Low FODMAP Cocktails

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

FODMAP Friendly wishes you a very Happy New Year and all the best for 2021!
To celebrate this New Year and a cheers to 2020, here are our Top 8 low FODMAP Cocktails to try.
Stick to the serve sizes and if you wish, you can leave the alcohol out and make a delicious mocktail instead!
Have fun, be creative and relax!  Here’s to a Magical 2021!
The top 8 low FODMAP cocktail recipes included are a low FODMAP Strawberry Shine, Italian Giro, Cosmopolitan, Mule, Gimlet, Bloody Mary, Lemon Fizz and White Sangria.

The recipes are created to share with your friends or family, enjoy great drinks and great company!

Low FODMAP Strawberry Shine

Serves 4

Ingredients:

200g strawberries
120mL vodka
400g ice
1 lime juice

Method:

1. Blend the strawberries.
2. Add vodka and lime juice.  Blend very briefly.
3. Add 100 gram ice add a time and blend.  You can add more or less ice as per your preference.
4. Divide the mixture into 4 martini or cocktail glasses.
5. Garnish with a slice of strawberry, lime or both.

Tip: Strawberries have tested low FODMAP at  a 50 gram serve size and vodka at a 30mL serve size.

Low FODMAP Italian Giro

Serves 4

Ingredients:

120mL lemon juice
120mL whisky / bourbon
8 cherry tomatoes
10 fresh basil leaves
4 tablespoons or 80 grams maple syrup
Ice

Method:

1. Muddle the tomatoes and basil leaves.
2. Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake very well.
3. Pour into 4 old fashioned glasses.
4. Garnish each with a basil leaf.

Tip: Whisky is low FODMAP at a 30mL serve size.
If you have a large cocktail shaker, you can make all the one shaker, other split into 2 serves.  You can also mix in a blender if you keep all your ingredients cold in the fridge or freezer, then leave the ice out.

Low FODMAP Cosmopolitan

Serves 4

Ingredients:

40mL lime juice
240mL cranberry juice
120mL vodka
Ice

Method:

1. Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake.
2. Strain into 4 cocktail glasses.
3. Garnish with orange zest or a lime wedge

Tip:  If you have a large cocktail shaker, you can make all the one shaker, other split into 2 serves.  You can also mix in a blender if you keep all your ingredients cold in the fridge or freezer, then leave the ice out.

Low FODMAP Mule

Serves 4

Ingredients:

1 lime juice
360mL ginger beer
120mL vodka
Ice, crushed

Method:

1. Add lime juice, ginger beer and vodka to a jug and stir well.
2. Pour into 4 highball glasses, don’t fill to top.
3. Add several tablespoons of crushed ice to each glass and sir very well.
4. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Low FODMAP Gimlet

Serves 4

Ingredients:

240mL lime juice
120mL gin
6 teaspoons or 40 grams rice malt syrup

Method:

1. Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake very well to mix in syrup.
2. Strain into 4 cocktail glasses.
3. Garnish with a lime slice.

Tip:  If you have a large cocktail shaker, you can make all the one shaker, other split into 2 serves.  You can also mix in a blender if you keep all your ingredients cold in the fridge or freezer, then leave the ice out.
Gin is low FODMAP at a 30mL serve size.

Low FODMAP Bloody Mary

Serves 4

Ingredients:

60mL lime juice
120mL vodka
60mL Worcestershire sauce
Tomato juice (blend 300mL water, 300 grams of cherry tomatoes and a pinch of pepper)

Method:

1. Make the tomato juice first – using a blender.
2. Then to the tomato juice mixture, add the lime juice, vodka and Worcestershire sauce.  Blend briefly.
3. Pour into 4 collins or tall glasses.
4. Garnish with celery sticks and lemon slices.

Tip:  Worcestershire sauce – 2 tablespoons per person is appropriate as low FODMAP.

Low FODMAP Lemon Fizz

Serves 4

Ingredients:

120mL lemon juice
120mL gin
Soda water
6 teaspoons or 40 grams rice malt syrup
Ice

Method:

1. Add lemon juice, gin, syrup and ice to a cocktail shaker and shake very well to mix in syrup.
2. Shake again, very well.
3. Strain into 4 tall glasses and top each glass with soda water.
3. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

Tip:  If you have a large cocktail shaker, you can make all the one shaker, other split into 2 serves.  You can also mix in a blender if you keep all your ingredients cold in the fridge or freezer, then leave the ice out.

Low FODMAP White Sangria

Serves 6

Ingredients:

750mL (25 oz) white wine
500mL (2 cups) soda water
100 gram white sugar – you can change this to suit your taste preference and even switch for stevia or maple syrup
1 cup of frozen strawberries
1 cup of frozen blueberries
1 orange, sliced

Method:

1. Add the white wine and sugar to a jug.  Stir very well to dissolve sugar.
2. Add the soda water.
3. Add the frozen blueberries, frozen strawberries and sliced oranges.
4. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
5. Serve into 6 wine glasses and use a serving spoon to ensure equal amounts of fruit go into each glass.

Tip:  You can leave out the sugar, stevia and maple syrup.  You can switch the soda water for lemonade or ginger ale.  You can switch the strawberries for raspberries
If this becomes a mocktail, leave out the wine and change to 750mL lemonade, 500mL ginger beer.

Tips

• Watch out for high FODMAP ingredients like honey, agave syrup, high fructose corn syrup and of course some fruits (apple, apricot, mango)
• If you want to drink alcohol, some lower FODMAP ones are gin, whisky, vodka and wine.
• Alcohol can irritate your gut so try stick to 1 to 2 drinks.  The serve sizes above are a very good guideline. 
• If you see agave syrup or honey is some common cocktail recipes, switch for Rx Sugar or Snew as a FODMAP Friendly sweet option.