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Melonade or watermelon lemonade is bursting with summertime flavors! A simple and refreshing drink, and a delicious way to use up leftover watermelon.
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Melonade is a wonderful combination of watermelon and lemonade! Take a fresh watermelon and simply puree it into a slushy substance. This is the base that mixes together with a sweet and tart lemon flavor. Combined is a sweet drink that everyone loves on warm summer days!
This delicious drink is the perfect solution so you don’t lose all that fresh, sweet watermelon flavor. It’s light, refreshing, and super easy to make. You can consider this melonade cocktail perfect for summer days with friends on the deck. The drink is a beautiful red color that is bursting with flavor!
Melonade Ingredients
With just four simple ingredients this melonade can be combined easily and shared with all your friends and family. This is a great drink to have at special occasions, holiday events, or just relaxing in the backyard. Grab a few lemon slices to garnish the side of the cup and start drinking!
- Pureed watermelon – Cut the watermelon in half and scoop out the middle of the watermelon leaving the green rhine attached. Puree it in a blender or a food processor until it is smooth and slightly watery.
- Water – This helps dilute the watermelon and lemon flavor. Leaving it a bit liquidy and slushy all in one.
- Sugar – Bring on the sweetness! Sugar is the balancer in this drink. The tart from the lemon and the watermelon flavoring need a bit of sweetener to help boost the flavor.
- True Lemon – A citrus mix that adds the sweet, tart combination but also has a fruity taste to it.
How to Make Melonade (Watermelon Lemonade)
It is a simple recipe with only three easy steps to create a light and refreshing drink. Prepare the watermelon, blend it together, and combine other ingredients and you have the best melonade ever!
- Cut watermelon – Dice the watermelon and be sure to remove all black seeds but white seeds are fine.
- Blend – Puree well in a blender until you have a nice smooth consistency.
- Serve – Measure out 5 cups of watermelon puree into a large pitcher, then add water, sugar, and lemon. Makes two quarts.
Tips for Making Melonade
Follow along with more tips to help you make this melonade even better! Removing the seeds, using a blender, and adding lemon flavor are just a few helpful tips to make this the best melonade. It is the perfect combination!
- Remove seeds – Make sure to remove any and all black seeds from the watermelon. The white seeds are found to blend up but get those black seeds out of there.
- Dice watermelon – Dice the watermelon into chunks, which makes it easier to blend.
- Blender – I like to puree up the watermelon in my blender, but any good quality blender will work just fine.
- Lemon flavoring – I like to use lemon juice or true lemon flavoring because quite frankly, I don’t love squeezing lemons. But you can totally use fresh lemon juice too! Usually, you can get a couple of good tablespoons of juice out of each lemon.
- Serving – Once you have a nice, smooth consistency, add about five cups of the puree to a pitcher, and add water and either lemon juice or true lemon flavoring.
- Don’t forget the sugar! With all that lemon flavoring, you will need to sweeten it up. I have never tried it with sugar substitutes, so I can’t say if it works as well.
Substitutions and Additions to Melonade
With a good blender, you can make any flavor of lemonade you like! Combine fresh peaches, kiwi, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, raspberries, and just about any kind of fruit you want along with the watermelon cubes to make an even fruitier puree. Then add the puree to water, sugar, and lemon juice as directed in the recipe card below. The flavor possibilities are endless! Try squeezing fresh lime juice in there too.
“Great taste. I did add a can of lemon ice tea, it added a real good flavor as well it would’ve still been just as good without it so overall two thumbs up!!”
-Amy
Unfortunately, no. The gallon a day of water can not be replaced by lemonade or any other beverage. Water is a MUST in all of our bodies and is a needed nutrient.
About 80% of all the United States watermelon production comes from Florida, Georgia, Texas, and California.
Back in the 19th century, The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement pushed abstinence from alcohol and replaced it with lemonade instead. At the end of the 19th century with the help of circuses, they pushed more for making lemon the national beverage.
Watermelons were named by a man named Linne. They were designated Cucurbita citrullus in his Species Plantarum of 1753. Citrullus was the northern European medieval Latin word for watermelon.
More Thirst-Quenching Drinks for Summertime
We love making fun, fruity drinks together as a family. Something about cold fruit, bright colors, and happy kids sipping cool drinks on the patio makes me adore these warmer months. Try a few of our family’s favorite summertime recipes.
Melonade
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Equipment
- Blendtec Blender
Ingredients
- 5 cups pureed watermelon
- 3 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons True Lemon or ¾ cup lemon juice
Instructions
- Dice watermelon and be sure to remove all black seeds (white seeds are fine).
- Puree well in a blender until you have a nice smooth consistency.
- Measure out 5 cups of watermelon puree into a large pitcher, then add water, sugar, and lemon.
- Makes 2 quarts.
Nutrition Information
So delicious! I used watermelon and strawberries I had. Turned out fantastic.
Great taste. I did add a can of lemon ice tea, it added a real good flavor as well it would’ve still been just as good without it so overall two thumbs up!!
This sounds so refreshing! Such a fun twist for summer.
OMG this is fantastic and so refreshing!
This was so delicious!
Refreshing and flavorful! Thanks for a great recipe!
This looks so refreshing! Can’t wait to try it on the next sunny day!
Hi Pretty Ladies. I am going to try your Melonade-it looks delicious! And I just love watermelon & lemonade. Something different for my 4th of July BBQ!