Healthy Cocktails

Who’s Thirsty?

It’s summer, it’s hot out, you’re thirsty, and cocktails are in the air. You may be brunching left and right, or meeting friends for drinks, or doing normal daily things, but chances are, you may be in need of a delicious and refreshing drink, and don’t want to pack on loads of sugar and random syrups. For this, we got you covered with some relatively

healthy cocktails. There’s still alcohol in there, so we’re not saying it’s an antioxidant, but…they work. Here are three recipes to get the party going.

Champagne Grapefruit Mojito via Call me PMC

• 1 tablespoon agave nectar
• 12 mint leaves
• juice of one lime, about 2 tablespoons
• 3 ounces good rum
• juice of one grapefruit
• 1 cup ice, broken into large cubes
• about ? cup champagne, club soda or tonic can be substituted

Full recipe here

Skinny Coconut Margarita via With Salt and Wit

• 3 ounces lite coconut milk (from the can)
• 3 ounces tequila blanco
• 1 ½ ounces triple sec
• 8 ounces coconut water
• Fresh lime wedge, to serve

Full recipe here

Peach gin and tonic via How Sweet Eats

• 1/2 rice peach, sliced
• 2 ounces gin (I used Tanqueray)
• 4 ounces tonic water (Fever Tree is my fave!)
• 1 ounce freshly squeeze lime juice
• crushed ice
• rosemary sprigs for garnish
• lime wedges for garnish

Full recipe here

By Alexis Bendjouia