It’s simple to prepare this casserole of overnight eggs benedict in advance for breakfast, a special occasion, or even for house guests.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 6 cups |
Ingredients
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup water
- 4 cups cubed watermelon
- 3 cups cold water
- ½ cup fresh lemon juice
- 6 cups ice cubes
Instructions
- Place the watermelon into a blender. Cover, and puree until smooth. Strain through a fine mesh sieve.
- Bring sugar and 1/2 cup water to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in 3 cups of cold water and the lemon juice. Divide the ice into 12 glasses, and scoop 2 to 3 tablespoons of watermelon puree over the ice, then top with the lemonade. Gently stir before serving.
Reviews
All you need is watermelon, lemon and a blender… healthier, and easier. Watermelon and lemon are juicy enough. But 3 stars for the effort and I LOVE this site!
Wow so refreshing and easy to make! Made this for the fourth of July and it was delish!!!
Insanely good! I think I might get addicted to this. I skipped the part where you heat up the water. I just added the sugar straight to the watermelon and lemon juice mixture, and it dissolved quickly enough.
I guess our watermelon wasn’t as sweet as yours… ours didn’t need any water!!!
Easy and very yummy. We used it for Vodka also, or just plain juice. I did not strain it so I could get the full benefit of the pulp. I used a hand mixer
This was not too sweet for my family as some of the reviews have said. I pureed the watermelon until I had 4 cups of watermelon though, so I may have used significantly more than intended which may have cut the sweetness. Its perfect, however, so I’d make it again the same way if and when I do make it again. I did not strain the watermelon.
It is hard to make this if you want to make like a whole gallon of it, because this tells you to put it into individual cups. But other than that it’s great!
I don’t know what the vodka would make the drink taste like. I think it’s good as is.
I used Meyers lemons and added an extra one. I did strain the melon purée but not sure that is necessary. I mixed altogether and poured over ice . Added mint sprig too. Awesome!
I used sparkling lemon water in place of regular cold water, and served the whole concoction in the hull of the watermelon I used for the drink. It was awesome!
very tasty
I used agave instead of sugar. Very yummy!
This was tasty and, in my opinion, the recipe has the perfect amount of sugar. I initially cut the sugar b/c of reviewers saying it was too sweet. But that version was not sweet enough, so in the end I added the rest of the sugar.
I loved this recipe soooo much great idea and and very easy but I found that the watermelon sorta over powered it just a little so I added about another lemon in there and it was perfect so good my family and I LOVED this it refreshing and sweet love it!!!
the one change i made which was IMPORTANT, i only added 1/2-3/4 c cold water not the (3) cups suggested. it would have been very diluted. also i offered cold gin or vodka on the side for anyone wanting to spike their beverage. it was really really good!
I had quite a few guests over so I did 1.5X more than the original recipe and decided to use 2 cans of lemonade frozen concentrate and 1 can on limeade frozen concentrate which made it better in my opinion!
Made it twice in one week family can’t get enough!
I now have CRAVINGS for this, yum!!! Unfortunately the recipe doesn’t make much, so I tripled the recipe this time. Add a little Tajin for a spicy kick!!! A little tedious to juice the lemons; otherwise it’s a simple recipe. LOVE LOVE
I like this recipe name Watermelon Lemonade.
I thought this was a delicious and sweet smoothie! Would totally recommend it to make
We had a mediocre watermelon that no one was eating. We made this drink with it, and also threw in two overripe mangoes. The final result was refreshing and tasty – if we had used a good watermelon, it would have been ever better.