Lightening drinks are the best way to combat dehydration on a hot day. There are many types of cooling drinks using soda, fruits, berries, and even.
Here are collected best recipes summer drinks for every taste, the preparation of which takes a minimum of time, does not require much effort and a lot of ingredients. Vitamin cocktails will cool the body well, replenish energy reserves on a hot day.
You don't have to be a bartender to make drinks at home. All you need to do is to study the recipe, prepare all the necessary components and strictly observe the proportions.
Mojito
Mojito lovers prefer classic recipe. Preparation of two portions of non-alcoholic mojito takes no more than 10 minutes. In addition, 100 ml contains only 27 kcal. Mojito without the addition of alcohol is fragrant, tasty and healthy.
Ingredients:
- sprite - 1.5 cups;
- mint - 10 leaves;
- crushed ice - 1 cup;
- lime / lemon - 1 piece.
Cooking:
- Wash the lime, pat dry and cut into large wedges. Leave one for decoration, put the rest in tall glasses.
- Mash the mint with your hands and add to the lime.
- Pour the sprite and crush the contents.
- Add ice, garnish cocktail with lime wedge and mint sprig.
- Serve with a wide tube.
classic lemonade
Lemonade is a delicious and easy-to-prepare drink. Classic lemonade consists of water, lemons and sugar. There are no harmful ingredients in homemade lemonade. The drink is suitable for people of all ages.
Ingredients:
- carbonated water - 1.5-2 liters;
- lemon - 5-6 pcs.;
- sugar - 220 g;
- ice cubes - 200 g.
Cooking:
- Wash the lemons and cut thinly. Pour in sugar, mix and leave for 2 hours.
- Boil 1 glass of water. Put the rest of the water in the refrigerator.
- Pour boiling water over lemons. Cool the mixture, strain and dilute with cold water.
- Add ice, decorate the glass with mint or berries.
ginger cocktail
Drink with ginger has a calming, relaxing and tonic effect. It can be combined with juices and alcohol. Ginger cocktail quenches thirst well, strengthens the immune system and promotes weight loss.
It is better to use fresh ginger. It is less pungent, more aromatic and does not spoil the consistency of the cocktail.
Ingredients:
- ginger root - 20 g;
- boiling water - 200 ml;
- honey - to taste;
- lemon / orange juice - to taste;
- mint - 1 leaf.
Cooking:
- Place chopped ginger in a small saucepan, cover with water, bring to a boil and remove from heat.
- Add honey, lemon or orange juice if desired.
- Cool, add ice cubes and mint leaf.
sangria
Sangria is a soft drink based on wine (most often dry red) and fresh fruit. Homemade sangria is free from artificial additives, flavors and fruit waste.
Ingredients:
- wine (red, rose or white) - 700-750 ml;
- honey / sugar (cane or white) - 2 tbsp;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- water - 700-750 ml;
- sweet fruits (oranges, apples, peaches - to choose from) - 2 pcs.;
- spices - to taste: cloves, ginger, mint, cinnamon sticks, vanilla, etc.;
- strong alcohol (cognac, rum, brandy, vodka or dry liquor) is an optional component.
Cooking:
- If the drink contains strong alcohol, it is necessary to infuse fruits and spices on it for 6-8 hours.
- Mix all the ingredients in a jug and refrigerate for 3-12 hours.
- If desired, add ice and fizzy drinks to the sangria.
Julep
Julep - an alcoholic cocktail with the addition of water and sugar syrup. The menthol secreted by mint has many useful properties. The drink is indispensable on hot days. It perfectly refreshes, cools and invigorates.
Ingredients:
- whiskey - 60 ml;
- non-carbonated water - 2 tsp;
- mint - 12 leaves and 1 sprig;
- powdered sugar - 1 tsp;
- ice - 150 g.
Cooking:
- Place the mint in the bottom of a tall, pre-chilled glass.
- Add water and powdered sugar.
- Blend ingredients until smooth.
- Pour in 40 ml. whiskey and add ice.
- Stir the drink with a spoon until perspiration appears on the walls of the glass.
- Add remaining whiskey and top up with ice.
- Mix lightly, garnish with a sprig of mint and serve.
