Description
Cool Mexican honey limeade offers a refreshing escape from summer heat. Zesty lime juice blends perfectly with sweet honey, creating a simple yet irresistible drink you’ll crave all season long.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1 cup lime juice (about 6 limes)
- 5 cups cold water
Sweetener:
- ½ cup honey (or more to taste)
Flavor Enhancer:
- 1–2 inch piece of ginger, peeled and grated (to taste)
Instructions
- Freshly squeeze limes to extract their vibrant, zesty juice, releasing a fragrant citrus aroma into a spacious pitcher.
- Pour golden honey into the pitcher, allowing its smooth sweetness to blend with the lime juice.
- Add cold water to the mixture, creating a balanced and refreshing base for the limeade.
- Carefully grate fresh ginger using a microplane or fine grater, letting the delicate fibers fall directly into the liquid.
- Vigorously whisk the ingredients, ensuring the honey dissolves completely and the ginger disperses evenly throughout the drink.
- Position a fine mesh strainer over a clean container to capture any fibrous ginger remnants, yielding a silky-smooth beverage.
- Gently pour the limeade through the strainer, pressing lightly to extract maximum flavor while removing texture-altering particles.
- Refrigerate the limeade for a minimum of 60 minutes to enhance its cooling properties and allow flavors to meld harmoniously.
- When ready to serve, fill glasses with ice cubes and cascade the chilled limeade over them, creating a crisp and invigorating drink.
Notes
- Strain the mixture through a fine sieve to eliminate any ginger remnants, ensuring a silky-smooth beverage.
- Chilling allows flavors to meld and intensify, creating a more refreshing drink that’s perfect for hot summer days.
- Ginger adds a subtle warmth and zesty kick, transforming a simple limeade into an extraordinary thirst-quencher.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Drinks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6
- Calories: 80
- Sugar: 20 g
- Sodium: 5 mg
- Fat: 0 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 21 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 0 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg