit of a kick, or even a 1/2 tsp of raspberry vinegar.
smith
Love the idea of raspberry vinegar to add a little sour/shrub type flavor--would have never thought of that!
Melissa
Just tried this recipe and LOVED it! This will be my new go-to summer drink for those hot days! I think it is unfair for people to say that you can just buy an alternative, you could say that about most recipes, that is not really the point. For my batch I used strawberries, and it was really delicious. Also for the discarding the fruit comment you can for sure use the fruit in a multitude of ways, like a nice topping on ice cream or yogurt, or blended in a drink/smoothie. Great recipe Eric!
MM
The raspberries are a great idea … thank you Eric for another fantastic recipe .
Shazziz
Eric!! Once again you add joy to our lives! Unless you’re user “Lucky 13” who uses stevia and totally changed the recipe into something unrecognizable. I feel sorry for them they missed out on summer in a glass! (I added gin. Amazing!)
Garden State
At the point after the fruit's been well cooked down, juices released, and pressed through a mesh sieve, it's not as if you're discarding a pound of fruit. You'll probably have little more than a half-cup of dryish pulp and seeds. You can certainly refrigerate and repurpose it: swirl it into yogurt with some granola, or put a few spoons on top of breakfast cereal.
Melissa
Just tried this recipe and LOVED it! This will be my new go-to summer drink for those hot days! I think it is unfair for people to say that you can just buy an alternative, you could say that about most recipes, that is not really the point. For my batch I used strawberries, and it was really delicious. Also for the discarding the fruit comment you can for sure use the fruit in a multitude of ways, like a nice topping on ice cream or yogurt, or blended in a drink/smoothie. Great recipe Eric!
Lynn Shaker
I buy the Trader Joe's Sparkling Pink Lemonade-easy, peasy lemon squeezy
Jeff Cox
For color, there's always Grenadine.
GCR
At what point do you add the Vodka?
lucky13
It doesn't make sense to me to take some delicious refreshing raspberries or other fruit and cook the vitamins and the life out of them. Why not put the raspberries in a blender with a little water, blend and strain out the seeds? Add this to your lemonade. You can add sugar, or sugar syrup made by heating sugar with a little water. I'm going to make some pink lemonade today by adding the syrup from a bottle of maraschino cherries to my fresh squeezed lemon juice, sugar (or Stevia) and water.
Amos Levi
Dried hibiscus works beautifully in pink lemonade. Steep in hot water with the sugar (like making tea) and strain after a short while. It adds a nice tart flavor in addition to the lemon.
Tina
I've always turned homemade lemonade pink by adding liquid from a jar of maraschino cherries. It's nice to see so many other options.
Honeybee
“Discard the fruit” hurts - I want to hear everyone’s ideas for repurposing the fruit! Mash up and use in muffins? Stir into yogurt or layer with yogurt and granola? I cannot discard a pound of berries!
Gdens
GCR! Now or yesterday! Your choice!
Tricia
I make a similar lemonade spritzer: freeze lemon juice into large ice cubes. Add one to a medium size glass, add 1 tbsp fruit syrup (or more to taste), and fill glass with sparkling water. Stir to melt the ice cube. A little ginger grated into the fruit syrup gives a bit of a kick, or even a 1/2 tsp of raspberry vinegar.
smith
Love the idea of raspberry vinegar to add a little sour/shrub type flavor--would have never thought of that!
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