Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Margarita

Ingredients:
- 2 oz silver tequila
- juice of half lime
- 1 oz orange curacao (or Cointreau)
Garnish: lime wedge
Rim: salt

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour into a margarita glass rimmed with salt and garnish with lime wedge.


Mojito

Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 oz light rum
- 1 tbs superfine sugar
- Lime wedges
- Club soda
- Mint sprigs

Muddle mint leaves, superfine sugar and lime in a mixing glass. Add 1 1/2 oz light rum and ice in a cocktail shaker and shake. Strain the mixture into a tall glass and top with club soda. Garnish with fresh mint sprig. Sugarcane syrup can be used to replace superfine sugar.

Bloody Mary
Ingredients:
- 2 oz vodka
- 3 oz Tomoto Juice
- 1/2 oz Lemon Juice
- Black Pepper & Salt
- 3 dashes Worcestershire
- 2 drops tabasco sauce
- Garnish: Lemon Wedge, Celery
- Glassware: Highball Glass

Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a highball glass over crushed ice. Garnish with the lemon wedge.
Caipiroska
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 oz vodka
- 1 lime (cut into chunks)
- 1 tsp sugar
- ice cubes

Muddle lime with sugar in a mixing glass. Add vodka to shake with ice. Pour into a rocks glass. Caipirinha mixed with vodka instead of cachaca is known as Caipiroska.

Cosmopolitan


- 1 1/2 oz vodka
- 1 oz cranberry juice
- 1/4 oz Cointreau
- splash of fresh lime juice
Garnish: Lime wedge

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lime
Sidecar
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Cognac
- 2 oz Cointreau or Triple Sec
- 1/2 oz Lemoon Juice
- Glassware : Cocktail Glass

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass.


Caipirinha
(Pronounced 'KIE-PUR-REEN-YAH')

Ingredients:
- 2 oz cachaça
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 lime (cut into chunks)
- ice cubes
Garnish: lime wedge or wheel (optional)

Muddle lime with sugar in a rocks glass. Fill the glass with ice. Pour cachaça and stir. Garnish with a lime wedge.


Daiquiri

Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 oz Light Rum
- juice of 1 lime
- 1/2 oz simple syrup
- Glassware: Cocktail Glass

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist.

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