Grape Limeade
A colorful and healthy homemade drink for hosting fun parties. The drink is non alcoholic and kid-friendly.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
For Cooking Grapes
- 1 cup fresh Red Grapes seedless
- 1 cup Water
- 1 tbsp Sugar
For Simple Lime Syrup
- 1.5 cup Water
- 5 tbsp Sugar
- ΒΌ cup fresh Lime Juice
- 3-4 Red Grapes to garnish
- Lime slices to garnish
Instructions
To Cook the Grapes
- In a saucepan over medium heat, combine water, grapes and sugar. Stir to dissolve the sugar.
- Bring to a boil. Now cook simmering until the the water becomes red color and the grapes are white colored.
- Remove from heat. Keep aside to cool completely.
Prepare the simple Lime Syrup
- In another sauce pan, combine sugar and water. Cook over medium heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar.
- Bring to a boil. Then simmer for 5 minutes to get a clear syrup.
- Remove from heat and stir in the lime juice.
- Let it cool and then pour into a pitcher and refrigerate until chilled (only if you like it chilled).
- Stir the grape juice along with the cooked grapes into the lime juice syrup.
- Pour the limeade to glasses.
- Garnish with some red grapes and lime slices.
- The drink is ready. Now you can serve the healthy grape limeade.
- You can add ice cubes to each glass, if you want it more chilled.
Notes
Use seedless concord grapes for an intense purple color.
Wash the grapes in cold salt water before using as it contains lots of pesticides.
For an intense lime flavor,you can add the grated lime zest also.
Use sugar as per the sweetness you want.
Wash the grapes in cold salt water before using as it contains lots of pesticides.
For an intense lime flavor,you can add the grated lime zest also.
Use sugar as per the sweetness you want.