Cucumber Mojito
Learn how to make a super refreshing mojito with muddled cucumber! You'll love this light summer cocktail made with mint, cucumber, rum, club soda and lime.
Updated by Kathryne Taylor on August 29, 2024
Long summer days are the best, aren’t they? Ninety-plus temperatures can be draining, but I never stop riding the summer wavelength. I love it. I love the buzz I feel inside and the echo of the creatures buzzing outside. I love the summer thunderstorms that rattle my little house with thunder. One is rolling through right now, flexing its muscles in distant booms and waves of rain.
When the sun is shining down, I love to sit on a patio and sip on an ice cold and clinking, fizzy drink. This cocktail is perfect for that. I thought minty mojitos couldn’t get more refreshing… until I added cucumber, that is. It lends some marvelously complimentary, fresh flavor without fighting the mint. Break out that muddler, because mojito season is officially here!
Cucumber Mojito
Learn how to make a super refreshing mojito with muddled cucumber! You’ll love this light summer cocktail made with mint, cucumber, rum, club soda and lime.
Ingredients
Per mojito
- 2-inch slice of peeled cucumber, halved into two rounds and then quartered
- 10 fresh mint leaves
- 1 ½ to 2 teaspoons cane sugar, to taste
- 1 small to medium lime, juiced
- 1 ½ ounces clear rum
- Club soda
Instructions
- In a tall, sturdy glass, muddle the cucumber, mint and sugar until the cucumber offers no more resistance.
- Fill the glass with ice, then pour in the lime juice and rum. Top off with club soda and stir. Serve with a thick straw.
Notes
Recipe adapted from my cucumber mint gimlet and Rainier cherry mojito.
Nutrition
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This sounds perfectly refreshing without being overly sweet — I like that a lot! Beautiful photos as well!
Thanks, Lisa! I don’t like too-sweet cocktails and I’d say this one is just right! :)
Adding cucumber is a great idea! This looks lovely!
This sounds like an amazing idea, I’ll definitely try this out! x
I love a good summer thunderstorm too – we’ve had a lot of those lately. I’ve also been super into putting lime and cucumber into my soda water, but haven’t even thought to make it boozy – this looks awesome!
Thanks, Katie! Love me some cucumber water in the summer. Add booze, even better! :)
I love Mojitos! It’s especially great for the summer.
Will definitely give this a go!
I bet a pitcher of these would make a hot summer afternoon get-together just perfect! So refreshing.
Oh yes, that would be perfect!!!
I adore a good porch cocktail too, especially on a Friday evening! Summer seems to be racing by, so I’m all for slowing down and taking in a few of these :)
How refreshing :D
So refreshing, just what I need in this current heat wave!
So funny, I was just thinking of how good a cucumber mojito would be earlier today and here you are with these! Perfect timing, I tell ya.
I love mojito’s…perfect for a pool day!!
My sister loves mojitos–I wish I would have had this recipe when she was just in town for her b-day! Oh well, I suppose I can still test it out…
No harm in testing before her next visit, nope! :)
This drink would be just perfect for a warm summer with my boyfriend or a couple of friends! :)
I’d say! Cheers!!!
Looks so refreshing and delish! What a perfect summer drink.
xx Lane
I loved mixed drinks with cucumber for the summer. This one looks like it’s right up my alley!
I had my first mojito this week! This is incredible. Spa water meets mojito? All the way yes.
Haha, that is the perfect way to put it! Hope you’ll get a chance to try a cucumber mojito soon!
This looks so good! Love cucumbers in drinks, might make tonight. I need refreshment in this god awful heat rn :D
This drink and something similar with Hendricks gin is great for the summer. I recently discovered muddling 1 jalapeño on its own in the glass, and using juice premise in a juicer from a cucumber with this drink as well. Muddling cucumber works as well but either way you do it, the jalapeño gives it a KICK and mixes deliciously with the cucumber :-)
Using cucumber juice prejuiced from a juice, not premised.
Enjoying cucumbers from my garden in a cucumber mojito.: )
Now I see why I could never get a good mojito after our favorite drink in Cuba. We were drinking at an outside bar where the mint was growing at the bartender’s finger tips and Cuban Rum made a difference. Also they were not too sweet.