Pineapple and Carrot Cocktail Recipe | What's up doc?
Healthy and functional cocktail recipe consisting of carrot and pineapple juice, ginger infused honey, Cointreau, and Vodka.
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Finally, a cocktail recipe fit for bugs bunny. It’s about time if you ask me.
For real though, this is my carrot based cocktail recipe that’s both functional and fun. Cocktails don’t have to be this mixture of negative health affecting ingredients. You can have your health and drink it too.
I’m all about functional cocktails here on Smartblend. Cocktails that help us improve health and daily nutrition. Just because we have alcohol in the mix does not mean a cocktail has to be unhealthy. Plenty of alcohol such as red wine and 100% agave tequila are actually quite good for you.
And even alcohol that isn’t necessarily good for you is alright in moderation. Take this antioxidant, vitamin and health benefit packed carrot cocktail. Sure it has vodka in it, but this cocktail has more than that. It has functionality, vitamins, nutrients. Drinking this will be better for your health then not drinking it to be honest.
Carrot Cocktail
This cocktail is one that uses carrot juice as its base, hence the whole carrot cocktail angle. Drinking carrot juice is a great way to get a whole variety of your daily vitamins, not to mention some other impressive note worthy healthy benefits such as eye health, skin health, blood sugar control and immunity boosting properties.
If this wasn’t enough to make carrot juice a powerhouse ingredient, it is also great for protecting your liver due to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Which is great for balancing out the alcohol in the mix; an ingredient that usually has negative effects on the liver.
The Carrot Cocktail Ingredients | Pairing Carrot
Carrot Juice: Any store bought carrot juice will be fine or you can juice your own carrots
Vodka: You can swap this with Gin if you prefer, but I’d always recommend starting with Vodka.
Cointreau: This is an orange liqueur that will pair beautifully with our carrot. Carrot cocktails can tend to be heavy on the savoury side, the Cointreau helps bring out the sweet side of our carrots.
Pineapple Juice: Much like the Cointreau, the pineapple juice helps bring out the sweetness. You may of heard of Carrot and Orange as a good flavor pairing before, but pineapple works just as good, as well as bringing out the tropical flavor of carrot.
Ginger Infused Honey: Another ingredient that works great with carrot cocktails is Ginger and Honey. Honey has that garden fresh sweetness which pairs with carrot and ginger has that zingy zest which makes this feel a lot more flavorsome.
Top tip
When it comes to the carrot juice, I assume you will be buying it from a shop pre-juiced, which is okay! That's what I do. However, if you are opting to blend and juice your own carrots, then add the pineapple to the mix. Just weigh out equal parts carrot and pineapple chunks and blend/juice them together to create a carrot and pineapple blend. Then instead of using 50ml carrot juice and 50ml pineapple juice, you will just use 100ml of your carrot and pineapple blend.
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Non-Alcoholic Carrot Cocktail
Don’t want the alcohol? You can still have this functional carrot cocktail without the booze. Cut the honey from 15ml to just 10ml, lose the Cointreau and replace the vodka with 50ml of either a non-alcoholic alternative, or something I find works quite well, 50ml of coconut water
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Ginger infused Honey recipe
Sugar is the secret assassin of health when it comes to cocktails. We usually assume it's the alcohol doing the damage, but in fact, it's all that hidden sugar within the juices, the spirits, liqueurs and syrups that sneaks up on our health.
Sure, one pornstarmartini isn’t going to damage your health but that's a cocktail oozing with sweetness. Between the passion fruit liqueur, puree and syrups we are talking almost 250 calories per cocktail. So no, one won’t do much, but 5 of them? Well that's over a thousand calories in liquid sugar.
However…. Sweetness is very important to balancing out cocktails and making them taste great. Which is why celery juice tastes like absolute crap. Sure its healthy but wheres that sugar hit! So for this, we take a healthy sugar alternative which is honey. And to give that even more of a healthy attitude we infuse that with the stomach aiding properties of ginger, whilst diluting it by half so we instantly half our sugar intake. result.
Ingredients
1 Piece of ginger root
300g Honey
300ml Water
Method
Peel your ginger root and cut into thin wheels
In a saucepan on medium/high heat mix the honey and water whilst stirring constantly to dissolve the honey
One your honey has dissolved, bring the mixture up to a boil then drop the ginger into the mix.
As soon as your mixture is boiling take it of the heat and allow it to cool for about 30 minutes
After 30 minutes you can strain out the ginger and bottle your healthy ginger infused honey syrup
Note: At the stage whilst your ginger is steeping you can taste every 5 minutes or so till you get to your preferred flavour. 30 minutes is just a guide, you may love a light infusion and want to strain it after just 5 minutes, you might love ginger and want to leave it for 2 hours. It’s all person preference.
The Carrot Cocktail Recipe
What’s Up Doc?
Ingredients
Instructions
- Mix everything together into a cocktail shaker and shaker with ice.
- Strain into a tall glass over ice
Notes
Top tips
When it comes to the carrot juice, I assume you will be buying it from a shop pre-juiced, which is okay! That's what I do. However, if you are opting to blend and juice your own carrots, then add the pineapple to the mix. Just weigh out equal parts carrot and pineapple chunks and blend/juice them together to create a carrot and pineapple blend. Then instead of using 50ml carrot juice and 50ml pineapple juice, you will just use 100ml of your carrot and pineapple blend.
Non-alcoholic Version
Don’t want the alcohol? You can still have this functional carrot cocktail without the booze. Cut the honey from 15ml to just 10ml, lose the Cointreau and replace the vodka with 50ml of either a non-alcoholic alternative, or something I find works quite well, 50ml of coconut water.
Nutrition Facts
Calories
261.17Fat
13.82 gSat. Fat
1.9 gCarbs
11.05 gFiber
0.5 gNet carbs
10.55 gSugar
6.93 gProtein
0.65 gSodium
34.6 mgCholesterol
0 mgThe nutritional information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice. See our full nutrition disclosure here.
