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Just made this tonight after a pool day and my kids and I loved it. Thanks so much. Looking forward to making that shrimp scampi tomorrow night with the pulp 🙂
Dayna
Making lemonade in a blender has truly revolutionized my summer.
Eh, I’m not much of a lemonade drinker, said the old me. But the concept of making lemonade, fresh, fast, sweet and almost creamy-like (thank you sweetened condensed milk) has made me into something of a new summer person. This blender lemonade takes, oh, let me see, three seconds? And requires four ingredients: lemons, sugar, water, and sweetened condensed milk. And it’s definitely tart and refreshing, but is still magically mellow and light because of the – yep, you guessed it. SCM.
Life-changing news here. There’s no requirement of making a simple syrup! Cause who wants to take the time to make a simple syrup when all you really want is a big glass of homemade lemonade five minutes ago? Not me, obvi.
Sometimes I make blog things, and then successively make them 3, 4, 5 more times within the first few days of trying them out. This was definitely one of those times.
And for good reason, because guess what is fun to do with lemonade? Put it in mason jars and give it away as a get-well-soon gift, along with a batch of oatmeal flax blueberry muffins and a few extra pieces of Oreo fudge ice cream bars. If that doesn’t heal the soul, then you probably weren’t even sick to begin with.
Just ignore me.
Or you can also serve this lemonade to friends to offset the “not very spicy” jalapeno burgers that accidentally got red-faced-dripping-sweat-spicy. Woops. Between the Oreo fudge ice cream soup and the tastebud-singeing jalapeno burgers, people definitely love having dinner with us.
Veering off-course: can you do me a favor? Go type “lemons” somewhere, kind of quickly.
No. Nope. Don’t scroll on until you do it.
Did you type lemonds? I honestly cannot stop typing the word lemonds. I’ve thought about it every time I know the word is coming up as I’m writing today. No d, no d, no d in lemons. Yet somehow the word that appears on the page is lemonds.
Conversations like this are reason number 599 why it’s good that I’m not going to be a full time blogger.
I’m more better at things like drinking lemonade and remembering to lick the extra sweetened condensed milk off the spoon before it hits the bottom of the sink, not to mention finding adorable mason jar mugs for ninety cents at thrift stores and pretending that I’ve been drinking out of mason jars all my trendy life. That’s what I do best.
Blender Lemonade
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4-6 1x
Description
This blender lemonade is the easiest way to make lemonade! Just blend a few lemons, some sugar, and a few cups of water. Strain and enjoy!
Ingredients
- 3 lemons
- 1 lime (optional)
- 4–5 cups water
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Cut the lemons and lime into wedges (fourths or eighths depending on the size of the lemon). Place in a blender with the water and the sugar. Blend on high speed for a minute or until the lemons have been broken down and the water looks like lemonade. Let the mixture sit for a few minutes so the broken down pieces of lemon rise to the top of the blender.
- Pour the lemonade through a metal strainer over a large pitcher. You may need to do this in batches so that you can empty the lemon pieces out of the strainer. KEEP the lemon pieces! Use the mixture for muffins, fruit desserts, jam, pasta, or just cleaning your garbage disposal in the sink.
- Add the sweetened condensed milk to the lemonade in the pitcher. Stir to combine or pulse quickly through the blender. The lemonade will separate after about 15 minutes, so just keep a wooden spoon handy and give it a quick stir before serving.
Notes
The goal is to break the lemons down into a thick pulp without actually incorporating them into the water (otherwise the rind will make it taste bitter). Almost all of the lemon pulp should rise up to the top when you’re done blending so that you don’t actually drink it. As a result, a few commenters have not had good results using ultra high powered blenders because the lemon gets completely incorporated into the water. If you are using a high powered blender, I would use the pulse setting to make sure you don’t over-blend the lemons.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 5 mins
- Category: Beverage
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition Facts
- Daily value: 1% Total Fat 1g
- Daily value: 1% Cholesterol 3.3mg
- Daily value: 1% Sodium 25.4mg
- Daily value: 10% Total Carbohydrate 27.7g
- Daily value: 6% Dietary Fiber 1.8g
- Sugars 23.4g
- Daily value: 3% Protein 1.4g
- Daily value: 1% Vitamin A 7.7µg
- Daily value: 37% Vitamin C 33.6mg
Keywords: blender lemonade, homemade lemonade, easy blender lemonade
I mentioned it in the recipe but I feel the need to say it again loud and clear: KEEP THE BLENDED LEMON PIECES. There are so many great uses for this stuff. I don’t really know all of them yet but they’re coming to me. I can feel it.
