Starting a new week with a pitcher of “Cheery-Cherry Lemonade”!🍒🍋
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What’s better?
☑️ It is refined sugar free

☑️ Made from scratch

☑️ Goodness of lemon

☑️ Sweetness of wild honey

☑️ Vegan

☑️ Colourful

☑️ Flavourful

☑️ Refreshing

☑️ Chilled

☑️ Made a big batch for friends!

That makes it the perfect summer drink for house parties to go along with the breakfast/evening snack sandwiches. Recipe for cherry lemonade is as follows
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Recipe makes 1ltr

Servings 5

Ingredients:

For Compote:

• Cherry – 250gm, pitted
• Water – 1/2cup
• Wild honey – 1/4cup
• Lemon juice – 2tbsp

Others:

• Water – 800ml
• Ice cubes – as required

For Garnishing:

• Lemon slices – 10
• Mint leaves – 25
• Cherries – 5

Instructions:

1. In a thick-bottomed sauce pan, boil pitted cherries with water for about 10 minutes, stirring at intervals.
2. Add honey & lemon juice and cook for about a minute or two. The cherries would have cooked well & mixture thickened by now.
3. Turn off heat. Cover and let it rest until it cools down completely.
4. Using a strainer get the pulp out. While pressing hard with a spoon get the most of it. Save the residue aside. I’ll share what to do with it at the end of the blog post.
5. In a pitcher, add cherry mix and water. Mix well and cherry lemonade is ready to be served.
6. To serve – add ice cubes in a glass. Add lemon slices & mint leaves. Pour cherry lemonade and top it with fresh cherry.🍒

Tips & Tricks:

• Pitting is the only time-consuming part of the process. In case you do not have a pitting device, use a re-usable straw and push it through the cherry to remove the seed. Saves a lot of time than having to cut and pull out the seed.
• The compote residue left after straining can be used as spread on bread just like you would use cherry jam/preserve. If needed just grind it in the small blender jar for a smoother texture.

If you happen to try my Cherry lemonade🍒🍋 recipe; leave a comment, let me know how it turned out. Check out my other summer drink recipes:

Jamun shots

Virgin Jamun Mojito

Thandai

Bel sherbat/ wood apple juice

Frooti – Mango Drink

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Have a happy Monday you all!

Love
M❤️