Carrageenan Free Classic Lavender Lemonade
Floral, bright, and endlessly refreshing, this lavender lemonade is the kind of drink that makes a regular afternoon feel like a special occasion. The secret is a quick homemade lavender syrup — just water, sugar, and dried culinary lavender steeped together until the liquid turns a dreamy soft purple-gray. That syrup gets strained clean and stirred into fresh-squeezed lemon juice, so every sip is fragrant and perfectly balanced without a single mystery ingredient in sight. For anyone avoiding carrageenan, store-bought flavored drinks and bottled lemonades can be a minefield, since the additive often hides in commercial beverages and flavored syrups. Making it from scratch here means you know exactly what's in your glass — real lemons, real sugar, real lavender, and cold water. The recipe is also wonderfully forgiving: taste as you go and nudge the tartness or sweetness to exactly where you want it. Poured over ice with a sprig of fresh lavender, it looks as gorgeous as it tastes.
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4 servings
For the lavender syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp dried culinary lavender
For the lemonade
- 1 cup fresh lemon juice (from about 6–8 lemons)
- 3 cups cold water
For serving
- ice, for serving
- lemon slices, for serving (optional)
- fresh lavender sprigs, for serving (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Combine 1 cup water and the sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the sugar fully dissolves, about 2–3 minutes.
- 2
Remove the pan from the heat, stir in the dried lavender, and let the mixture steep for 15–20 minutes, until the syrup is fragrant and tinted a soft purple-gray.
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