Here’s how to make the weightier homemade lemonade recipe from fresh lemons! It’s quick and simple with spanking-new flavor.

The weightier lemonade? Homemade with real lemons. Make it at home with fresh squeezed citrus, and you’ll find out why this instillation became so popular in the first place. Make a big pitcher for parties, or you can make it by the glass. Either way, you’ll be veritably smitten! Here’s the best homemade lemonade recipe: and it’s quicker and easier than most methods, too.

Ingredients for this lemonade recipe

You only need two ingredients to make fresh lemonade (three if you count water!). Here’s what you need to make this homemade lemonade recipe:

• Lemons: You’ll need well-nigh 7 to 8 large lemons to make a full pitcher of 8 servings. This is a lot of squeezing, so if you prefer you can make a single glass using 1 lemon.
• Sugar: The weightier sugar to use for lemonade is plain old granulated sugar. This type of sugar makes for the weightier yellow lemonade color. You use other sugars like cane sugar or coconut sugar: the verisimilitude will just be slightly darker. If you prefer natural sweeteners, it works with honey or maple syrup, too.

How to make lemonade

Many lemonade recipes undeniability for humid a simple syrup on the stove. This can be time consuming, so we decided to make our recipe plane simpler. You can’t stir sugar right into unprepossessed water considering it doesn’t dissolve, but we found a trick! Here’s all you have to do for this easy lemonade recipe:

• Juice the lemons. This is the most time consuming part…by far! See unelevated for a few tips on juicing.
• Mix the sugar with 1 cup warm water. No simple syrup necessary! All you have to do is mix sugar into warm water and it dissolves.
• Add the unprepossessed water and lemon juice, and some ice. Cool it when lanugo by subtracting unprepossessed water, lime juice and some ice. Voila: homemade lemonade!

The weightier way to juice lemons

Juicing lemons might not sound intimidating, until you have to juice 7 to 8 in a row! If you don’t have a unconfined citrus juicer, this recipe will do a number on your finger strength. Here are the weightier juicers we recommend:

• Top choice: a printing citrus juicer. This type of juicer is incredibly efficient and ends up getting out plane increasingly juice than other types. Heres the printing juicer we use. It’s held up the weightier of any method, without making 150 cocktails.
• Next weightier choice: a handheld citrus juicer. The next weightier juicer is the type with a ridged top (similar to this).

Whatever the case: don’t try to juice them with your hands only! Not only will your hands hurt, you’ll get seeds into the lemonade. Of course, you can strain those out if you don’t have a juicer and are dying to make this recipe. (We won’t judge!)

Make lemonade by the glass

Dont want to make an unshortened pitcher of lemonade? We hear you. This recipe makes 8 to 9 cups of lemonade, so it’s intended for parties or entertaining. Of course, you can moreover make a big pitcher and refrigerate it. But want to make lemonade by the glass? Heres what to do:

• Squeeze 3 tablespoons lemon juice into a glass. Thats 1 large lemon or 2 small.
• Add 2 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoons warm water and stir until it dissolves.
• Add 1 cup unprepossessed water and a handful of ice. Water it lanugo increasingly if necessary. Enjoy!

Types of lemonade recipes

There are so many tasty spins on homemade lemonade! You can hands jazz up this lemonade recipe by using variegated types of fruit, or making it boozy. Here are a few ideas:

This lemonade recipe is

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free, and gluten-free.

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More recipes with lemon

The lemon is one of our most used ingredients in the kitchen! Here are a few increasingly tasty lemon recipes:

• Lemon Blueberry Pancakes Light and fluffy, with just the right citrus zing and sweet bursts of berries!
• Lemon Aioli A tangy sauce unconfined for dipping fries, vegetables or using as a sandwich spread!
• Peas with Lemon Cooking peas with garlic and lemon makes them taste incredible.
• Lemon Dill Salmon Takes just 10 minutes to bake! Mix up a zesty dill sauce while it cooks.
• Lemon Water Oh so refreshing, with 0 calories and no sugar.
• Lemon Vinaigrette Tastes like pure lemon, and uses only 4 ingredients.

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