New Year cocktail recipes: Pina Colada, Mojito, Screwdriver

Anthony Edgar Noronha shares nine easy cocktail recipes for your New Year party.

You can serve these for your New Year's eve party and raise a toast to 2018. 

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Melon Ala Monde

Ingredients:

• ½ oz creame de cocoa or coffee liqueur (Kalhua)
• ½ oz vodka
• ¼ oz Midori (melon liqueur)
• ¼ oz Ameretto (almond liqueur)
• Splash of coconut milk
• Splash of cream (you can use Amul cream)

Best served blended or can also be served on ice (shaken and stirred).

Method:

• Fill blender with ice. Add all the spirits and liqueurs.
• Add a splash of coconut milk and cream. Blend and garnish with ice cream and a slice of melon.

Colorado Bulldog

Ingredients:

• 1½ oz vodka
• ¾ oz Kahlua
• 1-1½ oz cream
• Splash of coke

Method:

• Fill a glass with ice.
• Pour all alcohol in the order given above.
• Add a splash of coke and serve with a stirrer.

Kami Kazi

Ingredients:

• 1 oz vodka
• 1 oz triple sec
• 1 oz lime juice
• Lime to garnish

Can be served chilled or on ice.

Method:
• Pour all the alcohol and lime juice in a glass with 3 cubes of ice (you can add more ice as per your choice). Stir well.
• Garnish with lime and serve.

Pina Colada

Ingredients:

• 2 oz white rum or 2 oz coconut rum (1 oz = 30 ml)
• 6 oz pineapple juice
• 1½ oz coconut milk
• 1 oz heavy cream (you can use Amul cream)
• 1 tsp sugar (You can increase as per your taste or even use sugar-free.)

Best served blended or can also be served on ice.

Method:

• Put a lot of ice in the blender. Add heavy cream and coconut milk.
• Add sugar, pineapple juice and white rum. Make sure that the ice is more than the rest of the ingredients.
• Blend and pour in Poco Grande glass. Garnish with pineapple and cherry.

Tip: To pep up Pina Colada, add ½ oz Amaretto (almond liqueur). Minus the alchohol from the above Ingredients and you get a Pina Colada mocktail.

Black Russian

Ingredients:

• 2 oz vodka
• 1 oz Kahlua (coffee liqueur)

Method:

• Place 3 cubes of ice in an old fashioned glass or fill the entire glass with ice.
• Add vodka and Kahlua. Stir and serve.

Tip: To make White Russian, add heavy cream to Black Russian.

Mojito

Ingredients:

• 6 mint leaves
• 1 tbsp superfine sugar
• 1½ oz white rum
• 1½ oz club soda 
• 4 lime wedges

Method:

• Place mint leaves, lime wedges and sugar in a glass. Muddle all together with a spoon, until everything is crushed and all the juices are released.
• Add rum and crush again. Add soda. Add ice. Garnish with mint leaves and lime. Soda can be increased as per your taste

Cosmopolitan Martini

Ingredients:

• 1½ oz vodka
• ¾ oz triple sec (orange liqueur)
• Splash of lime juice
• Splash of cranberry juice
• Lime and cherry to garnish

Method:

• Fill the shaker with ice. Add all the ingredients and shake.
• Chill and pour in martini glass. Garnish with lime and cherry.

Screwdriver

Ingredients: 

• 1½ oz vodka
• 6 - 8 oz Orange juice

Method:
• Mix vodka and orange juice and serve on ice.

Tequila Sunrise

Ingredients:
• 1½ oz tequila
• Orange juice
• Grenadine (pomegranate syrup)

Method:
• Mix tequila and orange juice and top with grenadine. Garnish with a slice of orange and cherry.

The writer is currently teaching at the International Training Institute for Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Margoa, Goa