Refreshing and fruity summer beverages are one of the best things about summer! This recipe for Homemade Blackberry Limeade is the perfect summer drink to make and serve at your next backyard party. Learn how to make limeade for your family this summer.
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How to Make Limeade
The drink has only a four ingredients – blackberries, limes, sugar and water. Some limeade (and lemonade) recipes require you to boil the sugar with water to dissolve all the sugar. But this recipe doesn’t need a lot of sugar, so you should be able to dissolve it all in the cold water. This saves you an entire step and all the time it takes to heat up and cool down the drink.
The reason the recipe doesn’t need a ton of sugar is because it gets a lot of natural sweetness from the blackberries. I used fresh limes and blackberries, although it would work with bottled lime juice and frozen blackberries also. Of course using the fresh ingredients means a little more work to make the recipe. First I juiced the limes.
Then I combined a quart of blackberries with some water and put them in the blender to make a thick blackberry slurry. You then need to strain the blackberry mixture to get rid of the seeds. You can use a simple strainer and pour the blackberry mixture through to get the liquid. If you want to make it more complicated you could use a food mill or a juicer to extract the blackberry juice, but a standard kitchen strainer works well enough.
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This combination of blackberries and lime is delicious, and a great mixture of sweet with tart. It is easy to make a big pitcher of homemade blackberry limeade ahead of time and refrigerate it for a picnic or summer barbecue.
Homemade Limeade Recipe
Blackberry Limeade
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 quart blackberries
- 5 limes
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 3 cup water
- Blackberries and limes to garnish if desired
Instructions
- Mix 1 c. of water with the blackberries in a blender and process until smooth.
- Put the blackberry mixture through a sieve or strainer to remove the seeds.
- Pour the blackberry juice into a large pitcher.
- Juice the limes to get about 2/3 c. of fresh lime juice.
- Add the lime juice and sugar and remaining 3 c. of water to the pitcher and stir until the sugar dissolves.
- Garnish glasses with limes and blackberries.
Notes
Nutrition facts are estimates.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Amount Per Serving: Calories: 127Sodium: 8mgCarbohydrates: 32gFiber: 7gSugar: 23gProtein: 1g
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This sounds like an amazing drink for summer time!! I love to make drinks like this to cool off!
We actually can pick our own blackberries not far from here! I drink a lot f fresh made lime and lemonades during the Summer so we will have to add this recipe to our lineup.
We just purchase some blackberries the other day and the kids are starting to get tired of eating them. Luckily, I saw your post as I’m going to making this for them. I bet they’d love it!
This looks so delicious! I absolutely love limeades and the blackberries added in here sound divine!
Hey Anne,
This blackberry limeade looks great. I wonder how it would taste made with Splenda?
I found your site via the Marvelous Monday link up. I hope to stop by again soon for a visit.
~ And we love visiting New York. My husband’s work takes us there about once a year – to the Albany area.
Hope you have a great day.
Blessings,
Melanie
I love this recipe! thanks for sharing 🙂
This sounds delicious! I’ve never made homemade limeaid. Love the idea of using blackberries. Pinning this!
This sounds delicious as a summer treat. Thanks for sharing!
Looks great! Love Blackberries, visiting from the Wed Link Party
Brooke
Your summer refresher looks amazing! I hope to try and make one. I’m visiting from What’s it Wednesday. Hope you will drop by.
Hi there
Just stopped by to let you know that I featured this on my Saturday Spotlight post this week!
Thanks again for linking up! Hope you have a great weekend!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
We love blackberries at my house, this sounds so refreshing and delicious! Thanks for sharing at What’d You Do This Weekend? !
Wow, this sounds so yummy!
By the way, I would love to have you post on my new blog hop—the Weekend Blog Hop at My Flagstaff Home (www.myflagstaffhome.com). It begins on Thursday evenings and lasts through the weekend, if you’re interested.
Jennifer
This sounds like the perfect refreshing summer drink. Can’t wait to give it a try! Pinned. Thank you for sharing with us at Merry Monday!
This looks so delicious and refreshing. Featuring when my link party opens up tonight!
Oooooo this looks delicious! I’ll have to give this a try sometime! Pinning it!