Cocktails: 20 delicious and healthy drinks

Cocktail is one of the most popular types of drinks. They are tasty, healthy, and easy to prepare. Correct consumption of them helps to prolong youth, health and beauty. A cocktail is such an uncomplicated drink, it is prepared from almost everything, which makes it even more attractive.

Diet cocktails

Let's start with what worries every girl, woman, and often even a girl - the figure. What kind of torture, sophistication and infringement a modern woman will not go to in order to achieve the desired result and get a beautiful body. However, in the pursuit of beauty, we often forget that there is something more important - health. But do not immediately give up, sigh heavily, leaving dreams of harmony in the past. The cocktail will be the very tool that will help you stay both full and slim.

Diet shakes are a great way to shed those extra pounds, as well as a wonderful and delicious way to enrich your body with vitamins, so they are also suitable for maintaining health.

These cocktails are based on natural yogurt, soy milk, low-calorie kefir, fruits, spices, and spices. That is why these drinks are fat burning, as they contain foods that accelerate metabolism.

We present to you a small selection of easy and quick-to-prepare diet cocktails. We take a blender, the necessary products in our hands and whisk.

Smoothie "Kiwi - apple": light breakfast

• kiwi - 1 pc.;
• apple - 1 pc.;
• milk - 120 ml;
• oatmeal - 25 g;
• lemon - 1/3 pcs.;
• honey - 15 g;
• ground cinnamon, fresh mint.

1. Mix the flakes with hot milk and leave for a couple of minutes, let them cool and swell.
2. Now put the peeled apple there and mix in a blender until puree.
3. Then sprinkle with a little ground cinnamon.
4. Next, peel the kiwi, chop and add a tablespoon of lemon juice to it, grind in a blender until creamy.
5. It turns out two creamy purees. We put them in a container, first light (flakes, apple), put green (kiwi) in the second layer, decorate with a mint branch and the cocktail is ready. Bon Appetit!

Vitamin cocktail "Citrus Blast"

We all know that citruses are rich in vitamin C. Thus, it normalizes the metabolism of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and helps maintain immunity. All you need is a couple of lemons, a couple of oranges, one grapefruit. Just squeeze fruit juice, mix.

Cocktail with ginger and honey

It speeds up metabolism by affecting the intestinal microflora. When used correctly, it will help you lose up to 4 kilograms per week, provided that you do not consume fatty foods and give your body physical activity.

Ingredients:

• 0.5 l of 1% kefir;
• a teaspoon of ground ginger;
• ground cinnamon;
• honey.

We mix all the ingredients (put honey and cinnamon to taste), let it brew for 10 minutes, mix everything in a blender. The cocktail is best drunk one glass three times a day.

Baby cocktails

Children are our joy. And what does this "joy" ask us most often? That's right, something tasty. And how can you refuse, for a child nothing is a pity. The trouble is that not all tasty things are healthy. But there is no problem that cannot be resolved with careful thought. This is where such a wonderful drink as a cocktail comes to the rescue. Almost everything can be in its composition, so the problem is tasty and healthy disappears by itself.

"Classic milkshake"

• milk 500 g;
• ice cream 100 g;
• sugar (taste).

Combine all ingredients and whisk in a blender until frothy. It is very easy to diversify it with various additives (chocolate, fruits, berries) of your choice and taste.

Melon cocktail

Ingredients:

• melon 200 g;
• lemon (lime) half;
• 1 tbsp. l. Sahara.

Mix all ingredients, add to a blender, beat until smooth.

Cocktail "Oatmeal in chocolate"

Especially suitable for toddlers and non-porridge lovers.

Required:

• oatmeal 2 tablespoons;
• cinnamon half a teaspoon;
• sugar 2 tbsp. l .;
• cocoa 2 tablespoons;
• milk 1 l.

1. Let's separate a glass of milk, put the rest on the stove.
2. Add sugar and cocoa to the cast milk. Stir so that there are no lumps and add to the main milk, mix.
3. As soon as it boils, pour in the oatmeal and simmer for 3-4 minutes.
4. Then, turn off the stove and let our drink brew for 10 minutes.
5. Pour everything into a blender and beat until smooth.

This cocktail can be served both chilled and warm.

Cocktail "Blow on a cold"

It will definitely come in handy in cold weather.

Ingredients:

• milk 250 g;
• raspberry jam 3 tablespoons;
• cinnamon (to taste);
• cocoa butter 0.5 tsp.

First, put raspberry jam in a container, then fill it with warm milk and add half a teaspoon of cocoa butter. Stir when the oil has dissolved, sprinkle with cinnamon on top and your drink is ready.

Berry cocktails

Summer is coming to an end, ahead of the cold and cold. Now is the time when it is worth gaining vitamins with double zeal. And the heat is sometimes exhausting so that you want something invigorating and refreshing. Berry drinks are the first assistants in this matter. Here you should pay attention to this type of cocktail as a smoothie - thick and tasty, it is made from berries, ice and fruits crushed in a blender, with the addition of milk, honey, yogurt.

