 Summer is around the corner and I thought we should make something nice and refreshing to drink so today We're making pineapple mango lemonade. It is refreshing crisp easy to do and oh so delicious I'm also going to show you how to pick out a pineapple It's but you know just a few tips what to look for in case you don't know and a mango So I'm rockin Robin, and I'm going to show you how to make it right after my chef job Today I tried to make a pineapple smoothie without using pineapple and my efforts were fruitless All right, so I went to the store and I picked out two pineapples, and these were the most ripe ones that I could find which this was yesterday and So this is what I've got this one in my view is a little more ripe you can see it has more yellow You know and that's kind of what you want. You want a more yellow pineapple. This one is a little more green and You know you can see that it's much darker green here and The other thing you want to look at is the scent so you want to give this a little width and see how it smells This one smells pineapple leaf this one not so much now supposedly the more ripe They are the more the heavier they are and this one feels pretty heavy And this one feels pretty heavy as well, but this one is a little heavier The last thing I look for is then I go ahead and I touch the pineapple I kind of give it a little squeeze there should be some give down here You know it shouldn't be rock solid this has a little give this could actually be a little more ripe But it's it's gonna have to do this one is much more firm much harder So it's gonna take probably another couple days before this one before I'll cut into it Okay, so let's cut up this pineapple I'll cut off the top end first and then we'll cut off the bottom end just give you a nice little slice And then we'll trim up the sides So here's the thing when you're trimming up your pineapple You want to trim off those eyes, but you don't want to trim off too much and waste the good stuff So just trim a little bit and then you can always go back and trim more if you need to So now I'll cut our cylinder in half and then in half again, and then I'll cut out the core Don't throw away the core because you can save it put it in the freezer and use it in your smoothies It's really good to eat. There's nothing wrong with it It's just a little more fibrous and it contains a lot of fiber and it contains bromeline Which is really good for our digestion Did you know that one pineapple plant will produce only one pineapple per season? So what I'm doing here is just cutting up the pineapple into chunks so that it can blend up easily in my blender All right, so I'll just toss this into my blender until we're ready to mix it up And I'm gonna put the whole pineapple in the blender Okay, let's talk mangoes now. How do you pick one out? Well, the best thing you can do is look for a nice smooth skin And you want it to feel kind of like an avocado it gives but not too much Now let's talk about how to cut this thing up All right You're gonna hold it on its end and you're gonna look at the kind of the oval shape that you can see here right right across there That's where the seed lies. I'm gonna cut about a half an inch to an inch on each side of the very center Now as you slice down you might run into the seed So all you have to do is kind of turn your knife and go around the seed so you go to the bottom and cut it off Flip the mango around and do the same thing you're gonna cut about a half an inch from the center line And you're just gonna follow the knife down and and just so you go right along the seed So I'm gonna tap here and you can hear the seed when I hit the knife on it So I'm just gonna trim around the seed as best I can to get as much mango out as I can Then I like to score these end pieces Like I'm doing here with the knife and then I can just cut them off Now these two big pieces I cut off are called cheeks So you're gonna want to score them with your knife Don't try not to go through and cut the skin just just cut the flesh In one direction kind of like you're cutting an avocado and you're making chunks And then you slice it in the other direction and then you can pop it in you know invert it So that the each of those chunks is exposed Then run your knife along the bottom of those chunks right next to the skin and the pieces come right out We're gonna cut up the whole mango and put all of that in the blender with the whole pineapple And then I'm gonna add one cup water to this so it has some liquid to blend With the Vitamix I'm gonna blend this for one minute on high speed Now I'm gonna go ahead and strain this because I want to get some of the pulp out of it But if you don't mind pulp you can leave it in there's nothing wrong with that but what I'm gonna do here is I got a big bowl with a strainer and I'm just gonna pour my juice right into it and Let it just drain through This process is a little bit slow going But you can speed it up by taking a spatula and just stirring it in and that helps to push it through and This is what was left over at the end Now here's how we're gonna sweeten up our lemonade I'm using just some regular white sugar not too much here though But just a little bit I've got a cup of water and I'm using a half a cup of sugar All we have to do is put this over medium heat and we'll stir it until this sugar dissolves completely and the water looks clear Then I'll turn off the heat and let this cool. It must be time for chef joke number two Why was the lemon depressed? Because it lost all its zest Now we're gonna add some fresh lemon juice to this I've got some organic lemons here And I'm gonna pop each half into my lemon press and I'll measure out about a cup of lemon juice I'll pour the lemon juice into the pineapple juice and I'll add one cup of water Now to sweeten this up I'm gonna use my simple sugar that I created earlier and I'm gonna need to taste it after you add some to see you know It all depends on how sweet your pineapple and your mango and even your lemons are I Ended up using all the simple sugar that I made Then you're gonna want to put your lemonade in a pitcher. That's what I did and then you want to chill it really well before serving When you're ready to serve this up I would fill a glass full of ice cubes and then just fill it on up for a refreshing citrusy drink Let's garnish up our glass with a little wheel of lemon And I have these cute little toothpicks that are decorated and I'm gonna just spear a piece of pineapple and place it right in the drink This lemonade is refreshing and thirst quenching perfect for the summer days ahead Now if you need a nice little appetizer to go along with your lemonade try my guacamole recipe Click the link on the screen. It'll take you right to the recipe So I hope you enjoyed today's lemonade recipe if you did let me know by Smashing the old like button and leave me a comment of course. I always love to hear from you All right, we'll see you back here next week for another delicious and healthy recipe. Cheers You