The new year promises to be rich and bright, and it will pass under the auspices of the yellow pig. On the table you can put absolutely any alcoholic beverages. The perfect solution - cocktails. Here are the most interesting options that are easy to prepare at home. New Year's Eve will be bright!
Alcoholic cocktail “New Year's Toast”
What kind of New Year without champagne? You can simply uncork a bottle of sparkling wine, but this is not interesting. Much tastier and more spectacular on the table looks fragrant cocktail. The sweet ingredient is strawberry liqueur. If you do not want to raise the degree, you can replace the syrup. Sour component - lemon juice.
Ingredients
- 20 ml of strawberry liqueur;
- 5 ml of lemon juice;
- 120 ml of champagne;
- a piece of tangerine peel;
- ice
Method of preparation
- Thoroughly wash the tangerine peel, it is even better to use crude citrus. We take a sharp knife and cut off a thin strip of zest. The longer it is, the more beautiful it will fall in the glass.
- Take a champagne glass, pour strawberry liqueur into it or replace it with syrup. Add lemon juice, stir.
- We introduce champagne. We take a teaspoon, put it in a glass and gently, literally in one motion, stir it upwards. We need to raise the liquor.
- We put a strip of tangerine peel in a cocktail glass and, if desired, throw ice. Serve a drink to the table.
It is possible not to use mandarin zest for decoration, but throw 2-3 strawberries in a glass or put a slice of any citrus on the edge of the glass. All these ingredients are perfectly combined with each other.
New Year's Mojito cocktail
Mojito is not always a summer cocktail. There is a very interesting winter version with mandarin. Gin is used for attachment, sometimes it is replaced with other alcohol, it all depends on the desired taste and strength. All ingredients are cooled before use. Ice need to beat.
Ingredients
- Mandarin;
- 5 ml grenadine syrup;
- 100 ml soda water;
- 50 ml of gin;
- 2-3 sprigs of mint;
- ice;
- 1 tsp. Sahara.
Method of preparation
- We tear the mint into several parts and send it into a glass, sprinkle with sugar. You can take white or brown sand. We lower the pestle or take a regular spoon, mash the mint leaves together with the sugar until the juice appears. You can use frozen mint for a drink.
- We clean the mandarin, remove the films from three slices, lower the pulp to the mint and knead again. The remaining citrus slices are cut into three parts.
- Put ice in a glass with mint mixed with tangerine. Fill for 2/3 of the height.
- Add grenadine syrup. You can replace it with other types or exclude it. Thanks to the mandarin, the drink in any case will have a stunning aroma.
- Fill sparkling water, pour genie on top. For decoration, you can use a slice or a circle of mandarin, mint leaves. Do not forget about the cute tube that will emphasize the beauty of the drink.
You can cook New Year's Mojito cocktail with orange, lemon, grapefruit, they give a wonderful aroma. The taste will largely depend on the water used. In the classic version is usually a sprite or soda. But it works great with ordinary mineral water.
New Year's cocktail “Dirty Martini”
An interesting cocktail that arouses the appetite will help the receptors to roam, which is exactly what is needed on New Year's Eve. The same drink can be prepared the first of January, to improve well-being. Also this drink is sometimes called “air”. The composition is anti-crisis, even brine is used, which is usually poured.
Ingredients
- 100 ml of vodka;
- 50 grams of vermouth;
- 30 ml of brine from olives;
- ice;
- olives.
Method of preparation
- Pour vodka into a large glass, take two piles. Add to it vermouth and pickle from olives. Stir.
- In three glasses we set ice, fill it up to half. Pour the prepared cocktail.
- We put 3-5 olives on toothpicks. We drop in a glass with a cocktail. Or simply put it on top of the edges, like a skewer with kebabs. Immediately serve to the table until all the ice has melted.
If there are no olives and pickles from them, then pickle pickles can be used as an additional ingredient.
Cocktail “Tom Collins” with tangerine
A yellow gilt will be delighted with this cocktail with a stunning mandarin flavor and gin flavor. In order to save or in the absence of an ingredient, you can prepare it with regular vodka. But we choose high-quality alcohol with a mild taste without pronounced fusel aroma.
Ingredients
- 50 ml of gin;
- 1 Mandarin;
- 2 tsp. Sahara;
- ice;
- 1 lemon slice;
- 70 ml of soda water.
Method of preparation
- From the mandarin we squeeze the juice in any convenient way. Make sure that the bones do not fall into the drink. We send in a glass.
- Add gin to sugar, tangerine juice, stir.
- Fill up the ice, fill the glass at 2/3 of the height, use cubes, not crumb.
- Fill it all with soda water or just mineral water. On the edge of the glass we put on a slice of lemon.
By the way, this particular drink can be an alternative to the popular cocktail “Whiskey and Coke”, which does not differ in its qualitative composition.
Another interesting New Year drink with raw egg in the composition. Alcoholic component will be brandy. Its amount can be reduced to 50 grams. Recipe with passion fruit, choose a ripe fruit of small size.
Ingredients
- an egg;
- 2 tsp. Sahara;
- 1 Mandarin;
- 1 passion fruit;
- 75 ml of brandy;
- ice
Method of preparation
- In the glass send one egg. Since it will be used fresh, pay attention to the freshness.
- Add sugar to the egg, squeeze tangerine juice. Cut the passion fruit, rake the pulp and immediately send to the main ingredients. All carefully stir, then pour into a shaker.
- We introduce about 100 grams of ice pieces, pour cognac. Close the shaker and shake vigorously for 40 seconds.
- Pour the cocktail into a glass, but through the filter. Usually use a strainer. It will collect the remains of passion fruit and protein clumps, which could not dissolve.
If there is no shaker at home, then it can be replaced with a can, container, or pick up two glasses of different diameters.
