Chambord & Champagne: a treat at under 200 calories

My New Year’s resolution to lose some of my holiday weight is slowly paying off, and these low calorie cocktails are helping.  Dieting Salt Lake City cocktail lovers have much to celebrate.  Cocktails with less than 200 calories are compatible with almost any diet.  The last post delivered the recipe for the Chambord Flavored Vodka & Perrier.  Today we have something a little different: a Champagne cocktail recipe from Chambord that weighs in at 199 Calories.  Utah cocktail lovers are already familiar with Chambord® Black Raspberry Liqueur from France.  Add a little sparkling wine and you have a close relative of the Kir Royale: the Chambord & Champagne.  Enjoy.

Chambord & Champagne

1/2 oz Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur

4 oz Korbel® Champagne

Pour Chambord in the bottom of a chilled champagne flute and top with ice-cold champagne.  Drop in a black raspberry and savor the taste.

Chambord Flavored Vodka & Perrier

So how is your New Year’s resolution to lose some of that weight doing?  Living in Salt Lake City, one sees a lot of people who could stand to lose some weight, including me.  Most diets want you to give up cocktails, but what if you had some recipes for cocktails with less than 200 calories?  The previous post delivered the recipe for the Skinny Margarita.  Today we have something a little different.  Chambord® Black Raspberry Liqueur from France is widely available in Utah, and Chambord is now marketing a Chambord flavored Vodka that, when combined with Perrier®, makes a Chambord Flavored Vodka & Perrier, a simple, refreshing cocktail that weighs in at only 108 Calories and tastes great.  The people at Chambord Flavored Vodka have provided a cocktail recipe that is low in calories, high in taste, and easy to make. What more could a dieter want?

Chambord Flavored Vodka & Perrier

1 ½ oz Chambord Flavored Vodka

3 oz Perrier®

Pour vodka into a glass filled with ice and top with Perrier. Garnish with a lemon wedge and a black raspberry.

The Skinny Margarita cocktail may match your New Year’s resolution needs

The holiday season was unkind (vis à vis weight) to many in Salt Lake City and across the USA; sadly, the Utah Mixologist is among them.  New Year’s resolutions (or just plain common sense) demand weight loss, but most dietary regimens mandate that you forsake cocktails.  What, then, is a dedicated cocktailian to do when faced with such a dilemma?  Well, the folks at Casa Noble Tequila have come to our aid with a low-calorie cocktail recipe that’s a close cousin of one of our favorite cocktails, the Margarita.  By eliminating the (sweet) Triple Sec, Casa Noble has trimmed the Margarita down to less than 200 calories.  Now that’s change we can all get our behinds behind! 

My wife brought home a bottle of agave nectar late last year, and it didn’t take long to taste how it improved our Margaritas, plus agave nectar has a low glycemic index.  If you don’t have any, be sure to pick some up.  The best thing is that if you find this cocktail a little on the sweet side, you can save even more calories by cutting back on the agave nectar.  Casa Noble Crystal is a Blanco Tequila, and you know how well Blancos and Margaritas go together.   Future posts will feature additional low calorie cocktails, but for now: Olé!

Skinny Margarita (from Casa Noble)

• 2 oz Casa Noble Crystal (Blanco) Tequila
• 1 oz fresh lime juice (or the juice of 1 whole lime)
• ¾ oz La Sierra agave nectar (or other organic agave nectar)

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake, strain and serve up or on the rocks. Garnish with a lime wheel. To salt rim – moisten rim of glass with lime and gently roll in a plate of kosher salt.