Turkish Lemonade Recipe | Homemade Lemonade Recipe | How To Make Turkish Lemonade

We love a good strong flavored lemonade in the warmer months. Turkish lemonade fits that description perfectly. An ice cold glass of this will certainly cool you down on a hot day

Ingredients:
5 large or 6 small organic lemons
2 to 2 1/2 cups sugar (depending on how sweet or tart you like it)
12 to 16 cups (3 to 4 liters) cold filtered water, divided

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Turkish Lemonade Recipe
homemade lemonade recipe
how to make Turkish lemonade

hey how’s going everybody welcome back to Art of creation H my name is Jason we’re in the kitchen today it’s getting warm and hot outside Memorial Day is coming up this weekend and cookout season barbecue season what you want to call it grillin out season be a really nice refreshing idea to have some good fresh lemonade Angela Kay has got into making Turkish lemonade so here she is going to give you her recipe for Turkish lemonade okay now Turkish lemonade is a totally different animal takes a little longer to make but it’s worth it well worth it yep you you want to start out with six lemons you want preferably organic because you are using the zest and every part of this lemon is going in it at some point so you preferably want organic that does not have chemicals on the Skins so if it’s at all possible get organic so you want to zest all six of the lemons don’t go down too deep into to the white or it will get bitter just take off the yellow and I am using a microplane you can use the zesting side of a box grater but I find that a microplane works much better and that I can do it much quicker because I can do it over the bowl or the pitcher or whatever you’re choosing to do it in this step right here I know it’s a little more than been American lemonade but the Step is what makes this so incredible and until you’ve had Turkish lemonade you don’t understand it is just how amazing it is it is quite good it is the best lemonade you’ve ever tasted absolutely I’ve heard a lot of people say that they wonder if Chick-fil-A actually makes Turkish lemonade because it tastes similar to Chick-fil-A but better now some points of this you may start to question my sanity about how it’s made I question your s anyway but you will see the results when you taste it yeah it does seem like an odd process but it’s worth every minute of what you have to do to do this you see and she’s already possed five so yes this the last one and these are these are large lemons you may not be able to find ones this large but these are rather large lemons big lemons so I’ve gotten that much zest out of six lemons now this is a very important part you you have to remember you are making a gallon of lemonade here so don’t freak out over the amount of sugar I’m telling you you you can go less I wouldn’t recommend it otherwise it may be a little too tart for because how this is made you think this is going to be too sweet it’s not it really isn’t you want to do two cups of sugar and you want to add that into your zest and here’s the very important step you massage the zest into the sugar until the sugar starts to turn yellow because it brings out all the oils and all that zest the sugar works as an abrasive and brings up all of those oils that are in the zest and see you can see it’s already turning yellow you also get a very pretty color to this lemonade it’s it’s hard to tell right now cuz the tone of the camera but I see it it’s a very your lemonade is a very yellow lemonade yeah very pure yellow a very pure lemon flavor mhm trust me once you’ve had Turkish lemonade you’ll never go back to making it regular again so good you’ll never go back to make extra steps and it’s so refreshing it’s way more refreshing than regular lemonade because if you know anything about turkey gets extremely hot there so they rely on they don’t have a whole lot of air conditioning there so they rely a lot on things like Ice Cold Lemonade to cool them off and look I hope you can see see how yellow that is you can you can you can it’s it’s oily now the sugar feels oily now you want to take this drop it into a pitcher or a bowl I have done a bowl before drop it all into a pitcher or a bowl make sure you get all of it the sugar and the lemon zest make sure you get all of that drop it all in there now we are going to start juicing the lemons to get the most juice possible out of them you want to roll them on the counter it’s a little harder to roll them when they got the zest off of them cuz they want to slide around everywhere but if you give them a a good little roll like that you’ll get more juice out of them now it’s prefer you don’t refrigerate them right if you can help it yeah I had to refrigerate these but right it’s preferred that you don’t have to that you don’t do it now you want to squeeze them right into your picture don’t worry about seeds ain’t going to matter ain’t going to matter cuz this is where you’re going to start questioning my sanity anyways unless you know about Turkish lemonade now you want to get as much as you can out but don’t worry about squeezing drop the whole thing in do that for all six lemons you do that for all six lemons squeeze them until you can’t get juice out of them anymore don’t worry about the seeds and then throw it in now I know this looks pretty strange I have not lost my sanity you do this because it Steeps and you get the most lemon flavor you can possibly get instead of just squeezing lemon juice and throwing it in you get all the flavor of all the lemon when you sck it like this and no you don’t leave this in you strain it out after it Steeps how about The Wooden Spoon leave it in no and see you Stir It Up Now and see look down in the bottom at how yellow that is MH now to this you will add 8 cups of cold preferably filtered water you want the most pure water that you can possibly get into this and you want it to be cold water it’s 8 cups or 2 L so now I’ve got 8 cups which is 2 L of cold filtered water in and now we’re going to Stir It Up really good you want to get all the way to the bottom to make sure you get that Sugar up and the sugar won’t fully dissolve right now but it will dissolve in the steeping process yeah but you want to make sure that you get it mixed in well now you are going to put a lid on this or if you’re doing it in a bowl put put plastic wrap on it and you are going to let this deep in the refrigerator for 4 hours and then I’ll show you what we do next okay this this is now ready for straining it’s been 4 hours you want to give it a really good stir at this point you will notice the sugar is very dissolved during the steeping process it is dissolved but you want to give it a good stir and you’re ready to start straining it what I do is I strain it into another picture I have a magic trick look at that I have a fine meesh SI under there and you can either use cheesecloth or I like to use a flower sack towel start out by pulling out the lemons and squeezing out the water and the rest of the lemon juice out of them into it and then I’ll get rid of those lemons and see your lemons are just tearing up at this point because basically you’ve EX excted everything out of the lemons that you can possibly get out of them so you get every ounce of lemon flavor that you can possibly get too NY now I’ll just start pouring it in slowly you’ll have to work it through a little bit with a spoon because the pulp and the seeds and everything start to clog it up so you’ll have to start working it through a little bit with a spoon and at times you may even have to pick up your cheesecloth or your towel and kind of squeeze it a little to make more come through because the pulp will kind of clog things up do you need to stir that bottom up a little bit with the where the everything I constantly keep stirring it okay I’ll do a a pour and then I’ll stir I got you makes sense and I’m going to keep straining this and then I’ll show you what you do next part of the reason I like to use a flower sact tole other than cheesecloth is I can gather that tail up and I can squeeze it and make it all come through and and get just dry pulp that way yeah see this is just dry pulp and zest and seeds yeah the reason that lemonade is done this way in Turkey they waste nothing ever so this is a way of extracting everything you can get out of the lemons to make the lemonade and as a result you get a much better Flavor now we are going to take this out and you’ve got this beautiful lemonade here but but it’s very strong at this point yeah you need to water it down more at this point it’s up to you how strong you like your lemonade if you like it more tart add less water if you like it more water down add more water basically the best thing to do add a little bit and taste it you can add anywhere from four more cups to eight more cups which is one more liter to 2 more lers of water but you want cold filtered water here’s this beautiful lemonade right there look at that’s awesome nice color to it really really stinking good nice it’s not I for two cups of sugar thing it’s super sweet it’s not it’s nice and tart and just refreshing and it’s going to go great I’m going to go out there and cook some hamburgers and hot dogs here in a little bit and that’s going to go really nice with it so thank you guys so much for watching do appreciate my name is Jason that’s Angela k art of Rec Creation homeles Day we love you all God bless you and goodbye