What a healthy way to cool yourself in the scorching summer heat. Introducing Strawberry Flavored Water – all natural and REFRESHING!! Something you can enjoy all day long without any guilt and compromising your health. Summer means an abundance of colorful and juicy fruits – rich and wealthy Mother Earth’s produce. This drink is PERFECT FOR PICNIC PARTIES 🙂
Only 1 ingredient recipe – just a fresh fruit cut into halves and tossed with ice cubes and may be water. Voila! you are ready..oops, forgot to mention it needs to sit in the refrigerator for 2 -3 hours so that the fruit you are using can infuse its flavor in the water. 🙂
Love blueberries, lemons, oranges, watermelons, tangerines – add fruit of your liking to ice and water – let it sit till all the flavors are infused in water and enjoy all day long!! If using oranges or blueberries – poke tiny holes in the fruit for the juices to leave their flavor in the water. Well nothing extra needs to be added to this recipe but if you like it a little sweet – add 1-2 tablespoon honey to the flavored water.
After 2-3 hours water color will change and it will have a mild color of the fruit you are using. In my case I had a mild pink color from the strawberries which my kids loved! I prefer to strain the water because after sitting for 2-3 hours, tiny particles from the strawberries start floating in the water which is not too eye pleasing for my kids… It’s a big thumbs down if they discover something floating in their water. 🙁
Have fun and enjoy your SUMMERRRR….. Also try other recipes – Strawberry- banana smoothie, Mango lassi….
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Strawberry Flavored Water
Ingredients
- 30-40 pieces of Fresh Strawberries
- 3-4 cups Ice cubes
- A handful of Fresh Mint leaves
Instructions
- Clean and wash strawberries.
- Remove the top and cut them in halves.
- Fill a jug/pitcher half filled with water and half with ice cubes.
- Drop cubed strawberries and fresh mint leaves in there.
- Or if you prefer fill the pitcher full of ice cubes leaving out water. Set it aside for 2 hours in the refrigerator..
- You can serve them with ice and water and few strawberries in there....
- Or all ice and strawberries...
- Or just water and strawberries..
- After 2-3 hours water will have a strong flavor and a mild color of strawberries. ENJOY!!
- Like oranges - make small holes in each slice and drop them in water making orange flavored water...
- Like lemons - cut them in slices and drop them in water making lemon flavored water...
- Like blueberries -poke tiny holes and drop them in water and enjoy blueberry flavored water!!
Berniece says
This recipe is really good,made it for my office meetup party and taste good. Had kept it in the fridge for 8 hours. Added blueberries and strawberries, lovely color combo. Your website is extremely helpful. Many thanks for sharing!
RK says
Great idea, Berniece! Would try it next time. Blueberry must have added a wonderful color/taste to the water. Thanks for sharing your experience with me.
Blair says
A perfect drink for these hot California days. Thanks for posting. It was a perfect drink for my beach party. Made a huge pitcher full of it and people just had a blast.
RK says
Thanks for sharing your experience with me, Blair! Gald you liked it. 🙂
Joey says
Hello just wanted to give you a quick heads up. Awesome recipe for a summer picnic. Had so much fun with this flavored water and my guest appreciated the idea of fruity water without additives. My summer picnic was a cool cool one with your yummy drink recipe. Many thanks.
Love from NY.
RK says
You are welcome Joey! Glad you liked it. 🙂
Jackson says
Made this for my buddies and added few black berries and it tasted divine. Only twist I made was added few drops of tequila and it was heavenly. Thanks for giving me a base to bring something new to my buddies. BTW best picture blog!
RK says
Thanks for your feedback Jackson. I’m really happy to hear that you enjoyed my recipe. What a creativity!!
Rusty says
Very pretty and refreshing alternative to lemonade and perfect for summer season. However, it’s really refreshing and definitely needs to sit overnight to develop the flavor. We enjoyed. Thank you soo much.
RK says
I agree it needs to stay overnight for that fruity flavor to develop. Glad you liked it and thanks for stopping by 🙂
Adrienne says
Such a simple yet healthy drink. Never thought of it, you saved my kids from all the sugar drinks. Followed your advice and added honey to the water. Yum.
RK says
Thanks Adrienne. Indeed a healthy option for kids. Glad you liked the recipe 🙂
Nigel says
Oh my goodness! tasty and super simple. I am a fourth grade teacher and always look for ideas to introduce healthy in my classroom and I found this drink. Seriously you displayed this recipe too with some steps, kudos to your hard work. You are awesome.
Regards,
Nigel
RK says
Thanks for such a lovely comment Nigel 🙂 Glad you liked it!!
Valentina says
You should take part in a contest for one of the greatest websites online. I will recommend this blog! Lovely recipe.I kept the water for a whole day and turned out delicious.Thanks!
RK says
You are welcome Valentina! I am sure it must have tasted great after chilled for 24 hours 🙂
Josette says
Enjoyed reading your blog, great work and lots of effort. You must be a busy women. Perfect way of explaining and describing everything. Thoroughly enjoyed this drink and followed the recipe and made one batch of strawberry and other with lemons. Got rave reviews. Thanks!!
RK says
Thanks Josette 🙂
Louise says
So yummy! Takes plain water completely to a new level. Made it today for my thirsty boys and it was so much easier to get them stay away from sugar drinks and they drank 6-8 cups of water in a whole day!
RK says
Thanks for stopping by Louise. Glad your kids liked the drink as much as mine did! 🙂
Stuti says
How can you think of such a healthy option. I liked it will try it on my sunday picnic. Thank you for making my picnic so healty. BTW making cone chaat that too from your website 😉
RK says
You are welcome Stuti. I am sure you and your picnic friends are going to relish and enjoy this healthy drink.Have fun and thanks for stopping by 🙂