Summer drinks with cucumber: the best 5 recipes
Drinks with cucumber are very popular in summer. In this practical tip, we present you with refreshing drinks with and without alcohol, which you can easily prepare.
1. The Santino drink with cucumber
Fill a glass with plenty of ice and pour 100 milliliters of crodino over it.
- Then add 20 milliliters of pineapple juice and 100 milliliters of ginger beer.
- To top it off, put a handful of cucumbers in the glass.
2. Green Cucumber for cucumber fans
Cut the cucumber into small pieces and puree them together with two mint leaves.
- Then add the juice of a lime and a little sugar.
- Shake the cucumber mixture with 3 cl gin and ice cubes.
- Then fill up with 150 milliliters of bitter lemon and garnish the drink with cucumber slices and mint leaves.
3. Munich mule with cucumber
This drink is a delicious variation of the Moskow Mule.
- Simply put ice cubes and chopped cucumbers in a glass and then fill it with 6 cl gin and 12 cl ginger beer.
- In addition, there is half the juice of a freshly squeezed lemon.
4. Sonic Truth as a summer drink with alcohol
If you don't want to do without alcohol in summer, this drink is definitely something for you.
- Simply fill a glass with ice cubes and add 40 milliliters of Cocchi Americano, around three sprinkles of The Bitter Truth Cucumber Bitters and 120 milliliters of Golden Monaco Tonic Water in the "extra dry" variant.
- Finally, add a little lemon juice and cucumber.
5. Cucumber juice as ice cream for summer
Cucumber juice is very refreshing and is particularly popular as ice cream in summer. Simply mix a liter of cucumber juice with 160 grams of sugar and 40 milliliters of a freshly squeezed lemon. Add the drink to an ice mold with cucumber slices. The whole thing goes in the freezer for at least twelve hours before you can enjoy it. You can make cucumber juice yourself in a few steps:
- Peel around four cucumbers.
- Put the peeled cucumbers in the juicer or puree them very finely.
- Pass the mass through a sieve to get the delicious cucumber juice.
We will tell you how to pickle cucumbers in the following practical tip.