Gintastic punch with fresh mint & cucumber

AUTHOR
Leta Marks
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3.9 11
Your friends are just too thirsty to mix them each gin and tonic separately? Thanks to a help-yourself station like in mum's party cellar nobody is sitting on the dry land anymore, but everybody can fill his own long drink
COOK TIME
15 mins
TOTAL TIME
15 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 1 Cucumber
  • 1/2 bunch fresh mint
  • 1 Organic Lime
  • 1 Organic Orange
  • 1 bottle (à 700 ml) Gin (e.g. Hendrick's)
  • 2 bottle(s) (1 liter each) Tonic water
  • 7-10 Tbsp Crushed ice or ice cubes
  • 1 large bowl (approx. 4 l capacity)

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash and clean the cucumber and cut it in half crosswise. Cut 1 half lengthwise into long, wafer-thin slices with a peeler. Cut the other half into round slices with a knife. Wash the mint, shake dry and roughly pluck the leaves.

  2. 2

    Rinse lime and orange hot. Cut lime into slices. Use a knife to cut the orange peel very thinly into strips from the orange.

  3. 3

    Pour gin into the bowl. Add cucumber, mint, lime and orange peel and let it stand for about 5 minutes. Then remove orange peel. Fill up punch with tonic. Prepare glasses filled with crushed ice or ice cubes and serve the punch immediately. Let the evening begin!