Why You’ll Love It
One of my favorites things to eat is Mexican food and we would frequent a few taqueria’s in the city that made authentic Mexican food, not the Americanized stuff of the big chains. Without fail there were always large containers of agua fresca on the counter. Strawberry, watermelon and always horchata (a nut and/or rice beverage). Agua fresca is a puree of fresh fruit mixed with water and a sweetener (if needed) and is refreshing and delicious. This delicious summer sipper can be mixed with club soda to make a sparkler or even a shot or two of tequila for a delicious margarita. How can you not love that? 🙂
My son couldn’t drink enough of this mango-orange agua fresca and has been begging for me to make more. It’s super easy to do and will keep in the fridge for 3-4 days (if it lasts that long). Make this super easy recipe for a warm summer day.
Ingredients to Make Homemade Agua Fresca
Making agua fresca at home is super simple and only requires fresh fruit, water, a bit of citrus, and sweetener of choice (or skip it if your fruit is already sweet)
- Fresh Mango – peeled, pitted, rough chopped (about 3)
- Fresh Orange Juice – about 3 oranges juiced
- Fresh Lime – squeezed
- Cold Water
- Sweetener – such as honey, stevia, agave nectar, etc
Mango Orange Agua Fresca
Ingredients
- 4 cups mango, peeled, pitted, rough chopped (about 3)
- 1 ½ cups fresh orange juice, about 3
- juice of half a lime
- 2 ½ cups cold water
- honey or other sweetener, if necessary (I used 1 teaspoon stevia)
Instructions
- Add the mango, orange juice and lime to a blender and puree until smooth. Pass through a fine meshed sieve set over a bowl. Pour into a pitcher and add the water and sweetener, if desired.
- Pour into an ice filled glass and enjoy.
Recipe By:
Co-Founder at Spiceology | More About Heather…
Heather is a recipe developer and content creator living in Vancouver, Washington. She started Farmgirl Gourmet in 2006, almost 20 years ago, as a way to share recipes with friends and family. Heather is also the co-founder of Spiceology , a unique spice company, which she started in 2013. She shares family friendly recipes for easy everyday meals with a gourmet twist.
I really love this recipe and hope you will too!
This is perfect for the warm summer weather. I might even add a little shot of vodka to my glass…haha 😉
You know what I still have a whole lots of mangoes here and I am fed up of mango lassies so that is a welcome recipe change which we would for sure enjoy completely!
Sounds so refreshing!
This is incredible looking and so refreshing I bet! I adore Mango!
will be making this soon for family coming to visit!! Great easy Idea 🙂 I am sure my son will adore this too. he likes all things mango.
Agua fresca is like none other – it’s amazing!! I had it for the first time in Mexico on a post high school grad trip – though I had no idea that’s what it was at the time. I still remember how good it tasted. This looks fantastic Heather!
Ay San Fran…I miss living so closing. The food is amazing. I used to frequent a Cuban restaurant and loved it but the diversity is amazing!
I always make watermelon aqua fresca but I am on a mango kick so this is going to happen. Love the idea of it with lime. Yum.