Garden Mojito Mocktail Recipe
Sip on this: Nasturtium flowers + snap peas + mint + cucumber
Spring has sprung! Blossoms and greens are bursting in the garden. Those orange flowers with round leaves that look like lily pads are Nasturtiums (pronounced nas-tur-shee-ums). All parts of the plant are edible, including flowers, leaves, stems, and seed pods. They have a sweet peppery flavor that brings out the spicy pepperiness of the caryophyllene terpene when pairing with cannabis strains.
Try this refreshing spring garden mocktail with a splash of cannabis.
Garden Mojito Recipe
A light, spritzy applewood smoked non-alcoholic mojito made with refreshing snap peas, cucumber, and mint
DOSING: Your choice! Use a cannabis-infused seltzer or infused beverage mix-in from your local dispensary. If that’s not an option, make a DIY cannabis tincture at home from my cannabis tea recipe.
INGREDIENTS:
4 sugar snap peas
4 cucumber slices
4 mint leaves
2 fl. oz. coconut water
1 fl. oz. fresh lime juice
½ fl. oz. simple syrup
Ice
Cannabis-infused seltzer or sparkling water
Lime, cucumber, snap pea slices, and mint for garnish
Applewood fine wood chips, for smoking (optional)
DIRECTIONS
1. Place the sugar snap peas in a small heatproof bowl and blanch them in hot water for a minute. Rinse under cold water to stop cooking to boost flavor and bright green color. Cut into smaller pieces, and combine with cucumber slices, mint leaves, coconut water, and lime juice into a cocktail shaker.
2. Muddle the ingredients together until the snap peas and cucumbers are smashed into a pulp and the liquid has turned a bright green. Fill the shaker with ice and shake hard for a minute or two. Strain into a glass over ice, top with a generous splash of sparkling water. Stir to mix. Garnish with mint leaves, sliced snap peas, lime, and cucumber slices.
3. Make it a smoked cocktail with Stündenglass: Put the glass under the beverage cloche and fill the smoking chamber with applewood chips. Light the wood and flip the Stündenglass until smoke fills the cloche. Let the smoke infuse for 15-30 seconds before removing the glass cloche.
April showers bring May flowers. It’s planting season my loves! What are you growing this year?
XOXO, Christina W.
