Cucumber Mint Gin Coolers

By vealam

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)
• 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
• Chilled Club soda to cap
• Ice

Details

Servings 3
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 10mins
Adapted from heatherchristo.com

Preparation

Step 1

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.