[food] Grilled lemonade

[kaberett]

My housemate has taken to making grilled lemonade and it's fantastic. Copying the recipe here for posterity, etc.

16 lemons, halved
1 cup sugar, plus more as needed [brown works well]
5 cups water, divided
1/2 cup honey
2 sprigs rosemary

Dip each of the lemons, cut side down, into sugar. Place lemons on grill, cut side down, and cook until browned, about 5 minutes. Remove from grill.

Add 2 cups of water, honey, and rosemary to pan with sugar. Place pan on grill and whisk until sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from grill and discard rosemary sprigs.

Squeeze lemons into a large bowl. Pour in honey, sugar syrup and 3 additional cups of cold water; stir to combine. Add water or sugar to taste.

Comments

[sylvaine]

WOW that sounds fucking delicious. *___* Thank you for sharing!

[hunningham]

Okay, this sounds delicious and I want to try it.

But am confused by grill - is this an oven grill, where you cook the lemons under the flame, or a barbecue grill where you cook over the flame, or a cast-iron grill pan for the top of the cooker?

[kaberett]

I believe this does in fact mean a barbecue-grill. You could use an enamelled griddle pan but DON'T use cast iron (it doesn't like lemon juice >_>); we've been doing them underneath oven-grill. (There is probably merit to the idea of doing it over the gas hob, per flame-roasting peppers, but we haven't tried that yet.)

[hunningham]

I'll try English grilling then. I wasn't sure that would work, especially since recipe measurements are in cups.

And thanks for tip about grill-pan; I tend to avoid using that since everything sticks to it.

Lemonade this weekend then, come hell, hail or rain.

[worlds_of_smoke]

oh god, if I weren't diabetic... -shakes fist at pancreas-

[cxcvi]

That sounds really interesting. I assume that it tastes a bit more... caramel-ish? than more traditional lemonade?

[azurelunatic]

Ooo, neat!

[dynamite_lady]

Cool, never thought of that.

[untonuggan]

wants it preciousssss

[umadoshi]

Oooh!