Classic iced coffee
Cold coffee is the perfect solution for hot weather. Refreshes, invigorates and normalizes the work of the whole organism. There are many recipes for iced coffee. The simplest is classic. It won't take much effort.
Ingredients:
- freshly ground coffee - 3 tsp;
- water - 120 ml;
- crushed ice - 100 g;
- sugar, honey, cream, grated chocolate, nut syrup - optional.
Cooking:
- Brew coffee in a Turk or in a coffee maker.
- Add sugar or honey. Cool down.
- Strain 2 times to get rid of the thick.
- Place ice cubes in a tall glass. Pour out chilled coffee.
- If desired, you can decorate the drink with grated chocolate, add cream or nut syrup.
Smoothies
Smoothie - juice with pulp, which can be based on any berries, fruits and dairy products. A drink can replace breakfast or replenish energy during the day. There are many variations of smoothies. The drink is easy to make with a mixer, blender, grater or meat grinder on hand.
Ingredients:
- fruit (any) - 1 pc.;
- fresh or frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, etc.) - 0.5 tbsp.;
- milk or kefir - 1.5 tbsp.;
- honey (optional) - 2 tablespoons;
- ice - 4 cubes;
- ice cream (optional) - 1 scoop;
- grated chocolate, cherry, chocolate syrup - for decoration.
Cooking:
- Peel the fruit.
- Grind fruit and berries in a blender.
- Add honey and milk. Mix.
- Add ice cream if desired and garnish smoothies.
- Put ice in a glass.
watermelon cocktail
A drink based on watermelon is tasty, healthy and tonic. Perfectly cleanses the body, gives vigor and saves from thirst. A classic watermelon cocktail is made with soda.
Ingredients:
- watermelon - 600 g;
- carbonated water - 1 l;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- mint leaves - 6-7 pieces;
- sugar - 2 tbsp.;
- non-carbonated water - 2.5 tbsp.
Cooking:
- Wash the mint and watermelon.
- Cut the watermelon. Peel the pulp and cut into cubes.
- Immerse the watermelon pieces, lemon juice and mint in a blender.
- Pour in 1/4 tbsp. sugar syrup. It can be prepared ahead of time. Mix in a saucepan 2.5 tbsp. water and 2 tbsp. Sahara. Stir until sugar dissolves and bring to a boil. Cool down.
- Mix the ingredients until smooth. Add soda and ice.
Lassi
Lassi is a traditional Indian drink that is very refreshing in the heat. If desired, berries, syrup and even vegetables can be added to the basic components. Lassi can be drunk before and during meals, replace them with meals.
Ingredients:
- natural yogurt - 100 ml;
- water - 200 ml;
- ginger root - 1/2 tsp;
- cardamom - 1 tsp;
- sugar - 1 tsp
- fruit or vegetable (optional) - 1 pc.
Cooking:
- Peel and grate the ginger.
- Add ginger, yogurt and ice to the water.
- Dilute the composition with cardamom. You can add lassi with your favorite vegetable or fruit. Grind with a blender until creamy.
- If desired, add honey or sugar to the drink.
Fruit tea
Tea cools the body well and gives a charge of vivacity. In supermarkets, you can find iced teas with different flavors from different manufacturers, but their composition is far from ideal. Healthy tea can be prepared at home in just 5 minutes.
Ingredients:
- leaf tea - 2-3 tsp;
- water - 0.5 l;
- fruits (any) - 3-5 pieces;
- lemon - 2-3 slices;
- honey - 1 tbsp;
- ice - 4-6 cubes.
Cooking:
- Fruit cut into cubes and grind in a blender.
- Pour the puree into the teapot. Add honey, mix.
- Put in lemon slices. Add a few pieces of fruit if you like.
- Pour the puree with warm water and wait until it cools completely.
- Add a few ice cubes.
In the summer you always feel thirsty, and this is quite normal, because with sweat in the heat we lose up to a liter of fluid per hour! Many go the usual way and buy lemonades and other carbonated drinks, which - alas! - do not always bring the desired relief. And we again go to the store for another bottle of carbonated joy ...
