Revitalize Your Evening with a Refreshing Beet Tonic Cocktail

Beet + Tonic Cocktail ©Paulette Phlipot

If you love beets, you will love this cocktail. The apple and lime sweeten and elevate the beet juice. If gin is not your spirit of choice, do not let that deter you from trying this cocktail. You’ll be surprised how boring a gin and tonic seems after trying this. Want to skip the gin? This combo makes a great mocktail too.

Makes 1 cocktail.

1 ounce beet juice

1 ounce apple juice

½ ounce lime juice

1 ounce gin

Tonic water

Slice of lime, to garnish

Pour beet juice, apple juice, lime juice and gin into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a glass filled with ice. Top with tonic water, stir and garnish with a slice of lime.

*If you don’t have a juicer, you can place chopped beets in a high powered blender with water. Peel and chop the 1 or 2 beets and add just enough water to blend. Purée and strain through a fine mesh strainer.

 First published in Edible Monterey Bay Magazine.