Cucumber Mint Splash! It actually has lime, too, is garnished with blueberries, and is topped with lemon-flavored San Pellegrino soda water. I have been craving something fresh, sweet, and puckering but without any alcohol. I also am desperately searching for any reason to use my cute cocktail skewers.
Fun, non-alcoholic drinks are severely underrated, and are just as fun to dress up as cocktails. Shaved cucumber peel rolls up into a nice spiral and protects a fat blueberry. It’s skewered under a lime wedge with pure panache.
The remaining spike of the skewer impales half of a fresh cucumber spear. That’s garnish #1. There’s also a fresh sprig of mint and, of course, a fun straw!
Now there is a way to make this alcoholic, too. Gin and limoncello can get muddled up with the lime, mint, and cucumber. But trust me, it’s perfectly good without them and a heavy hand with the lime juice.
This drink is actually a spin off of a gin sling! In the alcoholic version, it uses limoncello instead of vermouth. The lemon-flavored San Pellegrino is really yummy on its own, too, and sort of tastes like sparkling lemonade.
Recipe
Cucumber Lime Mint Splash
Ingredients
- 1 Cucumber
- 2 Limes
- ½ cup Blueberries
- 6 sprigs Fresh mint
- 1 can Limonata San Pellegrino
- 4 oz Gin OPTIONAL
- 2 oz Limoncello OPTIONAL
Instructions
- Take four of the sprigs of fresh mint and remove the leaves. Drop the leaves in a cocktail shaker. Squeeze the juice of one lime into the cocktail shaker. Muddle mint leaves in the lime juice.
- Using a vegetable peeler, shave off two long pieces of cucumber. Reserve for garnish. Then cut the cucumber in half and quarter the halves. You will have eight spears of cucumber. Chop six of the spears and dump into the cocktail shaker. Save two of the spears for garnish.
- Muddle the chopped cucumber spears with the mint and lime. If using alcohol, add in gin and limoncello and muddle further. Cover and strain into a low ball glass.
- Make the garnish. Cut the second lime into wedges and skewer one wedge on to each skewer. Roll up the shaved cucumber around a blueberry and skewer that below the lime wedge. Then stab remaining skewer into a cucumber spear. Repeat for second drink.
- Split remaining blueberries between the low ball glasses, top them with ice and divide the lemon-flavored San Pellegrino between them. Insert the cucumber speared garnish, the remaining two mint sprigs, and a fun straw.
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