Healthy Pear Lemonade (fruit-sweetened, no-sugar, 3-ingredients)

Healthy Pear Lemonade (fruit-sweetened, no-sugar, 3-ingredients)

Perfect for a forward-thinking lemonade stand: This lemonade is sweetened with pears!

No sugar or even fruit juice is involved at all. And it works beautifully because pears are so mildly sweet, and so light that they obediently disappear into the swirl of lemon juice and water. You can filter as well via a small sieve to make it crystal clear, although sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t.

Here I just added ice and a few slices of lemon, and even a few kumquats for color. It is delicious! Not too sweet, not too sour.

When life gives you lemons, make THIS lemonade, haha! You won’t be sorry.

And anyway, who can feel sorry drinking a sunny drink like lemonade. Oh, and do I need to remind of you of the health benefits in this drink? Lemon, of course, is an immunity-boosting and detox star, helping you ward off germs, as well as flushing toxins from your body. The pear is no slouch either, offering vitamin C, vitamin K, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, riboflavin, vitamin B-6, and folate.

Besides the nutrition, this drink is simply fun to drink! Hmm, I think I see it as popsicles in the future.

Now, this lemonade is sweet and fun, and perfect for children, although you might want to up the pears if your child likes things sweeter.

If you like lemons, you might be interested in my No-Juicer Made-in-Blender Lemon Ginger Shot, more detox than fun but lots of lemons involved!

I hope you enjoy them both!

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Healthy Pear Lemonade (fruit-sweetened, no-sugar, 3-ingredients)

Fruit-sweetened refreshing lemonade with a twist of pear

Servings 2

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup ripe pear, peeled, chopped Buy it organic - pears are listed as one of the "dirty dozen" with the EWG
• 1 cup lemon juice squeezing 6 lemons should produce about 1 cup juice
• 1/2 cup water
• Equipment
• Hand-held Juicer
• Strainer

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

1. Peel and chop a pear. As I said above, buy an organic pear - pears are listed as one of the "dirty dozen" with the EWG. Want my free downloadable chart of their current lists for both clean and dirty produce? Click here!
   

2. Juice lemons using this juicer or your own. If you microwave the lemon 10 seconds before juicing, you'll get maximum juice.

3. Add the pear, lemon juice and water to a high speed blender and blend until the liquid is completely blended. It might be a bit frothy from the pear, you can either spoon that off or let it disappear in the refrigerator.

4. Put the lemonade in the refrigerator to completely chill through. Serve with ice and lemon slices anything else you have on hand _ I had some tiny kumquats! Enjoy!