09/08/15 recipe -Taste USA

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Pimms Freeze

How to make Pimms Freeze Recipe

Ingredients:
4 cucumber slices
2 strawberries
4 ounces ginger ale
1 1⁄2 ounces Pimm’s No. 1
Cucumber spear, strawberry, and mint sprig, for garnish

Method:
Combine the cucumber slices, strawberries, ginger ale, and Pimm’s in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the cucumber spear, strawberry, and mint sprig.

Pimms Freeze

Blackberry Bramblicious

How to make Blackberry Bramblicious Recipe

Ingredients:
5 blackberries
1 1⁄2 ounces gin
1 ounce simple syrup
3⁄4 ounce fresh lime juice
1⁄2 ounce crème de cassis

Method:
Combine the blackberries, gin, simple syrup, lime juice, and crème de cassis in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass.

Blackberry Bramblicious

Purple Haze

How to make Purple Haze Recipe

Ingredients:
1 cup seasonal berries of your choice
2 ounces Chambord
2 ounces white cranberry juice
Light purple or white orchid, for garnish

Method:
Combine the berries, Chambord, and cranberry juice in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the orchid.

Pink Flamingo Ice

How to make Pink Flamingo Ice Recipe

Ingredients:
4 ounces ruby red grapefruit juice
1 1⁄2 ounces X-Rated liqueur (a mango, passion fruit, and blood
orange liqueur)
1⁄2 ounce Aperol (an Italian bitters similar to Campari, but much milder)
1⁄2 ounce simple syrup
Small grapefruit wedge, for garnish

Method:
Combine the grapefruit juice, X-Rated liqueur, Aperol, and simple syrup in a blender with 5 or 6 ice cubes. Blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass and garnish with the grapefruit wedge.

Pink Flamingo Ice

Bachata

How to make Bachata Recipe - From master mixologist Bridget Albert.

Ingredients:
4 fresh watermelon cubes
1 1⁄2 ounces Malibu passion fruit rum
1 ounce pink grapefruit juice
Juice of 1 lime

Method:
In a blender, blend 2 to 3 cups of ice cubes to make shaved ice. Add the shaved ice to a glass or snow cone cup. In a cocktail shaker, muddle (mash) the watermelon cubes. Add the rum, grapefruit juice, and lime juice, add ice cubes, and shake. Pour over the shaved ice.

Mellow Yellow

How to make Mellow Yellow Recipe

Ingredients:
1⁄2 banana, peeled
2 ounces Limoncello
2 ounces orange juice
1 ounce milk

Method:
Combine the banana, Limoncello, orange juice, and milk in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass.

Frozen Black Whip

How to make Frozen Black Whip Recipe - Inspired by the Black Flip cocktail I had at PDT (“Please don’t tell”) by Jim Meehan in NYC. Soooooo goooood.

Ingredients:
1 large scoop vanilla ice cream
2 ounces Guinness
1 ounce Cruzan Black Strap rum
Ground nutmeg, for garnish

Method:
Combine the ice cream, Guinness, and rum in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about a half cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a small cocktail glass and top with nutmeg.

Graham Slam

How to make Graham Slam Recipe

Ingredients:
Simple syrup (optional)
Graham cracker crumbs, for garnishing rim (optional)
1 large scoop vanilla ice cream
2 graham cracker squares (preferably cinnamon-coated)
1 1⁄2 ounces bourbon
Dash of cinnamon (optional)
Milk, if needed

Method:
If desired, wet the rim of a cocktail glass with simple syrup and dip it into a plate of graham cracker crumbs. Set aside.

Combine the ice cream, graham cracker squares, bourbon, and cinnamon, if desired, in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds.

Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. (Add a little milk if the ice cream is too hard.) Pour into the cocktail glass.

Graham Slam

Grandmas Frozen Apricot

How to make Grandmas Frozen Apricot Recipe

Ingredients:
2 ounces apricot nectar (such as Kern’s)
2 ounces orange juice
1 ounce Grand Marnier
2 tablespoons apricot preserves
Splash of fresh lemon juice
Freshly grated orange zest and mint sprig, for garnish

Method:
Combine the apricot nectar, orange juice, Grand Marnier, apricot preserves, and lemon juice in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds.

Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass and garnish with the orange zest and mint sprig.

