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Watermelon Mimosas

This watermelon mimosa recipe is a refreshing summer brunch cocktail. They're great any time of day, really! Recipe yields 6 to 8 mimosas.

Updated by Kathryne Taylor on August 29, 2024

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What do you do when you have extra watermelon? Make watermelon juice, or better yet, watermelon mimosas! They are a fun twist on classic orange mimosas. These refreshing brunch (or any time) cocktails are supremely simple, but I couldn’t keep the idea to myself. We can’t let good watermelon go to waste.

Here’s the trick with watermelon mimosas: they’re only as good as your watermelon. I recently bought a mini watermelon that was pale pink and kind of sour on the inside, and that watermelon would have made lousy watermelon mimosas.

I used a pretty standard store-bought watermelon to make these, but I’m still day dreaming about the sugar baby watermelon I bought at a farmers’ market four years ago when I made that first batch of watermelon juice. Picking out all the seeds wasn’t my favorite activity, but it was worth it.

If mimosas aren’t your favorite, check out my spicy watermelon margaritas or my simple and healthy watermelon popsicles. I also tried out Alexa’s trick for cutting watermelon on July 4th, and it was a big hit with my family, so that’s another fun way to prepare watermelon. Cheers to summertime!

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Watermelon Mimosas

• Author: Kathryne Taylor
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 10 minutes
• Yield: 6 cocktails

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These watermelon mimosas are a refreshing summer brunch cocktail. They’re great any time of day, really! Recipe yields enough watermelon juice to make one Champagne bottle’s worth of mimosas (that’s 6 to 8 mimosas, depending on how boozy you like them).

Ingredients

• ⅓ medium watermelon, preferably chilled (seedless watermelon is the easiest to work with, but sugar baby watermelons are the most tasty)
• 1 bottle Champagne, chilled (I like brut Champagne, but if you like sweeter Champagne, that works, too)
• Optional, for extra sweetness: simple syrup or St. Germain, to taste

Instructions

1. First, make watermelon juice: If your watermelon is not seedless, remove all of the black seeds first. Then, scoop all of the pink watermelon flesh into your blender, leaving the sour green part around the perimeter behind.
2. Secure the lid on the blender and blend until it is completely smooth. Pour the watermelon juice through a fine-mesh strainer into a liquid measuring cup or bowl. Use a spoon to stir and press all of the juice through the strainer, then discard the solids.
3. To prepare the mimosas: Fill each Champagne flute about halfway up with Champagne (you may need to do this just a little bit at a time to avoid overflow). Then, carefully fill each glass with watermelon juice, leaving about an inch of room at the top.
4. Taste, and if you’d like it to be a little sweeter, add a tiny splash of simple syrup or St. Germain—this will really depend on the sweetness of the watermelon and your taste buds. Serve immediately!

Notes

Recipe adapted from my watermelon juice.

Nutrition

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• Category: Cocktail
• Method: Poured
• Cuisine: American