“How about a refreshing mocktail that is ready in a flash? You only need 5 ingredients. To mix this vitamin booster you’ll grab a bottle of with „Sea Buckthorn Vital“  from Weleda “

There are probably two camps, those who like sea buckthorn and those who don’t want to taste it. Quite wrong, I think. Even if the berry with the high vitamin C content, in contrast to other berry fruits, has no real sweetness, the flavor is still an explosion of taste.
Personally, I do harvest the berries from their spiked branches. I usually freeze them and like to pour a handful over my warm porridge. Here I used the syrup from Weleda for this wonderfully refreshing mocktail, i.e. a cocktail without alcohol. Through cooperation with the brand, I was able to experiment with a wide variety of ingredients.

Together with pink grapefruit, this drink becomes a real vitamin bomb. It is really important that ripe fruit is used, otherwise, the whole thing could become too sour. To give this refreshment an exciting consistency, the so-called aquafaba, cooking water from chickpeas, is used (pour off a glass of chickpeas over a sieve and collect the liquid in a container). It behaves in a similar way to egg whites, which are known to add a fluffy consistency to cocktails. Ginger ale acts pimps the cocktail with spiciness and adds freshness with its carbonic acid.

The result was a welcome refreshment on a very hot summer evening. Global warming has shown its full strength that day… The drink also tastes great during winter, especially where the ripe pink grapefruit is in season.

Seabuckthorn Mocktail aka Vitamin Booster

Course: Drinks, Recipes

Servings

2

servings

Total time

15

minutes

Ingredients

• 1 pink grapefruit, the juice

• 2 tbsp “Seabuckthorn” Vital @Weleda

• 3 tbsp aquafaba (liquid from a jar of chickpeas)

• 1 sprig rosemary

• ½ cup ice cubes

• 300 ml/ 06.pt Ginger Ale

• DECO

• 4-6 ice cubes

• 2 sprigs of rosemary

• 2 slices of grapefruit quartered

Directions

• Place the squeezed grapefruit in a shaker with the juice, chilled aquafaba and rosemary then shake vigorously
• Add ice cubes and shake well again.
• Pour into glasses with the additional ice cubes, fill up with ginger ale and decorate with rosemary and grapefruit, serve immediately.

Notes

• Aquafaba develops a similar texture to egg white and makes the drink slightly foamy.