As summer continues to heat up, mint offers a refreshing twist to elevate your seasonal dishes. This versatile herb can transform both sweet and savory recipes with its cool, crisp flavor. I’ve gathered 20 Mint Infused Recipes to inspire your summer cooking, from refreshing drinks to zesty salads and desserts. These recipes will help you make the most of this aromatic herb and add a burst of freshness to your warm weather meals.
Honeydew Lime Mocktail with Mint
This Honeydew Lime Mocktail with Mint is a refreshing sugar-free, non-alcoholic honeydew cooler for summer sipping! With hints of lime, mint and even a little ginger, this honeydew cooler is a healthy, energizing drink for adults and kids alike.
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Mint Chocolate Puppy Chow
Mint chocolate puppy chow, or thin mint muddy buddies, is a fun and festive recipe to make for the holidays. You can whip mint puppy chow up in about ten minutes and you’ll love how sweet, crunchy and tasty it is. You don’t need many ingredients to make Andes mint muddy buddies, and everyone is going to find this snack irresistible.
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Mint Chutney Recipe (Pudina Chutney)
Flavorful Mint Chutney Recipe (Pudina Chutney) is made with a simple combination of fresh mint, cilantro, onion, lemon juice, and chile peppers. Vegan and gluten-free, enjoy this Mint Chutney with your favorite roasted vegetables, meats, or warm flatbread.
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Fudgy Chocolate Mint Brownies Recipe with Frosting
These mint brownies are a perfectly sweet, fudgy treat! Celebrate St. Patty’s day with a mint chocolate chip brownie topped with peppermint frosting and drizzled with decadent ganache. You’re going to be obsessed with these fudgy brownies! The mint flavor is a bonus! Happy baking!
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Frozen Mint Lemonade
Both tasty and refreshing, limonana is a frozen mint slush drink. This lemon and mint drink makes a change from other frozen lemon summer drink options. This frozen mint lemonade is a great way to cool down during the warmer months. A frozen lemonade recipe is just what this summer heat needs!
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Layered Strawberry Pineapple Mint Popsicles
Looking for a summer treat or some refreshing ice pops? These layered strawberry pineapple mint popsicles are a great way to cool down. This is an easy layered popsicle recipe with sweet pineapple and mint flavours in every bite. Fresh fruit popsicles with pineapple and mint are just what you need on a hot summer day.
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Thin Mints From Scratch
No need to wait, this copycat Girl Scout Cookie recipe means you can have your favorite chocolate mint cookie at home any time of the year. You’ll be surprised to see how easy it is to make your own Thin Mints From Scratch!
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Albondigas Soup (Mexican Meatball Soup)
Albondigas Soup is a traditional Mexican Meatball Soup filled with nutritious vegetables, fresh herbs, and meatballs (albondigas) made from ground meat, fresh herbs, cooked rice, and garlic. One of The Forked Spoon’s most cherished childhood recipes, you will love this easy, delicious, and comforting soup.
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Watermelon and Feta Salad
This refreshing Summer Watermelon and Feta Salad has it all! Juicy watermelon, tomato, cucumber, and feta cheese are tossed in a minty lemon dressing.
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Watermelon Mint Lemonade
This Chick Fil A watermelon mint lemonade copycat recipe is the perfect combination of sweet watermelon and tangy lemons. It’s one of Sweet Tea and Thyme’s favorite summer drinks!
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Mint Rice
Mint Rice with crumbled feta cheese is a refreshing and savory dish that adds a Mediterranean twist to classic rice, perfect as a side or a main dish.
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Watermelon, Feta and Mint Cake
Sweet watermelon cake packed full of real watermelon flavor and surrounded by a sweet and salty feta mint buttercream. The perfect summer BBQ dessert.
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Mint Simple Syrup
This easy Mint Simple Syrup uses fresh mint from the garden to create an herbal sweet syrup. It’s perfect for sweetening tea, lemonade, and cocktails!
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Mint Chocolate Chip Milkshake
Made with only 3 simple ingredients, this Mint Chocolate Chip Milkshake is creamy, minty, and super delicious! Grab a straw and pretend you are at an old-fashioned ice cream shoppe with this delicious treat!
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Zucchini Salad with Mint
Zucchini salad is a delicious and easy summer dish that’s perfect for an over-abundance of garden produce during the summer montis! It’s light and fresh tasting with fresh lemon juice, fresh mint and feta cheese.
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Chocolate Mint Cupcakes
Looking for a quick chocolate fix? Look no further than these foolproof chocolate mint cupcakes! With an impossibly moist chocolate cupcake base topped with a sweet swirl of mint frosting, these cupcakes are sure to satisfy even the toughest craving.
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Easy Mint, Cantaloup and Fontina Pasta Salad
“This easy 5 ingredient Mint, Cantaloup and Fontina Pasta Salad has been a hit in our family for years! This bright and colorful salad boasts an unexpected refreshing sweet flavor with mint (fresh from the garden, of course!) as the star of the show! Best of all, this pasta salad is made using just 5 ingredients making it so easy to put together.”
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Starbucks Cool Lime Refresher
“Do you miss the now discontinued Starbucks Cool Lime Refresher? Me too! That’s why I came up with this easy copycat recipe. All you need is about 10 minutes of prep time and 5 simple ingredients to make a spot-on DIY version with all the bright, citrusy goodness of the original.”
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Cucumber Potato Salad
Perfect as a summer side dish, this cucumber potato salad is so flavorful from fresh dill and mint. So easy to make as a BBQ side or as picnic food in less than 30 minutes!
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Double Chocolate Andes Mint Cookies
Double Chocolate Andes Mint Cookies are chewy and rich, with both minty Andes mint candy bits and chocolate chips baked into a soft, chocolate cookie.
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