This delightfully refreshing Golden Beet, Strawberry, and Basil Fizzy Limeade Mocktail is a summer favorite, perfect for sipping on the patio, enjoying at the park, or taking to your next barbecue. This delicious drink is refreshing, sweet, and flavorful. Plus - it’s family friendly!
Utilizing the sweetness from fresh strawberries and golden beets, this chilled summer drink is low in added sugars AND high in Vitamin C. It’s so exquisitely delicious, you will want to sip it all year long. 🍓
Fresh strawberries, basil, and beets may seem like an odd combination, but it’s quite marvelous. There is a beautiful simplicity to this mocktail. Beets are naturally sweet but also a little earthy providing a unique balance to the bold strawberry and aromatic basil flavors. This drink is perfectly sweet, and the fizzy lime water adds just the right amount of bubbles and citrus flavor. Golden Beet, Basil, and Ginger Simple Syrup is so light and refreshing, using natural sugars from beets and a low amount of added sugar. That’s one of the reasons beets are so unBEETable!
WHAT ARE GOLDEN BEETS?
The beautiful beet comes in many different types and varieties, and the Golden Beet has a beautiful yellow (golden) color. Like it’s crimson red beet variety, golden beets also contain numerous vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Adding beets to cocktails may not seem natural, but creating a simple syrup out of beets is absolutely perfect! Utilizing the beet’s natural sweetness, beet syrup contains less added sugars. This Golden Beet Simple Syrup uses our traditional beet syrup recipe (just replacing red beets with golden beets).
Strawberries make us think about summer. It’s a seasonal summer fruit; however, you can often find strawberries throughout the year.
Basil is a family favorite herb in our household, brimming with its aromatic deliciousness. Basil brightens and elevates the flavor of this mocktail.
Served over ice, sip this delightful drink with or without a straw, but you bet your sweet cakes we are using re-usable straws. Let’s keep moving forward on reducing one use plastic waste.
Garnish with extra strawberries, mint leaves, and golden beets (optional).
For more delicious beet mocktails try Beet the Heat: Beet Juice, Blood Orange, and Lime Slushy Virgin Margarita.
GOLDEN BEET, STRAWBERRY, AND BASIL FIZZY LIMEADE RECIPE
INGREDIENTS (SERVES 1-2)
2 oz Golden Beet Simple Syrup (add more for a sweeter taste)
3-4 Muddled Strawberries
1/4 cup lime juice
2-3 basil leaves, muddled
1/4 cup sparkling water* or seltzer (you may also use club soda or tonic water if you wish)
Ice cubes for glass
*If you can find sparkling lime water, even better!
DIRECTIONS
After washing, finely chop strawberries. In a large wine glass or mason jar, muddle both strawberries and basil along with Golden Beet Simple Syrup. Add ice cubes. Then, add lime juice and top with sparkling water. Enjoy!
You may also triple or quadruple this batch to make a full pitcher. Refrigerate and drink within 1-2 days.