In order to break this vicious circle, wise hostesses prepare refreshing drinks that bring real, not imaginary, relief. Along with old, centuries-old recipes, they invent new recipes for refreshing drinks, some of which the Culinary Eden website brings to your attention. For the preparation of refreshing drinks, it is better to use not ordinary sugar, but fructose - there will be incomparably more benefits. For more cooling of the drink, prepare an unusual fruit ice: freeze fruit juice in ice molds and add it to glasses with drinks. It will add extra flavor to your summer cocktails. If your family loves compotes of their dried fruits, do not boil them as usual, but pour boiling water and insist in a thermos. Cook fruit drinks more often - thanks to natural juices, all vitamins are preserved in them. And if the heat has driven you to the store, and you want to freshen up immediately, buy a bottle of tonic - it is believed that it is the bitter taste that cools the best (and not sour, as many people think).
Let's try to make such a delicious and refreshing drink, such as kvass. Thanks to yeast, kvass contains a lot of B vitamins.
Kvass 
Ingredients:
½ loaf of black bread
25-30 g dry yeast,
½ stack Sahara,
raisin.
Cooking:
Cut the bread into small slices and place to dry in a low-heated oven. Put the finished crackers in a 3-liter jar and pour hot water to shoulders. Add 3 tbsp. sugar and cool to 35-38°C. Dilute the yeast in a glass of water and add to a jar of cooled water. Stir, cover and put in a warm place for 2 days. Then strain and add the remaining sugar and raisins, cork and refrigerate overnight. Kvass is ready! Do not throw away the thick, use it as a starter for the next portion of kvass or homemade bread.
Berry kvass
Ingredients:
800 g berries,
250 g sugar
4 liters of water
25 g yeast
1 tsp citric acid.
Cooking:
Mash the berries slightly, pour hot water and bring to a boil. Leave to infuse for 2-3 hours. Strain, add yeast, sugar, citric acid and leave to ferment for 6-10 hours. Strain and refrigerate before use.
Cumin kvass. Seeds of cumin pour boiling water, boil and cool to body temperature. Strain, add yeast and sugar and leave for 6 hours to ferment. Then remove the foam, add citric acid and cool.
Drink "Royal" 
Ingredients:
1 water
1 lemon
½ stack Sahara,
2 tbsp honey,
1-2 tbsp raisins,
5 g yeast.
Cooking:
Squeeze out the juice from the lemon. Slice the lemon peels and cover with water. Put on fire and boil for 2 minutes, cool, strain and add raisins, honey, juice and yeast. Put in a warm place to ferment for a day or two. After fermentation, remove the foam, pour into a container with a tight-fitting lid and refrigerate for three days. Serve with a lemon wedge.
Kvass can be prepared not only with pressed yeast, but also with bread sourdough (if you like to bake homemade bread). Don't want to mess around with sourdough and want a refreshing drink right away? Get the lemonade ready!
Fruttini. Dilute fresh juice of berries or fruits with cold water and add sugar and lemon juice to taste. Serve over ice or frozen fruit juice.
Kiwi lemonade
Ingredients:
6 pcs. kiwi,
1 stack Sahara,
¾ stack. freshly squeezed lemon juice,
1 liter of sparkling water.
Cooking:
Make kiwi puree. Combine lemon juice with sugar, add kiwi, mix and dilute with sparkling water.
Mojito (non-alcoholic) 
Ingredients:
½ lime
3 tsp Sahara,
200 ml sparkling water,
a few sprigs of mint, ice.
Cooking:
Remove the zest from the lime. Cut a lime into 4 pieces and squeeze into a glass. Add sugar and zest, crushed mint leaves and ice. Top up with sparkling water or Sprite.
Currant julep
Ingredients:
100 ml fresh currant juice,
80 ml raspberry juice
20 ml mint syrup
strawberries, ice.
Cooking:
Combine all liquid ingredients and add ice. Decorate with strawberries. Such drinks can be prepared from any juices, as long as they are fresh, and not from boxes.
Honey "Laymed" 
Ingredients:
1 stack fresh lime juice
5 stack water,
2/3 stack. Sahara,
2 tbsp honey.
Cooking:
Stir sugar in water until completely dissolved. In a pitcher, combine sugar water, lime juice and honey. Cool down in the refrigerator. 
Cocktail "Lemon"
Ingredients:
1 liter of mineral water,
2 lemons
1-2 tsp aloe juice (or pharmacy aloe essence) for each glass.
Cooking:
Pour mineral water (preferably still) into glasses, add freshly squeezed lemon juice and aloe juice.
