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Not only does this cucumber lemon water taste crisp and refreshing, but it only takes a few minutes to make. The cucumber juice infuses with the lemon into the water for a perfect drink you can make 10 minutes before serving.
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Lemon cucumber water is a fun way to mix up your water routine and is the most refreshing drink, especially on a hot summer day. You get all the benefits of drinking water and staying hydrated (healthy skin!), plus a crisp and refreshing taste.
Adding this cucumber water recipe to your daily routine is a great way to incorporate more glasses of water. It will make you look forward to staying hydrated!
Why You’ll Love This Cucumber and Lemon Water
Easy Recipe: it’s quick and easy to mix together in 5 minutes. Infused water recipes are and easy way to dress up regular water and increase water intake. Make it before bed and refill your water bottle all day.
Natural Ingredients: Using real ingredients gives you delicious, real flavor. The fresh flavors from the sliced fruit and veggies and the fresh mint taste so delicious.
Healthy Drink: Drinking more water is always a good thing! Plus it’s a great swap for sugary drinks or soda.
Ingredients You Need
Here are the simple ingredients for infused water. Jump to recipe for step-by-step instructions and exact measurements.
- Fresh cucumbers: Make them thinly sliced. (You can also use a vegetable peeler to make ribbons.) No need to peel the cucumbers prior to adding them to the water. The kind of cucumber does not matter; regular cucumbers, organic cucumbers, or english cucumbers are great.
- Fresh lemons: Fresh lemon slices and lemon juice add so much flavor. Slice and pop out the seeds to avoid them getting into the drink (optional).
- Mint leaves (optional): fresh herbs brighten up all summertime drinks.
- Water: Use filtered water from the fridge, plain water from the sink, or bottled water.
Leftover cucumbers? Make cucumber tomato avocado salad or cucumber margaritas next!
How to Make Cucumber Lemon Water
Here are the simple steps to make this lemon cucumber water. Jump to recipe card for printable instructions.
- Cut the cucumber and lemon: Thinly slice the lemon and cucumber and place them in the bottom of a pitcher. Add if you want to!
- Mix in a large pitcher: fill the pitcher with 8-10 cups of tap water or filtered water and mix gently.
- Refrigerate: Let it infuse in the fridge for at least 1 hour. The flavor gets stronger over time, so refrigerate longer if you can. I find overnight (12 hours) yields the best flavor.
- Serve: pour it over ice cubes and add more lemon slices, cucumber slices, and mint to serve.
Recipe shortcut: if you don’t have time, this drink is still delicious if you make it right away. Mix it with very cold water and ice to serve.
Why Drink It
I am not a health professional, but we all know that drinking enough water is a good thing for your overall health! Upping your hydrations improves skin health, immune system, digestive system, and more.
Not only that, cucumber and lemon water is a great substitute for sugary sodas, which may help with weight loss. This recipe doesn’t have any sugar, just flavor!
While cucumbers are high in antioxidants and potassium, you aren’t actually eating the cucumbers, so keep that in mind. Here are 12 great benefits of lemon water.
How Long Do I Keep Cucumber Slices in Water?
Cucumber water flavor gets better over time, but I don’t recommend infusing it beyond 24 hours. The cucumber and lemon infuses in the water within the hour, but I found the sweet spot is 12 hours for best results.
Serving after 24 hours? Just remove the cucumber and lemon from the pitcher, put keep the water chilled. Serve with more lemon and cucumber slices.
Recipe Variations
- Omit the lemon and mint: You can just use cucumbers alone if you aren’t a fan of lemon or mint. It’s up to you!
- Add more citrus: this lemon cucumber water is delicious with grapefruit, oranges, and limes.
- Fruit infused water: Add strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, peaches, or melon and pair it with fresh herbs like basil or mint.
- Watermelon basil: cut the watermelon into cubes and infuse the water with fresh basil.
- Frozen edible flowers: Add water and edible flowers to ice cube trays and freeze them solid. Add the ice cubes just before serving to a crowd.
- Make it a cocktail: Combine the cucumber lemonade with a shot of vodka and simple syrup. Top it with a little lemon-flavored seltzer water if you find the vodka to be too strong of a flavor.
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More Refreshing Drinks
- Green juice
- Hormone healing green smoothie
- Iced matcha latte
- Starbucks pink drink
- Starbucks dragon drink
Or try more of my favorite drink recipes!
Cucumber Lemon Water Recipe
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Ingredients
- 8 cups (2 quarts) water
- 1 medium cucumber thinly sliced
- 1 large lemon thinly sliced
- 2-3 sprigs fresh mint optional
Instructions
- Slice the cucumber and lemon: wash and dry the cucumber and lemon. Thinly slice them and add them to a pitcher.
- Add water and chill: Fill the pitcher with water and refrigerate for at least one hour or up to 24 hours (I found 12 hours to be best). Making and serving right away works too, but it won't have as much time to infuse.
- Serve: pour the cucumber and lemon water over a glass of crushed ice. Garnish with some of the lemon and cucumber slices from the pitcher or add fresh to the top.
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Equipment
- Pitcher
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
How many days can you reuse lemon cucumber? By just adding more water
A couple of days!