Healthy Cocktail Recipes

Here’s a toast to the weekend! We all know by now that some of our favourite cocktails can shock us with their calorie content. But don’t let that stop you from enjoying a drink every once in a while. Try out these four relatively low calorie, but delicious, drinks if you’re heading out this weekend.

1. Classic Mojito

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 lime
• 3 sprigs mint
• 1.5 ounces light rum
• Soda water

Directions

• Put the sugar in a highball glass (or any 8- to 12-ounce glass), squeeze in the juice of 1/2 small lime, and toss in the squeezed lime shell.
• Add mint sprigs and muddle for a moment. 
• Then add the light rum and handful of ice, and fill with chilled soda water.

Makes 1 cocktail.


2. Ginger Fizz

Ingredients

For cocktail:

• 1-1/2 ounces ginger vodka*
• 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
• 1 ounce ginger syrup (see below)
• Soda water
• Ginger slice, for garnish

For ginger syrup:

• 2-1/2 cups water
• 1 cup fast-dissolving sugar (such as superfine sugar)
• 1 cup freshly grated ginger

Directions

• Make ginger syrup: Bring water, sugar, and grated ginger to a boil. 
• Simmer for 10 minutes; let cool.
• Make cocktail: In mixing glass, add ice, ginger vodka, lime juice, and ginger syrup. 
• Shake vigorously; pour into a tall ice-filled glass.
• Top off glass with soda. 
• Garnish with a ginger slice.

Makes 1 cocktail.


3. Tequila Bramble

Ingredients

• 5 blackberries
• 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
• Crushed ice 
• 1/2 ounce agave nectar
• 1/2 ounce of crème de mûre (blackberry-flavored liqueur)
• 1 1/2 ounces blanco tequila

Directions

• In a rocks glass, muddle blackberries with lime juice.
• Fill the glass with crushed ice; add the remaining ingredients and stir to combine. 
• Serve with a straw.

Makes 1 cocktail


4. Blood Orange French 75

Ingredients

• 3 blood oranges (about 1 pound)
• 1 1/2 cups gin
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon angostura bitters
• 2 750-ml bottles chilled Champagne

Directions

• Cut 1 orange in half through stem. 
• Cut each orange half crosswise into 6 slices; reserve for garnish. 
• Using small knife, cut peel and white pith from remaining 2 oranges; chop oranges. 
• Transfer chopped oranges with juices to bowl; mash with potato masher or wooden spoon. 
• Stir in gin, sugar, and bitters. Strain into 2-cup measuring cup, pressing on solids to release liquid. 
• Chill 4 hours.
• Pour scant 2 tablespoons gin mixture into each of 12 glasses; fill with Champagne and garnish with orange.

Makes 12 cocktails.




Cocktail recipes originally published on YumSugar.com