Being pregnant doesn’t mean you can’t toast on Christmas Eve, New Years Eve, or any family celebration. But yes, without a drop of alcohol. Alcohol is harmful to your baby and there is no safe amount you can drink, as it has been shown that even small amounts can affect brain development.
Today we bring you the best 15 non-alcoholic cocktails for family celebrations . These are original drinks that combine juices, fruits, vegetables, tonic and soft drinks, ice cream, sugar, spices … Tasty mixes for these holidays and any celebration, a whim that can be taken as an aperitif or dessert, before or after the grapes, to toast without regrets.
1. Pineapple, mango and coconut water smoothie
The preparation of this smoothie is very simple, as I mentioned before. However, it is important to have a good knife so that the only task required on our part, that of peeling and chopping all the fruit, is as inexpensive as possible.
We start with the pineapple and, for this, we remove the leaves from the top. We turn it over and remove the lower part in the same way. We place the pineapple vertically, on the cutting board, and cut the bark into strips from top to bottom. With great care to hold the pineapple well so that it does not slip and we end up cutting ourselves.
Once the skin or bark of the pineapple is removed, we remove and discard the core. This part is hard and stringy and, although it does not have a bad taste, it would ruin the smoothie because of the strands that it would leave after going through the blender. Cut the pineapple into pieces and place it in the blender glass.
Next, we peel the mango and remove the meat from the inner bone. Also be careful with the knife, the handle is very slippery and slippery, although its meat is soft and cuts without difficulty. We slice as much of the mango as possible to make the most of its meat. We discard the bone and introduce the mango pieces in the blender glass, along with the pineapple.
We peel the orange, leaving no traces of white skin so that the smoothie does not make us bitter, and we cut it in two. We peel the ginger and chop it. Add the orange and ginger to the blender along with the honey and coconut water. We grind until no pieces of fruit are noticeable and we have obtained a creamy consistency. We remove from the glass.
Finally, we add the ice to the blender glass and crush them until we get a slushie. We add the fruit smoothie to the glass again, beat to mix well and we have our smoothie ready. We adjust the point of thickness to taste, adding more coconut water if we consider it necessary.
2. Pineapple lemonade with a hint of ginger
A refreshing and digestive drink that will come in handy to improve the digestion of Christmas feasts.
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Ingredients for 1 liter : 1 medium-sized pineapple, 30 ml of lemon juice, 1 piece of fresh ginger, 1 liter of sparkling water, stevia or sugar to taste.
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Preparation: Peel the pineapple removing all the rind, trying to preserve the juices that it may release. Cut up. Peel and mince the ginger. Squeeze the lemon juice. Place all the ingredients in the glass of a mixer or blender. Blend well until there is a homogeneous mixture without lumps. Test the sweetness point and adjust the amount of stevia or sugar. Pass through a strainer or sieve if you want a totally clean drink. Transfer to a jug and chill in the fridge. Serve with ice to taste.
Complete recipe | Pineapple lemonade with a hint of ginger
3. Virgin mojito
For fans of this drink, we bring you a harmless version with which you can enjoy the same flavor but avoiding alcohol.
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Ingredients: 150 ml of sparkling water, 60 g of lime, 15 ml of sugar syrup, 3 g of mint and crushed ice to taste.
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Preparation: put about 10 mint leaves and 3 lime wedges at the bottom of the glass. Add the sugar syrup and blend until the mint and lime release their juice well. Then add crushed ice to taste – usually to the top – and add the sparkling water to fill the glass. Stir and decorate and you are done.
4. San Francisco Cocktail
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Ingredients: 15 cl of orange juice, 3 cl of lemon juice, 6 cl of pineapple juice, 3 cl of peach juice, 3 cl of grenadine, ice
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Preparation: One of the most classic non-alcoholic cocktails, or ‘mocktail’, which must be prepared in a shaker, as if it were a combination with alcohol. Simply add all the juices to the shaker, shake well, and pour the mixture into a tall, wide glass, Collins type, filled with ice. It can be garnished with a slice of orange and a cherry.
5. Lemon jelly cocktail
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Ingredients : two teaspoons of lemon jelly, the juice of two lemons, three glasses of soda, four drained maraschino cherries and a few lemon wedges for decoration.
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Preparation : We deposit the gelatin in a saucepan, and in a measuring jug the lemon juice and boiling water until a total of two deciliters is completed. Add this mixture to the gelatin and stir over a very low heat until the gelatin has completely dissolved. Let it cool in a jug and when the mixture is semi-liquid add the soda very little by little, stirring the whole. Serve with an icing on a toothpick and decorate with a lemon wedge.
6. Non-alcoholic pina colada
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Ingredients : a tropical cocktail with a sweet and smooth flavor for which we need 300 ml of pineapple juice, 125 ml of coconut milk and ice. You can add a teaspoon of sugar, although with coconut milk it is not necessary.
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Preparation : Shake all the ingredients together and pour into the highball glass filled with ice. It can be garnished with a pineapple slice or grated coconut.
7. Cocktail from the garden
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Ingredients : 100 ml of carrot juice, 200 ml of orange juice, ice and a tonic.
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Preparation : mix all the ingredients, serve and decorate with a few pieces of orange.
8. Cóctel Very Well
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Ingredients : 200 ml of orange juice, 200 ml of lemon juice, 100 ml of pineapple juice and a splash of grenadine.
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Preparation : Shake everything in the cocktail shaker and serve in long-layered glasses that have the rim impregnated with sugar (it is first dipped in orange juice so that it sticks). We serve with some cherries and slices of orange and lemon in the straw.
9. Shirley Temple Cocktail
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Ingredients **: a liter of lemon-lime soda, 150 g of canned cherries, 1 orange, grenadine to taste.
