Top 10 Best Low-Calorie Cocktails
If you are looking to trim your waistline, or at least maintain its current circumference, removing cocktails from your diet can seem like an easy place to cut ... read more...back, especially when wine or light alcoholic beverages are indispensable at family, friends, or colleagues' parties. Most popular cocktails contain alcohol and a lot of calories. That's why alcohol and diet are always a battle of ideas for people who lose weight. Here are low-calorie cocktail suggestions to help you choose a suitable party choice.
-
This traditional Cuban drink has captivated many hearts. Not only has good cooling properties, but it also helps you have a slim waist. Mint, lemon, and soda water are all low-calorie natural ingredients. Even the small amount of rum in it has only 100 calories and the syrup has 40 calories. You can also halve the syrup if you want.
The Ingredients:
- 12 fresh mint leaves
- 1 tablespoon sugar or 10-15 ml sugar
- 15 ml fresh lemon juice Syrup
- 40 ml RumSoda
- Garnish with a few slices of lemon or mint leave.
The Instructions:
- Squeeze the mint leaves in the palm of your hand to release their fragrance and drop them into the bottom of the glass.
- Then fill half the glass with shaved ice and add the rum, lemon juice, and sugar. Stir the mixture together then add the shaved ice again, and a few drops of soda water.
- Stir again then garnish with a fresh mint leaf or a slice of lemon.
-
Rum is an alcoholic beverage made from sugar cane. Cocktails made from white rum and Diet Coke can help women reduce calories significantly because this drink contains only 75 - 125 calories.
The Ingredients:
- 1 can of Diet Coke
- 1 Bottle of Bacardi Rum
- Lime for garnish
The Instructions
- Fill a glass of your choosing with ice.
- Pour 2 ounces of Bacardi Rum over the ice.
- Top with 6 ounces of Diet Coke.
- Stir to combine and garnish with a lime slice.
-
The Sea Breeze is an icon of 1980s drinking, a light and refreshing cocktail that pairs perfectly with sunny days at the beach. Featuring vodka, cranberry juice, and grapefruit juice. It’s often grouped with similar drinks of the era, like the Cape Codder (vodka and cranberry) and the Bay Breeze (vodka, cranberry, and pineapple).
The Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 ounces of vodka
- 3 ounces of cranberry juice
- 1 1/2 ounces of grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed
- Garnish: lime wheel
The Instructions:
- Add the vodka, cranberry juice, and grapefruit juice into a highball glass with ice and stir.
- Garnish with a lime wheel.
-
This drink is lightly sweet with a nice, gingery bite. With the main ingredient of Vanilla Vodka and ginger ale, using a cocktail of this type will only absorb 100 calories. Moreover, this is also a sugar-free cocktail, an ideal choice for dieters.
The Ingredients:
- 1½ ounces of vodka
- 5 ounces of diet ginger ale
- Ice
- Lime wheel and mint sprig for garnish
The Instructions:
- Fill a collins glass with ice.
- Add the vodka and diet ginger ale.
- Stir.
- Garnish with the lime wheel and mint sprig.
-
Tequila has an alcohol content of about 40. When combined with a few other wines or fruit juices, it will create many cocktails with rich and attractive flavors. The most famous cocktail in the world Tequila is the Margarita. You can add a little lemon juice for refreshment, each cocktail has about 100 calories.
The Instructions:
- 2 ounces of blanco or reposado tequila
- 1/2 ounce of lime juice, from 2 lime wedges
- 3 to 4 ounces of club soda, to taste
- Lime wheel for garnish
The Instructions:
- In a highball glass filled with ice, pour the tequila and squeeze in the juice of 2 lime wedges.
- Top with the soda.
- Stir well.
- Garnish with a lime wheel.
-
Champagne is a light, mellow and sweet wine. One cup of this wine has a calorie content of 85. Very low and suitable as a drink for dieters when going to a party. Rather than shaking or stirring your way to a finished product, you will simply build the cocktail in your champagne flute. A bitters-soaked sugar cube is dropped into the chilled, effervescent wine, quickly lending its color to the drink along with a thin, aggressive line of bubbles racing from the bottom to the surface.
The Ingredients:
- 1 sugar cube
- 2 to 4 dashes of Angostura bitters
- Champagne (or other sparkling wine), chilled, to top
- Garnish: lemon twist
The Instructions:
- Place a sugar cube on a bar spoon and douse it with the bitters.
- Drop the cube into a chilled Champagne flute or similar glass.
- Fill the glass with Champagne or other sparkling wine.
- Garnish with a lemon twist.
-
Sour apple martinis, or Appletinis as they are also known, are one of the most common fruit martinis you will find at a bar. One of the best things about this cocktail is that you only need 3 ingredients to make the perfect Sour Apple Martini! This beverage consists of vodka, apple juice, and sour apple schnapps. These three ingredients combined really bring out that fresh and bright apple flavor. Try a low-calorie tart apple Martini of around 160.
The Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 ounces of vodka
- 1 ounce of Calvados
- 1 1/4 ounces of Granny Smith apple juice
- 1/4 ounce of lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- 1/4 ounce of simple syrup
- Garnish: brandied cherry
- Garnish: Granny Smith apple slices
The Instructions:
- Add crushed ice into a cocktail glass and set aside to chill.
- Add the vodka, Calvados, apple juice, lemon juice, and simple syrup into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
- Discard the ice from the cocktail glass and double-strain the mixture into the glass.
- Garnish with a skewered brandied cherry and 3 Granny Smith apple slices.
-
It's not the sexiest drink at the bar, but it makes people feel new when enjoying it. Because the ingredients are quite simple, only Vodka and Lemon Soda. When you squeeze a bunch of lime and add vodka, you have the best low-calorie cocktail recipe with this vodka and club soda. This drink has a fairly low-calorie content of about 100. Plus, you won't have to worry if you accidentally spill the drink on your outfit because it has a white color like water and dries easily.
The Ingredients:
- 1 cup of ice
- 1 ounce of vodka
- 3 ounces of diet soda
- ½ lime juiced
- 1 lime wedge for garnish
The Instructions:
- Fill a cocktail glass with ice.
- Pour vodka, lime juice, and diet soda over ice.
- Stir and garnish with a lime wedge.
-
The Mudslide is the quintessential boozy milkshake: sweet, creamy, and rich. It is simply described as an alcoholic milkshake. With a higher calorie content than other cocktails in this group about 184 calories. But it is quite easy to drink and suitable for sweet-loving women. However, you should not use it much and often to avoid the risk of diabetes.
The Ingredients:
- 1 ounce of vodka
- 1 ounce of coffee liqueur
- 1 ounce of Baileys Irish cream
- 1 1/2 ounces heavy cream
- Garnish: chocolate shavings
The Instructions:
- Add the vodka, coffee liqueur, Baileys, and cream to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
- Strain into a chilled fizz glass or coupe.
- Garnish with freshly shaved chocolate.
-
Even though a Gin and Tonic is an incredibly simple drink. Put gin and tonic together in a glass, and you can taste one of the cocktail canon’s best pairings and the knowledge that gin and tonic are, essentially, medicine. This cocktail is suitable for women aged 20 and over because the alcohol content is approximately 40 degrees. This drink can reduce 103 calories in your body per serving.
The Ingredients:
- 2 ounces of gin
- 4 ounces of tonic water
- Garnish: 2 lime wheels or other seasonal garnishes you may prefer
The Instructions:
- Fill a highball glass with ice, then add the gin.
- Top with the tonic water and gently stir.
- Garnish with lime wheels or seasonal garnishes