This strawberry mocktail recipe features muddled strawberries and homemade mint simple syrup. If you have a lot of mint in your herb garden, this is a great way to put it to use! The resulting drink is sweet and sour, with the perfect touch of minty flavor. It’s a great drink to enjoy alone, or you can make a few if you’re hosting friends for dinner.
My garden is pretty much overrun with mint, and it grows back year after year without me replanting it. It’s fall right now, so it’s the time of year when I need to figure out how to use the remaining herbs in my garden.
Mint has always been tricky for me, because I’m never sure how to use it. An obvious use would be mojitos, but I’m not really a fan. This year I started making batches of mint lemonade, which my husband and I really enjoy.
After enjoying mint lemonade all summer, I was inspired to create my own mocktail based on those flavors. For some additional sweetness, I decided to add muddled strawberries to the mix. This resulting drink is perfect for summer, but like me, you can enjoy it in the fall when you’re trying to use up your garden mint.
I don’t enjoy overly sweet drinks, so I only used 2 ounces of mint simple syrup. If you prefer sweet, adding an extra ounce of syrup (and maybe an extra berry or two) will do the trick.
This mint syrup recipe yields a small batch of syrup, which is more than you need for one drink. You may consider inviting some friends over and making multiple mocktails to use your syrup, if you won’t be able to enjoy it on your own. You can store your leftover syrup in an airtight container for 2-3 weeks in the fridge. You can tell if it’s gone bad if the syrup gets cloudy or develops a bad smell.
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