If you are tired of monotonous festive feasts with traditional drinks, or maybe your child flatly refuses to drink milk, and you do not have enough time in the morning to make a full breakfast, diversify your menu - make a cocktail. Cocktails are easy to digest, look appetizing, and cooking can turn into exciting family fun.
Instructions
Step 1
There are many cocktail recipes. Typically, this is a mixture of 4-5 ingredients in the correct proportion. But you can safely give free rein to the flight of imagination and come up with your own recipe. The hallmark of the cocktail is its decoration. You may not like the color, aroma, or even taste of the cocktail, but its design should be pleasing to the eye. In fact, this is exactly what turns a cocktail into a cocktail.
Step 2
If you are going to prepare a cocktail according to a strict recipe - take a measuring cup with graduation graduations from 5 to 250 ml. With its help, you can calculate the number of servings and the exact ratio of the components of the cocktail.
Step 3
Place vegetables, fruits, or berries in a blender. Do not add whole - cut into small pieces and remove seeds. Let the frozen food thaw. Mixing in a blender increases the digestibility of products, preserves all their valuable qualities of products to the maximum and gives them a light pleasant taste
Step 4
Add liquid. It can be juice, mineral water, milk, or tonic.
Step 5
Whisk the mixture for 20-30 seconds. Check for large pieces. If left, continue whisking for another 10 seconds. Fruits and vegetables should be chopped to a puree.
Step 6
It is advisable to choose glasses for a cocktail without a pattern. You can decorate the rim of the glass with sugar frost. Moisten the rim with water or rub with a slice of lemon and dip in a saucer of granulated sugar. Sugar crystals stick to the moistened glass in the form of a thin white layer resembling snow.
Step 7
Place a few ice cubes in each glass. If you want ice clear, like glass, use mineral, spring or boiled water to make the cubes.
Step 8
Pour the shake gently from the blender into portions. Try not to splash liquid on the outside of the glass or damage the frost on the edge. It is better to pour it in several passes, each time pouring into glasses in such a way that the same amount of cocktail is in each glass.
Step 9
Garnish each serving with fruit slices, berries, or a spiral of zest. A circle of lemon (or orange), cut along the radius and attached to the edge of the glass, looks beautiful. Add fruit skewers and straws. You can add two tubes of different diameters.
