Non-alcoholic cocktail recipes

It's summer, and there is no shortage of opportunities for outdoor birthday parties, barbecues with friends and dinners under the moon. What could be better than a fresh and tasty non-alcoholic cocktail, to drink in company without worrying about having to drive home.

So here are plenty of recipes to colour our glasses on summer evenings. We are spoilt for choice among the many colourful, strictly non-alcoholic cocktails, many of whose ingredients are also good for our health. For example, ginger, which is used in several cocktail preparations, is a good anti-inflammatory and can be used against headaches or joint pains.

So let's start with the non-alcoholic versions of the most popular cocktails.

Virgin Bellini

There are various recipes for this cocktail, the one I propose is light

Ingredients for about two servings

• ml 120 sparkling water
• ml 90 of peach juice
• ml 30 of lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon pomegranate juice.

Preparation:

Take the shaker glass, put some ice, the sparkling water, the peach and lemon juice and finally the tablespoon of pomegranate juice. Shake it all up and serve in flute glasses.

Tropical Cocktail

Ingredients: Serving size for approx. 3 glasses

• ml 100 horchata syrup
• ml 100 of mint syrup
• ml 400 milk
• enough ice.

Preparation:

Here too, a shaker is used where, after putting the ice, the barley-wine syrup, mint syrup and milk are added. Shake everything and serve.

Virgin Mojito

Ingredients for one glass

• Crushed ice
• ml 150 sparkling water
• half of a lime and a slice for garnishing the glass
• 5 mint leaves
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar.

Preparation:

Mash the split lime with the brown sugar in a container with a pestle. Add the mint leaves, stirring gently so as not to spoil them, then add the sparkling water and ice.

Virgin Colada

This is also the non-alcoholic version of the more famous pina colada, obviously there is no rum in this version.

Ingredients for one glass

• grams 230 of coconut milk
• grams 90 of pineapple juice
• 1 splash of lime juice
• crushed ice
• to garnish the glass a slice of pineapple.

Preparation:

We will also use a shaker for this cocktail. Put the ice and pineapple juice in the container, add the lime juice and shake everything. Pour into a glass and garnish with a pineapple wedge.

Non-alcoholic Bloody Mary

Serves for 2 glasses

• 300 g tomato sauce
• 1 small bottle of tonic water
• 4/5 drops of Tabasco
• a pinch of salt and a pinch of pepper.

preparation:

mix the tomato sauce with the tonic water, salt and pepper, add the tabasco drops and crushed ice. Serve with a parsley leaf for garnish.

Shirley Temple

This is the most famous non-alcoholic cocktail created for the little actress.

Ingredients:

• cl 100 tonic water (or soda)
• cl 100 of ginger ale (a drink made from ginger root extract)
• cl 50 of grenadine syrup
• enough ice.

Preparation:

mix the tonic water (or soda) with the ginger ale and grenadine syrup, add crushed ice and serve with the garnish of a slice of lemon or lime.

Grapefruit and Basil Ginger Spritz

• 1 bottle of ginger ale (a non-alcoholic drink based on ginger extract),
• cl 6 of pink grapefruit juice
• cl 2 of basil syrup.

preparation:

again, shake crushed ice with the ginger ale, pink grapefruit juice and basil syrup. Garnish the glass with a couple of basil leaves.

Non-alcoholic strawberry cocktail

ingredients for 2 glasses

• grams 50 raspberries
• grams 150 strawberries
• 1 small bottle of tonic water.

Preparation.

Wash and cut the strawberries and raspberries, place them in a blender and blend. Then pass the resulting mixture through a sieve to remove all the lumps and seeds, add the tonic water and crushed ice to the mixture and serve with a strawberry or raspberry garnish.

Cinderella

A very thirst-quenching cocktail that is also an excellent antioxidant.

Ingredients for one person

• grams 60 pineapple juice
• grams 60 orange juice
• grams 60 lemon juice
• crushed ice, just enough
• for garnish a slice of lemon or orange

We use a blender for this recipe, add the various juices after crushed ice and serve chilled.

Basil syrup

This is a very useful syrup for different types of non-alcoholic cocktails, it is also used to make homemade cakes taste better and is also used as a remedy against coughs and sore throats.

It can also be prepared at home by dissolving 250 g of water with 80 g of sugar, then add a dozen basil leaves and leave the mixture to macerate for a couple of hours. It keeps for a few days in the fridge.

To conclude I will say that to make non-alcoholic cocktails you also need a lot of imagination. They can be made with many types of seasonal fruit blended and strained, the additions to the juices are almost always ginger ale, tonic water and ice.