Now that the weather is getting warmer, it’s time to enjoy some refreshing, low-cal cocktails! Nothing says summer like chillin’ by the pool with a cool cocktail and a good read. Although regular cocktails are tasty, these low calorie cocktails are just as delicious without all the extra calories, sugar and fat that we don’t even need! I included a couple of recipes for low-cal mocktails as well. Get your shopping list out so you can make a list of ingredients for these low-cal cocktails!
Ingredients:
2 to 3 strawberries
2 to 3 basil leaves, plus more for garnish
1 ounce vodka
Fresh lemonade
Directions:
Crush strawberries in a glass. Add basil leaves and gently bruise. Add vodka and lemonade, stir, add ice, and garnish with basil.
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Ingredients:
Ice
2 ounces cranberry juice
1 ounce fresh lime juice
5 ounces club soda or seltzer
Lime wedges for garnish
Sugar for frosting (optional)
Directions:
Pour ice into a shaker or tall glass. Add cranberry juice, fresh lime juice and club soda. Shake to combine. Run a lime wedge over the outside rim of a chilled martini glass. Pour sugar onto a small plate or flat surface. Dip the rim of the glass into sugar until covered with a thin border. Strain carefully in a chilled martini glass. Garnish with lime.
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Ingredients:
1½ oz. Rémy Martin V
1 oz. pomegranate juice
½ oz. lime juice
Garnish: lime wedge
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a tall glass filled with ice. Stir, and garnish with a lime wedge.
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Ingredients:
Ice
3 ounces of diet tonic water
1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
1/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
Directions: Add 3 ounces of diet tonic water, 1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice and 1/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice to a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass.
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Ingredients:
2 ounces Sweet Leaf Tea Mint & Honey Green Tea
1 ounce white rum
1 small handful mint leaves, muddled
1 sprig mint, for garnish
Directions:
Combine first three ingredients and serve over ice. Garnish with mint sprig.
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Ingredients:
5 blackberries
3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
Crushed ice
1/2 ounce agave nectar
1/2 ounce crème de mure (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.
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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.
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Ingredients:
1½ oz. Bacardi
¾ oz. Perfect Purée Carmelized Pineapple Concentrate
½ oz. lemon juice
½ oz. agave nectar
½ oz. pineapple juice
Garnish: grilled pineapple wedge.
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain contents into glass or flash blend in a blender. Garnish with a grilled pineapple wedge.
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Ingredients:
3 cups Ceres "Secrets of the Valley" juice, or white grape juice
1 bottle sparkling apple cider
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 apple, cubed
1 cup fresh or canned pineapple chunks, juices drained
1 orange, sliced thin
2 drops vanilla extract
Ice
Extra fruit for garnish
Directions:
In a large pitcher or punch bowl, combine juice, cut fruit and vanilla extract. Cover and let chill for at least 2 hours. Remove from refrigerator. Add in sparkling cider.
Serve in wine glasses or champagne flutes with plenty of ice and fruit for garnish.
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Which one of these low calorie cocktails are you going to try?! Luckily for calorie conscious girls, there are lots of low calorie tweaks and alternatives to traditional high calorie summer cocktails. We can enjoy all the flavor and fun of summer cocktails without all the calories and guilt!
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