Virgin Cider Mojito

Hello mates,

Today, I am posting the recipe of a drink. This is very quick to assemble if you have all the ingredients at home, and it tastes great. For non-alcoholics, it is a great refreshing drink as it is loaded with mint leaves and lemon. Well, I am talking about Virgin Mojito. We can fuse various fruit flavours with the drink. I made this one with apple juice fused in it. It tasted delicious. The following recipe would make 2 glasses.

Ingredients:

2 lemons (each cut into 8 pieces)

2 tbsp lemon juice

Mint leaves (about 30 pcs)

2 tsp brown sugar

Ice cubes 

Lemon based aerated drink (I used Limca)

2 cups apple juice

Garnishing: 

Lemon slices, Apple slices (1 cm thick - like a french fry)

Method:

1. Take a glass. Put 4 lemon pieces in the glass. Also add 1 tbsp lemon juice.
2. Put 10-12 mint leaves in the glass.
3. Add brown sugar to the glass. Muddle a bit. You can crush it with the back of a spoon, so that it is lightly muddled, and the essence of lemon and mint is mixed with sugar.
4. Add ice cubes.
5. Fill 3/4^th of glass with lemon based aerated drink.
6. Fill the remaining glass with apple juice.
7. Garnish the rim with lemon slice and put 2 apple slices in the drink)
8. Ready to serve.

Tips:

You can experiment with different fruits like pomegranate, peach. You can just replace apple drink with any other fruit drink of your choice. Add same fruits for garnishing.

Nirvana

Today, I am posting the recipe of one of my favourite drinks. It is called “Nirvana”. No, you don’t actually get Nirvana after drinking it, but it tastes just so good and heavenly and is quite filling too. I learnt this recipe at the cooking school where i first started learning how to cook. It was one of the 10 drinks that were taught there. I would put up the rest of the recipes as and when I try making it here. Also, my brother never really praises me for my cooking. He is a man of few words. But this one, he just loves it. Now that I am married and settled in a different city, whenever I go back home, I try making this drink at home as everyone loves there and remembers when I first started making it about 9 years ago. Long time.:)

Ingredients:

¼ cup Khas syrup

¼ cup Limca or Lemonade

½ tbsp lime juice

1 and ½ tbsp vanilla ice cream

½ cup chilled milk,

1 and ½  tbsp sugar

1 tsp fresh cream

4 ice cubes

Serves: 2 persons

Method:

1. In a mixer, pour khus syrup, Limca, lime juice, sugar and crushed ice and churn.
2. Add milk and churn again
3. Add Vanilla ice cream and churn. Also put cream and churn once or twice.
4. Take a long glass, pour little khus syrup in it and coat the glass by rolling it.
5. Pour the drink in the glass.
6. Garnish with a little khus syrup on top.
7. Ready to serve.