Carrageenan Free Maple Pineapple Mint Lemonade
This drink is a bright, layered refresher that brings together tropical pineapple, zippy fresh lemon, and cool mint in a way that feels genuinely special without requiring any fancy equipment. Many bottled lemonades and flavored sparkling drinks sneak in thickeners and stabilizers that people with sensitivities to certain additives are trying to avoid — this one is built entirely from whole, recognizable ingredients so you know exactly what's in your glass. The maple simple syrup adds a gentle, rounded sweetness that plays beautifully against the tartness of freshly squeezed lemon juice, and blending then straining the pineapple gives you a silky, clean juice with none of the fibrous texture. Muddling the mint directly into the pineapple juice before straining it out means you get that herbal fragrance woven all the way through rather than just floating on top. The chilled sparkling water goes in last so every pour stays lively and effervescent. Dress it up with a pineapple wedge and a lemon slice and it looks like something you'd pay twelve dollars for at a rooftop bar — except you made it at home in about twenty minutes.
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4 servings
For the maple simple syrup
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ¼ cup water
For the lemonade
- 2 cups fresh pineapple chunks (from about ½ small pineapple)
- ¾ cup fresh lemon juice (from about 5–6 lemons)
- 16 fresh mint leaves, plus more for garnish
- 3 cups sparkling water, chilled
- 2 cups ice cubes
For serving
- 4 lemon slices (optional)
- 4 small pineapple wedges (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Combine the maple syrup and water in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the syrup is fully dissolved, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool for 15 minutes until no longer warm to the touch.
- 2
Blend the pineapple chunks until smooth, then strain through a fine-mesh strainer into a pitcher, pressing the pulp to extract as much juice as possible. Discard the solids. You should have about 1 cup of pineapple juice.
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