Infused Lavender Water is a sugar-less and cooling summer drink.
This lavender-infused water beverage is for you if you enjoy infused waters and if you want to get fit and live a healthier life.
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📕 What is lavender?
Lavender is a purple-blue plant with multiple small flowers which commonly grow in bunches together.
There are countless smaller lavender varieties.
Yet the most common distinction is made between the Mediterranean Lavender growing in the Provence in France and the Engish Lavender.
Lavender has a strong aromatic smell like non-other and when dried the natural flower perfume is even more pronounced.
We usually dry our lavender flower heads before turning them into small bags, which keep mots away from clothes in the cupboard.
I also discovered lavender buds for myself in food specialties and beverages as an infusion.
You can grow your own lavender at home and use the flower buds in your food recipes.
💧 What are infused waters?
Infused waters are also known as detox or spa waters and are often while prepared with fresh fruits, herbs, and ingredients like cucumbers.
The ingredients are left to infuse in the water, and that is how the water takes in the subtle flavors of the fresh ingredients.
💖 Benefits
- helps you to rehydrate and to drink more often, especially during the hot summer months
- healthy, without sugars and do not contain artificial ingredients
- helps you to stay full longer, which incidentally helps you to control your weight loss.
- may assist your digestion
- helps you to get relaxed and zen
🔪 How to make it?
To prepare this lavender water drink is fairly easy.
You will need whole lavender flower heads or loose lavender flower pieces.
I have tried to infuse garden-fresh lavender and dried lavender.
It's easier to infuse dried lavender because the essential oils in the flower intensify when dried.
Use cold water to infuse water with dried lavender flowers but leave the flowers to infuse for a few hours.
To infuse water with fresh lavender flowers, cook the water with the flowers first and leave the water to cool completely with the lavender left in the water.
You can cook the water too with the dried lavender if you want to speed up the infusion time, as long as the water is left to cool completely at the end.
After a few hours left to infuse, taste test and see if the infused water is flavorful enough.
🥄 Equipment
You can prepare your own infused waters anytime in a normal drinking glass, pitcher or reusable lunch, or sports bottle, just as I did with my mint infused water.
However, the lavender pieces will move freely in your water and if you don't like that, I recommend you get one of these pitcher infusers or bottle infusers.
Those are built to prepare infused waters, and I recommend you get one if you are planning to prepare more infused waters in the future.
I also like to use small-sized milk bottles which you can close with a lid to keep in the fridge with the infused lavender water drink.
I used small milk bottles too in my strawberry infused water, lemon cucumber infused water and pineapple infused water recipes.
👁️ More lavender recipes
- Lavender Simple Syrup Recipe by lifecurrentsblog.com
- Lavender Lemon Bars by shekeepsalovelyhome.com
Dear Reader, do you grow your own lavender?
📖 Recipe
Infused Lavender Water Summer Drink
Ingredients
- Lavender *see Notes
- Water *see Notes
- Ice Cubes to serve cold
Instructions
- Place your clean lavender flower pieces in a glass, pitcher or bottle.
- Pour water over the lavender and leave to infuse for at least 4 hours.
- Strain the lavender if you don't use a pitcher infuser or a bottle infuser.
- Enjoy your infused lavender drink with ice cubes cold.
Notes
- You can use dried or fresh flowers, however, I personally prefer to use dried lavender flowers because the essential oils in the flowers are easier to extract when the flowers are dried
- If you use fresh lavender flowers, you will need to leave the flowers to infuse in boiling hot water until the water is completely cooled. Fresh lavender won't infuse well in cold water.
- You can use hot water too with dried lavender to speed up the infusion process.
- The quality of your infused lavender water will depend too on the variety, state and age of the flower buds.
- You can use a normal glass, pitcher or bottle or get a special bottle or pitcher infuser (more in the post under equiment)
- Use about 2-3 Tablespoons dried lavender buds per quart/liter. Use about double the quantity of fresh buds for the same liquid quantity.
Equipment
- glass/ pitcher/ bottle (see Notes)
Could I simply use lavender flavored syrup and cold water?
Yep, Ruth you can do that too, but then it's called a syrup cordial. It surely tastes great too!
I'm infusing lavender water too use with my Cacao powder, add a little erythritol and a pinch of cayenne powder.. yum.. and powerful!
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cool idea. thanks for sharing Katie. I will try that too 🙂
Hi!! Um I waswondering, how can I combine the lavender water with other drinks so that it´s tasty?♥♥♥I was hoping yu could recommend me a good way to prepare lemonade with it? And any other suggestions are welcome! Btw love your page ♥
Hi there, You can use the infused water the same way that you would use regular water to make lemonade. I bet it would taste great too with lemon! That said, you can always use the infused lavender water to prepare cocktails. I love some gin, lavender water with club soda too. I also love lavender water with syrups such as almond or pomegranate syrup. I hope that gives you some ideas on how you can use your beautiful lavender water at home. Just try around a bit and get creative. It's quite versatile and can be used to make a whole set of wonderful summer drinks!
Hi, thank you for the recipe. You don't specify how much lavender you recommend using. If I was going to make lavender water what would you recommend as a starting measuremet? I can always use more or less the next time depending on how strong I want it but I'd feel better if I knew about how much to use. Thanks.
I forgot to mention, I was wondering how much to use if I used dried lavender.
Hi MaryLou, you can use about 2-3 Tablespoons dried lavender buds per quart/liter. Use about double the quantity of fresh buds for the same liquid quantity. The reason why I didn't add the quantities is that some folks like it more intense than others and the quantity is always different between dried and fresh buds. But you are right, I should at least mention a guideline I added all this to the notes in the recipe. Thank you!
What is the shelf life of lavender water in the fridge? Was hoping to use it in drinks vs having to make it simple syrup
Hi Ashley,
Keep the lavender to infuse in freshwater for up to 24-36 hours. Take out the lavender pieces and discard them (strain if there are small pieces). You are then free to use and store the water as you would store any other plain water.
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