Recipes: Candy Crush and Strawberry Basil Mocktail

Mumbai-based mixologist Gaurish Rangnekar tells us how to make interesting love potions with simple ingredients.

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This Valentine's Day, skip the flowers and chocolates, mix up some fun with these romantic drinks instead.

Here are the recipes:

Candy Crush

Ingredients

• 60 ml tequila
• 30 ml cranberry juice
• 5 ml lime juice
• 10 ml sugar syrup
• A packet of popping candy
• A cocktail shaker
• Ice cubes

Method

• In a cocktail shaker, add some ice cubes along with all the ingredients. Mix well.
• Rim a margarita glass with popping candy.
• Strain the contents of the shaker into the glass. Serve.

Strawberry and Basil Mocktail

Ingredients

• 45 ml strawberry puree
• 10 ml sugar syrup
• 5 ml lime juice
• 5 to 6 basil leaves
• Soda

Method

• Pour strawberry puree in a tall glass.
• Add basil leaves and muddle this mixture vigorously.
• Add sugar syrup along with lime juice. Mix.
• Top it up with soda and serve.

Gaurish Rangnekar is a food and beverage consultant and mixologist at Toast Bistro & Bar, Mumbai. He received his certification in mixology from the New York Bartending School, New York and Cape Wine Academy, Johannesburg. He is the founder of Barmobile, a bartending services company in Mumbai.

Photographs: Kind Courtesy Toast Bistro & Bar

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