This strawberry mojito cocktail recipe is perfect when you have sweet seasonal strawberries.
When it’s hot outside, this strawberry mojito recipe is also perfect. It’s refreshing, perfectly sweet, fruity and fragrant of the season. How lucky are we to be in mild So Cal weather? Very lucky, but we’re not bragging. And hey, we have congestion and smog to add to our heat, so there’s always a trade-off with our mild weather! After a long work day when we’re in town, we spent quite a bit of time in the backyard pulling weeds, trimming excess branches and building up a hefty thirst. Normally we have quite a collection of ice cold bottles of Rose in the fridge, but mixing it up with summer cocktails keeps us inspired and energized to weed some more.
As of late, the mint seeds we sprinkled in the garden is taking off beautifully. An abundance of fresh mint in these strawberry mojito drinks are always a fabulous late Spring and Summer quencher, but after pulling up a few garden strawberries and an inspiration from The Berry Bible, we changed cocktail directions a bit and made this Strawberry Mojito Cocktail.
Watch this refreshing Strawberry Mojito Drink Video:
For berry lovers theres a great new reference and recipe book, appropriately called The Berry Bible. Every single page in this thorough book by author Janie Hibler is helpful for anyone wanting to expand their repertoire for berries, particularly to those to worship berries. Thus, The Berry Bible title.
Classic berries such as strawberries, raspberries and blueberries are covered in depth, but extra commentary on unique berries make this book even more fascinating. Buffalo berries, cloud berries and josta berries are just a few examples of unique fruits to school you to a higher level of berry knowledge. The Berry Bible doesn’t have any photographs, but rather, the valuable information, fresh recipes and interesting topics make it a worthy reference to have on your bookshelf.
We found this strawberry mojito in The Berry Bible and were a bit hesitant to stray from the beloved, classic mojito. We even add true Cuban rum to our mojito cocktails. That’s how true our to their origins our mojitos are. But wow, we were really pleased with how wonderful the drinks were with some crushed strawberries. Strawberry mojitos are fabulous!
We’ve found a new favorite, this Strawberry Mojito Cocktail. Classic mojitos with a few muddled strawberries and bright lime juice adds a fresh, fruity spectacle to the cocktail. They’re also beauty in a glass too with the combinations of crushed strawberries and mint leaves. Strawberry mojitos are perfect for our new Summer cocktail repertoire and we can’t wait to debut them at our garden party next month!
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This post was originally published in 2010 and re-published in 2018 with new step-by-step photos!
Cocktails & Beyond – Here’s some of our favorite finds:
We tend to be a bit obsessive over our cocktail tools. Here’s some of our favorites we’ve collected and put to use over the years:
The Berry Bible by Janie Hibler – A great source of inspiration and recipes for berry deliciousness.
Yamachu Japanese Ice Pick – My favorite cocktail tool. With swag and great function, it’s perfect for us cocktail geeks.
Cocktail Kingdom Leopold Jigger – We have a dozen jiggers, but this one is my favorite. Love the copper-plating, quickly gives a lived in patina. Love the lines on the inside marking off different measurements.
Adapted from The Berry Bible .
The simple syrup recipe in the Notes is for a larger batch of simple syrup to keep on hand. It keeps for months in the fridge if you store it in a clean container. If you don't want to make the simple syrup (although it always great to have on hand) you can muddle in about 1 tablespoon (or to taste) of sugar instead.
- 1 ounce simple syrup , or to taste
- 3 fresh strawberries (approximiately)
- 2-3 fresh spearmint sprigs (chopped if you prefer smaller mint pieces in your cocktail)
- 1 ounce fresh lime juice
- 2 ounces light rum
- 3-4 ounces soda water
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In a chilled highball glass (about 10-12 ounces), muddle the simple syrup, strawberries and mint leaves together with the back of a spoon or muddler. Crush the strawberries and mint leaves well.
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Stir in the lime juice and rum. Fill the glass with ice and top off with soda water. Gently stir.
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Garnish with mint sprigs or strawberry slices.
Note 1: A basic simple syrup is a 1:1 ratio of sugar dissolved in water. Example- One cup sugar dissolved in one cup of water.
We usually make larger batches and keep on hand in the refrigerator.
If possible, make ahead of time and use cooled or preferably chilled when making the cocktails.
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A POUND of sugar?! Probably should be a cup, right?
Actually it is a pound which is about 2 1/4 cups of sugar. You could even do an even 2 cups of sugar to the 2 cups of water if you like to make an even 1:1 water:sugar ratio for the simple syrup. I forgot to mention it in the headnote, but the simple syrup recipe is for a larger batch of simple syrup to keep on hand. It keeps for months in the fridge if you store it in a clean container.
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Thanks for sharing – it looks delicious!
thank you for this great recipe! i featured it in my happy weekend {and am going to make some tomorrow for our day at the beach!}.
I love this idea, but can you explain what “simple syrup” is? Thank You
Hi Melissa,
Simple syrup is basically a sugar water. We have a quick recipe for simple syrup on this post. Sorry we forgot to add it to the Mojito post. We’ve put it in now. Thanks and enjoy. This is a great summertime cocktail!
