Brazilian Lemonade (The Creamy 5-Minute Viral Lime Drink)
What you need
This isn’t the lemonade you grew up with. Brazilian lemonade — limonada suíça — is a creamy, zesty lime drink made by blending whole limes with sweetened condensed milk and ice. The result tastes like a lime cream pie in a glass: bright and tart up front, silky-sweet at the finish, and dangerously refreshing. It’s the drink all over Brazilian tables (and viral food feeds), and it takes exactly 5 minutes and 5 ingredients. If you loved this drink, try our Ghost Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate next!
- Ready in 5 minutes — serves 4 (about 1 liter)
- 4 fresh limes, washed and cut into wedges
- 4 cups cold water
- 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar (adjust to taste)
- 2 cups ice cubes, plus extra for serving
- Lime slices and mint leaves, to garnish (optional)
Recipe Steps
- Add the lime wedges and 4 cups cold water to a blender. Blend for 10-15 seconds only — just long enough to release the juice.
- Pour through a fine-mesh strainer into a pitcher, pressing the pulp with a spoon. Discard the pulp.
- Rinse the blender, return the strained lime juice to it, and add the condensed milk, sugar, and 2 cups ice. Blend for 30 seconds until thick, creamy, and pale green.
- Taste and adjust — more sugar for sweeter, or a squeeze of lime for extra tang.
- Pour over fresh ice immediately — Brazilian lemonade separates if it sits. Garnish with lime slices and mint.
Tips & Variations
- Don’t over-blend the limes — 15 seconds max in step 1 is the whole secret. Over-blending releases bitter oils from the pith and white parts.
- Serve right away — the drink separates and the flavor dulls after about 30 minutes. Blend, pour, drink.
- No condensed milk? Use 1/4 cup honey or agave plus 1/4 cup coconut cream — the texture stays silky.
- Strawberry twist — blend in 1 cup frozen strawberries with the ice for a pink limonada de morango.
- Less sweet — drop the sugar to 1 tablespoon and let the condensed milk carry the sweetness.
Brazilian Lemonade (The Creamy 5-Minute Viral Lime Drink)
Brazilian lemonade (limonada suíça) — whole limes blended with sweetened condensed milk and ice into a creamy, zesty 5-minute drink.
Ingredients
4 fresh limes, washed and cut into wedges
4 cups cold water
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
3 tablespoons granulated sugar (adjust to taste)
2 cups ice cubes, plus extra for serving
Lime slices and mint leaves, to garnish (optional)
Directions
- Add the lime wedges and 4 cups cold water to a blender. Blend for 10-15 seconds only — just long enough to release the juice.
- Pour through a fine-mesh strainer into a pitcher, pressing the pulp with a spoon. Discard the pulp.
- Rinse the blender, return the strained lime juice to it, and add the condensed milk, sugar, and 2 cups ice. Blend for 30 seconds until thick, creamy, and pale green.
- Taste and adjust — more sugar for sweeter, or a squeeze of lime for extra tang.
- Pour over fresh ice immediately — Brazilian lemonade separates if it sits. Garnish with lime slices and mint.
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