Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This lemon and mint juice is the best drink you can make for hot summer days. It's super refreshing, full of crazy delicious flavours, and it's super simple to make. Egyptians and most Middle Easterners drink tons of this stuff every summer, so let's make the original version and then an incredible slushie version too.
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Juice (makes roughly 800ml):
3.5 Lemons (or 5 limes or 12 tiny limes. You can mix and match the ingredients until they are similar in weight)
10g Mint Leaves
130g Sugar
700ml Cold Water
150g Ice

Concentrated Lemon Mint:
300ml Lemon or lime juice - strained
20g Mint Leaves
250g Sugar

Slushie or sorbet:
Concentrate from above
700g ice or 700ml water for sorbet
1/8 Tsp Xanthan Gum