Our homemade strawberry lemonade recipe combines sweet strawberries with cool, refreshing, tangy lemonade. It’s the perfect cool drink for any hot day.

Two glasses and a pitcher of strawberry lemonade on a neutral background. — Ready to drink strawberry lemonade.

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Our kiddos love strawberries and going strawberry picking.

So we almost always have fresh strawberries in the fridge during the late spring and early summer.

Perfect to make Strawberry Simple Syrup.

And of course my little gremlins that love eating lemon slices adore homemade lemonade.

So every now and then I like to treat them to this sweet homemade strawberry lemonade recipe.

Ingredients and Kitchen Supplies

Ingredients for a homemade strawberry lemonade recipe: lemonade and strawberry simple syrup. Lemons and strawberries fill out the shot on a white background. — Ingredients: lemonade and strawberry simple syrup (sugar, water, and strawberries)

For homemade strawberry lemonade, you will need:

Strawberries – You can use frozen or fresh. We prefer freshly picked during the summer since we are local to a farm, but a farm stand or grocery store also work. Grocery store strawberries tend to create a lighter looking pink.
Sugar – You need this to make the simple syrup. You could also use agave nectar, honey, maple syrup, or other non-sugar sweetner that dissolves in cold liquid. You will still need to heat the strawberries with the water and the sweetner
Water – Water is part of making the simple syrup.
Lemonade – You can make your own following our lemonade recipe, your own recipe, or just use store bought lemonade.

To make strawberry lemonade, you only need some basic kitchen supplies. These include:

How to Make This Strawberry Lemonade Recipe

1. Make the strawberry simple syrup.

Clean and quarter your strawberries and set aside.

Combine the sugar and water in a sauce pot.

Measure out equal portions of water and sugar and pour into a small pot.

Whisk the sugar and water together in a pot over medium low heat until the sugar dissolves

While continously stirring with a whisk, heat the water and sugar over medium low heat.

This should take about 2 minutes.

Once the sugar dissolves, add in the quartered strawberries and continue to heat over medium-low.

Sliced strawberries simmering in a pot of simple syrup — Add the sliced strawberries to the simple syrup

Stirring frequently, keep cooking the strawberries until they start to break down and release their juices.

Strawberry simple syrup in a pot before being strained — Strawberry Simple Syrup

This takes about 10 minutes due the the overall toughness of strawberries.

A mesh strainer set over a measuring cup to strain the solids out of the strawberry simple syrup — Strain the Strawberry Simple Syrup

Remove from heat, allow to cool for a few minutes, and strain the strawberries out of the syrup using a fine mesh, hand strainer into a measuring cup or mason jar.

For more details, check out how to make strawberry simple syrup.

2. Combine the strawberry simple syrup and lemonade.

This is the important part.

Pour your lemonade into a large pitcher.

We used about a half gallon.

Hand stirring strawberry lemondade with a metal spoon on white background. — Stir the lemonade with the strawberry simple syrup.

Pour the strawberry simple syrup into the pitcher and give it a quick mix.

Pouring strawberry lemonade into waiting mason jar glasses with ice, strawberry, and lemon wedges. — Pouring a serving of strawberry lemonade.

To serve, pour into glasses filled with some ice.

Here are detailed instructions on making your own lemonade.

Serving

Serve homemade strawberry lemonade with anything that you would serve regular lemonade with.

It is a refreshing and slightly sweeter version of lemonade.

You can dress up the glasses with fresh strawberries, mint leaves, lemon wedges, or a combination of these.

It’s light pink to red color works well as a patriotic drink for July 4th, Labor Day, or Memorial Day.

You can also use it as a base to make boozy strawberry lemonade slushies.

Storing

Strawberry lemonade should stay fresh in the fridge in an air tight container for about 5 to 7 days.

If you plan to store it, do not add any ice to the pitcher.

The ice will melt and water down the lemonade.

You can also freeze strawberry lemonade in an air tight container for up to a 1 year of freshness.

To use frozen lemonade, allow it to thaw for a day or two in the fridge and then serve as normal.

Tips and Tricks

Strawberry lemonade in a clear pitcher with lemons and strawberries set on a neutral background. — Ready to serve strawberry lemonade.

To add more strawberry flavor to the lemonade, either decrease the amount of lemonade you use or add more strawberry simple syrup.
This recipe is easy to double and triple, just make sure to add porportional amounts.
Do not use any heat higher than medium-low. You do not want the mixture to come to a hard boil. The sugar can caramalize, which you do not want to happen.

Other Lemonade Recipe

Love refreshing drink flavors, try some of these:

And if you’re not a lemonade drinker, check out our Homemade Iced Tea.

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