If you're planning to drink at home over the weekend, Aditya Solanki has lined up a couple of pretty simple cocktails to try.
Once you have the ingredients in place, all you need is a shaker to make the drinks.
These cocktails are not too sweet, citrusy or bubbly. They are meant for a laid-back, relaxed evening with a loved one or friends.
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Citrus And Cloves
Serves: 1
Ingredients
- 2 kaffir lime leaves
- 4-5 lavang or cloves
- 15 ml yuzu, a liqueur made from an East Asian citrus fruit that goes by the same name (you may substitute it with triple sec or an orange-flavoured liqueur)
- 10 ml lime juice
- 60 ml gin
- Coupe glass or a champagne glass or any wide-mouthed glass with a stem
- Ice
- Stick of dalcheeni or cinnamon, to garnish
Method
- Mix all the ingredients together in a shaker filled with ice.
Shake well.
Strain and serve in a coupe glass.
Editor's Note: Fresh kaffir leaves are available at certain vegetable sellers at your local market who stock 'English' vegetables or at gourmet grocery stores.
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Popcorn Sour
Serves: 1
Ingredients
- 60 ml whiskey
- 25 ml lime juice
- 30 ml apple juice
- 15 ml popcorn syrup, available in gourmet grocery stores and online
- Dehydrated lemon wedge, to garnish
- Old-fashioned glass
- Ice
Method
- Combine all the ingredients in a shaker with ice.
Shake well.
Serve in an old-fashioned glass.
Garnish with a lemon wedge.
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Red Burst
Serves: 1
Ingredients
- 45 ml Jack Daniel's whiskey or use regular whiskey
- 15 ml lime juice
- 15 ml triple sec or an orange-flavoured liqueur
- 20 ml sugar syrup
- 20 ml pineapple juice
- Pomegranate arils or seed pods, to garnish
- Rock glass, a short tumber or use a whiskey glass
- Ice
Method
- Add ice in the rock glass.
Add in the whiskey.
Top it with the triple sec, sugar syrup, lime juice and pineapple juice.
Mix.
Garnish with pomegranate pearls.
Serve.
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Aditya Solanki is the head bartender and mixologist at Someplace Else, a fine dining outlet at Jio World Drive, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai.
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