Grandmas Frozen Apricot

Cherry Sling

How to make Cherry Sling Recipe

Ingredients:
2 ounces pineapple juice
1 1⁄2 tablespoons black cherry preserves
1 ounce fresh sour
1 ounce gin
1⁄2 ounce Cherry Heering
1⁄4 ounce Benedictine (or cognac)
Maraschino cherry and orange wedge, for garnish

Method:
Combine the pineapple juice, preserves, fresh sour, gin, Cherry Heering, and Benedictine in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a Hurricane glass or other large glass and garnish with the cherry and orange wedge.

Cherry Sling

Frozen Rum Punch

How to make Frozen Rum Punch Recipe

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 ounces dark rum
1 ounce orange juice
1 ounce pineapple juice
1 ounce cranberry juice
1 ounce coconut cream (such as Coco Lopez)
Maraschino cherry and orange wedge, for garnish

Method:
Combine the rum, orange juice, pineapple juice, cranberry juice, and coconut cream in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds.

Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a tall cocktail glass. Garnish with the cherry and orange wedge.

Blood Peach Bellini

How to make Blood Peach Bellini Recipe

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients:
2 ounces peach puree (or 1 ripe peach, blanched, peeled, and cut into chunks)
2 ounces Prosecco
1 1⁄2 ounces blood orange juice
1⁄2 ounce peach liqueur
2 lemon twists, for garnish

Method:
Combine the peach puree, Prosecco, blood orange juice, and peach liqueur in a blender with 5 or 6 ice cubes. Blend until smooth. Pour into two champagne flutes and garnish each with a lemon twist.

Jasmine Peach Bellini

How to make Jasmine Peach Bellini Recipe

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients:
3 ounces Prosecco
1 1⁄2 ounces peach puree (or half a ripe peach, blanched, peeled,
and cut into chunks)
1 1⁄2 ounces jasmine tea syrup
1 ounce fresh lemon juice
2 lemon twists, for garnish

Method:
Combine the Prosecco, peach puree, tea syrup, and lemon juice in a blender with 5 or 6 ice cubes. Blend until smooth.

Pour into two champagne flutes and garnish each with a lemon twist.

Yuzu Cucumber Freeze

How to make Yuzu Cucumber Freeze Recipe

Ingredients:
1 ounce orange or citrus vodka
1 ounce sake
4 slices peeled cucumber
2 tablespoons yuzu marmalade
Cucumber spear and small orange wedge, for garnish

Method:
Combine the vodka, sake, cucumber slices, and marmalade in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a glass. Garnish with the cucumber spear and orange wedge.

Yuzu Cucumber Freeze

Sake To Me

How to make Sake To Me Recipe

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 ounces lychee juice or puree
1 ounce sake
1 ounce fresh sour
3⁄4 ounce Zen green tea liqueur
Lychee nut and small stalk of lemongrass, for garnish

Method:
Combine the lychee juice, sake, fresh sour, and green tea liqueur in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the lychee nut and stalk of lemongrass.

Bangkok Banshee

How to make Bangkok Banshee Recipe

Ingredients:
1⁄2 banana, peeled
2 ounces Thai tea
1 1⁄2 ounces dark rum, such as Bacardi 8
1 ounce simple syrup
1 ounce heavy whipping cream
Ground nutmeg, for garnish

Method:
Combine the banana, tea, rum, simple syrup, and cream in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass and garnish with nutmeg.

Tapioca Thai Tea

How to make Tapioca Thai Tea Recipe - If you have not tried traditional Thai tea with the tapioca balls, you’re missing out. It’s a bright orange sweetened tea mixed with milk and extra-large tapioca balls that you suck out of a wide straw. This is my cocktail version of this drink, served frozen.

Ingredients:
1⁄3 cup tapioca pudding
2 ounces Thai tea
1 ounce dark rum, such as Bacardi 8
1 small scoop vanilla ice cream
Sage sprig, for garnish

Method:
Combine the tapioca pudding, tea, rum, and ice cream in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the sprig of sage.

Au Pear Sipper

How to make Au Pear Sipper Recipe

Ingredients:
3 ounces pear nectar
1 1⁄2 ounces Hendrick’s gin
1 ounce hibiscus orange syrup (or Monin also makes a Hibiscus syrup)
Dash of fresh lemon juice
Small lemon twist, for garnish

Method:
Combine the pear nectar, gin, syrup, and lemon juice in a blender with 3 or 4 ice cubes. Blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the lemon twist.

