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Home / Recipes / Small Meals / Drinks / Homemade Strawberry Lemonade

Homemade Strawberry Lemonade

45 mins
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5 from 4 votes
Jump to Recipe 06/12/21 | Updated: 06/21/21 | by Nora
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Whip up this easy Homemade Strawberry Lemonade as a special treat on a hot day! So quick and simple to make from scratch (no mixes!) and it tastes absolutely delicious.

angled overhead view of glass jug filled with strawberry lemonade, lemon slices, ice cubes and sliced strawberries

I honestly didn’t even know how to make lemonade from scratch until I researched fun summer projects for the kids a couple of years ago. And homemade lemonade has been on our must-do list for hot and lazy summer days ever since!

It’s incredibly easy to whip up a batch of this recipe, and the taste is so fresh, fruit-filled and delicious! You might never go back to store-bought again 😉

Ingredients you’ll need

Here is a visual overview of the ingredients in the recipe. Scroll down to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post for quantities!

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Ingredients for homemade Strawberry Lemonade: Strawberries, water, granulated sugar and lemon juice.

Ingredient notes

  • Lemon juice: I think freshly squeezed lemon juice yields the best flavor, but you can easily use bottled if that’s what you have on hand.
  • Strawberries: Both fresh and frozen work. If using frozen, I recommend letting them sit on the counter for 10 minutes before blending. It helps to add one cup of the water to the blender if you can’t get the frozen ones blended.
  • Water: For a sparkling lemonade, just replace the 5-7 cups water added in the end with club soda.

How to make Strawberry Lemonade from scratch

This is a very simple recipe you can quickly whip up with just a handful of ingredients:

  • sugar syrup in saucepan with wooden spoon
    sugar syrup
  • blended strawberries in glass measuring jug
    blended strawberries/lemon juice
  • blended strawberries pouring through fine mesh sieve into glass bowl
    strain pulp
  • glass jug filled with strawberry lemonade surrounded by ice, strawberries, lemon and glasses full of strawberry lemonade
    add water
  1. Sugar syrup: Bring 1 cup of water with 1 cup of sugar to a boil over medium heat, until the liquid is clear (it will look cloudy/grainy before it is ready). Set aside to cool to room temperature.
  2. Strawberries: Blend the strawberries with the lemon juice until smooth. Combine with the cooled sugar syrup.
  3. Strain: Strain the strawberry mixture through a fine mesh sieve. I strain once without discarding the pulp, then I pour about 2 cups of water over the pulp to strain again/make sure I get all of the flavor and sugar into the lemonade.
  4. Finish and serve: Add the strawberry mixture to a 2 quart jug and fill up with 5-7 cups of water. Serve chilled over ice.

Recipe tips

  • Straining: You don’t HAVE to strain the drink for this recipe to work, but the seeds are a little annoying in the drink. I definitely prefer pouring the lemonade through a fine mesh sieve to remove any seeds before serving. It gives the lemonade a less gritty feel and makes it look prettier and more clear. It also has a much better texture for kids.
  • Quick chilling: If you don’t have time to chill your lemonade, fill glasses half full with ice and serve the lemonade over it for instant chilling. You can also use chilled bottled water to make chilling quicker.
  • Tartness/sweetness: Adjust the amount of lemon juice and sugar to your taste. As written, the recipe makes a quite sweet lemonade. For a more tart, less sweet drink, try 1 ½ cups of lemon juice and/or reduce the sugar to ½ cup. The amount of sweetener needed will also depend on the tartness of your berries.
mason jar filled with strawberry lemonade and garnished with straws, fresh strawberries, ice and lemon

Storage tips

Freezer: You can freeze the blended and strained strawberries/sugar syrup mixture as a homemade concentrate. I like to freeze it in ice cube trays, then transfer the cubes to a labelled ziploc back and freeze for up to 3 months. Just thaw and add water when you’re ready to serve some lemonade!

Fridge: The fully assembled lemonade can be stored, covered, in the fridge for up to 2 days.

strawberry lemonade pouring from jug into glass

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Homemade Strawberry Lemonade

Whip up this easy Homemade Strawberry Lemonade as a special treat on a hot day! So quick and simple to make from scratch (no mixes!) and it tastes absolutely delicious.
Recipe by Nora from Savory Nothings
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Recipe details

Prep 10 mins
Cook 5 mins
Cooling Time 30 mins
Total 45 mins
Servings 12 cups

Ingredients
 

  • 8 cups water divided use
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 cups strawberries hulled
  • 1 cup lemon juice (from 5-6 large lemons)
  • crushed ice to serve (optional)

Instructions
 

  • Make sugar syrup: In a saucepan over medium-high heat, boil 1 cup water with sugar, stirring until sugar dissolves and liquid looks clear. Set aside and let cool to room temperature.
  • Blend strawberries: Blend strawberries with lemon juice until smooth. Combine strawberry mixture with cooled sugar syrup.
  • Strain: Strain strawberry/sugar mixture through fine mesh sieve, reserving pulp and catching juices in 2 quart jug. Place pulp back into sieve and rinse with 2 cups water to strain out any remaining flavor/sugar (catch juices in jug, too; discard pulp).
  • Assemble: Stir 5-7 cups water into strawberry mixture, yielding a stronger or milder lemonade. Use club soda in place of water for a sparkling lemonade.
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Notes

  • Strawberries: Both fresh and frozen work. If using frozen, I recommend letting them sit on the counter for 10 minutes before blending. It helps to add one cup of the water to the blender if you can’t get the frozen ones blended.
  • Quick chilling: If you don’t have time to chill your lemonade, fill glasses half full with ice and serve the lemonade over it for instant chilling. You can also use chilled bottled water to make chilling quicker.
  • Tartness/sweetness: Adjust the amount of lemon juice and sugar to your taste. As written, the recipe makes a quite sweet lemonade. For a more tart, less sweet drink, try 1 ½ to 2 cups of lemon juice and/or reduce the sugar to ½ cup. The amount of sweetener needed will also depend on the tartness of your berries.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cupCalories: 80kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 9mgPotassium: 76mgFiber: 1gSugar: 19gVitamin A: 6IUVitamin C: 29mgCalcium: 12mgIron: 1mg
Nutrition is an estimate.

More recipe information

Course: Drinks
Cuisine: American

Recipe first published on 05/14/2019. Updated with new photos, better text and tweaks to recipe wording on 06/12/2021.

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When I got married to my professional chef husband, I realized I had to step up my game in the kitchen. Now I share my favorite foolproof family recipes here on Savory Nothings: Chef-approved, kid-vetted and easy enough for everyday home cooks like you and me!   Learn more.

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  1. Sandia Sonmor says

    June 21, 2021 at 4:24 am

    You might want to change sugar to water . Just before “recipe tips”

    Reply
    • Nora says

      June 26, 2021 at 3:10 pm

      Thanks for the heads up, Sandia! I really appreciate it. I changed it as soon as I got the first email from a reader about it. I’m so grateful you’re all keeping an eye out for typos and small mistakes like this one, I couldn’t do it by myself. And… That would have made for some awful lemonade, ha!

      Reply

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