With a base of gin and cucumbers, this cocktail is refreshing, sweet, and finished off with a minty flair.
Ingredients
- 6 ounces gin
- 1 cup cucumber cut into chunks, plus a few thinly sliced for garnish
- 12 mint leaves plus more for garnish
- 2 tablespoons sugar (or beet sugar)
- ¼ cup fresh lemon juice
- Chilled Club soda to cap
- Ice
Instructions
- In the jar of a blender, combine the cucumber chunks, the mint leaves, sugar and lemon juice. Puree until you have a smooth mixture.
- Fill two glasses with ice. Add 2 ounces of gin to each glass and the thinly sliced cucumbers. Fill the glasses to 2/3rds full with the cucumber mixture. Top with club soda and stir well.
- Garnish with fresh mint.
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