This is the best lavender mint lemonade recipe! It's so easy to make and is the perfect refreshing drink for spring and summer. Made with lemon juice, lavender, and mint leaves, this healthy cocktail or mocktail is perfect for picnics, barbecues, tailgates and cookouts!
Refreshing non-alcoholic drinks like my no alcohol Moscow mule, piña colada mocktail and huckleberry lemonade are so refreshing and delicious, which is why I can't wait for you to try the drink recipe I am sharing with you today!
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Why you will love this recipe:
- The taste! This lavender lemonade with mint is so delicious! It is the perfect combination of sweet and tart with hints of lavender and mint.
- It is so quick and easy to make just like a passionfruit martini mocktail.
- You can use either fresh lavender or dried lavender to make this healthy lemonade recipe.
- This lavender mint lemonade punch is great to serve any time but is especially perfect for picnics, barbecues, cookouts, game days, and tailgates.
- This lemonade is healthy, low in sugar, refined sugar free, paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, and vegetarian. It's also made without lavender syrup or lavender simple syrup.
Don't have lavender? No worries, make blueberry mint lemonade, or apple cider vinegar lemonade instead.
If you love lavender then you will love my post on the uses for dried lavender.
Ingredients and substitutions:
- Lavender flowers - lavender is the star of this lemonade. It adds a unique flavour and beautiful pink color to create lavender pink lemonade. You can use either fresh lavender flowers or dried lavender flowers for this homemade lemonade. Just be sure to use food grade lavender that doesn't have pesticides on it.
- Mint leaves - fresh mint leaves help add a refreshing mint flavour to this mint lemonade.
- Lemon juice - freshly squeezed lemon juice makes the best lemonade! You can either squeeze your own lemon juice or buy lemon juice from the store.
- Honey or maple syrup - either of these natural sweeteners can be used to sweeten this lemonade.
Recipe variations and add ins:
- If you are serving a crowd feel free to make a double or triple batch.
- To make this lavender mint lemonade vegan use maple syrup instead of honey to sweeten it.
- You can add more or less honey or maple syrup to make it more or less sweet depending on your flavour preference.
- Turn this into lavender gin lemonade by adding some gin before serving.
- This lemonade recipe is versatile - add a little ginger to make lavender ginger lemonade, add a couple fresh basil leaves to make lavender basil lemonade or add a sprig of fresh thyme to make lavender thyme lemonade.
How to make lavender mint lemonade:
- Step 1: First, place a large pot on the stove and add the water plus the lemon juice.
- Step 2: Next, turn on the burner to medium high heat and bring the liquid to a boil.
- Step 3: Once it has boiled, turn off the burner and add the mint leaves, honey, and tea ball filled with lavender flowers to the pot. Let it steep for 30-60 minutes.
- Step 4: Now remove the tea ball and mint leaves from the lemonade, and either let the lemonade cool in the fridge or add some ice to cool it faster. Then stir it before serving and enjoy!
How to serve:
This lemonade is best served chilled. You can serve it on its own or add a little gin or vodka to turn it into a lemonade cocktail. This drink is great to serve in the summer and is perfect for picnics, barbecues, tailgates and pool days.
Lavender mint lemonade FAQs:
Lavender is known to have many health benefits including helping you relax and sleep, but the benefits are normally associated with smelling lavender, rather than drinking it, so whether or not lavender lemonade can help with sleep is not clear.
This lavender lemonade recipe does not contain caffeine, but other lavender lemonade recipes might depending on the ingredients used.
Yes it is as long as you sweeten it with maple syrup.
Store this lemonade in the fridge for up to 3 days.
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Recipe
Lavender Mint Lemonade
Equipment
- Pot or saucepan
- Tea ball
Ingredients
- 4 cups water
- 1 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup honey or maple syrup depending on how sweet you want it
- 20 mint leaves
- 1 tablespoon lavender flowers (put them in a tea ball)
Instructions
- Place a medium pot on the stove and add the water plus the lemon juice.
- Turn on the burner to medium high heat and bring the liquid to a boil.
- Once it has boiled turn off the burner and add the tea ball filled with lavender flowers, mint leaves and honey.
- Let it steep for 30-60 minutes.
- Remove the mint leaves and tea ball and transfer the lemonade to a pitcher.
- Add some ice or put the pitcher in the fridge to cool the lemonade.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
- Store any leftover lemonade in the fridge for up to 3 days.
- You can add more or less honey or maple syrup depending on how sweet you like your lemonade.
- Nutritional values are an estimate and will vary depending on the exact ingredients used.
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