Ingredients
- 1 cucumber (12-13 oz) – peeled and cut into large chunks to fit into blender
- 5 small basil leaves (or 3 large leaves) (use more leaves for decoration)
- Juice from 1/4 lime
- 1/4 cup water
Recipe Description
Recipe can be easily scaled to make more ice cubes.
Make your ice cubes more interesting and more flavorful.
These ice cubes have 3 simultaneous benefits – they:
1) flavor your drinks
2) chill your drinks and
3) add extra nutrition into your drinks!
And of course, they’re super easy to make.
Step 1: Place the cucumbers, basil (I used fresh purple basil leaves), lime juice, and water into the blender. If you have a juicer, then use that.
Step 2: Blend well.
Step 3: Place the puree through a strainer to get the juice. Pour the juice into an ice cube tray or mold (I used a whisky ice cube tray that I bought at Daiso Japan but you can also use a large (2-inch cube) ice cube tray like this one).
Decoration: add a basil leaf into each large ice cube for decoration.
Note: save the left over solids in the strainer to make this easy chilled cucumber mash recipe.
Step 4: Freeze in freezer for 4-5 hours (or overnight) until solid.
Step 5: Use the cucumber basil ice cubes to make iced alcoholic drinks or with just some carbonated water to flavor and chill it. Use additional basil leaves for decoration.
Recipe Directions
- Place everything into the blender and blend well. (If using a juicer, omit the water and add the lime juice in after juicing the cucumber and basil.)
- Strain the puree and pour the resulting liquid into large ice cube trays or molds. Save the resulting cucumber solids to make this recipe.
- Freeze the trays for 4-5 hours (or overnight) until solid.
- Make drinks using the ice cubes e.g., add them to sparkling water to flavor the water or to vodka for an easy cucumber basil flavored chilled vodka drink!
