Brazilian Limeade with Strawberries is a delicious and refreshing drink made with fresh limes and strawberries. This sweet limeade made with sweetened condensed milk can be enjoyed with fresh strawberries or make it a cold refreshing drink with frozen strawberries. This drink is perfect for family get togethers, bridal or baby showers, and hot summer days. We love how quick and easy this cold drink comes together, ready in minutes!
We love making this drink for family cook outs/bbqs. This cold refreshing drink is perfect for a hot summer day.
This drink is kid friendly as it doesn't include any alcohol!
Check out our creamy lemonade for more fun ideas with sweetened condensed milk and refreshing drinks. We also give this delicious Bahama Mama Tropical Smoothie Copycat a 10/10, it's delicious!
Looking for other berry or lime fun? Our nature's cereal is a delicious breakfast and easy snack or our Deviled (Cheesecake Stuffed) Strawberries or Key Lime Cookies for a fun summer treat.
Serve it with our zucchini pizza.
Ingredients
- Limes - make sure you wash your limes well with dish soap and rinse well. You are blending the limes to create the lime juice so you want clean limes!
- Strawberries - fresh or frozen strawberries work great depending on the consistency you want your drink to have. Frozen strawberries will give it a refreshing slushy like consistency.
- Water
- Ice
- White Sugar
- Sweetened Condensed Milk
See recipe card for quantities.
Instructions
- Wash limes with dish soap. Rinse well. Quarter limes and place in a high speed blender with the water. Blend until the water looks pulpy.
2. Strain the blended lime pulp with a wire strainer catching the lime juice in a medium sized measuring cup or bowl. Rinse the blender.
3. Add the lime juice back into the rinsed blender. Add fresh or frozen strawberries. Blend until smooth.
4. Add ice to the blender and blend on high for 30 seconds.
5. Pour the strawberry lime juice into a pitcher and mix in sweetened condensed milk and sugar.
6. Or you can add the sweetened condensed milk into the blender and blend with the strawberry lime juice mixture.
Serve immediately. Or store in the refrigerator for up to 1 day. Make sure to stir before serving as ingredients settle and separate with time.
Hint: Use frozen strawberries for a Brazilian limeade slush. Both frozen and fresh strawberries taste great!
Substitutions
- Coconut Milk- for a dairy free alternative, use coconut milk instead of sweetened condensed milk. You will need to adjust the sugar as coconut milk will not be as sweet as sweetened condensed milk.
- Frozen Strawberries - for a a limeade slush, use frozen strawberries to add more texture to the drink.
- Vegan Sweetened Condensed Coconut Milk - for a vegan option, use vegan sweetened condensed coconut milk.
Variations
- Lemons - use lemons instead of limes to make our creamy lemonade . Add Strawberries to give it some fun extra flavor.
Kid Friendly
This drink is kid friendly. My kids can't get enough! This is an non-alcoholic drink that's perfect for family get togethers.
Equipment
To make this limeade, you will need a:
- Pitcher
- Blender - I love using my ninja blender found here
- Wire Strainer- This is to separate the blended lime rinds
- A small bowl - to catch the lime juice
- A mixing spoon
Storage
This drink is best when drunk immediately. If you don't drink immediately, store in the refrigerator for up to 1 day. Make sure to stir before serving as ingredients will settle and separate over time.
This drink does not freeze well.
Top tip
We love adding frozen strawberries to this limeade drink for a thicker consistency of the drink. It really feels like a refreshing, ice cold drink. A bag of frozen strawberries can keep in the freezer for several months and be ready when needed.
Recipe
Brazilian Strawberry Limeade
Equipment
- Wire Strainer
- Pitcher
Ingredients
- 4 limes thoroughly washed
- 3 cups water
- 2 cups strawberries fresh or frozen
- ⅓ cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup ice
- ½ cup sugar
Instructions
- Throughly wash limes with soap and water, dry limes, cut limes into 4 wedges and place in a high speed blender with 3 cups of water. Blend until well blended
- With a wire strainer, pour contents of the blender into a clean container. Discard lime rinds in the wire strainer and any leftover rinds in blender. The lime liquid in the clean container should not have chunks!
- Pour strained lime water back into the blender. Add strawberries, ice, sweetened condensed milk, and sugar and blend until smooth.
- Enjoy immediately
Notes
- Coconut Milk- for a dairy free alternative, use coconut milk instead of sweetened condensed milk. You will need to adjust the sugar as coconut milk will not be as sweet as sweetened condensed milk.
- Frozen Strawberries - for a a limeade slush, use frozen strawberries to add more texture to the drink.
- Vegan Sweetened Condensed Coconut Milk - for a vegan option, use vegan sweetened condensed coconut milk.
- Lemons - use lemons instead of limes to make our creamy lemonade . Add Strawberries to give it some fun extra flavor.
Shara Nelson
So delicious! I love that it's a frozen drink - perfect for hot summer days! We like things on the sweeter side, so we added more sugar. But that's just personal preference!
Briana Winegardner
This was so delicious! I loved the mixture of tart and sweet. Will definitely be making again
Karolyn Nelson
Cool and refreshing-the perfect drink for a summer day! My family LOVED this and actually made it several days in a row. It is pretty zippy from the lime juice so if you want a little less zip, cue back on the lime.
Amanda Wren-Grimwood
Strawberries and lime are such a great combination and this is the perfect summer drink. Love this version of Brazilian Lemonade.
Zach
This was SO so good. It was extremely tart and we ended up adding a lot of extra sugar, but once we got it to the sweetness level we wanted, it was amazing.
Ann Sorenson
This is a 5 star recipe !! It is so refreshing and easy to make. The fresh Limes and Strawberries are a perfect summer combination. I really like the sweetened condensed milk added because it makes it a creamy drink. We loved it!!!!
Tavo
I loved this drink, I used my spare condensed milk and frozen strawberries and it was awesome!
Juliane
Refreshing! I love this Brazilian Limeade. It's so creamy and so delicious. It's so quick and easy. Made this for a family get together.
Jacob
We love this drink so much. Will make again and again and again.
Kechi
I like that this is kid-friendly, I just bookmarked it for when the weather gets warmer. This seriously about to be my drink of summer! Thanks for sharing!
Suja md
Outstanding recipe thanks so much! tasted so much good!Perfect cold drink for the warming weather, made me excited for spring and summer!