Lemon with Mint
Section: Fresh Juices
Serve volume: 300 ml
No caffeine figure is published for this drink: its record carries no tokenised ingredient list to derive from.
Operating procedure
Applies to: lemonade blended with fresh mint until fine and bright green — a popular Gulf-style refresher.
Target: under 2 minutes from order to serve.
- Wash fresh mint under running water and pat it dry; use bright, unblemished leaves only.
- Squeeze fresh lemon juice to order and strain out seeds.
- Prepare a 1:1 sugar syrup and keep it chilled.
- Portion ice for the blender per the recipe.
- Sanitize the blender jar and blade and keep the recipe card at the station.
- Add lemon juice, sugar syrup, and chilled water to the blender jar.
- Reference: about 30 ml lemon juice, 30 ml of 1:1 syrup, and 120 ml chilled water per glass.
- Add the fresh mint leaves and ice on top.
- About 8–10 mint leaves per glass gives clear mint flavor and green color without turning bitter.
- Blend on high until the mint is finely broken up and the drink is uniformly bright green.
- Blend just until fine — over-blending warms the drink and can pull bitterness from the mint.
- Pour into a chilled glass and serve immediately, straining lightly if a smoother texture is preferred.
- Color is a fresh, even bright green with no dark or oxidized patches.
- Mint is finely blended with no large leaf fragments unless a light strain was used.
- Taste is refreshing and balanced — minty and sweet-tart, not bitter.
Mint browns and turns bitter quickly once blended — make each mint lemonade to order and never hold a blended batch.