Paleo Chilled Cucumber Mint Agua Fresca
This refreshing drink is everything you want on a hot day — cool, lightly sweet, and impossibly green-tasting in the best possible way. Fresh cucumber and mint come together with bright lime juice for a flavor that feels fancy but takes almost no effort to pull off. Maple syrup steps in as the sweetener here, keeping things completely grain-free and refined-sugar-free without sacrificing that gentle touch of sweetness that makes the whole drink sing. The blending and straining method gives you a silky, clean liquid that's far more elegant than anything you'd find in a bottle at the store. It's the kind of thing you make once and then find yourself craving every single weekend. Serve it over a big pile of ice with a sprig of mint and a lime wheel, and it looks like something straight off a restaurant menu.
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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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