4 Easy cocktail recipes that you can make at home during the lockdown
New Delhi : We all love a good drink every now and then. While it's not a good thing to be intoxicated out of your minds every weekend, it's completely alright to have a drink or two once a week or so. No matter what the occasion is, we all love a good cocktail when we celebrate something with our near and dear ones. Every party, including a house party, is incomplete without a few interesting homemade cocktails! Not all of us can throw a lavish party and hire bartenders and to be honest, it's always fun to be the drunk bartender mixing spirits and enjoying the little compliments thrown your way! Now that we're all stuck at home and don't have the option of stepping out and hitting a bar with our friends and try out some new cocktails, it's best that we try to be our own bartender at home and if you want to make the perfect cocktails, here are some quick and easy cocktail recipes that you can make at home.
1/4 Rum Iced Tea
1. Make a jar of lemon iced tea, you can also get the lemon iced tea mixture from the grocery store, and put it in the fridge. Now pour some good old rum in a glass, you can take 60 or 90 ml as per your taste and preference, and add a few cubes of ice and a few drops of lemon juice and add the iced tea and decorate the glass with a slice of lemon on the side and you're good to go.
2/4 Whiskey Sour
2. In a bottle take 70 ml of whiskey (bourbon), 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 teaspoons of sugar syrup and one egg white and some ice cubes. Shake it well for 3 to 4 minutes and pour it into a whisky glass and garnish it with a slice of orange or lemon. This drink is called whiskey sour if you don't already know it.
3/4 Long Island Iced Tea
3. If you plan on getting knocked out by just one drink, you can make the strongest of 'em all. Long Island Iced Tea is very quick and easy to make. Take 30 ml of rum, 30 ml of vodka, 30 ml of gin, 30 ml of tequila, 30 ml triple sec, 30 ml scotch and 15 ml of Jagermeister if you have it. Mix all the spirits and pour it in a bottle full of ice cubes and add one spoon of sugar syrup or half a spoon of vanilla syrup as per your choice and the availability. Add some freshly squeezed lemon juice as per your taste and shake it well for up to 5 minutes and pour it in a big glass and top it up with coke or thumbs-up and give it a stir. Garnish it with a slice of lime and mint leaves.
4/4 Bloody Mary
4. Take 90 ml vodka and mix it with a glass of fresh tomato juice and add a pinch of salt and pepper as per your taste. Put it in a bottle and shake it well. Add a spoon full of Tabasco sauce and a few drops of lime juice and shake it well again. Take a big glass and damp the rim with some lemon juice and coat it with salt and then pour the mixture in the glass. Garnish it with mint leaves and a slice of lemon.
