This refreshing homemade strawberry limeade is made with fresh strawberries and limes, cane sugar and water. It's similar to a strawberries and limes agua fresca because of the fresh ingredients.
Course Drinks
Cuisine American
Keyword strawberries limes agua fresca, strawberry limeade
4cupsicefeel free to adjust this up or down depending when you are serving the drink
Instructions
Wash strawberries, pat them dry then remove the hull. Slice them and add to a blender. Blend until smooth.
Pour blended strawberries over a fine mesh strainer and catch the strawberry juice over a pyrex glass.
Place a small sauce pot with 2 cups of water in high heat in the stovetop. Add 1 cup of sugar and mix. Lower heat to medium. Then when syrup boils, lower heat to simmer. Add the peel of a lime and turn heat off. The syrup will get the flavor and aroma of a lime from the lime peel. Set syrup aside to cool. You can also prepare the syrup the day before and refrigerate it until ready to use.
Squeeze the limes and set the juice aside.
Get a pitcher and add about 2 cups of ice then pour over strained strawberry juice, lime juice and syrup. Mix really well.
Get 4 cups of water (cold is best). Pour the water over the strainer where you strained the strawberries so the water will gather some of the color and flavor of the strawberries. Pour the strained water over the pitcher too. Mix again.
Let the pitcher of the strawberry limeade cool in the refrigerator for at least an hour before serving. Serve on glass cups with more ice when ready and enjoy! Garnish with a slice of lime, strawberry or mint leaves:).
Notes
Use an extra lime and 2 strawberries for garnishes. If you don't have extras, you can garnish with mint leaves.