Weekend Recipe: Simple Strawberry Lemonade

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 ¼ cups fresh lemon juice (from about 6 lemons)
1 pint strawberries, hulled and sliced
24-28 oz fresh cold water
ice

Directions

Bring the sugar and water to a simmer in a small saucepot. Stir so that sugar melts completely then remove from the heat and let cool to room temperature.

Place the strawberries in a blender and process until smooth. Pour pureed strawberries in the sugar water and stir well. Add the lemon juice.

Combine the strawberry lemon syrup and the cold water in a large pitcher. Stir well and add lots of ice.

Serve lemonade with thin slices of lemons and strawberries.

Serves 6.

Recipe via food blogger Jenna Weber.