I have a confession, I’m having a love affair with the Mojito at the moment. This isn’t just any old fling, it’s a full blown affair and it’s been going on for some time now. As we make our way into the warmer weather I know my infatuation is only going to get worse and with bikini season approaching this affair had to become a Skinny Mojito.
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The only way I was going to stop this obsession from getting the better of me, was to set up some boundaries. First of all, my Mojito and I could only get together once all the days work was done! No sneaking off together, and ditching work.
Secondly I had to find a way to reduce the calories of my nearest and dearest.
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Mojitos are not as bad as some cocktails when it comes to empty calories. When you compare the Mojito to a pina colada or any other milk or syrup based cocktail it actually looks quite good. But at a whopping 350 calories per cocktail, we were never going to get too serious.
If our love was to continue, I would need to indulge with the minimum of guilt. I needed a way to take the drink from 350 calories down to about 150. Otherwise the Mojito and I would have a giant falling out once bikini season started.
![Mojito Mojito](https://www.meatandtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Mojito-From-Above.jpg)
I needed to devise a recipe for the skinny Mojito! I took a look at the ingredients of a standard lime mojito and found that the one unchangeable component was the white rum. 45mls of white rum is needed in a Mojito and is equal to 150 calories. Wow! Well you can’t do without the booze in a cocktail so that had to stay.
![Mojito Ingredients Mojito Ingredients](https://www.meatandtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Mojito-Ingredients.jpg)
Lime and mint makes up the flavour combination I love, and at a tiny 5 calories combined they were definitely going to be a part of my Skinny Mojito make over. My problem was with the two tablespoons of sugar. That isn’t a lot of sugar when you’re trying to sweeten lime and Bacardi (white rum), but at 193 calories it had to go.
Take a look at my skinny Mojito! It has just 157 calories, give or take 1 or 2 calories and it tastes every bit as good as the original. Better when you consider you could drink two for less than the calorie load of one regular Mojito.
![Alfresco Friday Skinny Mojito](https://www.meatandtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Alfresco-Friday-Skinny-Mojito.jpg)
Skinny Mojito Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients
- 45 mls white rum bacardi
- 1/2 lime cut into 4 segments
- 10 leaves mint
- 125 ml sugar free lemonade
- 1 cup ice
Instructions
- Place the white rum, and two of the lime segments with the mint into a cocktail shaker.
- Muddle the ingredients ensuring you bruise the lime and mint to release the flavours.
- Add one more lime segment and the rum and bruise a little more.
- Add the ice and shake in the cocktail shaker.
- Pour the mixture into the serving glass and top with the diet lemonade.
- Garnish with mint and the remaining segment of lime!
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
To make a jug of the skinny mojito just multiply the recipe by four. I shared my love affair of Mojito’s in case you wanted to take my skinny Mojito for a spin this weekend. I strongly suggest making a jug for your next BBQ or picnic.
![Skinny Mojito! Skinny Mojito!](https://www.meatandtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Skinny-Mojito1.jpg)
…but be careful, you just might fall in love.