Watermelon Agua Fresca

A vivid, barely sweet cooler of blended watermelon brightened with lime and mint.

  • Serves6
  • Prep15 min
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Ingredients

  • 8 cups Blacktail Mountain watermelon, cubed
  • 2 cups cold water
  • 1/4 cup lime juice
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
  • 2 cups ice, for serving

Method

  1. Cube the watermelon and drop it into a blender with the cold water.
  2. Add the lime juice, sugar, and mint leaves.
  3. Blend on high until the mixture is completely smooth.
  4. Pour the blend through a fine sieve into a pitcher to catch any pulp.
  5. Taste and stir in a little more sugar or lime if it needs it.
  6. Serve over plenty of ice with a sprig of mint.
The deep-red, thin-rinded flesh of a Blacktail Mountain blends into a vivid sweet cooler with almost no waste. Because the rind is so thin and the sweet flesh so full, nearly the whole melon goes into the pitcher. A little lime and mint sharpen that natural sugar into a drink as bright in color as it is in flavor.