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This sparkling pear mocktail is a delicious and refreshing pear drink that is so easy to make. Fresh mint is combined with pear juice and soda for a non-alcoholic drink that’s gentle on the stomach and great for sipping on a warm day.
Quick Look: Pear Mocktail
- Cooking time: Only 5 minutes to prep.
- Servings – This makes around 4-6 drinks, depending on how large you pour.
- Main ingredients: Pear juice, fresh mint, ginger, and sparkling water. Coconut water and lime juice are optional additions for hydration!
- When to serve: A perfect mocktail for that summer to fall transition where you want a refreshing, hydrating drink. Great for bridal showers, baby showers, or an afternoon mocktail.
- Dietary information: This recipe is Mediterranean diet friendly. It can also be migraine diet-friendly. It’s gluten and dairy free. It’s also a Whole30 or paleo diet drink.
- Why you’ll love it: This pear juice mocktail with ginger and mint is the perfect mix of flavors that is not only delicious, but also very easy to make.
This pear drink is also a great mocktail for nausea or days I have an upset stomach. It’s hydrating with natural electrolytes and fresh pear flavor!
The previous version of this pear mocktail used 1/4 cup of fresh mint leaves and a 1/4 cup of fresh basil leaves, muddled with 1/2 cup of pear juice and topped with sparkling water. This produced a very light, easy mocktail, but I think you’ll prefer the bolder flavor of this new version!
Ingredients
This recipe is very easy to edit depending on what you’re looking for. Here are some details on the best ingredients to purchase, with the full recipe in the recipe card below.
- Pear juice – It’s not hard to find pear juice! Sprouts sells their own brand, Santa Cruz is another one. My favorite is RW Knudsen which doesn’t add anything extra to the ingredients – it’s just pears.
- Fresh mint – Typically found in small containers refrigerated with other fruits and veggies. This can also be grown really well at home.
- Fresh ginger – Goes incredibly well with pear, similar to this anti-inflammatory smoothie.
- Sparkling water – Soda water, club soda, or sparkling water adds refreshing bubbles and also keeps the sweetness and calorie content lower, really highlighting the flavors of the pear and herbs. I tend to prefer club soda or a sparkling water with more carbonation, like Gerolsteiner. You can also mix this up by adding ginger beer or ginger ale as a substitution.
- Lime juice – The acidity from the lime juice cuts the sweetness of the pear juice, adding some variation in flavor. It pairs well with the mint as a pear mojito flavor. If you’re sensitive to citrus, this can be omitted, or you can
- Coconut water – Packed with natural electrolytes, this adds some extra hydration to this mocktail. If you hate coconut water, just replace it with more pear juice!
Ingredient Tip
It’s very important to use pear juice unless you intend to drink this mocktail immediately. While you can substitute the juice for 1 whole, fresh pear, the mixture will begin to turn an ugly brown color within a few hours due to oxidation. Lime juice can help, but using fresh pear is not as pretty as pear juice.
How to Make
Step 1: Begin by combining the pear juice, mint, ginger, and coconut water (if using) in a blender.
Step 2: Blend for about 30 seconds, or until fully combined.
Step 3: Pour the mixture through a fine mesh strainer, which will help to filter any larger mint pieces.
Step 4: Into a glass filled with ice, pour about 1/3 cup of the pear ginger juice into the bottom of the glass and top with sparkling water or club soda. Adjust the juice portion to your taste.
Storage Recommendations
My favorite way to make this non-alcoholic pear drink ahead is by freezing it into ice cubes! Then you can store it easily in the freezer for up 4 months, and pop it into club soda, ginger ale, or ginger beer for a quick mocktail.
Recipes That Use Pear Juice
I know what you’re thinking. How can I use up this pear juice if I just make a mocktail for one or two people? It stores well in the fridge for a while or can be frozen, but here are some other recipes that use pear juice.
More Mocktails with Ginger
For other mocktails with ginger, try this ginger beer mocktail, blueberry mocktail, or homemade electrolyte drink!
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Sparkling Pear Mocktail
Ingredients
- 1 cup pear juice
- 2 cups coconut water, can also replace with more pear juice
- ¼ cup fresh mint leaves, loosely packed + more for garnish, loosely packed + more for garnish
- ½ lime, juiced
- 1 ½ inch piece of fresh ginger root
- 4-8 ounces sparkling water or club soda
- pinch of mineral sea salt, Redmond's or similar
Instructions
- Place the pear juice, coconut water (if using), mint leaves, lime juice, and ginger into a blender, and blend for about 1 minute. Strain out the pulp through a fine mesh sieve.
- For a mocktail, pour over ice, filling the cup about halfway with the pear juice, then top off the rest with sparkling water and fresh mint leaves.
For pear mocktail ice:
- Pour into a freezer cube container and freeze for up to 12 hours. Place cubes into a glass and top with sparkling water, ginger ale, or non-alcoholic ginger beer to serve.
Notes
- Pear juice can be found with other juices at most grocery stores or health food stores. I recommend RW Knudsen. Although you can use 1 fresh, ripe pear for substitution, this may turn the mixture an unappealing brown color if you don’t drink it right away. If you have any leftover juice, I have some more ideas for how to use it in the post – it’s surprisingly great in pot roast!
- Coconut water – I recommend this option for an electrolyte-rich mocktail, but if you don’t care or hate coconut water, use all pear juice.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Lucious!
Making
Just made these as a reward for cleaning the house. So light and refreshing!
Wish I would have found this site sooner.
Gorgeous looking mocktail! It sounds so delicious too. Can’t wait to try these, everyone will love them.