🍋 Lemon mint juice
Lemon mint juice is fresh lemon blended with mint leaves, sugar, ice and water into a tart, icy green drink. The blended mint gives it colour and a sharp herbal taste. It is one of the most ordered drinks in Gulf restaurants and juice shops, served with straws and plenty of ice.
Diets
Allergens
None of the 14 major allergens in a typical recipe.
What it is made of
Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 lemons (about 160 ml juice)
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 800 ml cold water
- A large handful of fresh mint leaves
- 2 cups of ice
Method
- Squeeze the lemons and strain out the seeds.
- Dissolve the sugar in a little of the water.
- Blend the lemon juice, sugared water, remaining water, mint and ice until smooth and pale green.
- Taste, adjust the sugar and serve at once, well chilled.
How to make it lighter
- Almost all the calories come from sugar: each tablespoon adds about 48 kcal.
- Halve the sugar and add more mint and ice for flavour.
- Order it 'no sugar' or lightly sweet in cafés and sweeten to taste yourself.
History
Blended lemon and mint is a modern café drink that became a fixture of restaurant menus across the Gulf and the wider Middle East in recent decades.
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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →