Best Homemade Korean Strawberry Milk Recipe

Creamy Korean Strawberry Milk is vibrant, refreshing, and an amazingly delicious homemade flavored milk! It’s bright, fruity, and sweet, and those little bits of fresh strawberries throughout your drink are fantastic!

This yummy Korean Inspired Strawberry Milk is the perfect treat for a hot summer day!

It’s a super simple recipe made with freshly chopped strawberries and quick homemade strawberry syrup, then mixed with the dairy or plant-based milk of your choice. This fresh strawberry milk is made with 100% real whole food ingredients and zero artificial flavors or additives.

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2 glasses of Korean Style strawberry milk with a pink straw and fresh strawberries

What Is Korean Strawberry Milk?

Traditionally found in Korean Cafes and made with whole dairy milk, sugar, and strawberries, this popular drink can easily be made at home.

Strawberry Milk is a super simple recipe made with freshly chopped strawberries and quick homemade strawberry syrup. The cold syrup and chopped strawberries are poured into the bottom of a glass or glass bottle, then milk is slowly poured on top of the syrup. A straw is added and used to stir the milk and strawberries. Sometimes ice or whipped cream is added to the beverage.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

This fresh strawberry milk is made with 100% real whole food ingredients and zero artificial flavors or additives.

Vibrant and full of beautiful color
Perfect for brunches and baby showers
Bright, fruity, and sweet
Only uses 3 ingredients
All-natural clean eating ingredients
Better than adding the artificially flavored powder to your glass of milk.
Quick and easy
Healthier than a strawberry milkshake
A favorite among adults and kids

Korean Strawberry Milk in a glass with fresh strawberries

You Only Need 3 Ingredients

Strawberries
Honey or sugar
Milk

How To Make Homemade Strawberry Syrup

Add strawberries to a food processor, blender, or blender and pulse a few times until they are almost pureed.Add pureed strawberries and chopped strawberries to a small saucepan with honey or sugar and a simmer.
Chop additional strawberries, so your strawberry syrup has those amazing chunks throughout your syrup.Simmer the strawberry syrup until it begins to thicken and has become syrup-like. Be careful not to overcook this mixture, or it will thicken into a strawberry jam.
Cool the syrup in the refrigerator until it is completely chilled. Failing to chill your syrup could cause the milk to curdle.

A note about fresh strawberries: Strawberries vary in their sweetness depending on how ripe they are when they are picked. Feel free to add more honey or sugar if the syrup isn’t quite sweet enough.

How To Make Korean Strawberry Milk At Home

Pour chilled homemade strawberry syrup into the bottom of a glass
Tilt and swirl the glass to distribute the strawberry syrup onto the sides of the glass
If desired, add ice.
Slowly pour milk over the top of your strawberry syrup
Add a straw and stir.

RECIPE SUBSTITUTIONS

Honey

You can easily swap out the honey for a more traditional sweetener, sugar, found in most Korean Strawberry Milk recipes. Here are other sweeteners you can use:

Coconut sugar
Raw sugar
Maple syrup
- While you can use maple syrup to sweeten your strawberries, I’ve found that the maple flavor is too overpowering for me and takes away from the freshness of the strawberry flavors.

Fresh Strawberries

Frozen strawberries are an easy swap for this recipe. And, if strawberries aren’t in season, frozen may be the better choice.

Dairy Milk

Strawberry milk is just as delicious when using plant-based milk. I would recommend using creamier dairy-free milk like oat milk or coconut milk, but you can use any of these vegan kinds of milk:

Oat Milk
Coconut Milk
Soy Milk
Almond Milk
Cashew Milk

Optional Strawberry Milk Toppings

Vibrant, creamy, and delicious as-is, but if you’re feeling extra, feel free to add any of these toppings:

Whipped Cream
Vanilla or strawberry ice cream
Sprinkles
Freshly sliced strawberries
Chocolate syrup
Caramel syrup
Shaved chocolate

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Frequently Asked Questions:

Can I make Strawberry Milk Ahead Of Time?

The homemade strawberry syrup can be made ahead of time and kept in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. It’s best to keep the milk and syrup separate until ready to serve. The milk could curdle from the acidic nature of strawberries if they are kept together for a long time.

How Do I Make Strawberry Milk Without Cooking Without Boiling?

No-Cook Version - Korean Inspired Strawberry Milk can be made by macerating fresh strawberries and sugar. Simply mash the strawberries in a shallow dish and mix with sugar on a 1:1 basis. Let the strawberries and sugar sit out at room temperature for one hour, and then chill. While macerated strawberries are good in strawberry milk, they won’t develop the same depth of flavor and sweetness you get from using a homemade strawberry syrup.

Will Strawberries Make Milk Curdle?

The acid in strawberries can make milk curdle if mixed ahead of time or If your strawberry syrup is still warm. To prevent your milk from curdling, use cold ingredients and keep strawberry syrup and milk separate until you are ready to drink your Korean Style Strawberry Milk.

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2 glasses of strawberry milk with a pink straw and fresh strawberries

Best Homemade Korean Strawberry Milk

Jessica Stroup

Creamy Korean Strawberry Milk is vibrant, refreshing, and an amazingly delicious homemade flavored milk! It’s bright, fruity, and sweet, and those little bits of fresh strawberries throughout your drink are fantastic!

5 from 11 votes

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 3

Total Time 8

Course Drinks

Cuisine Asian, Korean

Servings Servings

Calories 314 kcal

Ingredients

3 cups strawberries
3 tablespoons honey or sugar
2 cups milk dairy or plant based

Instructions

Puree 2 cups of strawberries in a blender, food processor, or mashed with a fork.
Chop remaining cup of strawberries into small pieces
In a small saucepan, add the pureed strawberries, chopped strawberries, and honey (or sugar).
Slowly heat the strawberries and gently simmer for about 3 minutes or until the mixture begins to thicken to a syrup like consistency. Be careful not to overcook and thicken to a jam.
Remove syrup from heat and chill strawberry syrup completely in the refrigerator.
Take two glasses and add half of the chilled strawberry puree. Tilt and swirl the glass to distribute the strawberry syrup onto the sides of the glass
If desired, add ice. Slowly pour 8 oz of milk over the strawberry syrup.
Serve immediately with a straw to mix the milk and strawberry syrup.

Notes

Fresh Strawberries

Strawberries vary in their sweetness depending on how ripe they are when they are picked. Feel free to add more honey or sugar if the syrup isn’t quite sweet enough.

Frozen Strawberries

Frozen strawberries may be used, but need to be thawed first. Pop them in the microwave for 20 seconds to thaw quickly.

No-Cook Version

Korean Inspired Strawberry Milk can be made by macerating fresh strawberries and sugar. Simply mash the strawberries in a shallow dish and mix with sugar on a 1:1 basis. Let the strawberries and sugar sit out at room temperature for one hour, and then chill. While macerated strawberries are good in strawberry milk, they won’t develop the same depth of flavor and sweetness you get from using a homemade strawberry syrup.

Nutrition

Serving: 2drinksCalories: 314kcalCarbohydrates: 54gProtein: 9gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 24mgSodium: 108mgPotassium: 669mgFiber: 4gSugar: 49gVitamin A: 421IUVitamin C: 127mgCalcium: 312mgIron: 1mg

Keyword Flavored Milk, Homemade Strawberry Syrup, Strayberry Milk

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