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Tropical Green Mocktail Recipe

By Camille Vidal on

Camille Vidal is a wellness advocate, a yoga teacher, a drinks & cocktail expert and the founder of La Maison Wellness, the home of the healthy hedonist and an online inspiration for Living Well.

Tropical Green

This delicious and refreshing cocktail will lighten up your taste buds and give you the opportunity to support a good cause by going Sober for Macmillan.

Ingredients

  • 20 ml passion fruit juice
  • 30ml cucumber juice
  • 10ml agave syrup
  • 1 tsp orange blossom water
  • Kombucha   

Method

Cucumber Juice
  1. Peel cucumber  
  2. Juice fresh, or blend & sieve to remove pulp
  3. Store in the fridge- it will keep 2 days 
Technique
  1. Build ingredients into the glass minus the kombucha
  2. Add crushed ice, then take your spoon & “churn” the cocktail to mix the two (best using a circular motion.)
  3. Top with kombucha, another scoop of crushed ice, garnish et voila!

Garnish

  • Edible flower
  • Cucumber slice

Glass

  • Hurricane


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Recipe created by La Maison Wellness. Follow @lamaisonwellness and @madame_cami_vidal on Instagram, subscribe to her Youtube channel or visit the La Maison Wellness website. 

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