Cucumber Lime Mint Splash
A non-alcoholic beverage for a refreshing, sweet, puckering treat! Muddled mint and cucumber in lime juice, strained and topped with ice and lemon-flavored San Pellegrino. Garnished with a lime, cucumber rolled up around a blueberry, and a cucumber spear next to a sprig of mint and a fun straw!
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.