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The BEST Cucumber Lime Water Recipe in 5 Easy Steps

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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total time to Make: 35 minutes

Cucumber lime water is a delicious and refreshing drink that is insanely easy to make. In fact, the prep time listed above is the entirety of what you actually have to do. The other thirty minutes is just waiting! I love taking a little bit of time out of my day to make this drink, and having it easily accessible in my fridge.

What is this recipe good for?

This recipe is great for when you feel thirsty. This DIY cucumber water recipe with lime will give you a refreshing lift in the summer heat, or while you’re exercising any time of year. This makes it a great fitness water recipe. Another thing it’s good for is if you’re taking a hot bath, visiting a sauna, or otherwise having a spa day. All that sweating causes the body to lose electrolytes, and cucumber lime water can help replenish them. It’s like a less intense Gatorade.

This is a spa water recipe that can elevate your relaxation. It’s also a great way to stay hydrated in normal conditions, and tastes great. The taste is subtle, so it’s good for when you want to feel refreshed and replenished without being inundated with a barrage of something created by a flavor scientist. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with constructed flavors, but sometimes we just love what nature has given us! The light crispness of the cucumber and the slightly sour zest imparted from the lime go together amazingly.

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How does it work?

Cucumber and lime both contain electrolytes and antioxidants. Electrolytes help your body retain and use water properly, and can help lower blood pressure. Antioxidants protect the body from free radicals that can cause things like cancer and heart disease. When the fruits sit in water for a long time, the water extracts those electrolytes and antioxidants, as well as the beautiful flavors. The cucumber tastes amazing, and the lime adds a little zing. This simple recipe is also free of added sugar and anything unnecessary, so you are only getting the good stuff.

You can read more about this here:

https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/cucumber-water?c=24261984514#cancer

https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/lime-water-benefits#summary

Just remember that this drink is not meant to cure or treat any diseases or conditions. It’s just a nice delicious recipe that happens to contain some pretty stellar ingredients. We love to eat our fruits and veggies here.

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Other notes and tips

One of the great things about this recipe is that it doesn’t have to be exact. It isn’t like the coffee recipes available on this site, which provide exact volumes and weights. We’re using one cucumber and half a lime, not a certain amount in grams of each. Don’t stress too much about getting this perfect, because it’s really just a fun refreshing drink!

In fact, when your pitcher runs out of water, you can refill it with new water using the same cucumber and lime for about two days. You’ll still get the taste and benefits doing this up to a few times before you’ll want to change it out. Keep the same one for up to two or maybe three days, but otherwise use your own taste buds and discretion! The only other thing is that this drink must be kept in the refrigerator because it contains food. Just like almost any prepared food, you don’t want to leave it out at room temperature.

There will probably be some floating pulp in the final result. That’s totally normal. However, if you’d rather not have pieces of the fruit in your drink, you can use a kitchen strainer or cheesecloth to strain these pieces out into another vessel. Straining the water is also an option if you don’t mind pulp but just want to go ahead and remove the cucumber and lime slices from the drink. Doing this can allow more room for water, but you won’t be able to refill it for another extraction.

You can adjust this recipe to your liking, using more or less of the cucumber or lime. Lemons work great too!

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Cucumber Lime Water or Agua Fresca?

Cucumber lime water is a lot like the classic agua fresca drink from Mexico. However, agua fresca is traditionally made with sugar, and this recipe has no added sugar. Another contrast is that agua fresca is made with puree or juice, whereas cucumber lime water is made by just letting the ingredients sit in the water. The extraction does not impart as strong of a flavor as an agua fresca. It’s more like a LaCroix that really believes in itself.

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How to make cucumber lime water:

Ingredients

  • 2 liters of water, or about two quarts
  • 1 cucumber
  • Half a lime

Tools

  • Knife and cutting board
  • Pitcher
  • Refrigerator

Instructions

  1. Slice your cucumber into discs as thin as possible. The thinner your slices are, the more surface area is available for the extraction. This means you will get more of the cucumber essence into the water.
  2. Slice half of your lime into thin discs. You also want these slices to be as thin as possible for the same reason. However, limes are more difficult to slice unless you have a very sharp knife, so don’t stress about this. Just get half that lime cut up the best way you can.
  3. Put your cucumber and lime slices in the pitcher.
  4. Fill the pitcher with drinking water.
  5. Put the full pitcher in the fridge for at least half an hour, and that’s it!
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Now that you have a pitcher full of delicious cucumber lime water, you can drink it at your leisure within two or three days. Not only is this recipe delicious and healthy, but the cucumber water aesthetic is gorgeous. Impress your guests with it, or have it all to yourself. After following the recipe, it’s easy to keep hydrated with this healthy drink. If you enjoyed this post, subscribe to Herbs and Brew 🙂

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