🇱🇧 LebanonCatalog recipe
Slush-cold lemonade blitzed with a storm of fresh mint — the drink on every Beirut café table in summer.
For 4 servings.
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Stir the sugar into the lemon juice until dissolved.
Blend the sweetened juice with the water, mint leaves and ice until slushy, about 45 seconds.
💡 Blend in bursts — over-blending bruises the mint and turns the drink khaki.
Taste and correct: it should be sharper than commercial lemonade, with the mint unmistakable.
💡 Err sour — the ice keeps melting and mellowing it in the glass.
Strain half if you prefer it smooth, or serve as is, flecked green.
Pour into chilled glasses and top each with a mint sprig.
Blended mint lemonade swept the Levant's café culture in the late 20th century and Lebanon adopted it as a birthright. It arrives pale green, half-frozen and startlingly sour-sweet, the standard companion to a long mezze on a hot afternoon.
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