And if you have any ideas to give me a head start, I would not be mad about that.
Cheers to the lemonade-filled 4th of July weekend!
I made this in 3 blenderfuls to total 1 gallon jug of lemonade with 7 lemons, lime juice, filtered water from my fridge door, brown sugar, and ginger powder.
No condensed milk.
Tastes like my usual Jamaican lemonade just a little lighter.
1ST BLENDER FULL:
4 quarts water
2 lemons quartered
3 teaspoons lime juice concentrate
1 cup sugar
2ND BLENDER FULL:
4 quarts water
2 lemons quartered
3 teaspoons lime juice concentrate
1 cup sugar
3RD BLENDER FULL:
3 quarts water
2 lemons quartered
3 teaspoons lime juice concentrate
1 cup sugar
After the 3rd time straining into the jug, I added about 10 shakes of ginger powder into the jug and stirred it up.
Each time I strained the lemonade out, I saved the mush then dumped it all at the end into cake batter I had going in my mixer to make a lemon cake!
This is a Brazilian recipe for lemonade.
Who with any sense puts condensed milk or unrefined sugar in an otherwise healthy drink.
This is amazing! I made 2 batches to out together. I did 4 cups water with the first one and it was very watery, so in the second batch I did 3 cups of water and less sugar. Added a butt ton of low fat sweetned condensed milk and it is amazing! I put crushed ice in the glass instead of in the pitcher or blender. Now if ANYONE knows of any good recipes for all this peel that would be great! Haha
Sugar putrifies the healing benefits of the lemon. Better to use honey or maple syrup..
What can we replace the milk with? We are dairy free.
Hi, Melissa! We haven’t tested this out with the sweetened condensed milk, but you could try a little coconut cream and add a little more sweetener. It might change the taste of the lemonade a bit though.
I made the lemonade for a gathering and we all loved it! Thanks!
Today I got around using the leftover blended lemon stuff and here is what I made:
Lemon Bar Muffins
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1 cup of the ground up lemons from the blender lemonade
1 yellow squash – grated, about 1 cup (sorry I can’t bake without vegetables 🙂
1 cup of (raw) sugar + 1/4 cup of agave syrup + 1 little package of stevia
(or you could use 1 1/4 – 2 cups of sugar)
1/2 tsp of salt
1 cup of softened butter (or oil)
3 eggs
little splash of vanilla extract (about 1/2 – 1 tsp)
– stir it up good, then add
3 cups of flour (I used 2 1/2 oat flour = oats run through my coffee/spice grinder in batches, 1/2 cup of unsweetened coconut also ground just a bit finer + a good tablespoon of golden flax seed ground up as well),
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
then I added 2 Tbsp of (Greek) yogurt because the dough felt a bit dry.
I baked it for about 20 min in little paper muffin cups – and then I ate about 4 of them, just to make sure they are really as delicious as the looked and smelled 🙂
“Buttermilk Lemon Ice Cream”
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As a kid I LOVED buttermilk ice cream, which was lemony tart, very refreshing and almost not sweet at all – something I have been missing…
So, I added the following ingredients, put the mix in my ice cream maker, ate about half of it as I made sure everything was good along the way, then put the rest in a container in the freezer for later 🙂
– 1 cup of ground up lemons from blender lemonade
– 2-3 cups of buttermilk or similar (I used 1 1/2 cups of homemade kefir + 1 cup of Greek yogurt)
– 2 Tbsp of agave syrup + 1 little packet of stevia
(or use 1/4 cup or more of sugar)
– 1 eggs (or just the egg yolk or neither)
I put it through the blender on low for a few pulses to mix it without liquifying the lemon bits. Then it went into the ice cream maker in two batches. Or I could have put it into ice pop molds…
Now I need to make more lemonade so I have crushed lemon again for other recipes :-))
Maybe you should mention the high speed blending part at the beginning ? I now have a gallon of disgusting lemon slop
We can also peel the lemonade, that will work too.
