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posted: 07/08/16

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This easy low calorie Mojito Recipe is light and refreshing and just 90 calories! With just four ingredients, it’s the perfect easy summer cocktail!

a mason jar with a low calorie mojito in it garnished with a lime wedge

Mojitos are one of my favorite cocktails! But sometimes I can’t do all the sugar. This low calorie version is just perfect. And if you are growing mint in your garden, you can have it all summer long!

Mojito Recipe

This Mojito Recipe is simple, easy to make, and totally delicious. You will find yourself coming back to this recipe over and over again!
up close view of a high ball glass filled with a mojito cocktail, lime slices, fresh mint, striped green straws, and garnished with lime wedges and fresh mint

Low Calorie Mojito Ingredients

While it is not the original, these four simple ingredients blend together perfectly. Here’s all you need:

  • White Rum: Read my recommendations below.
  • Fresh Mint Leaves: While you can find fresh mint all year long in the grocery store, if it is the summer months, I suggest that you buy a plant. It won’t be much more and you can make mojitos all summer.
  • Lime Juice: I recommend using fresh lime juice in this (and all) cocktail. But if you are in a pinch, bottled lime juice will work.
  • Diet Soda: I love 7UP or Sprite as it gives this cocktail a sweet flavor and another dimension of lime. If sweet drinks aren’t your thing, swap in club soda.
a woman holding a mason jar with a mojito in it

How to Make a Low Cal Mojito

This is a brief overview of how to make this delicious light cocktail. For the full recipe with all of the ingredients, see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

  1. Muddle the rum, lime juice, and the mint together. This can be done with a muddler or with the bottom of a kitchen utensil, like an ice cream scoop.
  2. Top with ice. Add ice to the glass.
  3. Top with soda. Add in the diet lemon lime soda and then stir to combine.

Mojito Calories

A classic mojito cocktail usually lands around 240 calories each, with its mixture of lime juice, sugar, mint leaves, soda and rum. Rum can be a little higher in calories than other types of alcohol.

On the other hand, this lighter mojito drink is only 90 calories per serving! Even with the rum, cutting out the sugar of a regular mojito really lowers those carbs and calories. I promise you will never miss the sugar with this delicious cocktail.

Serving Low Calorie Mojitos

I love serving these in these great mason jars, but you could really serve them in any glass. It’s what’s inside that counts, right?

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MORE MOJITO RECIPES

If you love this simple mojito recipe, you’ll go crazy for my twists on the classic cocktail:

I hope you love this Simple Mojito Recipe as much as I do! Please comment below and let me know what you think. Cheers to summer and mojitos all season long!

a mason jar with a low calorie mojito in it garnished with a lime wedge
5 from 3 votes

Simple Mojito Recipe

Serves: 2
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Prep: 5 minutes
Total: 5 minutes
This easy low calorie Mojito Recipe is light and refreshing and just 90 calories! With just four ingredients, it's the perfect easy summer cocktail!

Ingredients

  • 6 fresh mint leaves
  • 2 ounces white rum
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice (about the juice of one lime)
  • 8 ounces diet lemon lime soda like 7UP or Sprite

Instructions

  • Divide the mint leaves and lime juice between two glasses.
    6 fresh mint leaves
  • Add rum and lime juice to each glass and muddle.
    2 ounces white rum, 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • Add a little ice, top with the soda, and stir to combine.
    8 ounces diet lemon lime soda
Serving: 1cocktail Calories: 90kcal (5%) Carbohydrates: 5g (2%) Sodium: 1mg Potassium: 33mg (1%) Sugar: 2g (2%) Vitamin C: 19mg (23%)
Author: Lisa Longley
Course: cocktails
Cuisine: Cuban
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  1. Sarah says

    Love the recipes. I made a Green Tea Mint Mojito Sangria that I think you would like.

    • Lisa Longley says

      Sounds delicious!

  2. Patrick says

    5 stars
    Lisa,

    You are very crafty in the kitchen everything looks so delicious even your drinks are jumping off the page!

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