Mocktails: Mock Cocktails. Get it?
You can have every bit as much fun with delicious and exciting non-alcoholic drinks, saving on sugar, empty calories and yes, alcohol.
Make your mocktails Fun and FUNctional!
I am including Levana Nourishments in my mocktails for maximum nutrition.
In honor of July 4th, let’s make some patriotic mocktails:
Grand old mocktails the colors of the Grand Old Flag!
Get yourself a high quality blender:
You will get a perfectly smooth mixture even while you keep all the fiber in.
Frozen Vegetables and Fruits:
My favorites: intensely flavored, clean, cut, at the height of their ripeness and sweetness.
Less ice, more frozen veggies and fruits!
Good patriotic cook that I am, I am thinking red food, white food, blue foods. The more intense the food color, the more nourishing the food. Please include even the ones you think are weird: cauliflower, white beans, jicama etc… They will add bulk and texture and will go totally undetected.
Think Red
Mixed Berry Levana Nourishments, raspberries, cooked beets (canned, frozen or vacuum-packed cooked), watermelon, red chard, strawberries, rhubarb, pomegranate, cherries, cranberries.
Think White:
Vanilla Bean Levana Nourishments, Banana, cauliflower (raw or frozen), old-fashioned oats, coconut, pears, jicama, peeled cucumber, peeled celery, fennel, frozen or canned artichoke hearts, raw or cooked corn, tofu, cooked white beans.
Think Blue
Mixed Berry Levana Nourishments, blueberries, purple kale, purple carrots, dark plums, dark grapes, raw or cooked purple cauliflower, purple cabbage, dark figs
Ingredients
Red Mocktail
- 1 cup mixed fresh or frozen berries and watermelon, in any combination
- 1 pouch Mixed Berry Levana Nourishments
- 1/2 cup cooked beets
- 8 leaves red chard, ribs removed
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup ice cubes, or more, to taste
White Mocktail
- 1 fresh or frozen banana (or 1 pear)
- 1 pouch Vanilla Bean Levana Nourishments
- 1/2 cup raw or frozen cauliflower florets (or jicama, artichoke hearts, tofu, peeled cucumber or peeled cucumber)
- 2-3 tablespoons corn, cooked beans or old-fashioned oats (trying to keep carbs down? Just skip and increase cauliflower, jicama etc...)
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup ice cubes, or more, to taste
Blue Mocktail
- 1 cup blueberries, dark grapes, dark figs, dark plums, in any combination
- 1 pouch Mixed Berry Levana Nourishments
- 1/2 cup purple cauliflower, or purple cabbage, or cooked purple carrots
- 8 leaves purple kale, ribs removed
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup ice cubes, or more, to taste
Add-ins: Optional
Choose 1-2: Lime or lemon juice, sea salt, jalapeno, mint, ginger etc...
Garnishes:
sliced strawberries, sliced bananas, shredded coconut, blueberries, raspberries etc...
Mocktail Parfait
Partially freeze each mixture until slushy, 3o minutes or so. Layer carefully in cocktail glasses.
Instructions
Same instructions for all mocktails:
Blend all ingredients at high speed in a blender, until perfectly smooth
Makes about 2 1-pint drinks, or 4 smaller drinks. No problem doubling the recipes.
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