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Preparation : place all the ingredients in a jar with plenty of ice (including the cherry syrup), reserving to decorate a couple of orange slices and some cherries (also known as sour cherries or marasquinas, which is the name of the variety used) . Finally, you can add a splash of grenadine, which gives the cocktail more color and flavor.
Complete recipe | Shirley Temple Cocktail
10. Sangrita
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Ingredients : 16 cl of lime juice, 36 cl of tomato juice, 48 cl of orange juice, 2 teaspoons of grenadine, 5 strokes of Worcestershire sauce, 1 touch of ground black pepper, 1 fresh chili, finely chopped, salt al taste.
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Preparation : In a large jug, pour the orange juice, tomato juice, lime juice and grenadine. Next, add the salt, chili, Worcestershire sauce, and black pepper. Mix well with a wooden spoon and chill the mixture for at least four hours in the fridge.
11. Little Pink Pearl
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Ingredients : 56 ml of squeezed red grapefruit juice, 28 ml of squeezed lime juice, 14 ml of almond or horchata syrup depending on our tastes, ice and a slice of grapefruit to decorate.
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Preparation : the glass in which we are going to do it -preferably a cocktail- must be cold so it is advisable to keep it in the refrigerator. Mix in a shaker, or similar, fill the grapefruit juice, the lime juice and the syrup of your choice up to half with ice. Shake well until we notice that the shaker is cold on the outside. We pour the mixture into the chosen glass and decorate it to our liking.
12. Atomic Freeze
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Ingredients : 200 ml of pineapple juice, 120 ml of apple juice, 50 ml of almond horchata syrup and five or six strawberries.
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Preparation : We put all the ingredients and some ice cubes in the blender to mix well. It is served in a wine glass, garnished with a frozen strawberry or a pineapple slice and it is drunk very cold.
13. Shanghai Cocktail
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Ingredients : 200 ml of papaya juice, 200 ml of orange juice, 100 ml of mango syrup, and 100 ml of passion fruit juice.
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Preparation : we split a papaya and with a little water we put it in the blender to make juice. We add ice to the shaker and add the passion fruit juice, the mango syrup and the orange juice, adding the papaya juice. Shake and serve in a long glass with ice.
14. Sunrise margarita without alcohol
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Ingredients (8 people): 1 peeled lemon (without any white part or seeds), 1 peeled lime (without any white part or seeds), 1 sliced lime for garnish, 2 Peeled orange (without any white part or seeds ), 250 g of sliced canned pineapples, 25 g of sugar, 250 g of ice cubes.
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Preparation : We crush the lemon, lime, oranges and pineapple. If we do it with the Thermomix, we put these ingredients in the glass and crush 30 sec / speed 10. Add the sugar and crushed ice and mix. If we use the Thermomix, add the sugar and ice cubes to the glass and crush 1 min / speed 7. Pour the cocktail into glasses, dividing it among all of them, decorate with a thin slice of lime and serve immediately.
To decorate the glasses before pouring the cocktail into them, you can dip the rim of the glasses in grenadine and sugar or also in lime juice and salt. If you want, you can add a few drops of grenadine to the cocktail just before serving it, to give it a note of color.
Complete recipe | Sunrise margarita non-alcoholic: quick and easy cocktail recipe to brighten up the last dinner of the year
15. Pineapple, Granny Smith apple and mint smoothie
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Ingredients : (for four people) 250 g of pineapple, 5 Granny Smith apples, 12 fresh mint leaves, 5 large ice cubes, Zest of a lime, Juice of a lime.
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Preparation : grate and squeeze the lime into the blender glass. We cut the pineapple into pieces until we obtain 250 grams, we also add them to the blender glass. Of the five apples we peel and cut one of them into pieces, the other four, which will be used for the presentation, we cut the top carefully, and with a small knife we remove the center of this lid and then pass the straw.
The lower part is emptied with a spoon or scoop and reserving the meat of the apples with the rest of the ingredients in the blender glass.
Finally, along with the pineapple, the lime juice and the apple flesh, we add the mint leaves and the ice cubes. We grind with the blender and its blade accessory, rectify with water if it is too thick, and quickly serve our smoothie inside each apple.
Complete recipe | Lyfestyle Jared
16. Mango, pineapple and lime smoothie
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Ingredients : 200 g of peeled mango, 300 ml of pineapple juice, juice and zest of a lime.
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Preparation : We begin by peeling the mango and cutting it into small pieces. We put them in a container suitable for the freezer and freeze the fruit for a minimum of two hours. Once the time has passed, we toss the frozen mango pieces into the glass of a blender or food processor, add the pineapple juice, the lime juice and the zest, reserving a small amount to decorate. We blend everything with the blender until it thickens and we do not see pieces of mango without crushing. We put the smoothie in glasses, decorate with the lime zest and some mint leaves. We serve immediately.
Complete recipe | Mango, pineapple and lime smoothie
17. Raspberry lemonade
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Ingredients : 150 g of raspberries (fresh or frozen), 1 liter of cold water, 2 unpeeled lemons, cut into quarters, 2 sprigs of mint leaves, 4 tablespoons of sugar and 8 or 10 ice cubes.
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* Preparation **: We start by putting the raspberries in a food processor and crushing them. In the Thermomix 5 sec / speed 7. Add half a liter of water, lemons and sugar and blend again. In the Thermomix, holding the cup with your hand, we chop turbo / 2 sec / 1 time. We add the rest of the water and stir. We test how it is of sugar and if necessary we add one more tablespoon, depending on what we like as sweet. We strain the lemonade and put it in a jug. Add the ice cubes and the mint leaves and serve.
Complete recipe | Raspberry lemonade
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