Smoothie with almonds and black currants

Need to:

• black currant 250 g;
• almonds 2 tablespoons;
• kefir 500 ml;
• honey 1 tbsp;
• water 1 tbsp.;
• ice.

First, mix currants and almonds in a blender, then add kefir, ice, honey. Mix everything well. Then add a glass of water, beat until foam forms. The cocktail is ready.

Explosive berry

• blueberries 100 g;
• currants (red, black, white to your taste, you can do everything at once) 50 g;
• raspberries 100 g;
• cherry 100 g;
• gooseberries 100 g;
• ice;
• water half a glass.

The recipe is simple, mix all the berries in a blender, add ice, then water and beat until foam appears.

Smoothie "Vitaminka"

• banana 1 pc;
• lemon 1 pc;
• kiwi 4 pcs;
• ice.

1. Wash the lemon, cut into small cubes, peel.
2. Peel the banana and also cut into cubes.
3. Peel the kiwi.
4. Grind all the ingredients in a blender, add ice and beat until thickened.

Such a cocktail is good for refreshing, and it will also quite help to satisfy your hunger for a while.

Let's go back to a more classic kind of cocktails.

"Raspberry Song"

You will need:

• 200 g raspberries;
• 100 g blackberries;
• 100 g fresh yoghurt.

Mix all the ingredients in a blender, beat until foamy.

Berry cocktail "Summer"

• strawberries (to taste);
• blueberries (to taste);
• kefir 200 g;
• sugar 100 g

Beat the strawberries with sugar in a blender until smooth and pour into glasses. Beat kefir, blueberries and sugar. Slowly pour the resulting mixture over the strawberries. You can drink immediately or refrigerate.

When we talk about a berry cocktail, do not forget that in addition to vitamins and refreshing ones, there are also alcoholic ones. These drinks will be a great addition to any party or festive table. In combination with berries, alcohol turns out, although no less harmful, but softer. Due to the abundance of recipes, you can make a cocktail for every taste.

"Sangria"

• red wine 1 liter;
• apple juice clarified 2 liters;
• kiwi 1 pc;
• grapes 100 g;
• banana 1 pc;
• mandarin 1 pc;
• 2 cinnamon sticks.

1. Peel the kiwi and cut into slices. We do the same with a banana.
2. Cut the tangerine into slices along with the peel.
3. Put the fruits that have been cut into a container, cut the grapes into halves, add cinnamon.
4. Pour in juice and wine.
5. Let the drink brew for at least 30 minutes.

Ready "Sangria" is poured into a jug along with the fruit.

Cocktail "Girlfriend"

• white table wine 400 ml;
• cranberries 50 g;
• raspberries 50 g;
• currants 50 g;
• mineral water (to taste);
• sugar 100 g

The berries are mixed with a blender, sugar is added, mixed until dissolved. Add mineral water and mix again. Done. You can add ice to taste.

Vegetable cocktails

Berries are good, milk and yogurt are good too. But since they started talking about the health benefits, in no case should we forget about vegetables. When the time comes, juicy and ripe vegetables just ask for our table, but in what form we will consume them is another question. You can steam, fry and boil, but it will be better and more useful to make a cocktail from them, which will give not only a pleasant taste, but a lot of vitamins, improve digestion, and enrich the immune system.

"Pumpkin cocktail"

Ingredients:

• pumpkin 300 g;
• milk 2 cups;
• oat flakes 2 tbsp;
• honey 1 tbsp;
• ground cinnamon (to taste).

Peel the pumpkin, cut into cubes and grind in a blender until foamy. Add honey, milk and flakes to the resulting puree, beat again. Done.

Cucumber cocktail

Required:

• cucumber;
• ginger (a little);
• celery.

Mix everything in a blender until smooth and ready. This drink improves skin color and helps you look even younger.

Carrot cocktail

The drink is universal, as its influence extends to all internal organs. It will be especially useful for people with poor eyesight.

• boiled carrots 2 pcs;
• celery 30 g;
• blueberries 100 g;
• lemon juice 30 ml;
• tomato juice 250 ml;
• salt (to taste);
• pepper (black to taste).

Mix everything in a blender until smooth.

Let's pay attention to such a cocktail as a detox, which will help us cleanse the body and remove toxins and toxins from it.

Detox cocktail "Cucumber with radish"

• cucumber 1 pc (medium size);
• radish 100 g;
• yogurt 100 g;
• kefir 1% 100 g;
• salt (to taste);
• a bunch of dill.

We wash the vegetables, clean the radishes, cut them. Peel the cucumber, chop. Grind everything in a blender. Put the mashed potatoes in a container, add yogurt and kefir to it, mix.

Spinach cocktail

This drink helps to normalize bowel function. It contains a lot of kerotine, iron, vitamins. For cooking you will need:

• 1 cucumber;
• half a lemon;
• spinach 100 g;
• watermelon 1 piece.

Beat all products with a blender until puree.

Celery with carrots

• celery 2-3 stalks;
• 1 apple;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 tsp honey.

Cut the apple, carrot and celery into pieces and beat in a blender, add honey and, if desired, mineral water.