Christmas is here and it’s time to plan your big party at home. This year, serve your guests a delicious mix of Indian and Continental. Add a twist to your delicacies and enjoy your Christmas dinner like never before.
Recipes by:Dhanya Samuel, The Spice Adventuress, Food Blog
The ‘Indian’ Cosmopolitan
Replace the classic cranberry juice with Rooh Afza and complement the rose flavour with some tangy lime and orange juice.
Ingredients
15ml Rooh Afza
20ml Triple Sec
15ml lemon juice
15ml orange juice
15ml sugar syrup
35ml vodka
Ice cubes
Orange wedge; for garnish
Chilled cocktail glasses
Method
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes and add all the ingredients.
- Shake well.
- Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass
- Rub the rim of the glass lightly with the orange wedge and garnish with the same.
Box – To make sugar syrup, add 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water to a saucepan, heat till the sugar dissolves. Cool and use.
Lychee and Cardamom Bellini
Try this refreshing drink with sparkling wine, sweet lychees, and flavourful cardamom.
Ingredients
30ml lychee and cardamom syrup
90ml sparkling wine
Lemon slice for garnish
Lychee, to garnish
For the syrup(Makes for 10-12 drinks)
Water
250gm white sugar
5 cardamom pods
1 canned lychees
Method
To make the syrup
- Heat 250ml water and 250gm sugar in a pan. As it starts to boil, crush the cardamom pods and add to it. Continue to heat till the syrup turns aromatic and turns a shade or two darker (should take approximately 15-20 minutes). Remove and allow it to cool.
- Blend one can of lychees along with its syrup till smooth.
- Combine equal quantities of the sugar syrup with the lychees to get the lychee cardamom syrup.
- Store in a bottle and refrigerate, use as necessary.
To make the Bellini
- In a champagne glass, pour 30ml of the lychee cardamom syrup and then gently top with the sparkling wine.
- Garnish with a lychee and lemon twist.