Natural Citrus Fizz
You can work pretty hard to get the fizz into this drink, or you can go the easy route with a little bit of yeast which you absolutely cannot taste.
This mixture makes the perfect base for any beverage -- cocktail or mocktail. Use your imagination to create a signature drink!
Try adding any of the following combos:
Lime slices and frozen raspberries
Cucumber slices and a sprig of rosemary
Sliced pear, cinnamon stick, add a dash of maple syrup to serve
Blueberries and lemon slices
Strawberries and split vanilla bean
Of course knock yourself out with the alcohol options (not literally, please drink responsibly!!) This is summer in a glass.
YUM.
Need
- 170 Grams water or coconut water
- 100 Grams sugar of choice (golden caster, coconut palm, panela, rapadura etc)
- 100 Grams whey (from yoghurt or butter making)
- 100-150 Grams freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ Teaspoons dried yeast
- Other fruits and flavourings of choice
Do
- 1
Place the water or coconut water and sugar into Thermomix bowl and cook 5 min/80°C/speed 2. Cool.
- 2
Add the whey, lemon juice and yeast and stir 7 sec/speed 3.
- 3
Place the mixture into a large glass jar with your flavours of choice. Leave on the bench at room temperature for at least 2 days.
- 4
When the drink is ready, if you shake the jar it should fizz a little.
- 5
Place into the fridge and drink over ice garnished with citrus slices and fresh fruit of choice.
- 6
Dilute to taste with gin, tonic water, sparkling mineral water, or for a sweeter drink, clear lemonade.
- 7
If you plan on making something other than straight citrus, add whatever takes your fancy in step 2.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
