A sweet strawberry twist to a classic drink 🍓🍋Introducing my Indian style strawberry mojito – bursting with sweet juicy strawberry flavour and fresh minty notes!
To make this at home, I gently muddled together sliced strawberries, mint, lemon and pink salt. Poured this fruity pulp into a glass over ice and topped it up with chilled sparkling water. Optionally you can add a pinch of sugar to balance the flavours.
Recipe:
Ingredients:
– 3-4 ripe strawberries, hulled and sliced
– 10-12 mint leaves
– few lemon slices
– A pinch of pink Himalayan salt
– Ice cubes
– Sparkling water / Soda
– Sugar (optional) I have not added sugar in this recipe as strawberries were very sweet, you can add sugar or honey.
Directions:
1. In a mortar and pestle, gently muddle the strawberries, mint leaves, lemon and salt together into a chunky pulp. Do not over mash to retain texture.
2. Pour the strawberry-mint pulp into a tall glass. Add 4-5 ice cubes and top up with sparkling water. Balance sweet and sour as per taste by adding a teaspoon of sugar syrup if required.
3. Garnish with Strawberry or with lemon wheel and mint sprig. Serve immediately.
Tips: Use ripe, sweet strawberries for best flavour. You can also use a muddler instead of mortar-pestle.
There you have it – a refreshing Indian style strawberry mojito made in minutes with simple ingredients! Adjust sweetness as per taste.
The result of the above recipe ? An insanely delicious summer cooler that takes just minutes to put together! The natural sugars of ripe red strawberries cut out the need to add any artificial sweeteners.
With wholesome ingredients like fruits, herbs, spices and no added preservatives, this drink makes for a flavorful and healthy beverage. Plus it’s vegetarian and vegan friendly!
As temperatures have started soaring in India specially in Mumbai and Surat, and before the strawberry season ends, beat the heat with this antioxidant-rich strawberry mojito. Super simple, refreshing and ever so addictive! Do try out this recipe and let me know how it turned out for you!