Get in shape this Summer with home-made Natural drinks
(10
recipes)
1. Cucumber and Ginger Drink
This refreshing drink will help burn fat while you sleep.
Ingredients:
• 1 cucumber
• small bunch of parsley or cilantro
• 1 lemon
• 1 tbsp grated ginger
• 1 tbsp aloe Vera juice
• ½ glass water
Directions:
Put the ingredients in your juicer, and drink before going to sleep. You can continue this drink every night for a month, then take a break for 7 days. If you need to, you can continue for another month.
2. Cucumber and Lime Drink
Super refreshing, this drink would be lovely on a hot summer
night.
Ingredients:
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 large orange
• honey (adjust to taste)
• mint (adjust to taste)
• 1 liter sparkling water
Directions:
Put one cucumber in a blender, and slice the other one into circles. Squeeze out the juice of the orange and lime. Combine the cucumbers, citrus juice and honey into a large jug and mix together. Add the sparkling water and garnish with fresh mint leaves, if using.
3. Pear and Sage Drink
Ingredients:
• 1 lime
• 250 ml of pear juice
• 250 ml sparkling water
• 1 pear
• ice
Directions:
Slice the lime, and cut the pear into cubes. Put them in a
pitcher, and add the sage after mashing it up with a fork or pestle and mortar
to release the fragrance. Crush the ice using a food processor or mallet, and
add it, along with the pear juice and sparkling water to the lime, sage and
pears. Mix, serve and enjoy.
4. Grapefruit and Cinnamon Drink
Tart grapefruit and warming cinnamon are mixed with anise
and mint for this evening drink.
(This drink requires a little extra time to
make a cinnamon syrup on the stove top, so it isn’t one for those days when
you’re tired and just want to get to bed, although you could make the syrup in
advance and add to the other ingredients at bedtime!)
Ingredients:
• 500 ml sparkling water
• 1 glass water
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 anise seed
• mint leaves
• ice
• sugar to taste
Directions:
Combine the sugar, water and cinnamon sticks in a pan, and
heat gently to make a syrup. Simmer for five to ten minutes, stirring
occasionally, until the sugar has melted and become syrupy. Let the syrup cool
down, then mix together the juice, syrup and sparkling water in a pitcher. Add
ice and garnish with mint and anise.
5. Lemon and Mint Drink
Ingredients:
• 1 liter sparkling water
• mint
• ice
Directions:
Squeeze the juice of 4 of the lemons, and slice the last one
into rounds. Mix the lemon juice and sparkling water in a pitcher, and garnish
with the lemon slices and mint leaves.
6. Spicy Indian Lime and Ginger Drink
This ginger, lime and sparkling water drink will give you a
little taste of India before bed.
Ingredients:
• grated ginger to taste
• mint
• 1 liter sparkling water
• ½ glass tap water
• ice
• sugar to taste
Juice the limes. Mix the sugar and tap water in a pan and
heat gently until the sugar melts. Add the grated ginger to the syrup, and
simmer gently for a couple of minutes. Take off the stove and allow the syrup
to cool before adding the lime juice, sparkling water and ice. Garnish with
mint leaves and slices of lime.
7. Non-Alcoholic Apple Cider
Ingredients:
• mint leaves
• 100 ml lemon juice
• 1 lemon
• ice
Slice the lemon. Mix the lemon juice and apple juice in a
pitcher, and add the lemon slices, mint and ice.
8. Cucumber, Lemon and Bell Pepper Drink
Bell pepper may sound like an odd addition to a drink, but
it really works with the other ingredients for this fat-burning bedtime drink.
(Ingredients need to sit for an hour before mixing, so you may wish to
make this drink in advance)
Ingredients:
• sugar according to taste
• 3 cucumbers
• 1 large bell pepper – any color
• 1 lime
• 3 lemons
• mint or estragon leaves
• ice
Slice the bell pepper and two of the cucumbers. Sprinkle
sugar on them and leave for an hour. Slice the remaining cucumber and one
lemon. Zest the lime, and squeeze out the juice. Take the remaining lemons and
juice them. Put the mint or estragon in a pitcher. Add the lime zest and slices
of lemon, cucumbers and bell peppers. Pour in the lime and lemon juices and add
the sparkling water. Crush the ice, put it in the pitcher, and serve.
9. Pineapple and Lemon Drink
This refreshing drink has chunks of pineapple in it for a
bedtime snack.
(This recipe requires a stove-top syrup to be made, so it’s best made in advance and kept refrigerated)
Ingredients:
• 1 lemon
• 1 can of pineapple in juice
• mint
Bring the sparkling water to the boil in a pan, and add the
sugar. Simmer until the sugar has melted. Zest the lemon and squeeze the
juice, and add the zest to the syrup in the pan. Remove from the heat. Pour the
syrup into a pitcher through a sieve. Cut the pineapple chunks and add to the
drink. Allow to cool to room temperature and refrigerate.
10. Strawberry and Herbs Drink
Ingredients:
• ½ lime
• mint and estragon
• some strawberries
• 1 liter sparkling water
• 100 ml water
• ice
Juice the lemon and lime. Put the citrus peels and juice
into a pitcher. Cut the strawberries into halves, and add them and the herbs to
the pitcher. Heat the 100 ml water until it’s hot but not boiling. Add the hot
water to the pitcher, and let the ingredients steep for a while to bring out
the flavors. Remove the citrus peels after the drink has cooled. Add the
sparkling water and ice. Serve.
