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Serves
6-8
Author Notes
Cosi archaic to possess a watermelon-habanero lemonade that used to be crisp, refreshing, and ideal for cooling off on a summer day. After they stopped carrying it, I figured it might per chance well now not be that tricky to recreate the drink on my maintain, and indubitably I loved this version even more. Be particular that to jog away the habanero in capable pieces with out seeds so that you just might per chance well per chance also effortlessly resolve it later. The closing notify you esteem to possess is somebody by probability swallowing a habanero seed. —Chris Van Houten
Test Kitchen Notes
Sweet, tangy, refreshing, and HOT, this lemonade is a capable preserve-me-up in the center of the work day. In my concept, I enjoyed the extent of heat your entire habanero adds to the lemonade, but in the event you purchase a milder flavor, I counsel easiest adding half of the pepper. This would additionally manufacture for a capable summer cocktail with the addition of vodka or tequila! —Sophie Jones
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Test Kitchen-Accredited
Substances
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10
lemons, washed
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1 cup
sugar
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2 cups
unusual watermelon juice
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2-3 cups
water, separated
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1 pinch
salt
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1
habanero pepper, halved and seeded
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cubed watermelon and sliced lemon, for garnish
Instructions
- Halve the lemons lengthwise and cut to about 1/4-scamper skinny, so that you just might per chance well per chance also possess skinny half-moons of lemon slices.
- Mash together the lemon slices, sugar, and salt unless the sugar dissolves and the juice thickens.
- Rigidity as grand liquid from the lemon cut combination as you might per chance well per chance also (exhaust a spoon to support separate the juice from the solids in the strainer).
- Add the watermelon juice and 2 cups of the water to the lemon juice combination in pitcher. Taste and add more water as obligatory unless you might per chance well per chance also appreciate alongside with your lemonade depraved.
- Add the habanero pepper. Refrigerate overnight. Bewitch away the habanero when the lemonade reaches your desired heat level (I’m cautious of overpowering the lemonade flavor, so I take hang of it out after about 24 hours). Add chunks of unusual chop watermelon and sliced lemons to the pitcher forward of serving.
- This is a forgiving recipe. Should you esteem to must intensify the heat, fade the habanero in the lemonade longer. Should you purchase a more subtle heat, resolve it sooner or factual exhaust half of the pepper. Should you by probability fade it in too long, dilute with more lemonade. To up the sweetness, add more watermelon or sugar. To fabricate a boozy version, add vodka or tequila. Should you might per chance well per chance also’t earn watermelon juice, you might per chance well per chance also as a substitute change the juice with water and add 1/4 of a watermelon, cubed, to infuse into the lemonade.