How Do You Make STRAWBERRY DAIQUIRIS?
How Do You Make Strawberry Daiquiris easy, thick, & taste great? It’s made simple with just a blender and a few ingredients including your choice of either fresh or frozen strawberries. So, keep reading for lots of tips to make it FAST & EASY. Also, this is part of our Beverages Recipes Category.
Strawberry Daiquiri Recipe
Equipment
- 1 blender
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Ingredients
- 1 lb strawberries fresh or frozen
- ½ cup simple syrup or 50% sugar mixed with 50% water
- ⅛ tsp kosher salt
- ¼ cup lime juice
- 1 cup white or light rum such as Bacardi Superior Rum – Carta Blanca
- 1 cup ice
- 2 cups water
Instructions
- After you have washed and sliced strawberries (or just use frozen), put them in the blender along with the rest of the ingredients.
- Start the <Extract> cycle or press <Blend> until smooth. Other blenders also may have a frozen or smoothie setting to use. Garnish with fresh strawberries. Enjoy!
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Strawberry Daiquiri Equipment
The usage of the blender for a frozen strawberry daiquiri or one with fresh strawberries makes it super easy and fast. Also, if you have an extraction option on your blender, you can choose that. Ours takes about a minute to run through its cycle with various automatic pauses.
If yours doesn’t have the Extract cycle, you can consider simply running the blending process with a few start and stop actions until you get your desired consistency. So, this is easily done using the “Pulse” button.
Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri Ingredients
Strawberry Daiquiri ingredients consist of some key classic items and here they are.
- Strawberries, fresh or frozen (or combination of both)
- Light Rum
- Lime Juice
- Simple Syrup
- Ice
- Water
- pinch of Salt
How Do You Make Strawberry Daiquiris with Frozen Strawberries?
If you want the fastest version, make a strawberry daiquiri with frozen strawberries. Just go ahead and use a frozen 1 pound bag of whole strawberries in place of fresh strawberries. However, you always want to avoid the sweetened frozen strawberries for this recipe.
At times, frozen are actually cheaper than fresh strawberries and the flavor is still great. Also, it saves time since you don’t have to cut the ends off each strawberry. It’s also safer in case you’re making a 2nd batch. That’s because you won’t need to handle a knife after having consumed the first batch. Safety first!
Also, we’ve tested Wal-Mart’s Great Value brand of frozen whole strawberries and they were excellent. Or, if you like, you can use a combination of frozen and fresh strawberries. You still use the same amount of strawberries called for overall. So, you just add their combined quantities together.
How Do You Make Strawberry Daiquiris with Fresh Strawberries?
So, how do you make strawberry daiquiris with fresh strawberries? It’s definitely a very special drink when you use fresh strawberries. It takes a little extra time but sometimes it just seems a touch better. However, you do have to trim off the strawberry caps.
Also, it’s often easier to get fresh strawberries from the grocer than frozen strawberries at different times through the year. You can mix a combination of fresh and frozen strawberries if you like. The quantities overall remain the same when added together.
Strawberry Daiquiri Liquor
The original strawberry daiquiri liquor uses a white rum, i.e., “Carta Blanca”. This is commonly known as a Bacardi Superior rum. However, there are many other non-classic strawberry daiquiri recipes that will call for a dark rum or vodka. And, even some recipes called for 3 parts light rum and 1 part triple sec.
What is the Proper Liquor to Use for Making the Strawberry Daiquiri?
How do you make strawberry daiquiris using the proper liquor? So, the correct one to use is the classic white rum. Subsequently, this is the main liquor, which goes back to the 1700s for the original generic daiquiri drink. In other words, use Bacardi Superior rum.
For a Strawberry Daiquiri How Much Alcohol is Required?
For a single drink of about 10-12 ounces, it takes about 1-1/2 ounces of rum.
How Do You Make Strawberry Daiquiris The Easy Way?
This is how to make strawberry daiquiris in a very easy way. It’s really just a matter of getting the right amounts of the proper ingredients and mixing them into a blender.
How Do You Make Strawberry Daiquiris For One?
You can change the amount of the recipe and make a strawberry daiquiri for one. As the recipe calls for 6 servings, use the built-in recipe <Resizer> to decrease the recipe size to the number of drinks you will want. For example, as it makes 6 drinks, and if you wanted 2, you can tap the <1/3> ingredients amount. Or, for custom amounts, tap the phrase <Change Servings…> and a prompt lets you enter in any quantity.
How Do You Make Strawberry Daiquiris Thicker?
You can make a strawberry daiquiri thicker in 2 ways. Here they are.
- Consider decreasing the amount of time the blender is running. However, if it’s a necessary run time, then change it to a manual pulsing option. In other words, use can use an on & off session repeated until it looks right.
- Thicken up the strawberry daiquiri by lowering the water and increasing the ice amounts. However, that’s not done in equal amounts. So, you’ll want it to be about a 2 to 1 ratio of ice to water. For example, to make it thicker, increase the ice by 1/2 cup and decrease the water by 1/4 cup.
How Do You Make Strawberry Daiquiris Not Frozen?
To make a strawberry daiquiri not frozen, just follow the original recipe but reduce the ice by 1/2 and increase the water by 1/4. Also, you can run the blender longer and it will melt the rest of the ice quicker. Your drinks will still be cold by retaining some of the ice but they won’t be frozen.
How Do You Make Strawberry Daiquiris Virgin Drink?
To make virgin strawberry daiquiris, just leave out the liquor and replace it with cold water. That’s it!
What to Use for a Strawberry Daiquiri Garnish
Here are the following acceptable options.
- The best is this: A whole fresh strawberry (with its cap intact), cut to rest on the rim of the glass, also along with a lime slice. And this coincides with a tropical colored straw. No umbrella. Lol!
- A slice of lime on the rim of the glass.
- Only A frozen whole strawberry cut to rest on the rim of the glass.
- A frozen whole strawberry pierced with a toothpick with both ends resting on the glass rim.
- The final option: Start on your 2nd daiquiri and the need to locate garnishes fades away.
Strawberry Daiquiri Nutrition
The strawberry daiquiri nutrition shows a little under 200 calories per drink. Also, it’s low sodium. The details of its nutrition label appears when you tap the <Print Recipe> button and choose the option box named like “Nutrition”.
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Origin of the Daiquiri
Read about the more detailed Cuban history of the original classic daiquiri recipe. In summary, it seems like it started back in the 1700s in Cuba. Then, it evolved more recently into the fruit flavored and frozen drink. Also, as it turns out, our recipe is like the very original. And both had the added strawberries, pinch of salt, and ice.
Conclusion of How Do You Make Strawberry Daiquiris
In conclusion, making a strawberry daiquiri is easy and can be done with fresh or frozen strawberries. Also, you’ve learned how to ensure it’s thick and slushy. So, whether you’re relaxing on the beach or enjoying a summer party, this drink is sure to please. Now, go ahead and give it a try!
I always thought you needed a special frozen drink maker for this. Glad to know a regular blender works. Thoroughly enjoyed this last night. It was so good, I couldn’t type anything until today. Lol.