Hot summer days in Bondi beg for refreshing drinks like this. Load up on green tea antioxidants, hydrate with electrolyte-filled coconut water and cool off with cucumber, lime and gut-soothing aloe vera. Hot summer’s night? Add a splash of gin!

Ingredients

　　2 cups (500 ml) green tea, frozen in ice-cube trays

　　12 grapes

　　1 tablespoon honey

　　1 small handful mint

　　Juice of 1 lime

　　1¼ cups (300 ml) coconut water

　　½ Lebanese cucumber (or ¼ English cucumber), sliced

　　1 tablespoon chia seeds

　　1 teaspoon aloe vera juice

　　Put the green tea ice cubes, grapes, honey, mint, lime juice, coconut water and cucumber in a jug, and stir. Add the chia seeds and aloe vera and stir. Set aside for 10 minutes to allow to thicken.

　　From Bondi Harvest © 2016 by Guy Turland and Mark Alston. Buy the full book from HarperCollins or from Amazon.Reprinted with permission from HarperCollins.