One use for the lemon rind pulp would be to put around plants that are suseptible to Japanese beetles in september or June. They drive away the larva.
I’ve got to try this recipe soon since it sounds so unique.I haven’t ever tasted a lemonade with condensed milk before. I’m sure it will give it a wonderful taste. Lemonades are especially refreshing in hot summer mornings like we have these days.
I have a Blendtec so I peeled the lemons, and also added some frozen strawberries. Oh boy that was good, and so easy, THANKS!
I only have Carnation Evaporated Milk in the house…can I substitute one for the other?
Unfortunately not – sweetened condensed milk is sweetened while evaporated milk is not.
Made this last night sans sugar and sweetened condensed milk. Used Swerve which is a stevia baking blend, as I need sugar free. It was strong, but I diluted it with water to my likeness as I took it to work. Loved it!
Glad to hear that, Cynthia!
Great recipe, my Wife and I tried it although it’s better without all the rind. We did first with the rind and it was super strong and the second time we trimmed off the rind it was much better, just a little help if you don’t mind. Thanks.
Great tip! Thanks, Paul. 🙂
About to run off to the kitchen to try this, but wanted to say I’m keeping the leftover lemons to dump in the spray bottle of vinegar I keep next to my sink for cleaning fruits and vegetables! I also keep a spray bottle in each bathroom for cleaning, another perfect place for the leftover lemons.
What a great idea, Marijka! Thanks for the tip!
I made this with my Ninja and after straining out the rinds, I put it back in the blender with some frozen strawberries. Yum yum!
OOOh!! How about cook down the lemon rind to add to a Marmalade of some sort, or even use it to make Lemoncello? Awesome Recipe…. I look forward to trying this.
I added a little extra sugar because my lemons (iPhone wants whatever I type as ‘lemons’ to be ‘Leon’s’) we’re huge so it was a little tart, but otherwise, wow! Delicious. Pinned of course. I agree with the idea of adding vodka from a previous comment, too. 🙂
YES!!! Ok in Yemen they make this exactly except with Limes – all over the country, its the milk that really makes it! Except they used evaporated(?) milk, so its not so sweet. Try it with limes (the small round ones), its amazing.
Thanks Alex! I’ll have to give it a try!
I just made this without the SCM because I did not want to open a can for such a small amount. I love the method, so much faster. I only had two large lemons and I guestimated for the sugar and water. Used a little less than a cup of sugar and it was just sweet enough. Put crushed ice in a glass, added a shot of white rum and lemonade and it is very good.
Nice! Thanks Bell!
Maybe you can put the blended mixture in a cloth bag to make a scented lemon bag http://www.sundkoh.fr/es/pots-pourri-nextgen/6394-sachet-de-pot-pourri-citron.html it might be a good repellant for mosquitos or insects (not sure)
Wow, great idea!
A blender eh? Sounds fun.
The reason I’m commenting is to say I’ve been making regular lemonade for years and have never once done it with simple syrup. I use a pitcher of ice water, the lemon juice, and sugar to taste. A few vigorous stirs and the sugar dissolves just fine.
I honestly didn’t know simple syrup for lemonade was a thing!
Wow, interesting! I feel like all the lemonade recipes I see involve simple syrup, but maybe I’m just making that up. I’ll have to give it a go with regular sugar and a good ol’ stir. 🙂
I must make this soon. I don’t have any lemons on hand right now or I would have made some before commenting, it looks so good! Also, I LOVE your pitcher! Can I ask where it came from?
Crate and Barrel! Got it as a wedding gift. 🙂
WHAAA???? OMG, how did I miss THIS post??!! I am SO making this, this weekend! Heck yes to blender lemonade! One of the only reasons you don’t make lemonade more is because it’s a little bit of a pain, but this sounds incredible (and yes, thank you sweetened condensed milk….) Bravo!