New Delhi– After 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 YO:750 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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. (IANS)
