Beat the heat of the summer days with this frozen mint lemonade! This lemonade is so refreshing, easy, and quick to whip up!
Nothing beats a frozen refreshing smoothie on a hot summer day! And here I am sharing one of my all-time favourite frozen smoothies, it’s so simple and easy to make that you’ll want to make it every day during the summer!
Mint Lemonade Recipe
Technically this is a mint lemonade, but in the Middle East, we call it lemon with mint smoothie (Laymoun wa naa’naa’ smoothie). I think that every single cafe either has it on the menu in Jordan or can make it for you if you ask for it! It’s a very popular drink, and you can either choose to have it frozen as a smoothie or in a juice form.
What I really love about this smoothie, is the vibrant green colour! The fresh mint is what makes this smoothie so special, the colour, the flavour and the freshness that it adds is just amazing.
The Ingredients
You will need the following ingredients to make a mint lemonade:
- Lemons – these can be either juiced and added as juice, or blended in a blender as a whole along with the peel.
- Fresh mint leaves – Always use fresh mint, dried won’t work.
- Sweetener of your choice – we typically use granulated sugar.
- Ice cubes
- Water
How to Make Mint Lemonade
If you choose to use just the juice of the lemons, then start by juicing your lemons. If you’re using whole lemons, then make sure that you wash them very well.
In a blender, add your lemons/lemon juice, mint leaves, sweetener of choice, ice cubes and a dash of water.
Blend until your reach the consistency that you want. You can add more water depending on the consistency.
If you’re making juice, then omit the ice cubes or just add a few.
Serve immediately in cold glasses, along with straws. I like to use glass or stainless steels straws as we try to use less plastic in our house.
Variations
You can add more flavors to your smoothie, such as cucumber, apple, strawberry, or melon.
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Mint Lemonade
Ingredients
- 1 lemon juiced or you could use a whole lemon with the peel
- 20 mint leaves
- crushed ice
- water
- 2 teaspoons sugar optional
Instructions
- Rinse mint leaves and add to blender with ice cubes and juice of one lemon or a whole lemon (If you choose to sweeten your drink add stevia or sugar).
- Blend and add water to reach the consistency that you’re pleased with and blend until slushed. Serve immediately!
Notes:
Nutrition Information
This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered primarily from the USDA Food Composition Database, whenever available, or otherwise other online calculators.
© Little Sunny Kitchen
Recipe first appeared on Little Sunny Kitchen in July 2014.
Inge says
After returning from our holidays in the amazing country of Jordan, I wanted to make some Jordanian food myself and found your website. I can’t believe how well everything turned out!
From the first day we arrived in Jordan, our favourite drink was this lemon and mint smoothie, and I was so happy to find this recipe which tastes just as well as the drinks we had in Jordan almost every night. It was very refreshing in the Jordanian heat, but back at home in the autumn chilliness, it still tasted great, with just cold water instead of ice. (I used 200 ml water.) Many thanks for the wonderful recipe!
Pravin says
Very simple and powerful recipe. I had just bought 1 bunch of mint fresh from the market and made this using this recipe. It came up very well. Thank you, everyone loves it!
Leo leese says
Brilliant recipe it was very easy and simple and took leaps than 2 minutes.