Vodka Lemon drink recipe: how to make a simple yet delicious cocktail at home

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Vodka Lemon is one of the most simple and essential cocktails: you don’t have to be an acrobatic barman to make it. All you need is a good vodka and real lemonade.

Lemon vodka is the classic summer cocktail, light, fresh and very aromatic, and depending on the doses it can be a slightly alcoholic lemonade for the afternoon or a more challenging drink, but it should never be too alcoholic. Remember to drink responsibly, always!

Exactly like the Screwdriver, the Seabreeze or vodka tonic the Vodka lemon drink must be light and sharp, a simple aperitif, nothing more.

So adjust the doses according to the time and the function of the cocktail. Usually, it starts from a ratio of 1: 2, between vodka and lemonade for a light drink and then you can get up to a cocktail with equal parts between lemonade and vodka.

It also depends on how good and sweet your lemonade is. Better to experiment a little with the lemonade, as the vodka serves only to give alcoholic thickness since it has very little taste …

Ingredients and doses for making the Vodka Lemon cocktail

• 5 cl of vodka
• 7 cl of sweet and sour mix
• ice
• 1 lemon wedge
• 1 lemon slice

How to make Vodka Lemon

It is prepared directly in the glass. Fill it with ice, pour the vodka, lemonade and a slice of lemon to decorate.

Consider lemon vodka a blank canvas on which to let your imagination fly: you can add berries, mint, use agave syrup instead of sugar or add a few sage leaves and crush it on the bottom, before pouring the vodka.

If you are desperate you can use industrial products like lemon soda, Schweppes lemon, but if you want to serve an impeccable cocktail, you always must have a sweet and sour bottle at your fingertips.

How to make sweet and sour?

Very simple. For a generous 1 liter, let’s say 1.3 liters of lemonade you will need 1 liter of water, 5-6 lemons and 100 grams of sugar or agave syrup. Remember that it is better to sweeten a little and use a good syrup if you don’t have much time. However for every liter of water 100 grams of sugar is needed, not more.

Squeeze the lemons and strain the juice. Put water, juice, and sugar in a jug and stir, then bottle for convenience. If you want a more incisive product, crush the lemons, untreated and organic, with a pestle and leave to infuse overnight, then filter the lemonade.

Vodka Lemon food pairings

Ttry it with lemon chicken, hamburger, pizza Margherita, parmigiana ravioli, spaghetti with clams, chicken tikka masala, Chicken Cacciatore, Vitello Tonnato, truffle risotto, pasta alla carbonara, paella mixta.

Vodka time!

If you like vodka cocktails, here are other recipes you may like: Vodka Sour, Espresso Martini, White Russian, Moscow Mule, Cosmopolitan, Vodka Tonic, Kamikaze, Sex on the beach, Screwdriver, Bloody Mary, Caipiroska, Black Russian.