Balkan Blackberry Mint Lemon Fizz 🫐✨

Description

Balkan Blackberry Mint Lemon Fizz is a bright alcohol-free cocktail made with crushed blackberries, lemon, honey, fresh mint, ice, and sparkling water. It is deep purple, crisp, fragrant, and refreshing, with the feel of a Balkan summer garden drink served cold in tall glasses.
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Blackberries, lemon, honey, mint, ice, and sparkling water turn into a cold purple fizz that feels fresh, rustic, and celebration-ready. 🍹

Ingredients

• Blackberry base 🫐
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• 🫐 300 g fresh or frozen blackberries (2 cups / 10.6 oz)
• 🍯 45 g honey (2 tbsp / 1.6 oz)
• 🍋 45 ml lemon juice (3 tbsp / 1.5 fl oz)
• 🍋 5 g lemon zest (1 tbsp / 0.17 oz)
• 🌿 18 fresh mint leaves
• 🧂 1 tiny pinch fine sea salt
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• To finish ✨
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• 🧊 300 g ice cubes (2½ cups / 10.6 oz)
• 💧 650 ml chilled sparkling water (2¾ cups / 22 fl oz)
• 🍋 1 lemon, sliced thin
• 🫐 80 g extra blackberries for serving (½ cup / 2.8 oz)
• 🌿 4 mint sprigs

Preparation

1. 1️⃣ Crush the berries 🫐
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3. Add blackberries, honey, lemon juice, lemon zest, mint leaves, and salt to a bowl. Mash for 1 min until juicy, dark purple, and fragrant.
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5. 2️⃣ Rest the flavor 🛋
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7. Let the blackberry mixture rest for 8 min so the honey dissolves and the mint perfumes the juice.
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9. 3️⃣ Strain smooth ✨
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11. Press the mixture through a fine sieve into a jug. Push well with a spoon to extract as much blackberry juice as possible. Discard the seeds.
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13. 4️⃣ Build the glasses 🧊
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15. Fill 4 tall glasses with ice. Add lemon slices, a few whole blackberries, and one mint sprig to each glass.
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17. 5️⃣ Add the purple base 🍹
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19. Pour about 70 ml blackberry base into each glass (¼ cup + 1 tbsp / 2.4 fl oz).
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21. 6️⃣ Top with bubbles 💧
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23. Slowly top each glass with chilled sparkling water. Stir once, very gently, so the fizz stays bright and lively.
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25. 7️⃣ Serve cold 🌿
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27. Finish with extra mint and a blackberry on top. Serve immediately while cold, bubbly, and fresh.

Total Time

⏱ Prep: 12 min
🔥 Cook/Bake: 0 min
🛋 Rest: 8 min
⏰ Total: 20 min

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