Blue Lagoon Mocktail is a non-alcoholic, super refreshing lemon mint flavored mocktail with blue curacao syrup.

Overview

Blue Lagoon Mocktail is a non-alcoholic, super refreshing lemon mint flavored mocktail with blue curacao syrup. It is super easy, three ingredient as mint leaves, lemon and blue curacao syrup summer special drink. Blue Curacao syrup is homemade syrup with oranges, sugar and few other ingredients. Just top this drink with a soda of your choice or sparkling water.

Spelled as “j” but pronounced as “h” in Spanish. Mojito is a classic & popular Rum based beverage. I have created virgin version but you can make it with alcohol as well.

Everyone will love its delicious citrus flavor and dazzling blue hue!

Tips

• Blue Curacao syrup can be prepared in advance and store in refrigerator for 3 to 4 weeks.

• While grating orange for orange zest, do not grate white part as it will make syrup bitter.

• A highball glass is the traditional choice for a blue lagoon, however, many people like to use hurricane glasses or martini glasses.

• Ice is required for every mocktails / mojito. So freeze ice cubes in advance. If you’d like ice anyway, that’s fine!

• You can rim the glasses and squeeze the lemon juice in advance, and put salt on its rim. This step can be done in advance but wait to mix up the drink until right before serving. You don’t want the soda to lose its carbonation.

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Ingredients

Preparation of Blue Curacao Syrup (Meal Prep)

• Orange - 2 medium sized
• Orange zest - 1 orange skin
• Sugar - 2/3 cup
• Water - 2/3 cup
• Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp
• Cinnamon Stick - 1/2 inch

Preparation of Blue Lagoon Mocktail

• Lemon - 1 medium sized cut into 5 to 6 small wedges
• Mint leaves - 7 to 8 leaves
• Homemade blue curacao syrup - 1 to 2 tbsp
• Ice Cubes
• Soda (soft drink) or sparkling water

Instructions

Preparation of Blue Curacao Syrup (Meal Preparation)

• Grate orange skin with the help of a grater to collect orange zest. Do not grate white part as it will make syrup bitter.

• Take 2 oranges and squeeze juice from it. Orange juice is also ready.

• In a pan, add sugar, water, cinnamon stick, orange zest. Mix well until sugar dissolves in water. Further, boil the syrup and cook for 5 to 7 minutes on medium flame.

• After 5 to 7 minutes, reduce the flame to low and add lemon juice, orange juice.

• Cook again to 2 to 3 minutes.

• After 2 to 3 minutes, the syrup will thicken slightly and have nice orange aroma.

• Let the syrup cool down and then seive it.

• Add blue color to orange syrup and mix well. Blue Curacao Syrup is ready. You can store syrup for 3 to 4 weeks in refrigerator.

Preparation of Blue Lagoon Mocktail

• Take a tall glass. Squeeze lemon on glass’s rim and turn upside down on a plate filled with salt. A shiny sparkly salty lemony boundary is created on glass’s rim.

• Add lemon wedges (1 lemon is cut into 5 to 6 small slices) to glass.

• Add mint leaves to glass.

• Take a muddler. If muddler is not there, you can use any stick or rolling pin to crush lemon and mint. Crush lemon and mint leaves to release its juice in glass.

• Add ice cubes so that 3/4th of the glass is filled with ice.

• Add homemade blue curacao syrup to the glass.

• Add any soda (soft drink) or sparkling water to create its blue dazzling ocean effect in mocktail/mojito.

• Everyone will love its delicious citrus flavor and dazzling blue hue!