Sip on this summer orange spritz for a refreshing treat that reminds you to slow down and enjoy more of life. This non-alcoholic orange spritz can even be your winter mocktail at holiday parties, allowing everyone to join in the celebration with bright, cheery, citrus flavors that renew your zest for life!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Refreshing: This orange spritz is perfect for quenching thirst and bursts with cheerful citrus.
- Festive: Although it is summery, citrus is at its prime in the cooler months, making it the perfect winter mocktail for your holiday parties.
- Healthy: My orange spritz mocktail is made from fresh and pure ingredients that you can feel good about serving to your whole family.
Nutrition For Mental Health
Did you know that one orange is 86% water? It contains 1.3 grams of protein, 14.8 grams of carbs, and 0.2 grams of fat. Oranges are rich in antioxidants and vitamin C. They also contain smaller amounts of folate, calcium, and potassium. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial including students found that vitamin C supplementation could improve anxiety.
Ingredients + Substitutions
These ingredients make this orange spritz a delight, but if you’re having trouble locating them, here’s what to do!
- Citrus: For this orange mocktail recipe, I used a Cara Cara orange and a lemon. Feel free to use any type of orange, such as a navel or blood orange.
A full list of ingredients with exact amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
How To Make An Orange Spritz Mocktail
Whether you’ve just found out guests are dropping by or you’ve been planning a gathering, this non-alcoholic orange spritz is easy to make in minutes!
- Juice the orange and lemon into a liquid measuring cup with a citrus press. Pour in maple syrup and salt and whisk until thoroughly combined.
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- Fill a glass with ice and pour citrus mixture over top, followed by sparkling water, and a sprig of mint.
Servings Ideas
Turn your gathering into a full-blown feast with the orange spritz mocktail as your ultimate refreshment. It’s great with vegan minestrone and a beetroot veggie sandwich for less formal events. It also complements my veggie pesto pizza, roasted carrots and sweet potatoes, and vegan mashed sweet potatoes for a traditional sit-down meal. Don’t forget dessert – try my eggless blueberry pie, banana blackberry muffins, or banana pecan muffins.
Storage Tips
When making an orange spritz mocktail for a crowd, you can prepare the base sans sparkling water. It is best to add the sparkling water just before serving. If you keep the sparkling water separate, you can refrigerate the rest of the mocktail mixture for up to 2 days. Adding the sparkling water too far in advance of serving will result in a flat mocktail.
FAQ
A non-alcoholic orange spritz has fresh-squeezed orange juice, fresh lemon juice, and sparkling water. I like to elevate it with maple syrup, fresh herbs, and a pinch of salt, serving it over ice.
You can use orange juice from the store, though it will most likely have added sugar. Whereas, squeezing your own fresh juice has none. There’s something even more refreshing about using fresh-squeezed orange juice in this winter mocktail, too, that makes it all come together even better.
Orange spritz mocktails rely on orange juice, and squeezing that juice fresh is the key. You can use any oranges you have for this, and after squeezing them, squeeze fresh lemon. I add maple syrup and salt, then combine and add over ice, finishing with the sparkling water and a sprig of fresh rosemary or mint to garnish.
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Recipe
Orange Spritz
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 Cara Cara orange, juice from orange
- 1 medium lemon, juice from lemon
- 2 teaspoons maple syrup
- Pinch of salt
- sparkling water
- ice
- fresh rosemary
Instructions
- Juice the orange and lemon into a liquid measuring cup with a citrus press. Pour in maple syrup and salt and whisk until thoroughly combined.
- Fill a glass with ice and pour citrus mixture over top, followed by sparkling water, and a sprig of mint or rosemary.
Notes
Did you know that one orange is 86% water? It contains 1.3 grams of protein, 14.8 grams of carbs, and 0.2 grams of fat. Oranges are rich in antioxidants and vitamin C. They also contain smaller amounts of folate, calcium, and potassium. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial including students found that vitamin C supplementation could improve anxiety. Storage Tips
When making an orange spritz mocktail for a crowd, you can prepare the base sans sparkling water. It is best to add the sparkling water just before serving. If you keep the sparkling water separate, you can refrigerate the rest of the mocktail mixture for up to 2 days. Adding the sparkling water too far in advance of serving will result in a flat mocktail.
Nutrition
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Reference
de Oliveira, I. J., de Souza, V. V., Motta, V., & Da-Silva, S. L. (2015). Effects of Oral Vitamin C Supplementation on Anxiety in Students: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Pakistan journal of biological sciences : PJBS, 18(1), 11–18. https://doi.org/10.3923/pjbs.2015.11.18
This is so refreshing! I’m going to make it again tomorrow!
Awesome. So glad you like it.