Green Eyed Lady

How to make Green Eyed Lady Recipe

Makes 1 to 2 servings

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 cups fresh honeydew melon chunks
4 ounces fresh sour
1 ounce absinthe (or pastis)
1 ounce Midori
1 or 2 small honeydew melon wedges, for garnish

Method:
Combine the melon, fresh sour, absinthe, and Midori in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a melon wedge.

Green Eyed Lady

Goodness Grapeness

How to make Goodness Grapeness Recipe

Ingredients:
15 green grapes, plus 2 for garnish
1 ounce citrus vodka (or grape vodka)
1 ounce brut champagne (i.e. Chandon Brut)
3⁄4 ounce St-Germain elderflower liqueur
1⁄2 ounce simple syrup
1⁄2 ounce fresh lime juice

Method:
Combine the 15 grapes, vodka, champagne, elderflower liqueur, simple syrup, and lime juice in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds.

Add about 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a champagne flute and garnish with 2 skewered green grapes.

Goodness Grapeness

Grape Expectations

How to make Grape Expectations Recipe

Ingredients:
10 green grapes, plus extra for garnish
2 ounces fresh sour
1 ounce dry vermouth
1 ounce gin

Method:
Combine the grapes, fresh sour, vermouth, and gin in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds. Add about 1 cup of iceand blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with green grapes.

Papaya Orangecrush

How to make Papaya Orangecrush Recipe

Ingredients:
1⁄2 cup fresh papaya chunks
4 ounces orange juice
1 1⁄2 ounces orange vodka
Simple syrup, to taste, if needed
Sage sprig and lime wedge, for garnish

Method:
Combine the papaya, orange juice, vodka, and simple syrup, if using, in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth.

Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a sage sprig and a lime wedge. Feel free to add a squeeze of lime juice from the wedge for a tangier version.

Guavalava passion

How to make Guavalava passion Recipe

Ingredients:
1 ounce raspberry puree
1 1⁄2 ounces fresh lime juice
2 ounces simple syrup
1 1⁄2 ounces mango rum
1⁄2 ounce guava puree
1⁄2 ounce passion fruit puree
Lime wedge and raspberry, for garnish

Method:
In the bottom of a Hurricane glass or other large glass, pour in the raspberry puree; set aside.

Combine the lime juice, simple syrup, mango rum, guava puree, and passion fruit puree in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth.

Pour into the glass. Garnish with a lime wedge and a raspberry.

Orange Julius Maximus

How to make Orange Julius Maximus Recipe - Just like the classic, but with an alcoholic punch. As much as I am a fan of freshly squeezed juices, this drink really needs the concentrate versus the fresh.

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 cups half-and-half
4 ounces simple syrup
2 ounces orange juice concentrate
2 ounces vanilla vodka
2 orange wheels, for garnish

Method:
Combine the half-and-half, simple syrup, orange juice concentrate, and vodka in a blender with a few ice cubes. Blend until smooth and add more ice, if necessary. Pour into two juice glasses and garnish each with an orange wheel.

Orange Julius Maximus

Kiwi Melon Krush

How to make Kiwi Melon Krush Recipe

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 cups fresh honeydew melon
1 whole kiwi, peeled
2 ounces Midori
2 ounces orange juice, plus extra if needed
2 small melon wedges and 2 kiwi slices, for garnish

Method:
Combine the melon, kiwi, Midori, and orange juice in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth and add more orange juice, if needed. Pour into two cocktail (or juice) glasses. Garnish each with a melon wedge and a kiwi slice.

Frozen Limeade

How to make Frozen Limeade Recipe

Ingredients:
3 ounces fresh lime juice
4 ounces simple syrup
1 1⁄2 ounces citrus vodka or light rum
Lime wheel, for garnish

Method:
Combine the lime juice, simple syrup, and vodka in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the lime wheel.

Frozen Lemonade

How to make Frozen Lemonade Recipe

Ingredients:
3 ounces fresh lemon juice
4 ounces simple syrup
11⁄2 ounces citrus vodka (optional)
1⁄2 teaspoon lemon zest (optional)
Lemon wheel, for garnish

Method:
Combine the lemon juice, simple syrup, vodka, if desired, and lemon zest, if desired, in a blender with 1 cup of ice.

Blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the lemon wheel.

Brazilian Pepper Crush

How to make Brazilian Pepper Crush Recipe

Ingredients:
2 ounces cachaça
2 ounces fresh sour
1 tablespoon jalapeño-orange marmalade (or other marmalade
or jam with jalapeños)
2 kumquats
Splash of grenadine
1 fresh jalapeño, sliced, for garnish (optional)

Method:
Combine the cachaça, fresh sour, marmalade, 1 of the kumquats, and grenadine in a blender on high for 10 seconds.

Add 5 to 7 ice cubes and blend until smooth. Pour into a rocks glass. Garnish with the sliced jalapeño and the remaining kumquat.

Brazilian Pepper Crush

Blueberry Batida

How to make Blueberry Batida Recipe

Ingredients:
2 ounces cachaça
1 ounce sweetened condensed milk
10 to 15 blueberries, a few reserved for garnish
1⁄2 ounce blueberry syrup

Method:
Combine the cachaça, condensed milk, blueberries, and blueberry syrup in a blender on high for 10 seconds. Add 1 cup of crushed ice and blend for 3 seconds. Pour into a rocks glass and garnish with the reserved blueberries.

Kiwi Coco Batida

How to make Kiwi Coco Batida Recipe

Ingredients:
2 ounces cachaça
1 whole kiwi, peeled and cut into chunks (reserve 1 slice for garnish)
1 ounce coconut syrup
1 ounce sweetened condensed milk
Splash of coconut milk

Method:
Combine the cachaça, kiwi, coconut syrup, condensed milk, and coconut milk in a blender on high for 10 seconds. Add 1 cup of crushed ice and blend for 3 seconds. Pour into a rocks glass and garnish with the kiwi slice.

Kiwi Coco Batida

Mango Batida

How to make Mango Batida Recipe

Ingredients:
1 cup fresh mango chunks, plus 1 slice for garnish
2 ounces cachaça
2 ounces sweetened condensed milk
Splash of coconut milk

Method:
Combine the mango chunks, cachaça, condensed milk, and coconut milk in a blender on high for 10 seconds. Add 1 cup of crushed ice and blend for 3 seconds. Pour into a rocks glass and garnish with the mango slice.

Batidas Notes:
Batidas are the classic cocktails of Brazil, consisting of blended fruits, cachaça (Brazilian rum), and sometimes condensed milk (or “table cream”). They are delicious come up with your own version using any sort of fresh seasonal fruits.

Mango Batida

Strawberry Banana daiquiri

How to make Strawberry Banana daiquiri Recipe

Ingredients:
4 strawberries, hulled, plus 1 for garnish
1⁄2 banana, peeled plus 1 chunk for garnish
2 ounces rum
1 1⁄2 ounces fresh lime juice
2 ounces simple syrup

Method:
Combine the 4 strawberries, 1⁄2 banana, rum, lime juice, and simple syrup in a blender with a half cup of ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the remaining strawberry and the banana chunk.

Tahitian Pineapple Daiquiri

How to make Tahitian Pineapple Daiquiri Recipe

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 ounces rum
1 ounce Navan vanilla liqueur
1 ounce pineapple juice
1 ounce coconut cream (such as Coco Lopez)
1⁄2 ounce fresh lime juice
Pineapple wedge, for garnish

Method:
Combine the rum, vanilla liqueur, pineapple juice, coconut cream, and lime juice in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the pineapple wedge.

At First Blush

How to make At First Blush Recipe

Makes 2 to 3 servings

Ingredients:
2 ounces light rum
2 ounces simple syrup
1 ounce raspberry liqueur (such as Mathilde)
1 ounce rosé champagne (such as Chandon Rose)
1 ounce fresh lime juice
2 or 3 strawberries, hulled, plus 1 to 1 1⁄2 for garnish
2 or 3 sage leaves, for garnish

Method:
Combine the rum, simple syrup, raspberry liqueur, rosé champagne, lime juice, and the 2 or 3 strawberries in a blender with 2 cups of ice.

Blend until smooth. Pour into two or three cocktail glasses (or champagne flutes for a festive feel). Garnish each with a half strawberry and a sage leaf.

