Carrageenan Free Chilled Cucumber Mint Agua Fresca
This blended cucumber drink is the kind of thing you make once and immediately want to keep on rotation all summer long. Cool, lightly sweet, and bright with fresh lime and mint, it's the sort of refreshing sip that tastes far more complex than its short ingredient list suggests. Many store-bought flavored waters and bottled drinks sneak in carrageenan as a stabilizer or thickener, which makes finding a clean option surprisingly tricky. Here, everything goes straight into the blender — cucumber, mint, lime juice, maple syrup, and a pinch of salt — so you know exactly what's in your glass. Straining the blended mixture through a fine-mesh sieve gives you a silky, crystal-clear liquid without any additives doing the work. Maple syrup keeps the sweetness natural and mellow, letting the cucumber and mint stay front and center. Serve it over a big pile of ice with a lime slice on the rim and it looks every bit as good as it tastes.
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4 servings
- 2 large english cucumbers (about 24 oz total), peeled and roughly chopped
- 2 cups cold water
- ¼ cup fresh lime juice (from about 2 limes)
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- ½ cup fresh mint leaves, loosely packed
- ¼ tsp fine salt
For serving
- 3 cups ice cubes, for serving
- 4 thin lime slices (optional)
- 4 small fresh mint sprigs (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Add the chopped cucumber, cold water, lime juice, maple syrup, mint leaves, and salt to a blender. Blend on high until completely smooth, about 45–60 seconds.
- 2
Set a fine-mesh strainer over a large pitcher. Pour the blended mixture through the strainer, pressing gently on the solids with the back of a spoon to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard the solids.
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