Refreshing Strawberry Juice With Rhubarb And Lemon Balm. Step-by-step Recipe With Photo

Morse, a traditional non-carbonated drink of Russian cuisine, is most often prepared from sour berries. First, squeeze the juice from the berries, then dilute it with water and add sweeteners - sugar or honey. Strawberries are among the first to ripen. However, a vitamin drink can be prepared not only from fresh, but also from frozen berries. During the ripening season, prepare strawberry juice every day, because this is a natural drink without preservatives and artificial colors. Strawberry is a sweet berry, you can acidify strawberry juice with rhubarb or lemon. Mint or lemon balm gives pleasant freshness to the fruit drink. By the way, fruit drinks can be used not only for their intended purpose - as a refreshing drink, with fruit drinks you can make light alcoholic cocktails, it turns out very tasty!

• Cooking time: 20 minutes
• Quantity: 4-5 servings

Ingredients for strawberry juice with rhubarb and lemon balm

• 150 g rhubarb;
• 400 g strawberries;
• 1 liter of water;
• 60 g sugar;
• Melissa.

How to prepare a refreshing strawberry juice

Rhubarb stalks for fruit drinks can be used whole by cutting off a couple of centimeters from the bottom. The fibrous part of the stem is critical in jam or pie, and does not affect the quality of our strawberry juice. Cut the thoroughly washed rhubarb into small pieces.

Put the chopped rhubarb in a saucepan, add a few lemon balm leaves, pour hot water.

Add sugar. The amount of sugar in this recipe for strawberry juice is to your taste, I usually prepare 2-3 teaspoons per glass of water, if rhubarb and berries are sour, then more is possible.

Bring the compote to a boil, cook for 4-5 minutes, remove from heat, leave to steep and cool. In the meantime, let's take care of the berries.

We sort out the strawberries, cut off the sepals, wash thoroughly with cold running water.

Grind the prepared strawberries with a blender until you get a homogeneous puree, like for juice.

Add compote with rhubarb to the strawberry puree, mix.

Put cheesecloth folded in several layers into a colander, pour out the contents of the pan. The transparency of the drink depends on the number of layers of gauze; strawberry grains can seep through the rare fabric.

When the liquid drains almost completely, squeeze the cake. I advise you not to squeeze out completely, so that the strawberry and rhubarb cake does not pass through the fabric - then a thick sediment will settle at the bottom.

Pour refreshing strawberry juice with rhubarb and lemon balm into bottles, dilute with cold boiled or filtered water if desired, store in the refrigerator. The concentration of juice and sugar is at your discretion, if it seems that the drink is too thick and concentrated, add cold boiled water.

Put a few ice cubes in a mug, pour in strawberry juice with rhubarb and lemon balm and enjoy a cold, sweet and sour, refreshing drink. Bon Appetit! When strawberry season is in full swing, enjoy healthy, sweet and delicious berries to your fullest! Jams, jams, fruit drinks, jellies - all this is great and tasty, but don't forget about fresh berries!