Pitter-Patter Drinks: Monsoon Cocktails
Monsoons are not just about tea and fritters anymore. Cheers to this weather with some cool mixes in your hand.
Ingredients
- White Rum: 60 ml
- Lime juice: 30 ml
- Blue Curacao: 20 ml
- Tea syrup: 10 ml
- Pineapple juice: 45 ml
- Coconut water to Top
Method
Shake all the ingredients together in a shaker and pour over flute and garnished it with a chocolate chips.
Ingredients
- Whiskey: 60 ml
- Five Different Spices (1 each)
- Homemade honey and ginger syrup: 15 ml
- Lemon Peel: 2 zest
Method
Fill 3/4 whiskey glass with hot water and place a snifter glass over it with whiskey and flame the whiskey. Add spices one by one and spray lemon peel oil.
Ingredients
- Base: 60 ml Rum
- Flavour: Coconut and Rose
- Tender water: 60 ml
- Rose Water: 30 ml
- Ounces of Corriander
Method
Take a Green coconut and give the shape of Shell. Add some ice in the shaker with all the ingredients and shake it well . Strain it directly into coconut shell.
Ingredients
- Earl Grey Tea de-concoction
- Orange Juice: 30 ml
- Lemon Syrup: 15 ml
- 6-8 Ice Cubes
Method
Mix it together pour into in low-ball glass and garnish with Orange slice.
Ingredients
- Pinch of salt
- Simple Syrup: 15ml
- Watermelon Puree: 60ml
- 8-10 fresh mint leaves
- 6-8 Ice cubes
In a cocktail shaker, muddle the mint leaves with a pinch of salt, filled the cocktail shaker with ice, add the simple syrup and watermelon juice / Puree, pour into the glass top up with club soda and garnish with mint sprig.
- Strawberry Delight
Ingredients Mint leaves sprig: 6
- Strawberry: 4
- Lime juice: 10 ml
- 7 up: 1 cane
Method
Put ice cubes in Rolly Polly glass add lime juice with strawberry slice and top up with 7up.
Ingredients
- 2 Oranges
- Peach syrup: 15ml
- 6-7 Mint leaves sprig
- Club soda: 1
- Lime juice: 10 ml
Method
Take ice-cubes in pilsner glass, put orange slices and lime juice and peach syrup and top it with soda.
Ingredients
- Tito’s Handmade Vodka: 45ml
- Freshly squeezed lime juice: 15ml
- Ginger beer: 90ml
Method
Fill a chilled copper mug with ice. Add Tito’s Handmade Vodka, fresh lime juice, and ginger beer. For garnish add lemon wheel on the top.
Ingredients
- Tito’s Handmade Vodka: 45ml
- Bloody mary mix: 90ml
Method
Combine Tito’s Handmade Vodka, bloody mary mix and ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake well, and pour everything, including the ice, into a glass. For garnish go wild (it doesn’t make you a bad person). Try celery stalks, olives, dill pickles, pickled green beans, lemon, parsley, bacon, cheese cubes, boiled shrimp, etc.
Ingredients
- Tito’s Handmade Vodka: 45ml
- Grapefruit juice: 90ml
Method
Pour Tito’s Handmade Vodka into a glass over ice and add grapefruit juice (we prefer fresh-squeezed). For garnish add grapefruit wedge or rosemary sprig.
Ingredients
- Tito’s Handmade Vodka: 45ml
- Elderflower liqueur: 15ml
- Fresh grapefruit juice: 45ml
- Soda water
Method
Combine Tito’s Handmade Vodka, elderflower liqueur, and juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain over fresh ice. Top with soda water. Add mint leaves for garnish.
Ingredients
- Kiwi: 1
- Fresh Pomegranate: 50gm
- Peach Puree: 30gm
- Lime Juice: 15ml
- Grenadine Syrup: 5ml
Method
Muddle all the ingredients thoroughly and garnish with kiwi slice.
Ingredients
- Fresh watermelon
- Ginger fresh
- Mint fresh
- Lime juice
Method
Blend together with some ice cubes.
