Healthy Mint Mocktail

Course: Drinks

Cuisine: American, Fusion

Prep Time: 5

Total Time: 5

Servings: serving

Calories: 177kcal

Author: Jazzmine Woodard

Balanced and healthy crafted mocktail with effervescent lemon, ginger, honey, and mint flavors

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Ingredients

1 lemon
6 mint leaves
1 ½ ounce honey ginger syrup
2 dashes digestive bitters
8 ounces brewed spearmint tea room temperature
ice
sparkling water

Instructions

Cut lemon into quarters then add lemon pieces and fresh mint leaves to cocktail shaker and muddle to express oils and juice.
1 lemon, 6 mint leaves
Add honey ginger syrup, digestive bitters, tea, and ice to shaker. Seal shaker and shake vigorously to liquid is chilled (about 5-10 seconds).
1 ½ ounce honey ginger syrup, 2 dashes digestive bitters, 8 ounces brewed spearmint tea, ice
Fill a highball glass halfway with ice. Strain or double strain (see notes) shaken mixture into glass over fresh ice.
sparkling water
Top up the glass with sparkling water. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint and lemon peel, if desired. Serve cold.

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Notes

To Make the Ginger Honey Syrup

Peel four inches fresh ginger root and slice into small pieces no more than ¼ inch thick.
Add ginger to saucepan with water and honey over medium-high heat and stir until honey is dissolved.
Bring mixture to a boil then remove from heat. Steep honey ginger syrup for at least 30 minutes, to allow flavor to infuse. Makes about 16 ounces.

Preparation

You can make this recipe up to three days ahead of time. Mix up all the ingredients, except for the fizzy water. Reserve that until just before serving.

To batch this recipe for a crowd, add about 25 mint leaves, six ounces honey syrup, eight dashes of bitters, and three lemons (cut into wedges) to a pitcher then muddle. Fill halfway with ice then stir in 32 ounces of brewed mint tea followed by about 16 ounces sparkling water. Serves four.

Double strain through a mesh strainer to keep out any lemon pulp and tiny piece of mint. This is optional but provides the smoothest restaurant-quality finish to your homemade mocktail.

For PCOS

The spearmint tea in this recipe counts towards the two cup per day recommendation for PCOS symptoms, though I recommend adding a splash of ACV and/or pairing with a protein packed snack for blood sugar balance to make this a fully hormone friendly mocktail.

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