Watermelon Lemonade | Easy Drinks Recipes

I hope everyone had a wonderful Diwali. After all the festival recipes I wanted to post something simple and hence posting this simple watermelon lemonade recipe.
Watermelon is easily available through out the year these days and I like this fruit very much.I usually prefer to eat the fruit as such instead of juice but during summer I prefer to have a glass of chilled fresh juice.We can play with various ingredients and create different flavored juices and mocktail recipes.Lemonade is a simple variation to a juice where lemon is added for extra punch and the most popular fruit lemonades are the Classic Lemonade, Strawberry Lemonade, Mango Lemonade, Watermelon lemonade, Peach Lemonade and also there are few variations using various herbs.

If you are interested check out other interesting beverages like 

• Watermelon Juice, Mango Juice  , Musk Melon Juice
• Mango Lemonade , Watermelon Cooler
• Bonda Juice(Tender Coconut Cooler)
• Butterfruit(Avocado) Milkshake, Chikoo(Sapota) Milkshake
• Strawberry-Banana Smoothie, Oats-Fruits Smoothie., Mango Banana Smoothie 
• Sweet Lassi | Punjab Meeta Lassi, Neer More/Spiced Buttermilk

For a complete range of beverages check here.

Watermelon Lemonade | Watermelon Ginger Lemonade Recipe:

Serves 4

Prep time: 10 mins | Cooking time : 5 mins | Total time: 15 mins

Category: Beverages/Drinks

Ingredients:

3 cups Watermelon,chopped and seeded

juice of 2 Lemons

1/2" Ginger,grated (optional)

2 - 2.5 cups Cold Water or Soda

Ice cubes, to serve

for sugar syrup:

1/4 cup Sugar

1/4 cup Water

Method:

to prepare sugar syrup:

• In a vessel boil water and sugar together until you get a slight sticky syrup and leave it aside to cool completely.You can prepare this ahead and refrigerate it and use it when required,it stays good for a month.

to prepare Lemonade:

• Blend watermelon pieces with grated ginger to a smooth juice consistency and strain it through a metal strainer.
• Add lemon juice and enough cooled sugar syrup(3-4 tbsp)to it and thin it down with water or soda.Taste the juice at this point and adjust it accordingly.The addition of soda adds up a nice spritzy version to it.

Serve it with ice cubes.You can even garnish with thin lemon or watermelon slices or mint leaves.

Notes:

1. You can prepare the sugar syrup ahead and keep it handy to prepare these kind of juices and mocktails during summers.
2. You can avoid ginger in the recipe but it adds a nice punch to the juice.But one can avoid if you want a simple lemonade.
3. You can even add kalanamak and chaat masala to it to make it more interesting.You can play around with the ingredients to suit your taste buds.

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Watermelon Juice | Easy Drinks Recipes

I usually prefer eating whole fruit rather then preparing juices and that's the reason I don't have many juice posts in my space. Moreover juices are simple to prepare so posting recipes of fresh juices may not be required but according to me, a juice can be prepared with several variations and hence am posting one such recipe today. Look out for the finer points in the notes section.

I usually prefer milkshakes to juices but a few fruit varieties are not suitable to prepare milkshakes and tastes best in the form of juice. Watermelon belongs to this category and as it has high water content one can eat it as it is or turn it into juice. I have been planning to post water melon juice from a long time as the colour of watermelon juice is captivating and appetizing!! But to my bad luck, the day I had planned to take pics, the weather was very gloomy and made me struggle to capture this gorgeous juice. I am not very happy with the clicks and did not meet any expectations from what I had actually thought in my mind, anyways would like to capture more juices in future to bring those bright colourful juice recipes in my blog.

If you are interested check out other interesting beverages like Mango Lemonade , Bonda Juice(Tender Coconut Cooler), Butterfruit(Avocado) Milkshake and Oats-Fruits Smoothie.
For a complete range of beverages check here.

