Pour a glass of this cool and refreshing Blackberry Limeade made with just 5 ingredients in just 20 minutes for a great summer drink!
It’s almost August! I can’t believe summer is already winding down. The one positive I can find to this is that pretty soon we will be celebrating with all things pumpkin, aka one of the best veggies ever. Until then, I’m happy to have as many blackberries, peaches, plums and other end of summer fruits up to the very last day.
I don’t make many drinks on the blog but I just couldn’t resist this Blackberry Limeade. It is so easy and refreshing that it would be an absolute shame to end summer without having at least one, make that 10 sips of this delicious refreshing drink. Best part? 5 ingredients, one being water, and it’s all ready in just 20 minutes.
My growing interest in blackberries started when the first drink we had in Tulum, Mexico was a blackberry lemonade. I thought it was delicious, refreshing and so fruity and I haven’t been able to stay away from them since. The only problem I had was all those seeds in my drink! I knew I needed to recreate it at home, but into a limeade that was easy to make and free of endless seeds.
The result was a drink so delicious that we finished the entire pitcher in one day. One. Day.
To make this blackberry limeade, there are just a few steps. First. it’s heating the ingredients in a pot, bringing them to a delicious red boil to infuse all the flavours. Smashing the blackberries definitely helps to extract their tarty juicy flavour and to bring it together with the lime and basil. This essentially makes a thick natural blackberry simple syrup that you could easily add to a blackberry mojito if you chose instead.
After that, you blend once again, strain and add in the extra cold water. I opted for 2 cups of additional water, but if you wanted it even sweeter you could only add 1 ½ cups of water.
Other than the taste, my favourite thing about this blackberry limeade is that it’s completely natural, made with unrefined ingredients and loaded with great nutritional benefits of blackberries, basil and lime all in one. You could actually turn this into a chia fresca by adding in some chia seeds into each glass for additional nutritional value.
Who doesn’t love sipping away knowing that they are doing their body good? This is the perfect time to enjoy what we have left of summer. Happy drinking!
Ingredients
5 Ingredient Blackberry Limeade
- 1 cup blackberries , fresh
- 3 tablespoon coconut sugar
- Juice of two large limes
- 5 basil leaves
- 2 to 2 1/2 cups cold water
- basil leaves and fresh blackberries , for garnish
Instructions
5 Ingredient Blackberry Limeade
- In a pot over high heat, add the blackberries, sugar, limes, basil leaves and ½ cup water.
- Smash the blackberries with the back of a wooden spoon and stir to combine.
- Bring to a boil then reduce to medium heat to cook for about 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool for about 5 minutes, then pour into a blender to blend everything together again. Strain over a pitcher to remove seeds and solids. Add in the extra 1 ½ or 2 cups of cold water and stir together (add 1 ½ cups first then taste to see if you’ll need the extra ½ cup).
- Serve immediately with fresh blackberries and basil leaves in each glass.
Notes
5 Ingredient Blackberry Limeade
Ingredients
5 Ingredient Blackberry Limeade
- 1 cup blackberries fresh
- 3 tablespoon coconut sugar
- Juice of two large limes
- 5 basil leaves
- 2 to 2 1/2 cups cold water
- basil leaves and fresh blackberries for garnish
Instructions
5 Ingredient Blackberry Limeade
- In a pot over high heat, add the blackberries, sugar, limes, basil leaves and ½ cup water.
- Smash the blackberries with the back of a wooden spoon and stir to combine.
- Bring to a boil then reduce to medium heat to cook for about 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool for about 5 minutes, then pour into a blender to blend everything together again. Strain over a pitcher to remove seeds and solids. Add in the extra 1 ½ or 2 cups of cold water and stir together (add 1 ½ cups first then taste to see if you’ll need the extra ½ cup).
- Serve immediately with fresh blackberries and basil leaves in each glass.
Notes
Nutrition
5 Ingredient Blackberry Limeade https://jessicainthekitchen.com/blackberry-limeade/ July 27, 2017
This Grilled Stone Fruit makes a delicious and fresh summer dessert! It’s served with a sweet homemade coconut cream in just 15 minutes!
Fact: this is the first summer that I’ve really ever tasted a peach. I don’t mean that I never tried it before, but it’s always been in something, kind of disguised. I finally took a peach straight out of the fridge and took a bite out of it. Why didn’t I realise just how amazing these were by themselves? After this discovery, I did what I always do to fruits I love – try it cooked or roasted.
What. a. delightful. transformation. Then I tried plums too and I’d like to declare that grilled stone fruit is the best thing ever. Topped with coconut cream and this became my nightly dessert for a week straight.
I’m really going to miss summer fruits there is nothing quite like the refreshing tasted of a fresh picked peach. You may have noticed that I LOVE bright, bright colours on my blog especially in food, and you don’t even have to try hard when it comes to summer fruits. They’re all so bright, beautifully, juicy and welcoming. Hence my obsession with watermelon and cantaloupes for example. I do love fall veggies and fruits (hello all things pumpkin!) but I’ll be eating summer fruits as long as I possibly can.
Grilling this stone fruit was one of my better life decisions. They go from delicious and tasty to soft, filled with aroma and flavour and irresistible. It’s kind of hard to describe, so promise me you’ll just go ahead and make them! They are so easy to make, and take just a few minutes on the grill. They work so well for all things summer celebrations as well as for upcoming Labor Day. Definitely a must make.
The coconut cream on top was just that – the cherry on top. It was lightly sweetened, thick and fluffy and the contrast with cold and warm worked so well. The coconut cream is so easy to make and takes barely any prep work. Just ensure that the coconut milk container you have is 100% full fat coconut milk. We accidentally bought a different brand only to find out that it had “coconut extract”, water and xantham gum. So, yes friends, triple check.
P.S. (is this now a thing in my blog posts?!) These taste ridiculously delicious on a pizza . Save some for that deliciousness. Enjoy!
Ingredients
Coconut Cream
- 1 can full fat coconut milk , in the fridge overnight
- 1-2 tablespoons coconut sugar
- mint leaves , to garnish
Grilled Stone Fruit
- 3-5 peaches , pitted and halved
- 7-8 plums , pitted and halved
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- cinnamon , to sprinkle
Instructions
Coconut Cream
- Turn the coconut milk tin upside down, and open. You should see a little liquid on top but the rest should be very hard like a thick cream. Pour out the liquid separately and put the thick cream into a cold mixing bowl. Whip until thick and creamy (about 30 seconds to 1 minute straight), adding in the sugar to sweeten to your preference. If you don’t want it to be sweetened then feel free to leave it out!
Grilled Stone Fruit
- Heat your grill to medium high heat.
- Brush the peaches and plums with the coconut oil before putting on the grill. Have a tray nearby to remove.
- Place each half down on the grill and cover, grilling for up to 4-6 minutes and until the stone fruit have softened and grill marks are present. Check to ensure they don’t burn. You can rotate 90 degrees to get criss cross on the stone fruit. Remove onto a plate.
- Dollop coconut cream on top, sprinkling with cinnamon. You can also brush with maple syrup when they come off the grill, or even top with vegan ice cream! Enjoy!
Notes
- This recipe is vegan and gluten free.
- You can use apricots and nectarines if you’d prefer, any stone fruit works in this recipe!
- You can also top these with vegan ice cream
