Iced Coffee recipe a refreshing drink filled with strong and bold flavors! Both lime and coffee equally have their own taste, aroma and flavor. The combination is unusual but they taste great together. I know people who love or hate this drink. But people who love coffee would surely fall for this drink and love them 😉 This drink is good for vegans too.
We love iced tea home and I am fond of coffee too. Especially coffee drinks like cold coffee, coffee frappe, filter coffee, cafe late, espresso, cappuccino, chocolate coffee, mocha coffee any kind of drinks made from coffee. My hubby isn’t fond of tea or coffee except iced tea. So I made this drink only for me and sipped all by myself.
This drink is regular at my place make some for my friends and guest too. They all have mixed reaction only people addicted to coffee mostly love this drink. So you got to try yourself to find out if it’s for you or not.
The only challenge is how would you balance lime and coffee both. Also you got to add slightly more sugar as due to presence of strong flavors the sweetness gets subdued. Secondly use instant espresso powder for instant coffee. However I have used coffee powder grounded at home. I have boiled with water then strained and sieved them on a linen cloth. Discarded the leftover and used the remaining syrup. Prefer strong coffee flavor hence like to boil as the impact is much stronger.
In my hey days of working have spent a lot of time in cafes near office. Not working in cafes but whiling away time and having fun with friends. Guess my love for coffee started growing from there. Always used to love the various kind of coffee with whipped cream, various patterns etc garnished over the coffee. Coffee glass or cup used to be so adorable then.
Let’s make iced coffee recipe step-wise:
1. Microwave water for a minute with coffee powder. Alternatively you could boil water with coffee.
2. Cover and leave for 30 mins aside. Now strain them over a linen or muslin cloth and discard the leftover.
3. Your coffee syrup would look something like this.
4. Again microwave or warm water for a minute. Add sugar stir until it gets dissolved. I don’t have a pic for this one.
5. Now squeeze lime juice in the warm water. Strain or sieve this on a cloth or strainer. Allow both the mixture to cool down.
6. Take the serving glasses add sugar cubes till half glass is filled.
7. Add 2 tbsp of the coffee syrup.
8. Fill the rest of glass with lime-sugar-water syrup.
9. Garnish with lime wedges it’s optional. Stir with a stirrer. Serve your iced coffee chilled with your favorite brownie or sandwich.
If you love beverages then do check out cold coffee with icecream, cold coffee without icecream, strawberry juice, mango iced tea, lemon iced tea, chocolate milkshake, mango milkshake and masala milk.
Iced Coffee Recipe and printable version below:
- 1 tbsp instant coffee or coffee powder + 1/2 cup water
- 2 lime or 1 lemon juice + 1.5 cup water
- 4 tbsp sugar ( I used organic)
- loads of ice cubes
- lime slices or wedges for garnish (optional)
- Microwave water for a minute with coffee powder. Alternatively you could boil water with coffee.
- Cover and leave for 30 mins aside. Now strain them over a linen or muslin cloth and discard the leftover.
- Your coffee syrup would look something like this.
- Again microwave or warm water for a minute. Add sugar stir until it gets dissolved. I don’t have a pic for this one.
- Now squeeze the lime juice. Strain or sieve this on a cloth or strainer. Allow both the mixture to cool down.
- Take the serving glasses add sugar cubes till half glass is filled.
- Add 2 tbsp of the coffee syrup.
- Fill the rest of glass with lime-sugar-water syrup.
- Garnish with lime wedges it’s optional. Stir with a stirrer. Serve your iced coffee chilled with your favorite brownie or sandwich.
supriya says
is half of a lemon enough??
maria says
yes it should be enough or use as required coz more lime juice will be tangier so you will have to use more sugar.
Megh says
Wonderful idea. Can’t wait to try this out today.. Thanks!
maria says
Thanks Meghs, do try and let me know how it was?
supriya says
Is it okay if we use instant coffee??
maria says
Supriya you can try instant coffee.
laura tyler says
I love the black coffee. It energize me.i cant think a day without coffee. I just like your post and get a new idea of coffee.
maria says
Thanks Laura 🙂
Evelyn says
could you do this with lemon? great recipe!
maria says
Evelyn yes you could use 1 lemon juice thankyou. Hope this information helps you.
Judy Wilson says
Thanks for this iced coffee recipe without milk. This would be great to drink on a hot day now that I’ve decided to stop consuming dairy. I like that this recipe uses lime juice. That seems like a good way to give this an additional kick.
maria says
Thankyou Judy pleased to know this 🙂 surely try and let us know how it was?
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