Cucumber Agua Fresca
photo by Baby Kato
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 5 whole cucumbers, chopped but not peeled
- 591.47 ml water
- 118.29 ml fresh lime juice (not the junk in the bottle)
- 29.57 ml agave syrup (or simple syrup, if you can't get agave in your area)
- sea salt or kosher salt
directions
- Puree the cucumber in a blender in as many batches as you need, then pour into a large bowl.
- Add the rest of the ingredients, then pour into a colander layered with three thicknesses of cheesecloth to strain out the solids.
- Taste the strained juice and add a small amount of salt, to taste.
- Serve over Ice!
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Reviews
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So Good, so good, so good. Wow, what flavor. I really enjoyed this refreshing drink. Loved it, you could taste the cucumber, lime, agave syrup and salt. I used blue agave syrup, it was delicious and healthy too. Simply perfect, I can't wait to have this again when its warmer out. I prefer to drink my fruits and vegetables, this could have been made just for me....It called my name, as soon as I found the recipe. Thank you so much for sharing a drink that I will enjoy often. Made for May Pool Party in the Diabetes Forum. :)
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I am a self taught cook (My Mom, bless her soul, has always worked, and being product of the post WWII generation, is a big believer in convenience foods - she heats, she doesn't cook) who started experimenting out of library cookbooks at age 9. My Grandma was in her high 90's by the time she could work with me, but I inherited a lot of her old recipes ("receipts"), and have done a lot of playing around, eventually taking several courses at the San Francisco Culinary Academy. I teach jewelry fabrication and design and am an accredited Property manager for both commercial properties and community associations, which leaves me very little home time, so I do the night-owl thing!