Cocktail "Northern"
Ingredients:
1 kg carrots
500 g cranberries
500 ml of water
sugar.
Cooking:
Prepare juice from carrots and cranberries, mix, add water and add sugar to taste, if necessary. Add ice.
Cold tea is a foreign invention. But it took root with us only in the form of an advertised bottled drink. And you try to make cold tea yourself, because it is much healthier.
Cold green tea 
Ingredients:
2 tsp green tea,
4 tbsp liquid honey,
4 grapefruits,
mint, ice
Cooking:
Brew tea, wait until it cools slightly, stir the honey and pour into glasses. Put them in the refrigerator. Squeeze the juice from grapefruits and also cool in the refrigerator. Before serving, pour grapefruit juice into tea, put ice and mint leaves. Any citrus juice can be added to iced tea instead of grapefruit juice. Don't want extra acid? Try adding berry or fruit juice, experiment more boldly with flavors!
Cold flavored tea
Ingredients:
4 tea bags
4 stack water,
½ lemon
mint oil,
sugar, ice
Cooking:
Squeeze the juice from half a lemon, cut the rind into small cubes. Brew tea bags in boiling water, add lemon peels. Then remove the tea bags and place the bowl of tea in ice water to cool quickly. Cool the tea in the refrigerator. Before serving, pour lemon juice into tea and drip mint oil. Add sugar to taste.
Iced coffee also looks good in hot weather. And besides, it invigorates!
Cappuccino "Cooler" 
Ingredients:
1 ½ stack cold natural coffee,
1 ½ stack chocolate ice cream,
¼ cup chocolate syrup
1 cup whipped cream.
Cooking:
Whisk all ingredients, except for whipped cream, in a blender until smooth. Pour into glasses, garnish with whipped cream.
Cold coffee (quick way)
Ingredients:
2 tsp instant coffee,
1 tsp Sahara,
3 tbsp warm water
150-200 ml of cold milk.
Cooking:
Pour warm water into a jar with a tightly screwed lid, put instant coffee and sugar. Close the lid and shake the jar until the coffee is frothy. Pour into a glass with ice and add milk. Add sugar to taste.
cold mocha
Ingredients:
1 ½ cup natural cold coffee
2 stack milk,
¼ stack. chocolate syrup,
¼ cup sugar.
Cooking:
Cool freshly brewed coffee, pour into ice molds and put in the freezer overnight. Place the iced coffee, cold milk, syrup and sugar into a blender bowl. Whisk until smooth.
vietnamese iced coffee
Ingredients:
4 stack water,
2-4 tablespoons dark roasted natural ground coffee,
½ stack condensed milk,
16 ice cubes.
Cooking:
Brew coffee. Add curd and stir. Place 4 ice cubes in each of 4 glasses and pour over coffee. Stir the coffee with ice with a long-handled spoon until it has cooled.
A smoothie made from fresh berries and fruits perfectly refreshes and nourishes with vitamins. "Culinary Eden" offers only a small fraction of smoothie recipes, as there are a lot of options for preparing this drink.
"Cold Watermelon"
Ingredients:
2 stack chopped watermelon pulp without seeds,
5-6 ice cubes
1 tsp honey.
Cooking:
Crush ice in a blender, add watermelon and beat for 1 minute. Then add honey and beat for 10 seconds. Instead of watermelon, you can use overripe melon in this cocktail, and replace honey with lemon juice.
Citrus Banana Smoothie 
Ingredients:
4 oranges
3 bananas
1 grapefruit
ice.
Cooking:
Squeeze juice from citrus fruits and pour into a blender. Add banana pieces and ice and beat until smooth.
Lemon Strawberry Smoothie
Ingredients:
⅓ stack. lemon juice
1 stack water,
1 stack strawberries,
¼ stack. Sahara,
a handful of ice cubes.
Cooking:
Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
Pineapple-orange smoothie 
Ingredients:
1 stack orange juice,
½ stack pineapple juice,
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 stack crushed ice.
Cooking:
Blend all ingredients in a blender until fluffy and smooth. Serve immediately.
Milkshakes are not only refreshing, but can also replace an after-dinner snack. Just do not get carried away with ice cream cocktails, if you follow the figure, they are quite high in calories.