Ingredients
- Kiwi crush
- Strawberry crush
- Orange juice
- Pine apple juice
- Lime juice
Method
Blend with ice cube
Ingredients
- Mint leaves: 15-20
- Lemon wedes: 3
- Passion fruit: 25 ml
- Lime juice: 15 ml
- Ice crushed: 4 spoon
- Strawberry Seasonal fruit: Few slice
- Soda: 90 ml
- Orange crush: 25 ml
- To garnish Mint spring
Method
Mixed all the ingredients together, garnish with mint spring, serve chill.
Ingredient
Coconut Water: 90 ml
Lychee Infused Vodka: 15ml
Peach Infused Vodka: 15ml
Malibu: 30ml
Fresh Mint: 5-6 Leaves
Coconut Shell (Glass to be use)
Garnish with mint leaves
Method
Shaken and Poured through pores. Take a ripe coconut; peel the skin off using a paring knife. Once the outer shell is cleaned, pierce 2 holes on top of the coconut with the help of corkscrew. Empty the coconut water in a dish and strain it. Then wash the shell with distilled water and remove the remaining husk properly.
In a cocktail shaker add, some ice, peach infused vodka + Lychee infused vodka + Malibu + Mint + fresh coconut water. Shake all the ingredients properly and gently pour into the coconut through a funnel. Now, garnish the coconut with mint spring.
Ingredients
- Monsoon Chai – Infused Rum
- Fresh Strawberry
- Coconut Puree
- Fresh pineapple juice
Method
Blend all the ingredients and serve it in a Crystal coupe
Ingredients
- Tequilla: 60 ml
- Watermelon Juice: 30 ml
- Coconut water: 10 ml
- Lime wedges: 4
- Sugar syrup: 5 ml
Method
Muddle and shake well, garnish with lime wedges.
Ingredients
- Tequilla: 60 ml
- Pineapple Juice: 30 ml
- Blue Curacao: 10 ml
Method
Shaken and Strain
Garnish with Pineapple slice & Cherry
Ingredients
- Tequilla: 45 ml
- Dry Vermouth: 15 ml
Method
Shake and strain and garnish with cherry
Ingredients
- Tequilla: 60 ml
- Raspberries: 8
- Lime Juice: 10 ml
- Honey- 1 tsp
- Mint Leaves: 4
- Sparkling Water- top up
Method
Muddled and garnish with mint leaves and raspberries
Ingredients
- Tequilla: 60ml
- Raspberries: 8
- Black Berries: 10 ml
- Strawberry: 1
- Mint Leaves: 4
- Sparkling water- top up
Method
Build-up and garnish with mint leaves
Electric Blue Lemonade
Glass: Honey Jar
Ingredients
- Fresh pineapple juice (Freshly pressed) : 120 gm
- Passionfruit Pure: 30 ml
- Blue Curacao: 30 ml
- Freshly squeezed Lemon Juice: 30 ml
- Splash of Sparkling Water
- 6 ice cube
- 1 sliced pineapple- for garnishing
Method
Take a honey jar ,add ice cube, passion fruit puree ,blue Curacao and lemon juice. Stir it with help of stirrer and top it with sparkling water . Garnish with sliced pineapple and serve chilled.
Pure Verde
Glass: Large Whisky Glass
Ingredients
- Fresh Cucumber and mint juice (Freshly pressed): 60 ml
- Kiwi Pure: 15 ml
- Jalapeños: 1
- Freshly squeezed Lemon Juice: 15 ml
- Splash of Sparkling Water
- 6 ice cube
- 1 slice Kiwi, Cucumber shaving and mint spring- for garnishing
Method
Add ice cube in cocktail shaker, fresh cucumber and mint juice. Add kiwi pure and jalapeños. Pour lime juice and shake well until it is ice cold. Put it into the glass with ice by fine straining it. Garnish with sliced Kiwi, Cucumber shaving and mint spring and serve well.
Ingredients
- Red Wine: 150 ml
- Raspberries: 3
- Peach Nectar: 10 ml
- Brandy: 30 ml
- 1/2 Peach sliced
Method
In a pitcher, combine red wine, peach nectar, and brandy and stir together until combined. Add fruits and refrigerate it for an hour. Serve it in a Red wine glass.
From the July 2018 issue of FHM India.
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