Watermelon Juice Recipe:

Yields 2-3 glasses

Prep time:10 mins | Grinding time:2 mins | Total time:12 mins

Cuisine: Indian/International | Category: Beverages

 

Ingredients:

3 cups Watermelon, diced and seeded

2-3 tbsp Sugar, to taste

1/2- 3/4 cup chilled Water roughly

Ice cubes, to serve(optional)

 

Method:

• Cut the watermelon and remove the seeds. I do not prefer ice hence I avoid it and refrigerate watermelon pieces for some time.
• Blend the watermelon pieces with sugar and water to a smooth juice. Do not add water at one shot, add it in intervals  and also according to you required consistency. Now taste it and add more sugar if needed. Strain the juice.

Serve it by adding ice cubes.

 

 

Notes:

1. This is a very basic water melon juice recipe with out any flavours. If you like you can add 1-2 tsp lemon juice or 1 tsp chopped ginger while grinding it for extra punch.
2. You can even freeze watermelon cubes and blend it with sugar like a smoothie.
3. Various fruits like pomegranate, oranges, mosambi(sweet lime) and grapes can be combined with water melon.
4. Sugar can be replaced with honey in the recipe.
5. You can also prepare with out sugar by adding mint leaves, chaat masala, kala namak and roasted cumin powder for a more chatpata juice.

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Fruit Sticks/Fruit Cocktail Sticks | Party Recipes

I had no intention to post this as this sounds silly for anyone and also is quite common but thought of posting this as it might give an idea for people who are not aware of this.I had prepared this recently for a small get together at my house and was able to capture few clicks.This is one of the most easiest ones to prepare and also a very good healthy snack for kids and is easy to serve in parties.Kids will love to eat it when served with chocolate fondue or chocolate sauce.

Fruit Sticks | Cocktail Fruit Sticks Recipe:
(Serves 5-6 people as finger food)

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Watermelon scoops,seeded
1/2 cup Muskmelon scoops,seeded
1/4 cup Strawberry slices or 8-10 Strawberries,cut into halves
4 Pineapple slices(tinned),cut into flour
16-18 fresh Italian sweet Basil leaves
1/2 tsp Chaat masala
a pinch of Salt

to serve:
Chocolate sauce

Method:

• Scoop out the watermelon into tiny balls and remove the seeds and keep the scoops aside.
• Remove the seeds of muskmelon and scoop into tiny balls using the scooper and keep them aside.
• Take a toothpick or any fancy cocktail stick and start pricking in the centre of each fruit and take care you do the colors in alternative way.While doing this also insert a basil leaf folded into half in between to give a nice color contrast to fruits.
• Arrange them on a platter and sprinkle chaat masala and a pinch of salt all over it.

Serve them with Chocolate sauce or just as a finger food.

Notes:

• Always serve this fresh or if you are planning to make it ahead keep them in a closed container and keep it refrigerated until its use.Remove it form refrigerator 15 mins before and arrange on a serving platter and sprinkle chaat masala and salt just before serving.

Variations:

1. This recipe is so versatile and any kind of fruit like kiwi,papaya, mango,black grapes,green grapes,any kind of berries,cherries(stoned) or any fruit of your choice.
   
2. Avoid the fruits like apple,pear,banana as they change their color very soon.If you are serving immediately you can use them otherwise it will spoil the look of the cocktail sticks.
3. You can also insert marshmallows or candied cherries or a cube of cheese in between as the kids love them.
4. You can sprinkle pepper powder for a bit spicy version.You can also drizzle honey but when serving as a finger food it will mess up our hands,hence better avoid it.

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Water-Melon Cooler....another refreshing drink!!

This is a simple and quick refreshing drink for the summers.

Ingredients:
1 Cup chopped watermelon
8-10 mint leaves
1 tsp honey
a pinch of ground pepper
a pinch of kala namak(black salt)

Method:
Blend everything in the Blender to a nice smooth juice and chill it for sometime.
Serve it cold topped with some mint leaves.

I am sending this to Refreshing Drink-RD for Summer Event at chandrabhaga.

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