Infused Lavender Water is a sugar-free 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 that commonly grow in bunches together.
There are countless smaller lavender varieties.
Yet the most common distinction is made between the Mediterranean lavender growing in Provence, France, and the English lavender.
Lavender has a strong aromatic smell like no 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 moths 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 lavender at home and use the flower buds in your food recipes.
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.
📖 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)
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
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