How to make five healthy cocktails for the weekend

Thank God it’s Weekend!!

Just as plans are already set aside for the weekends, preparing a quick cocktail before a meal or after, will put us in a mood to enjoy our weekend.

It doesn’t always have to be consuming alcoholic drinks or carbonated drinks, while chilling with friends and families. Trying something different and much healthier this time around is advisable.

Let us not also forget that drinking potable WATER is always the best option to start your day, other healthy drinks can have a beneficial role.

1.      Campari orange cocktail

This is just an orange juice, natural as it is, and the addition of the Italian Campari, still serves you a refined Italian alternative.

 Receipe:

               Campari® liqueur

               Fresh orange juice

              Add all the ingredients to a glass filled with ice and stir, garnish with an orange slice.  

2.      Cucumber Mint Gimlet

Cucumber is another good fruit to give you another sweet cocktail taste with its numerous health   benefits.

Peel, seed and chop 6 cucumbers. Mash, then strain through a sieve into a bowl, pressing to extract the juice. Mix up a mint with a touch of simple syrup and shake with ice, gin and lime juice and your light refreshing cocktail is served.

3.      Costa Rican Watermelon cocktail

This cocktails become more interesting and fun to make especially when you know that the ingredients are not far from your neighbourhood. You can easily buy them at an affordable rate.

Watermelon cocktail is another healthy one, giving you a feel of the Costa Rican Mojito popsicles.

Recipe: Blend watermelon, lime juice and sugar to taste in a blender and until very smooth. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer into a small water jug. You can add orange juice for a tasty flavour and stir.

Fill 4 glasses with ice. Pour the cocktail into the glasses and garnish with watermelon and lime wedges.

4.      Green Vegetable juice
This vegetable juice is an energy drink just in case you are feeling fatigued or stressed out. Amp up your energy with vegetable juice.

The nutrients found in vegetables specifically leafy green vegetables like pumpkin-‘ugu’ and spinach are proven to promote energy levels because they are high in iron.

Recipe:

Chop cucumber and blend with ‘ugu’ and spinach, combined with apples to give it a desirable sweeter taste.

Serve in a glass filled with ice and garnish with orange ice.

5.      Tomato juice
A cup of this will cure your hangover, in case you partied a little too hard. Tomatoes not only provide plenty of hydration (they’re 95 percent water), but have been scientifically proven to help reverse the effects of alcohol.

Recipe:

Blend sweet tomatoes especially ripe ones. Add sugar to balance the natural acidity of the tomatoes, use more or less to taste.

Put chopped onion, sugar (to taste), 1 teaspoon salt, a pinch black pepper into a large stainless steel. Bring to a simmer and cook, uncovered, until mixture is completely soupy, about 25 minutes.

Force mixture through a sieve and extract the juice and serve covered and chilled.