You can be sure i’ll be making this drink in a few or so when it hopefully gets warm! I can’t wait! Looks so pretty and refreshing! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe! 🙂
Tried this recipe and it was FANTASTIC! A few other quick & easy strawberry recipes I love: http://eating-made-easy.com/2010/08/19/5-easy-strawberry-recipes/
Looks damn good, and we always have fresh strawberries around here, and plenty of heat (Southern Louisiana). I think my girl would love this one .
I love mojitoes and yours definitely looks refreshing,
The pictures are so stunning too!
Those look so nice and cool and refreshing and good!
I could totally use one of these right about now!!! And a big giant pool. Plus a raft. Yep… that would be perfect.
One thing I can grow is mint! I have strawberries and mint. I see these lovlies in my future very soon!
Ya know… this might be the PERFECT use for the three or four strawberries we have left in the garden. Our dog (Britta) gets to them before we do. 🙁 Now I know how you guys feel w/ Dante and Sierra!
Happy weekend! (What’s left of it.)
[K]
That’s why we needed a great use for just a few strawberries. Never going to get enough for a pie or such with the dogs around!
My boyfriend just got into making mojitos. I can’t wait to tell him about this new variation it sounds so refreshing (is it possible to be more refreshing than pure mint itself?).
Lovelove mojito’s, very refreshing for the summer!
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Believe it or not, it has been cooler on the west coast of Mexico than many parts of the US. Nonetheless, these colorful mojitos would be just as welcome. Thank you for the lovely photos.
Kathleen
What a mojito option. I’s a great way to turn the regular, boring drink into something sooo coool looking. 😀
Gorgeous photos and the drink sounds pretty awesome too!
Those mojitos look delish!
Yummy! These could be dangerous, happily dangerous. 🙂
Always been more of a beer guy than a cocktail guy, but those looks so delicious! May have to try this weekend.
I am dying to get my hands on a copy of The Berry Bible. We’ll soon have more raspberries than we can eat, and this looks like it would be the perfect answer.
There is not enough time to drink all the wonderful fruit based cocktails I’ve seen the past couple of days. Maybe I need to take a day off just to test. Strawberry Mojito for breakfast, my own Lavender Lemon Martini for lunch and then a Watermelon something with liquor for dinner. The day off would be an absolute; not thinking I could accomplish a damn thing else!
These sounds delightful and perfect for a hot Summer evening. I am fortunate to have lots of blueberries still available locally, so I will have to take a peek at this book and see what else I can make that I haven’t already thought of!
What a wonderful mojito recipe; this sounds fabulous…Have a wonderful day!
You can not go wrong with those Mojitos, especially on a hot summer night 🙂 The book sounds really good. Thanks for talking about it.
This is the third time I’ve read about this book in the past month…I’ll take that as a sign that it’s worth the buy. The cover photo alone is pretty alluring! It has been soon hot and humid here. It makes me want to go back to AZ! Isn’t that crazy? It finally rained last night, so hopefully the humidity will go away soon.
I have mojito mint and orange mint planted in a big whiskey barrel with lavender and Thai basil. The mint is overflowing so I guess I better get making something soon!
What a great way to beat the heat this summer.
I had the best mojito this weekend at the Alibi Room. I am now a mojito convert. I am going to make these. They look delicious!
This could actually make me stray from my beloved gin – it looks *that* good. There might be some strawberry hunting at the farmers market next Saturday, just for this.
What a gorgeous drink. I usually like my mojitos simple and traditional but this looks like a version worthy of straying from tradition. I need to find a corner of my garden for mint to take over (since it always does!) next year.
Yum! So it’s really a regular mojito with strawberries thrown in. In a pinch you could use frozen ones. Or just about any complementary fruit. Watermelon might be nice.
I infuse my simple syrup with mint for extra minty goodness in mojitos. Just toss a handful of sprigs into the hot syrup and muddle them a little. Remove them when the syrup has cooled.
Oh this is almost cruel. We have had 100+ degree weather for at least a week and just lost power (meaning AC and fans) for 4 hours. If only I had this lovely concoction at the end of this ordeal to look forward to. Love mojitos – my favorite cocktail hands down.
Assholery! Blatant assholery! I am looking at that gorgeous libation (girly-lighting suits it!) and it’s almost 10pm and not a strawberry in sight over here. That’s just not fair to do to a girl on a hot summer evening. Wicked jealous of your cocktails…and your garden. If you weren’t so cute, I’d hate ya.
I am from Miami originally and am a hard core Mojito lover. This sounded so good that I had to run out to the local farmers market to get strawberries so I could make this. Absolute heaven.
Edie- wow, you made them that quick? Glad that you like it! We’re hardcore Mojito lovers too, but the strawberries in it definitely won us over.
Those berries look great! Our weather in my area of Hawaii keeps changing everyday. Today happens to be pretty hot, so that cool drink looks really good!
This looks like such a refreshing drink! I have to say that your strawberry mojito cocktail must be that much better because the berries are homegrown and have been kissed by the California sun all its life. 🙂
Mojitos are one of my favorite drinks and I love when they are infused with flavor. This looks so good.
Can’t wait to check out this book. I love all berries. Great twist on the traditional mojito!
I AM ALL OVER THIS BAD BOY! Sorry. This drink sounds so awesome it made my caps lock stick.