Homemade Korean or Japanese style strawberry milk using homemade strawberry syrup and fresh strawberries is pink colored fruit flavored milk made with just few ingredients!
The traditional pink strawberry milk from Japanese or Korean cuisine is really popular and it often come in glass bottles from the stores or as street food ready to drink, but we can easily make this delicious pink strawberry milk at home using fresh strawberries!
Strawberry milk is colorful, delicious, refreshing and perfect drink for summer when strawberries are in season so they are abundant and freshly available.
You can also make this strawberry milk whenever you have fresh strawberries, even if it’s not summer.
It makes a great drink for fall, Thanksgiving holidays or Christmas as well, if you have strawberries at home.
You can even make this drink using frozen strawberries if you do not have fresh strawberries.
What Is Strawberry Milk?
Strawberry milk is a very delicious flavored milk made with strawberries which is a popular drink in Korean and Japanese cuisines.
This is a very easy recipe to make delicious homemade strawberry milk using fresh strawberries and strawberry syrup that you make on stove top, and this recipe is inspired by the real Korean and Japanese strawberry milk.
While drinks like strawberry smoothies, strawberry milkshake etc doesn’t require strawberries to be cooked, strawberry milk is a delicious drink where we cook the strawberries slightly to make a fruit syrup which is then mixed with milk.
It is also topped with freshly sliced strawberries to get the best of both the syrup made from cooked strawberries and also the juicy fresh strawberries!
This is an easy, quick recipe that I use to make strawberry flavored milk using fresh strawberries at home.
Homemade strawberry milk using fresh strawberries is super easy to make, so flavorful and delicious, it makes a very refreshing drink for summer or anytime you have fresh strawberries!
Related Drink Recipes:
Korean banana milk with ripe bananas and almond milk
Homemade Strawberry Syrup For Strawberry Milk
Strawberry syrup is one important ingredient to prepare strawberry milk.
In this homemade strawberry milk, we use homemade strawberry syrup as well.
To prepare homemade strawberry syrup, we first slice the strawberries in pieces and then cook the slices strawberries on the stove along with little sugar until syrup is formed.
This only takes few minutes of time.
Once this is made, you can easily mash the cooked strawberries for the perfect syrup like consistency.
I like small chunks of strawberries in the syrup, but if you wish to have a smooth consistency for the syrup, you may also use a hand blender to puree the contents or you can cool this down to room temperature and then puree it in a blender or food processor if you wish.
However, this is not necessary at all, and I really like leaving the strawberry syrup with small chunks of strawberries just like that for using in this recipe.
Instead of preparing strawberry syrup, you may also use any leftover strawberry compote or strawberry sauce if you have that at home!
How To Make Homemade Korean Or Japanese Style Strawberry Milk?
We use the following ingredients to make easy, delicious strawberry milk at home.
Ingredients to make homemade strawberry milk
strawberries 2 cups
milk 2 cups chilled
sugar or maple syrup ¼ cup (adjust to taste)
vanilla extract 1 teaspoon
Step by step instructions
Wash the strawberries very well and remove any green parts, slice into small pieces.
Keep aside a few pieces of fresh strawberries aside for garnishing (about 2 tablespoons chopped strawberries).
Transfer the remaining chopped strawberries to a good quality medium sized saucepan.
Add the sugar, mix well with the strawberries.
As the sugar begins to dissolve, cook the mixture in medium for few minutes, about 3 to 4 minutes until the strawberries are cooked and soft and the juice is released.
Once the strawberries are cooked, switch off the stove, and mash the cooked strawberries (a potato masher works well) to make the strawberry syrup.
You do not need to mash this a lot, as few small chunks of strawberries are good for strawberry milk.
If you prefer this to be smooth, you can mash it really well or even puree the contents if you wish.
When it’s ready, add the milk and vanilla, mix well to combine with the strawberry syrup that we prepared.
Once the milk is mixed well with the strawberries, allow the strawberry milk mixture to completely cool down.
When the mixture is cooled to room temperature, transfer the prepared milk to glass bottle or jar and chill the milk in the refrigerator.
Once the strawberry milk is chilled, transfer the milk to serving glass cups, garnish with sliced, fresh strawberries (that we kept aside early), and serve!
Make sure to keep the strawberry milk refrigerated and always serve it chilled for best results!
How to store homemade strawberry milk?
Homemade strawberry milk is best served cold.
You can serve it immediately if you wish, or you can chill it in the refrigerator and serve after a couple of hours, for best results.
The homemade flavored milk can be stored in airtight glass jars or bottles in the refrigerator for a couple of days until it stays fresh.
I do not recommend storing this more than two days in the refrigerator, but if you wish to store this for longer time, you may transfer the prepared milk to ice cube trays and store in the freezer so it stays fresh for longer time.
How to make vegan strawberry milk?
It is super easy to make vegan strawberry milk!
You can easily substitute the milk with any of the vegan, plant based milk like almond milk, oat milk, coconut milk etc based on which one is your favorite.
If you love the taste of coconut milk, you can use coconut milk to make this drink.
If you do not prefer the flavor of coconut milk, the best alternatives for milk will be almond milk and oat milk.
How to make healthy strawberry milk?
To make healthy strawberry milk, just replace the sugar with natural sweeteners like pure fresh maple syrup or honey or stevia, whichever is your preferred sweetener.
If you do not wish to use any sweeteners, you may skip the sweetener as well though the resulting strawberry milk will be less sweet.
You can also use low fat milk or no fat milk if you wish to reduce the amount of fat in this drink or you may also replace the milk with a vegan option like almond milk if you wish.
More strawberry recipes in this blog:
strawberry honey jam in instant pot (without pectin)
instant pot strawberry sauce for cheesecakes, pancakes & ice creams
strawberry milkshake without ice cream
roasted strawberry sauce (strawberry compote)
strawberry blueberry banana salad
strawberry blueberry smoothie (lassi)
Below you can get the recipe for homemade strawberry milk in detail.
Korean Strawberry Milk Drink
Ingredients
- 2 cups strawberries
- 2 cups milk chilled
- ¼ cup sugar or maple syrup, adjust to taste
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Wash the strawberries very well and remove any green parts, slice into small pieces.
- Keep aside a few pieces of fresh strawberries aside for garnishing (about 2 tablespoons chopped strawberries).
- Transfer the remaining chopped strawberries to a good quality medium sized saucepan.
- Add the sugar, mix well with the strawberries.
- As the sugar begins to dissolve, cook the mixture in medium for few minutes, about 3 to 4 minutes until the strawberries are cooked and soft and the juice is released.
- Once the strawberries are cooked, switch off the stove, and mash the cooked strawberries (a potato masher works well) to make the strawberry syrup.
- You do not need to mash this a lot, as few small chunks of strawberries are good for strawberry milk.
- If you prefer this to be smooth, you can mash it really well or even puree the contents if you wish.
- When it’s ready, add the milk and vanilla, mix well to combine with the strawberry syrup that we prepared.
- Once the milk is mixed well with the strawberries, allow the strawberry milk mixture to completely cool down.
- When the mixture is cooled to room temperature, transfer the prepared milk to glass bottle or jar and chill the milk in the refrigerator.
- Once the strawberry milk is chilled, transfer the milk to serving glass cups, garnish with sliced, fresh strawberries (that we kept aside early), and serve!
- Make sure to keep the strawberry milk refrigerated and always serve it chilled for best results!
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