Old popular cocktails, such as Margarita, "Bloody Mary", "Mojito" and "Screw-driver", will develop a new taste if slightly to diversify components, habitual for their preparation.
Margarita with cranberry juice
Interesting and unusually tasty variation of old cocktail is preparing from the following ingredients:
- 60 ml tequila; - 30 ml of cointreau;
- 30 ml of cranberry juice; - 30 ml of lime juice; - 2 ice cubes; - salts; - lime pieces. Connect in a shaker tequila to ice, then pour in it in cointreau, juice of a lime and a cranberry, well shake up. Moisten edges of a glass and dip it into salt, pour in it ready cocktail, decorate it with lime segments.
Bloody Mary with olives
Drink known and well-loved by many, will begin to sound on new if to add it with olives. So, for the updated "Bloody Mary" it will be required to you: - 5 green olives for drink; - 2 green olives for ornament; - 40 ml of vodka; - 2 ice cubes; - 120 ml of tomato juice; - drop of fresh juice of a lemon; - the Worcester sauce to taste; - salt to taste; - pepper to taste. Mash 5 olives at the bottom of a shaker, add to them the Worcester sauce and stir. Then put an ice piece, vodka, lemon juice, tomato juice in capacity, pepper and salt to taste. Shake up cocktail in a shaker and filter in a high glass, put in it the remained ice and decorate with olives.
Grapefruit screw-driver
Instead of habitual orange juice, Screw-driver cocktail can be made with grapefruit. Drink at the same time turns out bright saturated color, usually it has great success with women at the expense of the smaller content of vodka, than in the classical recipe. To make cocktail, take such components: - 30 ml of vodka; - 90 ml of juice of grapefruit; - 3 ice cubes. Put ice in a glass, then pour in it in vodka and in the last turn juice, mix ingredients a tubule. Before giving drink needs to be decorated with grapefruit segment.
Strawberry mojito
The refreshing Cuban cocktail turns out especially beautiful and fragrant if it is supplemented with strawberry. For such option of drink it is required to you: - 40 ml of white rum; - 30 ml of juice of a lemon; - 3 mint leaves; - 2 tsps of sugar; - 3 strawberries; - ice; - sparkling water. Pour out fresh juice of a lemon in a high glass, add to it sugar and pound. Then put in a glass mint with strawberry and you remember them by means of a spoon. After that pour in rum in capacity, well stir and fill a glass with chipped ice. Fill in all components with carbonated mineral water and accurately mix. Decorate ready cocktail with strawberry berry, a leaflet of mint and give on a table.