Tabasco hot sauce is the basis of many original cocktails. The sauce gives the drinks a spicy pungency and unique taste. Most Tabasco cocktails are easy to prepare and repeatable at home.
Introduction
Tabasco sauce - a sauce made from a mixture of a special kind of red pepper, salt and vinegar. The sauce is kept in special oak barrels for at least 3 years. The sauce has a pronounced pungent taste and spicy aroma.
The legendary Tabasco sauce has become iconic not only in the kitchen, but also on the shelves of bar counters. Tabasco has an antiseptic effect and has a positive effect on the performance of the digestive system. Today it is the most recognizable sauce in the world - the label has been translated into 22 languages and is found in almost every home.
The sauce has been produced by the American company McIlhenny since 1868. The sauce came from the experiments of Edmund McIllennie, from Louisiana. For the preparation of Tabasco, Macaylenni used a special variety of pepper - Tabasco, salt from the mine and vinegar. At first, he made the sauce only for his family and friends and filled it in small cologne bottles. Friends and relatives liked the sauce and Edmund decided to produce the sauce on a large scale, for which in 1868 he ordered thousands of small bottles from a glass factory.
Under the Tabasco brand, 7 sauces are produced, the difference in which is in taste, composition and degree of pungency. Only the classic Tabasco Original sauce is aged in barrels for three years. The mildest sauce is Tabasco Sweet'n'Spicy. There is a separate Tabasco Buffalo sauce for chicken wings and Tabasco Green jalapeno pepper sauce. Also available is Tabasco Garlic, smoked Tabasco Chipotle. The hottest is Tabasco Habanero sauce.
The main advantages of the sauce are its natural composition, low calorie content and low sodium content. The sauce gives a pleasant spice to any cocktail and, therefore, it can be added to oversweetened cocktails to make them less cloying. The product is included in many interesting cocktail recipes, I will give the most delicious and simple to perform at home.
Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary is a classic Tabasco cocktail recipe. The cocktail got its name in honor of Queen Mary Tudor, who earned the nickname Bloody for the brutal massacre of Anglicans.
To make a cocktail, you will need the following ingredients per serving:
- tomato juice - 150 grams;
- vodka - 75 ml;
- lemon juice - 15 ml;
- salt - 1 gram;
- pepper - 1 gram;
- ice;
- celery - 1 sprig;
- Tobasco sauce - 3 drops;
- Worcesters sauce - 3 drops.
How to cook:
- Pour vodka into a tall glass (volume from 300 ml.).
- Add salt, pepper, lemon juice and stir.
- Put ice on.
- Pour in tomato juice, add Tobasco and Worcesters sauces (optional), stir again.
- Put celery in a glass.
- Insert a tube into a glass.
The cocktail belongs to Long drinks, so it should be consumed slowly through a straw, enjoying the original taste of the drink.
Cocktail "Boyarsky"
The patriotic cocktail was invented at Kazantip in the early 2000s, its calorie content is higher due to the grenadine contained in it. The cocktail is very simple and quick to prepare, and for this reason it is very popular at home parties.
To make a cocktail, you will need the following ingredients:
- Vodka - 20 ml.
- Grenadine - 20 ml.
- Tabasco - 2 g.
Cooking method:
Pour grenadine into a shot (an ordinary 50 ml glass), followed by vodka. Add a couple of drops of Tabasco. Boyarsky's cocktail is ready, a thousand devils!
MELLOW cocktail
This is a light cocktail with an interesting sweet taste and a touch of pungency. Suitable for slow consumption on warm evenings.
Structure:
- Crushed ice - 50 g;
- Powdered sugar - 10 g;
- Half a lime;
- Tabasco - 1 drop;
- Gin - 50 ml.;
- Mint - 1 sprig;
- Chocolate syrup - 40 ml.;
- Raspberries - 20g.
Step-by-step cooking recipe:
- Mix a drop of Tabasco, gin, and chocolate syrup in a shaker.
- Squeeze the juice from the half of the lime into a shaker.
- Place the raspberries in a shaker and stir the ingredients.
- Prepare a tall glass of ice.
- Pour the contents of the shaker into a glass.
- Garnish with powdered sugar, mint and two raspberries.
Rum punch with tabasco
Rum punch will surely please all guests, its sweetness and piquant pungency will not leave anyone indifferent.
Structure:
- Pineapple juice - 150 ml.;
- Lemon juice - 1 tbsp. the spoon;
- Rum - 50 ml.;
- Ice to taste;
- Cinnamon - 1 stick;
- Tabasco - 3 drops.
Step-by-step cooking recipe:
- Pour pineapple juice, lemon juice and rum into a whiskey glass.
- Add a few drops of Tabasco.
- Stir the cocktail gently.
- Add ice and stir again.
- Garnish with a cinnamon stick.
Mad Dog cocktail
It is not for nothing that the cocktail has such an original name, it is very strong and belongs to the harshest shots.
Structure:
- Sambuca - 20 ml.;
- Tequila - 20 ml.;
- Tabasco sauce - 2 drops;
- Slice of lemon.
Cooking method:
- Make salt edging on the stack.
- Pour sambuca.
- Add Tabasco.
- Pour over tequila.
- Decorate with a lemon wedge.
Cocktail "Death of a Mexican"
A harsh cocktail for seasoned bargoers.
Structure:
- 50 ml tequila;
- 120 ml of beer without foam;
- Tabasco sauce - 2 drops;
- salt to taste.
Cooking method:
- Pour beer into a tall glass.
- Gently, without mixing, add tequila.
- Add Tabasco.
- Add a pinch of salt.
