Sip and Stay Healthy: 8 Healthy Cocktail Recipes for a Guilt-Free Indulgence

Who says cocktails have to be all about excess and empty calories?

With these 8 healthy cocktail recipes, you can savor the flavors you love while staying true to your wellness goals.

Most everyone wants to know how to make healthy cocktails. We all love trying to keep drinks low calorie but we also don’t want to just drink vodka sodas all day!

Whether you’re hosting a gathering or simply unwinding after a long day, these guilt-free libations will satisfy your cravings without compromising your health.

From refreshing fruit-infused concoctions to herbaceous delights, I’ve curated a collection delicious cocktail recipes that will nourish your body and delight your taste buds.

Get ready to elevate your mixology game while keeping your wellness in check with these wholesome and flavorful creations.

Surely there has to be a balance to being able to enjoy some tasty cocktails but also sticking to a diet or at least attempting to make it a skinny cocktail.

Drinks can have over 100-200 calories per drink so if you can cut that in half, multiplied by the 5-10 drinks you may be having… well that is a huge win.

I hate having to diet and really just want all the amazing tastes! However, I have 8 tasty skinny cocktails that you wouldn’t even know were healthier than most. 

Now you can be guilt free drinking cocktails all day and night. There are some easy tips to making low calorie cocktails or trying to keep them as healthy as possible as well!

How to Make Your Cocktails Healthy 

The #1 tip to keep your cocktails healthy is to use fresh ingredients.

Fresh is best, always use fresh squeezed juices vs. anything bottled or things like margarita mix. Whether it is fresh lime juice, fresh lemon juice, fresh grapefruit juice or anything, be sure to always stick to fresh!

Another way to keep your cocktails lean is to skip the simple syrup, maple syrup or any added sugars.

Making the healthiest cocktails means less sugars so while it may not be as sweet as you want it, the drink will be more fresh tasting and delicious.

One last tip to make cocktails skinny is to use sparkling water or similar vs. soda.

You want to skip using soda as much as possible.

A great example here is with the Paloma, don’t use Squirt or grapefruit soda but use a good grapefruit sparkling water, still tastes amazing and significantly less calories!

Use fresh ginger for a nice little kick. This is an amazing add for moscow mules as well!

Making fresh drinks with less sugars will also help with hangovers! The less you use all these sugars etc and the more you do straight fresh or natural ingredients the better you will feel in the morning!

With all that said, let’s get to some healthy cocktail recipes!

Protein Espresso Martini Recipe

This is the most unique and cool recipe I think I have ever thought of. 19/20 people have loved it and don’t even notice the difference from a standard espresso martini.

If anything, the protein just gives it an added great frothy texture that most everyone loves! Just be sure to shake it up well to get it smooth and silky vs. any protein lumps.

Skinny Spicy Jalapeno Margarita Recipe 

This healthy spicy margarita recipe is basically a skinny margarita with some kick! As mentioned only fresh ingredients here! Use fresh lime juice, some muddled jalapeno and a splash of fresh OJ to be healthy or triple sec and boom, you got it made!

To keep this margarita healthy skip the triple sec and just go with tequila, jalapenos, fresh squeezed lime juice and a splash of fresh orange juice.

If you want to take it a step further, infuse your tequila with 4-5 jalapenos for 24 hours to 7+ days. This is incredible and shows to anyone you are hosting that you made the extra effort!

Skinny Moscow Mule Recipe

This Moscow mule recipe takes a standard moscow mule and takes it to a whole new level with match, fresh ginger and is basically a superfood itself!

Yes, we have created a superfood cocktail! To make a moscow mule healthy you will want to skip the sugary ginger beer and use ginger or lime soda water and then add your own fresh ginger.

You then of course will use fresh squeezed lemon juice, fresh lime juice and then if you have matcha tea feel free to add a little of that in there per the recipe below! Add in some mint garnish and you are on healthy cocktail cloud 9!

 

Whiskey Sour Recipe

Another one of my favorite recipes of which I had way too many during quarantine!  You would never know how few ingredients are needed for a whiskey sour as it is incredibly easy to make.

All you need for this one is whiskey or similar, some egg white and fresh lemon juice. You can add in simple syrup as well but that will of course make it less healthy. The option of a splash of OJ also makes this extra tasty as well.

Paloma Recipe

The paloma is one of my favorite drinks and if you love grapefruit then it will undoubtedly be your new favorite cocktail! This is again is simple to make and just one substitute turns this healthy in no time!

To make this recipe healthy just use fresh grapefruit juice, fresh lime juice, tequila and then substitute a grapefruit soda water or sparkling water like Izzys for example vs. the traditional Squirt or Jarritos overly sugary soda.

This change and you won’t even notice the difference! Honestly with the fresh ingredients it will already taste miles better than anything you will get at a bar or restaurant.

 

Pickle Martini Recipe

Really any martini is healthy as it is just straight vodka or gin, and optional a bit of vermouth and some olive juice. However, this one adds pickle juice and if you use quality pickles like Grillos or Clausens there are of course some health benefits to that.

Not only do these taste amazing if you like pickles more than olives, but also get that extra touch of the natural electrolytes that pickle juice brings! Pickle juice has sodium, potassium and magnesium which makes it a great natural electrolyte that lots of athletes drink during and after workouts or games.

Hard Seltzer Froze Recipe

Now, this isn’t really a diet recipe or low in calories but it does offer tons of servings of fruit, which have their own nutrients and such to get your daily servings of fruit in a cocktail!

Better yet it takes two seconds, I sense you see a theme here of keeping everything simple! This recipe just takes white claw, frozen fruit and a blender!

Easy Coconut Margarita Recipe

Last but far from least is probably the best tasting drink I have ever made. It literally tastes like vacation! I can’t say enough how amazing this drink is!

Even just the smells alone put me over the edge. Imagine a pina colada but way less sweet, fresh ingredients and in the form of  a delightful margarita!

To keep this recipe healthy you just need to make sure to use fresh lime squeezed lime juice, fresh orange juice vs. triple sec and then to use coconut milk from the carton vs. cream of coconut. 

I honestly always just use milk over the cream as it makes it less sweet, less thick and still wouldn’t notice the difference!