Homemade Lemonade Recipe
This easy Homemade Lemonade recipe uses fresh lemon juice, homemade simple syrup, and water for a perfectly balanced, sweet-tart batch of lemonade!Step-by-step photos can be seen below the recipe card.
Servings: 9 servings (1 cup over ice each)
Ingredients
- 1 cup simple syrup $0.34
- 5 cups cold water $0.00
- 2 lbs fresh lemons 3 cups juice, $5.96
- pinch of salt $0.01
Instructions
- Gather your ingredients.
- Peel 1 lemon with a vegetable peeler and reserve the peels.
- Make our homemade simple syrup recipe, adding the peels from 1 lemon during the cooking process.
- Once sugar has dissolved, let the lemon simple syrup cool slightly until warm.
- Juice all but 2 lemons, cutting those 2 into wheels.
- Pour warm simple syrup over the sliced lemons in a large carafe or punch bowl.
- Then, add lemon juice.
- Then, add cold water.
- Add a pinch of salt and stir to combine. Serve over ice and enjoy!
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Nutrition
Serving: 1cup | Calories: 130kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.3g | Sodium: 30mg | Fiber: 3g