Holi Cocktails: Bura Na Mano, Play Colours

Live it up on Holi and serve some mischievously-named cocktails, with a full-on kick, that will get the party started.

Both these recipes use Dewar's. If you don't have any on hand, substitute with a fine whiskey or better a scotch.

Bura Na Mano

Serves: 1

Ingredients

• 60 ml Dewar’s 12
• 15 ml lemon juice
• 15 ml turmeric syrup
• 60 ml soda
• Ice
• Lemon or orange wedge, for garnish

Method

• Add all the ingredients to highball glass.
  Top with ice.
  Stir and add more ice.
• Garnish with lemon wheel or wedge.

Editor's Note: For the turmeric syrup, grind 50 gm fresh turmeric (peeled, chopped) in a blender with 250 ml sugar syrup (1:1 sugar to water). Strain. Refrigerate.

Serves: 1

Ingredients

• 60 ml Dewar's 15
• 15 ml lemon juice
• 15 ml sugar syrup
• 30 ml fresh pomegranate juice
• Ice
• A few arils or seedpods pomegranate, for garnish

Method

• Add all the ingredients to highball glass.
  Top with ice.
  Stir and add more ice.
• Garnish with pomegranate seeds

Editor's Note: If you want sweeter drinks add less lemon juice. If you would like less sweet drinks add less sugar syrup. Alternatively, use honey syrup made by combining 5 parts honey with 4 parts room temperate. Refrigerate.

Recipes courtesy Bacardi India

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