Oats Free Lavender Honey Lemonade
Floral, bright, and just sweet enough, this lavender honey lemonade is the kind of drink that makes an ordinary afternoon feel like something worth savoring. The homemade lavender honey syrup is the real star — dried culinary lavender steeped in warm honey water creates a fragrant, faintly purple-hued base that no store-bought mix can replicate. Fresh-squeezed lemon juice keeps the flavor clean and lively, and the whole thing comes together in a pitcher with almost no effort. For anyone avoiding oats, this is a completely worry-free recipe — every ingredient here is naturally grain-free, so there's nothing to swap or double-check. The recipe even encourages you to taste and adjust at the end, which means you can dial the sweetness or tartness exactly to your liking. Poured over ice with a sprig of lavender and a lemon slice, it's as pretty as it is refreshing.
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4 servings
For the lavender honey syrup
- 1 cup water
- ⅓ cup honey
- 2 tbsp dried culinary lavender
For the lemonade
- 1 cup fresh lemon juice (from about 6–7 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, the honey, and dried lavender in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the honey fully dissolves, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and let the lavender steep for 15–20 minutes, until the syrup is fragrant and faintly purple-tinged.
- 2
Pour the syrup through a fine-mesh strainer into a pitcher, pressing gently on the lavender to extract the liquid; discard the solids.
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