How to Make Strawberry Acai Refresher
This is an easy recipe for how to make a Strawberry Acai Refresher!! This simple drink uses frozen acai that you can find in most grocery stores these days. It uses fresh or frozen strawberries and an everyday tea that you have on hand. Finally a simple syrup of sugar and water sweetens the whole thing up. You get tea notes, tangy acai notes, and sweet strawberry notes. Pour it over ice and it's seriously the most refreshing and delicious drink!
Servings 4 Tall Drinks
Ingredients
- ½ cup Frozen Acai puree
- 1 cup Fresh Strawberries
- 3 cups Water (2 cups for the sugar syrup, 1 to mix into the refresher)
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 cup Steeped and Cooled Green Tea (1 tea bag + 1 cup hot water)
Instructions
- If you are using frozen acai puree, take it out to soften a bit on the counter. Then prep the strawberries by cleaning under cold water and removing the stems and leaves. Make the tea with 1 tea bag and 1 cup of hot water.
- Make the sugar simple syrup by pouring 2 cups of water and 1 cup of sugar into a small pot over low heat and bring to a simmer while stirring until the sugar completely dissolves. (NOTE: if you want a less-sweet drink, you can add ¾ cup sugar) Remove from the heat and let cool.
- In a blender, blend the strawberries and the tea. Then I like to strain out the seeds over the serving pitcher. If you don't mind seeds, then you can skip that step.
- Next blend the acai and the simple syrup until smooth. Then add that to the strawberry mixture. Last, add the final cold cup of water. Mix everything together.
- If you want to garnish with fresh strawberries, you can slice them and add to the pitcher or the individual glasses. Enjoy!