Cinnamon Free Sparkling Strawberry Lime Spritzer
Fresh strawberries muddled with maple syrup and a generous squeeze of lime create a vibrant, jewel-toned base that tastes like summer in a glass. The muddling step is key — it coaxes every drop of juice from the berries and lets the maple syrup meld into the fruit before a single bubble is added. Straining the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve gives you a silky, pulp-free juice that looks stunning and sips even better. Sparkling water goes in last and gets only the gentlest stir, so the fizz stays lively all the way to the bottom of the glass. Spice blends and flavored syrups are common culprits when it comes to hidden seasonings in drinks, but every ingredient here is straightforward and easy to verify at a glance. A lime wheel and a sprig of fresh mint on the rim turn it into something you'd happily serve at a dinner party or a lazy weekend brunch. It's bright, refreshing, and genuinely hard to stop at one glass.
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4 servings
- 24 medium fresh strawberries (about 300 g), hulled and halved
- ¼ cup fresh lime juice (from about 3 limes)
- 4 tbsp maple syrup
- ¼ tsp fine salt
- 3 cups sparkling water, chilled
- 2 cups ice cubes
For serving
- 4 lime wheels, for serving (optional)
- 4 fresh mint sprigs, for serving (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Place the hulled, halved strawberries in a pitcher. Add the maple syrup and salt, then muddle firmly with a muddler or the back of a wooden spoon until the berries are fully broken down and deeply juicy, about 30 seconds.
- 2
Pour the fresh lime juice into the pitcher and stir to combine with the strawberry mixture.
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