Cucumber spritz is a summer refresher par excellence. Cucumber led gins and mojitos have been popular over the last few years so why not try a cucumber lime mocktail poured into a large glass piled high with ice on a hot afternoon.
Ingredients
- 30ml Lime simple syrup
- 30 ml lime juice
- 1/3 English cucumber cut into 6 slices
- handful mint leaves
- 100ml tonic water
- 100ml soda water
Method
- Muddle 4 mint leaves with 3 cucumber slices and lime juice at the bottom of a cocktail shaker to extract cucumber flavour
- Add Lime simple syrup soda and tonic water and stir well
- Place top on cocktail shaker
- Fill Copa glass with ice
- Strain contents into stemless glass
- Add remaining cucumber slices and 2-3 mint leaves to garnish