Watermelon Agua Fresca
"This is the Runner-Up recipe for 1992 in the San Francisco Chronicle, by Jacqueline Higuera McMahan."
photo by BarbryT
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 6 cups diced watermelon
- 3 cups water
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 tablespoon watermelon seeds
- lime slice (to garnish)
directions
- Puree half of the fruit in a blender with 1 cup of the water.
- Pour into a clear pitcher.
- Add the remaining fruit and water to the blender, along with the sugar and lime juice; puree.
- Combine with the juice in the pitcher.
- Stir in the reserved seeds.
- Refrigerate until chilled.
- Serve over ice in clear glasses; garnish with lime.
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Reviews
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This was very nice and very refreshing. My kids LOVED it but I found it a bit too sweet and would probably add only one tablespoon of sugar next time. A much healthier alternative to cordial or long-life packaged fruit juice. -
Yummy! I used less water and sugar and more lime in mine. Very fresh tasting! -
A HUGE success! To tell the truth, I didn't expect such a wonderful fruity depth of flavor. It is astonishingly refreshing. Perhaps just a little sweet for my taste. Next time I will reduce the sugar a bit and increase the lime juice. It has my highest recommendation! The layering effect after chilling for several hours was interesting too. -
Fantastic recipe! Very light and refreshing. I pureed all of the watermelon, left out the seeds because it was a seedless watermelon and used 1/8 of a cup less sugar. Perfect! Thanks for posting the recipe. -
So glad I found this recipe...I tried the watermelon flavor at the LA Zoo-ever since then I have craved juice that is so tasty and refreshing. Your recipe is just like I remember, and now my whole family can enjoy it, I always make a gallon at a time and its goes fast! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
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