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Think about the health benefits you will experience by taking a month booze-free. It’s a win-win!
Whether you’re already onboard, or still need convincing, here are seven delicious mocktail recipes to help nudge you in the right direction…
Kiwi Pear Refresher
Skill level: Easy
Ingredients:
1 Litre SodaStream sparkling water
1 pear, sliced
2 kiwis, sliced thinly
2 limes, quartered
1 tsp Stevia extract
Mint
Method:
Prepare sparkling water: Fizz 1L of cold fresh water. Squeeze juice from limes into a blender, and then add lime wedges.
Half a kiwi fruit and spoon out flesh, chop and add to blender. Add sliced pear, stevia, ice and sparkling water to blender. Blend, pour into glasses and garnish with mint.
Sparkling Lemon Mint Berry Blast
Skill level: Easy
Ingredients
1 Litre sparkling water
Mint leaves
1/2 lemon, sliced
1/2 cup raspberries
6 strawberries, hulled and sliced
1/2 cup blackberries
Ice
Method:
Prepare sparkling water: 1L of cold fresh fizzy water.
Gently muddle mint, lemon and berries together in a jug.
Add ice, pour sparking water over the top and stir gently.
Serve in glasses with lemon, ice and mint to garnish.
Easy Breezy Cucumber
Skill level: Intermediate
Ingredients:
500ml sparkling water
2 sprigs fresh rosemary
¼ cucumber, peeled into ribbons
1 tbsp honey
1 whole lime
Ice
Method:
Use a peeler to create 5 or 6 cucumber ribbons.
Cut lime into quarters. Fill 3/4’s of a tall glass with ice.
Squeeze 1 quarter of lime into the glass and slice another quarter to add to glass.
Add in honey, rosemary sprigs and cucumber slices.
Top with sparkling water. Stir, serve and enjoy!
Green Tea Mockito
Skill level: Easy
Ingredients:
1 Litre SodaStream sparkling water
50ml brewed and cooled green tea
1tbsp lime juice
5 large mint leaves
2 tsp sugar Ice
Method:
Prepare sparkling water: Fizz 1L of cold fresh water.
Muddle the lime juice, mint and sugar together in a tall glass until the leaves bruise lightly and the flavours release.
Add ice until glass is about 3/4 full and then pour in green tea.
Top with sparkling water & garnish with mint.
Stir thoroughly and sip away!
Smoked LLAB by PS40
Smoked LLAB by PS40
Ingredients:
20mls of PS smoked lemonade syrup
80mls of soda water
10mls of fresh lime juice
4 dashes Australian Bitters
Method:
Built in a highball over ice Garnished with a rosemary sprig and lemon wedge
La Passionata by Cafe Delmar
Ingredients:
60ml orange juice
30ml pineapple juice
3 dashes of Australian Bitters
2 drops of orange blossom water
2 spoons of passionfruit
2 spoons of rock candy syrup
Method:
Shake with ice and pour it into glass and garnish with sprig of mint
The Bitter End
Ingredients:
Sugar Syrup Ingredients
240g castor sugar
500ml filtered water
1 orange quartered and burned on chargrill
1 red chilli burned on chargrill
Place all ingredients in a pan and reduce by 1/3rd
Mocktail Ingredients
60ml fresh pink grapefruit juice
30ml sugar syrup
4 dashes Australian Bitters
Stick of rosemary
Method:
Place fresh pink grapefruit juice into a mocktail shaker, add sugar syrup and Australian Bitters. Grab a brandy glass and burn a 2 inch stick of rosemary, capture the smoke and place a glass upside down on a napkin Turn over the glass and add 1 large cube of ice. Pour over the mix from the shaker into the glass and garnish with rosemary.
Enjoy!
