Cool drinks for a hot day
The smouldering summer heat can leave you feeling fatigued, lethargic, dehydrated and thirsty.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-03-12 18:03 GMT
Chennai
While water is always the best way to beat the heat, try these refreshing summer sips that will not only quench your thirst but also cool your senses.
APPLE CHAMOMILE ICED TEA
Ingredients:
60 ml Apple juice
120 ml Chamomile tea
1 Green apple
Method:
- Pour apple juice in a tall glass. Fill the glass with ice. Pour chamomile tea infusion over ice slowly. Add more ice when it melts and continue till the glass is full.
- Garnish with thin slices of apple.
HOME-MADE STRAWBERRY GINGER-ALE
Ingredients:
10 ml Ginger juice
15 ml Lime juice
30 ml Strawberry puree
Soda- Top up
Method:
- Pour ginger juice, lime juice and strawberry puree in a tall glass. Top the glass with ice.
- Pour chilled soda and garnish with mixed berries.
Recipe: Nanda Kumar, Bartender at Crowne Plaza Chennai
SI PANG
Description:
Fresh watermelon and mint muddled together, shaken with orange and apple juice.
Ingredients:
Watermelon 5-6 chunks
Mint leaves 8-10 nos
Orange juice 60 ml
Apple juice 60 ml
Method:
- Take the mint and watermelon chunks, muddle together.
- Add apple and orange juice.
- Put 3 to 4 cubes of ice.
- Shake and strain.
- Serve in a collin glass.
Recipe: Afzal Khan, F&B Manager, Vivanta by Taj Connemara
SUMMER WALK
Ingredients:
80 ml Watermelon
80 ml Tender coconut water
60 ml Pomegranate juice
Add Pineapple juice according to the sweetness.
Method:
- Mix all the ingredients in a shaker with lots of ice, pour in a hurricane or tall glass and serve.
- You can pick one of the following options for the garnishes.
- A watermelon piece with a green peal.
- A cinnamon stick.
- A coconut thread.
- A round pineapple piece.
Recipe: Arun Kumar, Senior Mixologist- Chipstead, Taj Coromandel
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