Friday 22 February 2013

Easy Mocktails by Vinay Khatoo


Mocktail is a drink which is made without any alcohol. It can be made with various ingredients such as Squashes, Syrups, fruit & vegetable Juices, Fruit pulp, Soda water, and Aerated water. 

The majority of mocktail beverages are served in places like restaurants with bars, especially those restaurants known for concocting fabulous drinks. It’s always fun to offer something at parties that it is delightful to drink and that to without alcohol. Most of the mocktails are come into existence due to classical and non classical cocktails. The moment we don’t add any alcohol in few classical and non classical cocktail recipes, those are called as Mocktails. When we have parties at home or any other place we do invite our dear and near friends and their families, in that we have some children, teen agers and ladies to whom we cannot offer an alcoholic drink. So we need something to quench their thirst & make them comfortable in that party atmosphere and with the help of that they will be able to enjoy the party in real manner.
So today I am going to share some mouth watery and fabulous mocktail recipes. Those are very easy and very tasty that will quenched your thirst. And we don’t need to spend too much of money on it. Those are pretty reasonable drinks & with the help of that you can make your guests happy.

Fruit Punch
Ingredients
  • 45 ml- chilled orange juice
  • 45ml- chilled mango juice
  • 45ml- chilled pineapple juice
  • 1 scoop Vanilla ice cream
  • any fruit for garnish 
Recipe 
  • Pour all the juice in mixing glass
  • Then add vanilla ice cream in the mixing glass
  • Blend all the ingredients till ice cream get mixed with other juices 
  • Garnish with apple, strawberry or any other fruit


Peach Delight
Ingredients
  • 30 ml peach syrup
  • 60 ml sprite
  • Add soda to top up with a dash of grenadine syrup
  • Peach slice or lemon slice for garnishing 
Recipe

·         Pour peach syrup in high ball glass
·         Then add sprite in to it & stir well
·         Then top up with soda & a dash of grenadine syrup.
·         Garnish with lemon slice or peach slice or piece of peach cut in triangular shape.

Guava Spice
Ingredients
  • 120 ml- chilled guava juice
  • 4-5 ice cubes
  • Lime wedge to rim the glass
  • Mixture of red chilly powder & salt 
Recipe 
  • Pour the juice in mixing glass
  • Then add ice cubes the mixing glass & pinch of red chilly powder & salt mixture
  • Stir well till ice melt & juice get diluted because of that the thickness of juice goes out
  • Move lime wedge on the glass rim and after that put glass rim in the mixture of red chilli powder & salt
  • Move the glass in round the clock position till glass get properly rimed with that mixture
  • Give a tap at the end of glass because of that excessive mixture will fall down in plate and we will get proper rim
  • Then pour the entire mixture of juice and masala into the rimmed glass.

Dark Nyt
Ingredients
  • 15 ml- chilled guava juice
  • 30ml- Black Current Squash
  • 60ml- Sprite
  • And soda to top up
  • Chaat masala
  • Crushed ice   
Recipe 
  • Pour the lime juice & black current squash in mixing glass
  • Then add sprite and pinch of chaat masala
  • After that add soda and mix all the ingredients properly
  • Move lime wedge on the glass rim and after that put glass rim in chaat masala
  • Move the glass in round the clock position till glass get properly rimed with chaat masala
  • Give a tap at the end of glass, because of that excessive chaat masala will fall down in plate and we will get proper rim
  • Add crushed ice into the glass
  • After that pour all the mixture from mixing glass into rimmed glass.

Slancha (thats Cheers in Irish).........