Ingredients

The following ingredients have 9 Servings
  • 3 cups organic strawberries, cleaned
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 20 leaves fresh lemon verbena
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • lemon soda or carbonated water

Instruction

  • Bring the water and sugar to a boil until all the sugar is dissolved. Lower the heat, add the fresh Verbena leaves and simmer for 5 minutes.
  • Wash and clean the strawberries. Put them in a blender with the lemon juice and hot syrup(remove verbena leaves temporarily) and purée until very smooth. Sieve pressing on the strawberry purée to obtain a clean red pulp.
  • Add the verbena leaves again to the strawberry purée and allow to cool completely before storing in the fridge.
  • To serve: pour over ice and add lemon soda or carbonated water.
  • For a kick I would go with a dash of rhum, what do you think?
  • Salute!
  • Got extra fresh lemon verbena to use? Check out my recipe for icecubes with herbs so you can use them all year round.