Blackberry Lavender Soda
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Fresh blackberries simmered in culinary lavender make an aromatic syrup for this blackberry lavender soda. The heavenly combination of fruity and floral flavors captures the essence of summertime in an ice-cold drink. It’s quick and easy to make at home, and extra syrup can be stored in the fridge for up to a week!
There’s nothing like a cold drink on a hot day! This refreshing, ice-cold blackberry lavender soda is everything you never knew you needed. With fresh, ripe blackberries and dried lavender, it’s lightly botanical and perfectly sweet.
There’s no alcohol in this mocktail, making it sinless for sipping any time of day. It’s easy to make the syrup ahead of time so that all you have to do is pour some into a glass and top it with soda when the time comes. It’s versatile, too; try blueberries or elderberries for a different, but equally delicious, take.
Blackberry Lavender Soda Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups blackberries
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon dried lavender flowers
Instructions
- In a medium pot, combine the blackberries, water, sugar, and lavender. Bring to a boil over high heat, and stir to dissolve the sugar.2 cups blackberries, 1 cup water, ½ cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon dried lavender flowers
- Reduce the heat to medium or medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Mash the berries with a spoon then continue to simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Remove the pot from the heat and let the syrup cool slightly. Use a fine-mesh sieve to strain the berries and lavender from the syrup, making sure to press the berries against the strainer to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard the blueberries and lavender. Refrigerate the syrup in a covered container for up to 5 days.
- Add ¼ cup of the blackberry lavender syrup to a glass with ice then add 1 cup of plain soda water.
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Hi Kristen,
Looks Delicious. Thanks for sharing this. I get more ideas from it. I want to try this.
Thank you so much!
Hi Angela,
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you 🙂
My husband recently rigged up a DIY soda stream which is awesome so I have been wanting to find some great recipes to try with it. This was great!
A DIY soda stream? Wow, you’re husband is really crafty! Now you’ve got me thinking that’s what I should do 🙂
I definitely think store bought soda is too sweet, too. It’d be nice to experiment with my own flavors.
This blackberry soda turned out perfectly. Not too sweet at all!
Hi Melody,
It was actually really fun to make my own!
I made club soda with lemon and mulled berries the other day and would love more ideas 🙂
Hi Andrea,
That sounds delicious! Good luck in the contest 🙂
This was so amazingly refreshing! I am going to make this again for Thanksgiving instead of our normal sparkling cider (which fills me up more than the turkey HAHA). I bet it is a super nerve-calming drink too
Hi Sunshine,
I think this would be so perfect with Thanksgiving dinner!
I love homemade soda! (although I think most of the fun is making your own syrups.)
It was really great to make the syrup. I ended up using the leftovers in a sauce for pork tenderloin. It was delicious 🙂
I’m also a big proponent of the “why buy it if I can make it myself, and better” philosophy. 🙂
It always surprises me how easy it is to make things from scratch. There really isn’t much of a difference in time and the taste is so much better!
I started making my own sodas after taking a workshop. I started with kombucha and ginger beers. Wild ferments take a week or two and after the fruit fly pandemic in my house it seemed simpler to make my own tea ‘sodas’. I’ve experimented with green tea/mint, ginger/roiboos, sage/honey/mint/lemon, rosemary/lime. I like that we can make ‘sodas’ with herbs and teas. I got a chart from my kitchen herbalism class-it was a printout from Rebecca Woods book: the new encyclopedia of whole foods(another one I’d love to get!). I tried some SIP! sodas- and my favorite is the lavender but I wanted to figure out how to make it at home. Thank you for your recipe. I’ve been really drawn to the floral sodas- hibiscus, lavender, calendula. I look forward to trying this out! Thanks for posting!
Hi Anja,
The sage, honey, mint and lemon soda you made sounds fantastic!
just the other day, after trying the Q Cola from whole foods (all natural, sweetened with agave) i was saying i really need to try using the sodastream machine i got for christmas last year – and then i come across this wonderful recipe. Will make it again!