Vegetable Cocktails: 5 Easy Recipes

VEGETABLE COCKTAIL RECIPES

To enjoy a good, thirst-quenching, summery drink, you can also opt for vegetable cocktails , prepared with natural, easy-to-find ingredients.

Made with fruit and vegetables, they're also a great option for those on a diet: the result is truly tasty and surprising. Perfect if you're planning an aperitif at home with friends.

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VEGETABLE DRINK RECIPES

Here are five unmissable vegetable cocktails that are simple to make at home:

• One of the most natural drinks that can be prepared is the one based on rice milk (or soy). Get 2 slices of pineapple, 1 banana, 1 lemon, 3 medium-sized carrots, and finally ½ glass of rice milk. Cut the carrots and fruit into small pieces and then blend everything together, adding ½ glass of rice milkIf your aperitif isn't too runny yet, dilute it with a little more rice milk and it will be perfect.
• If you want to amaze with a drink that seems alcoholic but is instead completely vegetal, prepare a Thai DaiquiriGet 60 ml of lime juice, 30 ml of sparkling water, 30 ml of kaffir lime oil (a thorny tree native to South and East Asia) and rosemary oil, and finally 2 kaffir lime leaves. Take the kaffir lime leaves and press them into a mixing glass, then add all the other ingredients and some ice. Stir gently and then, before drinking, strain the liquid into a glass. If you like, you can garnish with a few more kaffir lime leaves.

• Excellent Peach Frizz, which also calms morning sickness. Take 200 g of peaches, 2,5 cm of root ginger Fresh, sparkling mineral water, and a few mint leaves. Chop the ginger into small pieces and blend it with the peaches. Then serve in a glass with a little ice, and add mineral water and mint leaves.
• Excellent fennel juiceMade with ½ cup tomato juice, ¼ cup fennel juice, ¼ cup zucchini juice, 1 tablespoon onion juice, 1 pinch of whole sea salt, and 1 pinch of chili pepper. Mix the tomato, fennel, and zucchini juices together; then add the onion juice, salt, and chili pepper.
• Il Caribbean Cream It is prepared with a banana cut into small pieces, ½ glass of milk, the juice of half a banana Lemon;1 tablespoon chopped walnuts. Blend all the ingredients in a blender with crushed ice, then sprinkle the chopped nuts over the cocktail as soon as it's ready.

SIMPLE COCKTAILS AND LIQUORS TO MAKE AT HOME:

• The recipe for Sangria, a fragrant cocktail made with fruit and spices
• Strawberry and tomato cocktail, the perfect recipe for an aperitif at home with friends.
• Apple liqueur, the perfect recipe as a digestive after a meal and to make desserts tasty.
• Apricot liqueur: an ancient recipe for making it at home with a touch of cinnamon.