Smoothie "Pina Colada"
Ingredients:
2 stack chopped pineapple,
1 ½ cups pineapple juice
¼ stack. coconut milk,
1 stack ice,
1 stack fat-free natural yogurt.
Cooking:
Freeze pineapple cubes and yogurt. Allow to thaw slightly, put all the ingredients in a blender and beat.
orange sherbet 
Ingredients:
200 ml orange juice,
½ stack milk,
½ stack water,
½ stack Sahara,
½ tsp vanilla extract,
handful of ice.
Cooking:
Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Pour into chilled glasses and serve.
Fruity Amy
Ingredients:
1 stack strawberries,
1/3 cup frozen blueberries
2 bananas
½ stack orange juice
1 ½ stack natural yogurt.
Cooking:
Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth.
strawberry mousse 
Ingredients:
500 g strawberries,
2-3 tbsp Sahara,
milk - optional (if you want a thinner drink, add more milk),
whipped cream for decoration.
Cooking:
Cool the strawberries in the freezer. Blend in a blender with milk and sugar, pour into glasses and garnish with whipped cream.
Milk shake
Ingredients:
½ stack cold milk,
¼ stack. soda water,
3 tbsp dry milk,
½ tsp vanilla extract,
2 scoops of vanilla ice cream.
Cooking:
Combine milk, milk powder, sparkling water and vanilla extract in a blender bowl. Whisk. Add ice cream and beat again.
Speaking of refreshing drinks, low-alcohol cocktails cannot be ignored. A summer evening in a pleasant company with a glass of perch is just a pleasure ... The main thing is not to overdo it with alcohol, otherwise the pleasure will turn into suffering. And, of course, such drinks should not be given to children.
"Peacock" 
Ingredients:
500 g apples
200 g cranberries
100 g sugar
200 ml of water
1 stack dry white wine
vanillin on the tip of a knife.
Cooking:
Squeeze juice from apples and cranberries. Prepare syrup from sugar and water and let cool. Combine both types of juice, syrup, vanillin and wine. Pour into a pitcher and leave to cool in the refrigerator. Serve with ice.
"Russian Forest"
Ingredients:
1 kg cranberries,
1 liter of water
100 g sugar
5 g cinnamon
100 ml cherry liqueur.
Cooking:
Mash the cranberries with a wooden spoon and squeeze out the juice. Pour the pulp with water and boil for 5 minutes along with sugar and cinnamon. Let cool, strain, combine with juice and cherry liqueur.
cherry crunch 
Ingredients:
1 bottle of white wine
120 ml rum or cognac
500 g cherries,
sugar, ice
Cooking:
Remove pits from cherries and place them in a bowl. Sprinkle with sugar and refrigerate to release the syrup. Try not to crush the berries! When all the sugar has dissolved in the berry juice, pour the chilled wine and cognac into the jug. Serve in a bowl with ice cubes next to it.
"Cherry Fiz"
Ingredients:
½ stack cherry juice
½ stack ginger ale,
ice.
Cooking:
Slowly pour the ginger ale into the glass of cherry juice. Serve with ice.
Cocktail with ginger beer and ice cream 
Ingredients:
250 g vanilla ice cream
1 bottle of ginger beer
½ cup whipped cream
4 cherries for decoration.
Cooking:
Place 1 scoop of ice cream into tall glasses. Carefully pour the beer down the side of the glass. When the ice cream is hidden under the beer, put the ball back in and fill it with beer. Garnish with whipped cream and cherries.
And let the summer be hot, and refreshing drinks will cheer you up!
Larisa Shuftaykina
We start with the classic - lemonade, this time in the company with the summer berry.
Everything is elementary: we cook syrup from water and sugar with the addition of strawberry halves, lemon juice and zest.
Cool, beat with a blender, pass through a sieve - you're done! To enhance the cooling effect, a portion of ice is required.
Let's move on to the Indian refreshing lassi. It is often served in the homeland after another meal with an abundance of spices.
Lassi is a simple mixture of yogurt, milk (or water), spices and/or fruit.
Whisk milk with yogurt and honey with a whisk until foam forms on the surface.
Pour the drink into glasses and sprinkle with a pinch of cinnamon and ground cardamom.
