HYDERABAD: Today is World Cocktail Day, a celebration of the art of making cocktails. As an alcoholic mixed drink, cocktails can combine spirits and other ingredients like fruit juice, syrup, cream, bitters, or sugar. Here are a few easy recipes from experts that you can shake, stir and present at home.
LOONI TOONI
Ingredients:
Whiskey 60ml | Angustra bitters 3 dash | Maple syrup 10 ml | Top up stout foam
Method:
● Take a mixing glass add ice to it
● Then drop 3 dash of angustra bitters in to mixing glass
● Add 10ml of maple syrup
● Finally add 60ml of whiskey and mix it for 2-3 min
● Take a chilled whiskey glass and strain on to it and top up with stout foam.
● Garnish with chocolate leaf
ASIAN MULE
Ingredients:
Vodka 60ml |Pink ginger 2 strips |Kafir lime 2 leaves |Lime 15 ml |Sugar syrup 30 ml |Top up soda
Method:
● Add ice to a shaker, add 2 slice of pink ginger
● Add 2 leaves of kafir lime
● Add 15 ml of lime juice and 30 ml of sugar syrup. Finally add 60ml vodka
● Give it a nice hard shake and fine strain in to a chilled brass glass with ice
● Top up with soda and garnish with ginger biscuit
— By Ganesh Rao, Mixologist Farzi Cafe
LOVE IN SPAIN
Ingredients:
Light rum 60 ml | Coconut cream 30 ml |Fresh grated coconut 2 bar spoons | Rose syrup 15 ml | Sugar syrup 10 ml| Rose petals 3 pcs for garnishing
Method:
● Take all the ingredients in shaker along with ice cubes and shake well for 10 to 12 seconds
● Then fine strain over block of ice in old fashioned glass and garnish with rose petals
— By Arun Kumar, Corporate Bar Manager, QUAD Film Nagar
Mango Spitzer
Ingredients:
Gin 60ml |Fresh mango juice 120ml |Vin Ballet white wine 45ml |Lime juice 10ml |Sugar syrup 15ml |Tonic water
Method:
● Peel the mango (½) using a sharp knife, remove the meat of the fruit from the pit. Cut the fruit into bite-sized pieces and make a fresh mango juice
● In a shaker add all the liquid elements and 4 cubes of ice Shake it well and fine strain and pour it in a wine goblet glass add a dash of tonic water
*Note* : Give the spritzer a stir before pouring into glass
By Gokul Kurhade, Winemaker, Chateau Indage
Compiled by Reshmi Chakravorty