Blueberry Peach Daiquiri

How to make Blueberry Peach Daiquiri Recipe

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients:
1 peach (blanched, peeled, and cut into chunks)
1⁄2 cup fresh blueberries
2 ounces light rum
1 ounce blueberry syrup (such as Monin)
1 ounce lime juice
1⁄2 ounce peach liqueur
2 peach wedges and 8 blueberries, for garnish

Method:
Combine the peach, blueberries, rum, blueberry syrup, lime juice, and peach liqueur in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into two cocktail glasses. Garnish each with 4 skewered blueberries and 1 peach wedge.

Blueberry Peach Daiquiri

Peachy Lime Daiquiri

How to make Peachy Lime Daiquiri Recipe

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients:
1 peach (blanched, peeled, and cut into chunks)
4 ounces light rum
1 ounce peach liqueur
2 ounces fresh lime juice
2 ounces simple syrup
2 lime wheels, for garnish

Method:
Combine the peach, rum, peach liqueur, lime juice, and simple syrup in a blender with 2 cups of ice. Blend until smooth.

Pour into two cocktail glasses. Garnish each with a lime wheel.

A Note on Daiquiris:
The Daiquiri is one of those drinks that has been radically manipulated over the past few decades—not in a good way and is mostly seen coming out of a frozen drink machine made with an overly sweet cocktail mix.
A classic Daiquiri is a simple one rum, lime, and sugar. I’ve expanded on the Daiquiri using many fresh ingredients, but the base will always remain the same.

Papayazinger

How to make Papayazinger Recipe

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 cups fresh papaya chunks
1⁄2 cup fresh pineapple chunks
2 ounces reposado tequila
1 ounce triple sec
1 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce orange juice
1⁄2 ounce simple syrup
2 lemon wheels, for garnish

Method:
Combine the papaya, pineapple, tequila, triple sec, lime juice, orange juice, and simple syrup in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into two cocktail or Margarita glasses. Garnish each with a lemon wheel.

Pomegranate Ginger Margarita

How to make Pomegranate Ginger Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce triple sec
1 1⁄2 ounces pomegranate juice
1 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce simple syrup
1⁄2 teaspoon ginger juice (sold by the bottle at many grocery stores)
Candied ginger, for garnish

Method:
Combine the tequila, triple sec, pomegranate juice, lime juice, simple syrup, and ginger juice in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail or Margarita glass. Garnish with candied ginger.

Pomegranate Ginger Margarita

Watermelon Basil margarita

How to make Watermelon Basil margarita Recipe - The flavor of watermelon can vary from one to the next, with some being very flavorful and juicy and others being a bit blander. I like to use watermelon schnapps just to pump up the flavor a bit, but not to act as the sole watermelon flavor.

Ingredients:
2 ounces reposado tequila
1 ounce watermelon schnapps
1 cup fresh watermelon chunks
1 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce simple syrup
2 basil leaves
Watermelon wedge (or 3 watermelon seeds), for garnish

Method:
Combine the tequila, schnapps, watermelon chunks, lime juice, simple syrup, and 1 basil leaf in a blender with 1 cup of ice.

Blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail or Margarita glass. Garnish with the watermelon wedge and the remaining basil leaf.

Amazon Cherry Margarita (Acai Margarita)

How to make Amazon Cherry Margarita (Acai Margarita) Recipe

Ingredients:
2 ounces reposado tequila
1 ounce Cointreau
1 ounce acai juice (such as Sambazon)
1 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce simple syrup
Splash of pomegranate juice
Lime wheel, for garnish

Method:
Combine the tequila, Cointreau, acai juice, lime juice, simple syrup, and pomegranate juice in a blender with 1 cup of ice.

Blend until smooth. Pour into a cocktail or Margarita glass. Garnish with the lime wheel.

Amazon Cherry Margarita (Acai Margarita)

Frozen Margarita

How to make Frozen Margarita Recipe - Lime wedge and kosher salt, for garnishing rim (optional)

Ingredients:
2 ounces pure agave tequila
1 ounce orange liqueur
1 ounce fresh lime juice
11⁄2 ounces simple syrup
1⁄2 ounce fresh lemon juice
Lime wheel, for garnish

Method:
If desired, wet the outside rim of a cocktail or Margarita glass with a lime wedge. Dip into a plate of kosher salt and set aside.

Combine the tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice, simple syrup, and lemon juice in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into the glass. Garnish with the lime wheel.