Lemon and cucumber infused water

I’m sure you’ve heard about this lemon or lime refreshment drink and, well, if you have not, then it’s time to hear about it!

I remember, once my mother told me about lemon in water and how good it was or something like that, or maybe I’m remembering it bad, but there was something about it, I remember it clearly. Then there was this TV show and they had this culinary block, too, they told some recipes and they had guests which were different well-known chefs and they just prepared some dishes and desserts and stuff like that, you’ve all seen this kind of TV shows and so, I remember, once they had this guy as a guest and he had to prepare three things: one was the main dish, of course, the other one was the dessert and the third one was the lemonade. So, he did this lemonade and there was nothing fancy, if you want to know the truth, but it was delicious and refreshing. I didn’t pay any attention to it then, because he made that lemonade with lemons and stuff like that and I wasn’t a fan of lemons then, so I thought that the lemonade wouldn’t be tasty or something. Well, it turns out, it’s a pretty good thing and it’s healthy and full of vitamin C and when you drink it, it really helps your thirst and so on and so forth. Anyways, I tried to get that recipe somehow, but I didn’t remember anything about the show, when it was, where it was and when I could look it up, so I just forgot about it then and I didn’t remember about that lemonade until just recently. So, some weeks ago I was in this spa, where they had all those different types of water infused with different things. Mainly there were lemons, limes, cucumbers and grapefruit. And they were sugar-free and when they told me that they were sugar-free, I just thought that they wouldn’t be tasty at all. However, when I got thirsty and I couldn’t find just water there, I took a cup and poured a lemon one in it and drank it. I was really surprised how good it tasted. Then after some time I tasted the other ones, too, and they were really good and so that I thought, why I couldn’t make them! After that I just surfed the whole Internet to find the perfect recipe for that lemonade or whatever it was. Frankly speaking, I didn’t know what they were called and that’s why I couldn’t really find the recipe, which is very simple, as it turned out. I just used to type “lemonade” and that’s why nothing I wanted popped up. It was not even on “refreshing drink”, if you want to know the truth. Then somehow I just found some picture which looked like the one I drank there in spa and so I clicked on it and went on some page, where there was this recipe and I was really surprised that this all was called something like “water infused with lemon and cucumber”. I remember I thought “it’s just water and those things?” and that’s how I found out this simplest recipe for a great refreshment in summer!

Ingredients:

• Lemon, 1 medium
• Cucumber, 1 small
• 2 litres water

Preparation process

The preparation process itself is just very simple. You just have to wash lemon and cucumber and slice them into thin pieces. Well, my lemon was too large, so I decided to have two types of this infused water. I just took half of its slices and poured some sugar on them and set aside. And the other ones I squeezed a little and put them into a high jar, then I added some cucumber slices and poured some cold water in it. This was a 1-litre jar, so just so you know.

Then after some time, when the sugar kind of dissolved in lemon juice in other jar, I added some cucumber slices to it, too, and some cold water and put those two jars into the refrigerator.

The recipe said, that you should refrigerate the mixture for 1 hour or more, so that the taste will infuse more and more and, I guess, I had mine in the fridge for a couple of hours and when I took it and drank it, it was just perfect. Frankly, I didn’t expect it to be that good, because I tried doing something some time ago with oranges and kiwis and grapefruit and it was terrible, I guess, I did something wrong, or I don’t know, maybe it’s because I added some apples, too, and then they kind of dissolved or something happened to them and it was not good at all. However, this time I really did a good job by making everything simpler. I did mention in my another blog, that putting much effort into preparing something is just stupid and you really shouldn’t do it, because when you do it, it just doesn’t come out as planned or as expected and you just have this feeling, that why you did all those things if it wasn’t going to turn out good. So, just remember to do everything in a simple way! Simple is better!

Now, if you know, there are different things you can add to this water and make infused water. I will definitely do that now, but I guess, lemon and cucumber is still the best option. First of all, it’s cheap, secondly, lemon and cucumber go well together and they just make this light and soft taste that make you feel satisfied, thirdly, you don’t have to do anything but to slice them!

However, I would prepare some raspberry infused water if I had some raspberries now, because I just love raspberries and I wonder how they would taste this way in water.

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