Milkshake with mint
A favorite children's delicacy - a milkshake - according to our recipe, cools not so much due to the presence of ice cream in the composition, but due to a drop of mint extract. The latter can be safely replaced with high-quality essential oil, which is suitable for human consumption. Fresh mint leaves are best used for decoration, as their surface, full of small hairs, strives to cling to the tongue and palate, spoiling all the pleasant sensations from the drink.
Food coloring has only an aesthetic function. We added AmeriColor in Forest green literally on the tip of a toothpick.
We throw all the ingredients into a blender and beat until we see a stable foam on the surface. A handful of chocolate chips at the end is a must!
Recipes
All ingredients listed are per serving.
strawberry lemonade
Ingredients:
- water - 250 ml;
- strawberries - 4–5 berries;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- lemon zest - ½ tsp;
- sugar - to taste.
Cooking
- We mix all the ingredients in a saucepan and put on fire. Boil the berries for 3 minutes after boiling and leave the lemonade to cool.
- Beat the drink with a blender and filter. Add a handful of ice.
Ingredients:
- drinking yogurt without fillers - 250 ml;
- milk - 120 ml;
- honey - to taste;
- ground cinnamon, cardamom - a pinch each.
Cooking
Beat yogurt with milk until foam forms on the surface. Sprinkle the drink with ground spices.
Milkshake with mint
Ingredients:
- vanilla ice cream - 150 g;
- milk - 180 ml;
- mint extract - 2-3 drops;
- green food coloring, chocolate chips - optional.
Cooking
- Beat ice cream with milk, mint extract and dye with a mixer until thick and a stable foam forms on the surface.
- Sprinkle with chocolate chips before serving.
In the summer, in the heat, you are constantly thirsty, and this is natural. The best thing to do is to drink pure water. But this is not always enough: you probably want to quench your thirst with more interesting drinks, in order to also enjoy a rich taste.
Better give up lemonade, cola, sweet soda, and at the same time exclude “juices” and “nectars” in bright packages from your diet: there is nothing useful there, and they do not quench your thirst, but, on the contrary, make you want to drink even more.
It is better to spend a few minutes preparing a natural, healthy and cooling drink. Our recipes will help you enjoy and cool down:
1) Summer soft drinks - Fruit iced tea
Make strong green tea, and when it cools down, pour it into glasses and add any fruits cut into small slices: orange, apple, grapefruit, lemon… A couple of ice cubes will make the tea especially pleasant.
2) Summer soft drinks - Lemon cool tea
Brew strong tea, cool it and place it in the refrigerator. Enrich the filtered drink with lemon juice (half a lemon per 1 liter of tea), add chopped lemon peel, a few mint leaves and a couple of fonts of essential mint oil. Very refreshing!
3) Summer soft drinks - Homemade lemonade
For one and a half liters of carbonated mineral water, take one and a half glasses of pure non-carbonated water. Add the juice squeezed from 2 lemons and 6-7 tablespoons of sugar, stir everything to dissolve the sugar. After the drink has cooled for several hours, it can be served at the table.
4) Summer soft drinks - Real kvass
Cut the rye bread into small pieces to make about two handfuls. Send bread to a three-liter jar, pour boiling water to the top. Let it cool, and when it becomes room temperature, put the finished sourdough - you will need 3 tablespoons, and the same amount of sugar. Put the jar with future kvass in a warm place and cover it with clean gauze in several layers. Keep the drink for 12 hours, sometimes you need to stir the contents of the jar. Kvass is ready, now it should be filtered and cooled.
5) Summer soft drinks - Berry juice
Boil 2 liters of water with sugar. Take 1 kg of soft berries or fruits of your choice. Suitable cherries, strawberries, currants, cranberries, etc. They need to be chopped with a blender, and then mixed with water, cooled and served. Even more useful is to replace sugar with honey, only it cannot be boiled, but must be added to warm boiled water.
Prepare and drink delicious and healthy summer refreshing drinks to your health! But it is better to forget about strong coffee and alcohol during the heat. If you really want to, you can afford a glass of cool white or red wine after sunset. By the way, vaunted beer does not quench thirst at all, rather, on the contrary. Therefore, do not get carried away with alcohol in the summer.
In addition to the drinks described, it is useful to quench your thirst with not too sweet compotes and sour milk drinks.
