The silly season is, in many ways, the best time of year—it’s warm, festive, and everyone’s focused on having a good time, relaxing, and catching up with loved ones—but it can get the better of us all. It’s handy to have a couple of alcohol-free drink alternatives up your sleeve for when you’re needing a break from it all!
Here are two of our favourite mocktails, each making use of a different flavour of StrangeLove’s all natural, low-calorie sodas.
StrangeLove Spicy Margarita Mocktail
Ingredients:
- ¼ cup jalapeños, sliced
- ¼ cup water
- 1 ½ tbs raw sugar
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 300ml StrangeLove Lime & Jalapeño Lo-Cal Soda
- 2 tbs lime juice
- Ice
- Sea salt and Mexican spice mix (to salt rim of glass)
- Sliced lime, jalapeños, and mint to garnish
Method:
- Add sliced jalapeños and seeds, water, and raw sugar to a saucepan and heat until sugar has dissolved. Once dissolved, strain and reserve the liquid, and set aside to cool.
- Combine sea salt and a pinch of Mexican spice mix on a plate. Run a wedge of lime along the edge of a glass, and roll into the salt mix to coat the rim of the glass.
- Pour the jalapeño syrup, orange juice, StrangeLove Lime & Jalapeño Lo-Cal Soda, and lime juice into a 28oz cocktail shaker, and add a handful of ice.
- Shake well, until the outside of the cocktail shaker is cold and frosty. Strain your margarita into the glass, over extra ice.
- Garnish with sliced lime, jalapeños and mint.
Note: Adjust quantities of jalapeños, sugar and lime juice to increase or decrease the spice, sweetness, or tang of your StrangeLove margarita mocktails.
Paloma
Ingredients:
- 300ml StrangeLove Holy Grapefruit Lo-Cal Soda
- Juice of one lime
- Juice of one grapefruit
- Ice
- Sliced grapefruit and lime, to garnish
Method:
- Pour StrangeLove Holy Grapefruit Lo- Cal Soda, lime and grapefruit juice into a large glass jar or jug.
- Stir until well combined, and distribute into glasses with ice.
- Garnish with sliced grapefruit and lime.
For more recipes like this, keep an eye out on our blogs to be released in December! We’ll be sharing more Christmas recipes to keep you and your loved ones nourished and happy this festive season, as well as links to a downloadable Christmas Recipe E-Book.
Alternatively, sign up to WholeLife Vibe, our loyalty program, to receive the recipe book (and a whole range of other amazing offers!) direct to your email inbox.
