Cocktail Recipes To Get You Into The Festive Spirit
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fter spending the previous holiday season at home, this year's season is even more special. As you prepare for the festivities, keep in mind a tasty drink to raise a toast with your loved ones is essential.
Asmani Subramanian and Shantanu Sengupta, Diageo India Brand Ambassadors, have developed a list of delightful cocktail recipes that will put you in the holiday spirit and impress all your guests.
Singleton Brew
Ingredients
Singleton of Glendullan 60 ml
Espresso shot 10 ml
Chilled tonic
Orange slice For garnish
Method
Take a rock glass filled with cube ice
Add Singleton and Espresso shot
Top with chilled tonic and stir gently
Garnish with orange slice
Ethereal
Ingredients
Gordons 60 ml
Rose Syrup/Rooh Afza 20 ml
Lime Juice 20 ml
Edible flower/Fresh Rose Petals For garnish
Method
Fill shaker with ice cubes
Add all ingredients and shake well
Strain in anold fashion glassand garnish with flower
The festive punch
Ingredients
Talisker 10 YO750 ml
Clear apple Juice 1500 ml
Darjeeling TeaChilled 400 ml
Lime Juice 100ml
Honey 60 ml
Spices/ Orange Wedges For garnish
Method
Fill a large punch bowl with ice cubes
Add all the ingredients and mix Well
Using a ladle to pour
Masala chai martini
Ingredients
Baileys 60 ml
Chilled Masala Chai 30 ml
Kesar Badam Milk 30 ml
Method
Add all the ingredients in a shaker filled with Ice Cubes
Shake week and strain into martini Glass
Garnish with Star Anise and Serve
Johnnie Black Fashionable
Ingredients
Johnnie Walker Black Label 45 ml
Sugar Syrup 10 ml
Orange Juice 30 ml
Bitters 1 (Optional)
Orange Wheel For Garnish
Method
Fill up the old-fashionedglass with ice
Add all ingredients and stir gently
Garnish with an orange wheel
Johnnie Red Mint Soda
Ingredients
Johnnie Walker Red Label 45 ml
Mint Leaves 5-6
Lemon 1
Soda 150 ml
Ice 3-4 Cubes
Method
Muddle few mints leaves iamp; lemon chunks in a shaker
Add Johnnie Walker Red Label and shake with ice
Strain into ice-filled tall glass and top up with soda
Garnish with mint sprig
Buchanan's Ginger Highball
Ingredients
Black iamp; White Scotch 45 ml
Lime Juice 10 ml
Bitter 1 (Optional)
Ginger Ale 150 ml
Method
Fill up a tall glass with ice
Add Black iamp; White, lime juice and dash of bitters
Top up with Ginger Ale
Black Reserve Coffee Apple Fizz
Ingredients
Black Dog 45 ml
Black Coffee Liquor 30 ml
Cinnamon Syrup 10 ml
Apple Juice 60 ml
Soda 50 ml
Apple fan iamp; Black Olives For Garnish
Method
Fill up a tall glass with ice
Add all ingredients and stir well
Top up with soda
Garnish with an apple fan and 2-3 black olives
Smirnoff Citrus Tonic
Ingredients
Smirnoff 45 ml
Lime juice 15 ml
Tonic Water 120 ml
Citrus wheel For garnish
Method
Fill up a tall glass with ice
Add all ingredients and stir gently
Garnish with citrus fruit wheels
Celebration Fushion
Ingredients
McDowell's No.1 Celebration Rum 240 ml
Basil leaves 12
Vanilla syrup 25 ml
Sugar syrup 25 ml
Apple juice 200 ml
Soda
Method
Start with a pitcher full of ice and add all ingredients (except soda)
Stir it together and top up the aromatic blend with soda
Pour a drink as served in a frosty highball glass
With Christmas just around the corner, there will be plenty of parties and get-togethers with friends and family. Comforting cocktails help you enjoy the celebrations and get into the festive spirit.
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