Olga Moiseeva for the Women's magazine "Charm"
Summer heat can be a real challenge, especially when the air temperature rises above 30° C. Such days are best spent by a pond or pool, but if this is not possible, non-alcoholic summer refreshing cocktails. There are a lot of recipes for such drinks, so we have chosen the simplest, but amazingly delicious cool cocktails that you can enjoy on a hot day.
Summer drink recipes
Cocktail with watermelon and peach
Watermelon is the perfect summer fruit. It quenches thirst well and refreshes, therefore it is perfect for soft drinks.
Ingredients:
Lemon Lime Lemonade (7Up or Sprite) - 2L
frozen peaches
Watermelon
Ice
Cooking:
Cut the flesh of the watermelon into cubes. At the bottom of the glass, put 5 peach slices, 5 watermelon cubes.
Place 2 ice cubes in each glass, then fill with lemonade and stir. If desired, place a piece of watermelon on the rim of the glass.
Brilliant Raspberry Lemonade
cold drink recipes they will help you out when guests suddenly arrive and if you just want to treat yourself to something delicious. At the height of the raspberry season, it is worth making and tasting this wonderful lemonade at least once to feel the taste of real summer.
Ingredients:
Fresh raspberries - 340 g
Lemon juice (chilled) - 1 cup
Cold water - ½ cup
Sugar - ½ cup
Honey - ½ cup
Carbonated water or lemonade - 1 l
Fresh mint, ice
Cooking:
Puree the raspberries in a blender until smooth. Pass the mass through a sieve to get rid of the seeds.
Pour water into a large pitcher and dissolve sugar in it, then add honey and stir. Then add raspberry puree, lemon juice and mix again, fill everything with soda, add ice and decorate the cocktail with a sprig of mint.
Agua Fresca cocktail with melon
Forget sports drinks and lemonade. If you're looking for something cool and refreshing, try Agua Fresca. From a mixture of fruit puree, lime juice, water and sugar, you get the perfect summer drinks at home.
Ingredients:
Melon (cut into pieces) - 10 cups
Water - 3 tbsp.
Lime juice - 3 tbsp. l.
Sugar - 5 tbsp. l.
Ice
Mint leaves
Cooking:
Puree the melon in a blender until smooth. Strain through a sieve or cheesecloth to separate the pulp.
Pour the liquid into a pitcher, add water and lime juice, mix well and add sugar to taste. Put the cocktail in the refrigerator.
At the bottom of the glass, put a large amount of ice, melon pieces, pour the drink and garnish with mint leaves.
mint lemonade
The set of components of this drink is very modest: mint, water, lime and sugar, so it is better to take only the best and highest quality ingredients. For example, some branded sugar or bottled water.
Ingredients:
For syrup:
Sugar - 2 tbsp.
Water - 2 tbsp.
Fresh mint (but not peppermint) - 2-3 sprigs
For lemonade:
Lime juice - 1 1/2 tbsp.
Cold water - 8-10 tbsp.
Mint leaves (finely chopped) - ½ cup
Ice
For decoration:
sprigs of mint
lime wedges
Sugar - ½ tbsp.
Lime - 1 pc.
Cooking:
In a small saucepan, combine all syrup ingredients. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring constantly, until the sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and crumble mint leaves into it. Cool syrup at room temperature.
Chop mint leaves and put in a jug. Pour in the syrup, add the juice of freshly squeezed limes, pour in 8 glasses of water.
For garnish, grate the zest of 1 lime and mix it with ½ tbsp. Sahara. Wipe the rim of the glass with a damp towel and place it upside down in the sugar and zest mixture. Carefully fill a glass container with ice and pour lemonade into it.
blueberry lemonade
Sweet and slightly tart blueberry syrup along with lemon juice is the perfect duo for refreshing drinks on a hot summer day.
Ingredients:
Sugar - ½ cup.
Blueberries - 1 cup
Lemon juice - ¾ cup
Water - 6 cups
Cooking:
To make blueberry syrup, place 1 cup of water and sugar in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves. Add blueberries and simmer for another 3-4 minutes.
Strain the blueberry syrup through cheesecloth and set aside.
In a large pitcher, add the blueberry syrup, lemon juice, and 5 cups of water. Leave to cool.
Serve with ice and a handful of blueberries.
What kind summer cocktail recipes are popular in your family?