Nitrate & Nitrite Free Chilled Turmeric Ginger Sparkling Cooler
This golden, fizzy cooler is the kind of drink that looks like it came from a fancy café but comes together in your own kitchen with a handful of clean, whole ingredients. Fresh ginger and ground turmeric are simmered into a fragrant maple syrup that smells incredible and tastes even better — warm, earthy, and just a little spicy from a pinch of black pepper. Every single ingredient here is naturally free of synthetic preservatives, so you can sip without a second thought about what's hiding in a store-bought bottle. The syrup is strained smooth, chilled, then combined with bright fresh lemon juice and sparkling water for a drink that's refreshing without being cloying. It's the kind of recipe that works equally well as a mocktail for a dinner party or a midday pick-me-up on a hot afternoon. Garnish with a lemon slice and a sprig of fresh mint and it looks genuinely stunning in the glass.
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4 servings
For the turmeric-ginger syrup
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup maple syrup
- 2 tbsp fresh ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- ¼ tsp black pepper, freshly ground
For the cooler
- ½ cup fresh lemon juice (from about 3–4 lemons)
- 3 cups sparkling water, chilled
- 2 cups ice cubes
For serving
- lemon slices, for serving (optional)
- fresh mint sprigs, for serving (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Combine the water, maple syrup, sliced ginger, ground turmeric, and black pepper in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir to dissolve the syrup, then bring to a gentle simmer and cook for 5 minutes, until the syrup is fragrant and lightly deepened in color.
- 2
Remove the saucepan from the heat and let the syrup steep for 10 minutes, then pour it through a fine-mesh strainer into a heatproof pitcher or jar, pressing the ginger slices to extract their liquid. Discard the solids.
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