Old popular cocktails such as "Margarita", "Bloody Mary", "Mojito" and "Screwdriver" will acquire a new taste if you slightly diversify the components familiar to their preparation.
Margarita with cranberry juice
An interesting and unusually tasty variation of the old cocktail is made from the following ingredients:
- 60 ml tequila;
- 30 ml Cointreau;
- 30 ml of cranberry juice;
- 30 ml lime juice;
- 2 ice cubes;
- salt;
- pieces of lime.
Combine tequila with ice in a shaker, then pour Cointreau, lime and cranberry juice into it, shake well. Moisten the edges of the glass and dip it in salt, pour the finished cocktail into it, decorate it with lime wedges.
Bloody Mary with olives
A well-known and beloved drink by many, it will sound in a new way if you supplement it with olives. So, for the updated "Bloody Mary" you will need:
- 5 green olives for a drink;
- 2 green olives for decoration;
- 40 ml of vodka;
- 2 ice cubes;
- 120 ml of tomato juice;
- a drop of freshly squeezed lemon juice;
- Worcestershire sauce to taste;
- salt to taste;
- pepper to taste.
Mash 5 olives on the bottom of a shaker, add Worcestershire sauce and stir. Then put a piece of ice, vodka, lemon juice, tomato juice in a container, pepper and salt to taste. Whisk in a cocktail shaker and filter into a tall glass, add the remaining ice and garnish with olives.
Grapefruit screwdriver
Instead of the usual orange juice, the Screwdriver cocktail can be prepared with grapefruit. At the same time, the drink turns out to be of a bright saturated color, usually it is more popular with women due to the lower content of vodka than in the classic recipe.
To make a cocktail, take the following ingredients:
- 30 ml of vodka;
- 90 ml of grapefruit juice;
- 3 ice cubes.
Put ice in a glass, then pour vodka and juice into it, mix the ingredients with a straw. Before serving, the drink should be garnished with a slice of grapefruit.
Strawberry mojito
A refreshing Cuban cocktail turns out to be especially beautiful and aromatic when combined with strawberries. For this type of drink, you will need:
- 40 ml of white rum;
- 30 ml of lemon juice;
- 3 mint leaves;
- 2 tsp Sahara;
- 3 strawberries;
- ice;
- sparkling water.
Pour freshly squeezed lemon juice into a tall glass, add sugar to it and rub. Then put the mint and strawberries in a glass and remember them with a spoon. After that, pour the rum into the container, stir well and fill the glass with crushed ice. Fill all components with sparkling mineral water and mix gently. Garnish the finished cocktail with strawberries, a mint leaf and serve.
