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Lemon Mint Frappé
Peeled lemon and fresh mint blended, strained, then blitzed with ice: tart, sweet and cooling.
Classic collection version
For one serving
Ingredients
- Lemon
Peeled and quartered
1 piece - Mint
The original uses 2 tablespoons for four, about half a tablespoon a glass
6 leaves - Sugar
The original sweetens to taste; start here and adjust
6 tsp - Water
Cold water
250 ml / 8.45 US fl oz
US fl oz amounts are rounded; use ml for exact measures.
To garnishMint sprig
Make it
- Blend the peeled lemon pieces with the mint, half the sugar and half the water.
- Strain into a large bowl and return the pulp to the blender.
- Add the remaining water and sugar, blend again and strain into the same bowl.
- Rinse the blender, add the strained lemon mint juice and about 250 ml of ice, blend to a slush and pour into the glass.
Behind the drink
One of the Middle East's most popular summer drinks.
Recipe reference
Scaled to one glass from Sayidaty Kitchen's recipe for four; the original sweetens to taste, so the sugar here is a starting point. The final blend with ice follows the Arabic Wikipedia entry, which describes it both over ice and blended into a slush.
kitchen.sayidaty.net ↗