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New Year cocktail recipes: Pina Colada, Mojito, Screwdriver

By Anthony Edgar Noronha
December 31, 2017 09:54 IST
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Anthony Edgar Noronha shares nine easy cocktail recipes for your New Year party.

You can serve these for your New Year's eve party and raise a toast to 2018. 

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Melon Ala Monde

Ingredients:

  • ½ oz creame de cocoa or coffee liqueur (Kalhua)
  • ½ oz vodka
  • ¼ oz Midori (melon liqueur)
  • ¼ oz Ameretto (almond liqueur)
  • Splash of coconut milk
  • Splash of cream (you can use Amul cream)

Best served blended or can also be served on ice (shaken and stirred).

Method:

  • Fill blender with ice. Add all the spirits and liqueurs.
  • Add a splash of coconut milk and cream. Blend and garnish with ice cream and a slice of melon.

Colorado Bulldog

Ingredients:

  • 1½ oz vodka
  • ¾ oz Kahlua
  • 1-1½ oz cream
  • Splash of coke

Method:

  • Fill a glass with ice.
  • Pour all alcohol in the order given above.
  • Add a splash of coke and serve with a stirrer.

Kami Kazi

Ingredients:

• 1 oz vodka
• 1 oz triple sec
• 1 oz lime juice
• Lime to garnish

Can be served chilled or on ice.

Method:
• Pour all the alcohol and lime juice in a glass with 3 cubes of ice (you can add more ice as per your choice). Stir well.
• Garnish with lime and serve.


Pina Colada

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz white rum or 2 oz coconut rum (1 oz = 30 ml)
  • 6 oz pineapple juice
  • 1½ oz coconut milk
  • 1 oz heavy cream (you can use Amul cream)
  • 1 tsp sugar (You can increase as per your taste or even use sugar-free.)

Best served blended or can also be served on ice.

Method:

  • Put a lot of ice in the blender. Add heavy cream and coconut milk.
  • Add sugar, pineapple juice and white rum. Make sure that the ice is more than the rest of the ingredients.
  • Blend and pour in Poco Grande glass. Garnish with pineapple and cherry.

Tip: To pep up Pina Colada, add ½ oz Amaretto (almond liqueur). Minus the alchohol from the above Ingredients and you get a Pina Colada mocktail.


Black Russian

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz vodka
  • 1 oz Kahlua (coffee liqueur)

Method:

  • Place 3 cubes of ice in an old fashioned glass or fill the entire glass with ice.
  • Add vodka and Kahlua. Stir and serve.

Tip: To make White Russian, add heavy cream to Black Russian.


Mojito

Ingredients:

  • 6 mint leaves
  • 1 tbsp superfine sugar
  • 1½ oz white rum
  • 1½ oz club soda 
  • 4 lime wedges

Method:

  • Place mint leaves, lime wedges and sugar in a glass. Muddle all together with a spoon, until everything is crushed and all the juices are released.
  • Add rum and crush again. Add soda. Add ice. Garnish with mint leaves and lime. Soda can be increased as per your taste

Cosmopolitan Martini

Ingredients:

  • 1½ oz vodka
  • ¾ oz triple sec (orange liqueur)
  • Splash of lime juice
  • Splash of cranberry juice
  • Lime and cherry to garnish

Method:

  • Fill the shaker with ice. Add all the ingredients and shake.
  • Chill and pour in martini glass. Garnish with lime and cherry.

Screwdriver

Ingredients: 

• 1½ oz vodka
• 6 - 8 oz Orange juice

Method:
• Mix vodka and orange juice and serve on ice.


Tequila Sunrise

Ingredients:
• 1½ oz tequila
• Orange juice
• Grenadine (pomegranate syrup)

Method:
• Mix tequila and orange juice and top with grenadine. Garnish with a slice of orange and cherry.


The writer is currently teaching at the International Training Institute for Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Margoa, Goa

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