Watermelon cocktail

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a watermelon cocktail? Prepare the ingredients. Choose a ripe watermelon. How to choose a watermelon? A ripe watermelon usually has a dry tail, a yellow-brown earthy spot and a dull sound when tapping. From an unripe watermelon, the drink will turn out tasteless. Sugar can be taken white or brown. Lemon choose bright yellow without spots and damage. Take purified water. Ice can be prepared in advance from pure water. Lemon or peppermint will do.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the watermelon well with soap and a soft brush to wash away dirt and germs. Wash the lemon with soap and a brush, and pour boiling water over it to wash off the wax coating that citrus fruits are usually treated with.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut the watermelon and free it from crusts. We'll only need the pulp.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cut the watermelon pulp into pieces, removing the seeds. If the seeds get into the blender, the taste of the cocktail may be spoiled.

5. Step 5:

   

   When preparing the ingredients, do not forget to remove the zest from the lemon, we will not need it. It can be used in other dishes. Peel the lemon from the white skins and seeds, otherwise they will add bitterness to the dish. Cut the lemon into slices.

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   Put lemon slices in the blender bowl.

7. Step 7:

   

   Add half the sugar to the lemon.

8. Step 8:

   

   Next, lay out the watermelon pulp and sprinkle with the remaining sugar. Sugar may need more or less, because watermelons have different degrees of sugar content, and lemons may be more or less acidic. Focus on your taste.

10. Step 9:

    

    Whisk the watermelon pieces, lemon and sugar in a blender until mushy. It won't take more than a minute. But focus on your technique, you may need more time.

11. Step 10:

    

    Pour the prepared water into the fruit mass. The water must be purified. If you take water from the tap, the taste of the drink can become unpleasant.

12. Step 11:

    

    Whisk the cocktail in a blender again. A pink foam will appear, which means that the ingredients are well mixed.

13. Step 12:

    

    Strain the mass through a fine sieve or gauze. Filtered drink is easier and more pleasant to drink. But if you like a cocktail with pulp, then you can leave it.

14. Step 13:

    

    Pour the finished cocktail into tall glasses. They are convenient to hold in your hand and drink through a cocktail tube.

15. Step 14:

    

    Add ice cubes to the drink so that it cools down and tastes more pleasant. If the watermelon was pre-cooled, then you can not add ice. Or cool a ready-made drink in the refrigerator.

16. Step 15:

    

    Decorate the cocktail with fruit slices and mint sprigs. Serve the chilled cocktail to the table. Bon appetit!