Fruit Simple Syrup Recipe

A little fruit syrup in your drink can enhance the taste of your drink for sure, especially when it’s made at home with fresh fruit and no weird stuff added to it. This fruit simple syrup recipe is easy to make, tastes amazing, and works with almost everything, whether it is cocktails, iced tea, lemonade, or even just sparkling water.

If you have some extra fruit lying in your fridge, why don’t you make some syrup that you can use in any of your drinks?  While it is a healthy choice, it is also efficient. So, you are about to learn how to make a simple fruit syrup at home that can be good in taste yet healthier. 

Why Make Fruit Syrup at Home?

If you are health-conscious like me, you know that most store-bought syrups are full of preservatives and artificial colors.  And sometimes those are not even made from real fruit at all. 

However, when you make homemade fruit syrup, the taste feels fresh and real. Also, it’s cheaper and lets you control how sweet or thick you want it.

You can use it as a fruit sweetener for your morning iced coffee or turn it into a cocktail syrup recipe for evening drinks. And it works with both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. That’s the fun part.

Best Fruits for Homemade Syrup

You can use almost any fruit for this. But if you want a fruit-infused syrup that’s full of flavor, go for the ones that are naturally juicy and soft. Here are some that work really well:

Berries

You can pick any berries to make your fruit syrup, and I bet it will taste much better than any artificial fruit syrup. You can choose berries like strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, black, or any berries you like. Also, you can mix a few berries together to enhance the taste with multiple flavors. 

Stone Fruits

If you want rich taste in your fruit syrup, stone fruits are always a good choice. Peach, apricot, cherry, and plum are juicy and sweet, perfect for syrup that feels like summer in a bottle.

Tropical Fruits

These are great choices if you like everything sweet with a light punch of natural, tangy flavor. Whether it is mango, pineapple, or passionfruit, you can get a tropical punch that is sweet yet refreshing. 

Citrus

For lemonade or any refreshing drinks, you need something tangy. And that you can get from citrus fruits like lemon, lime, orange, or grapefruit. When you are making summer drinks, making syrup from these fruits will be the best choice. 

While you can make basically different taste syrups based on the taste you like, you can also blend a few of them together to get multiple flavors at once. For example, you can make raspberry-lime, mango-pineapple, or peach-ginger. 

How to Make Fruit Simple Syrup?

This is seriously one of the easiest syrups you’ll ever make at home. All you need is fresh fruit, sugar, and water. That’s it.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup fresh fruit (chopped if needed)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water

Blend Everything

Since the ingredients are ready, let’s make a quick fruit syrup. If you have a saucepan or bowl, gather all the ingredients together. Then, using a blender, blend it properly until you see all the ingredients become a thick juice. 

Simmer Gently

Now put the pan on your stove and let it simmer slowly. The heat should be medium so that it never gets burned. And you need to stir it frequently to make sure it does not get hard. After about 15 minutes, it will become thicker the fruit will break down. 

Strain It

Let’s turn off the heat since it has become the syrup we wanted. Then, you need to strain it properly to get rid of fruit bits. And finally, store it in an airtight jar. 

Using these simple steps, you can make any DIY fruit syrup at home.

Final Words

So that was the easiest way to make simple fruit syrup at home with any leftover fruits you have. If you want to make multiple syrups, take your fruit’s taste into account and don’t mix them up. Also, you can mix multiple fruits to get a unique taste that you can use in any drink.
However, since these syrups do not contain any preservatives, you have to finish them within less than two to three weeks. So, never make too much that’s gonna waste.