Recipe of the day: Tasty winter cocktails to warm you up from within
Compiled by Xanet Scheepers
Pictures: iStock and supplied
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Hot-chocolate is probably more what you will be leaning towards this weekend, but if you’re going to a braai or just feel like enjoying a drink, these winter cocktails are not only super tasty, but they’ll also help to warm you up from the inside.
Apple season is in full swing, and now that you’ve had your Apple Pie last weekend, in celebration of Apple Pie Day, it’s time to try something different with your apples.
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Author: Angie Batis Durrant.
Prep Time:5 minutes
Cook Time:5 minutes
Total Time:10 minutes
Category:Drink
Method:no cook
Cuisine:British
Ingredients
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1 egg white
45ml gin
85ml fresh apple juice
1 teaspoon salted caramel syrup
1 ½ teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Pinch of cinnamon
Ice cubes
4 slices of a DuToit apple
Instructions
Add all of the ingredients together and stir vigorously for about 25 seconds. This will help everything merge with the egg white.
Add about 5 ice blocks and give it another stir for at least 30 seconds.
Strain the cocktail into a pretty glass and garnish it with very thinly sliced fresh apple on a cocktail stick and a pinch of cinnamon.
If you don’t enjoy drinking whiskey neat, this cocktail is a great way to have a drink when your partner enjoys his whiskey on the rocks watching the sunset.
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Author:BBC Good Food
Prep Time:5 minutes
Cook Time:5 minutes
Total Time:10 minutes
Category:Drink
Method:no cook
Cuisine:British
Ingredients
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Crushed ice
50ml bourbon
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 tbsp fresh orange juice
½ tbsp sugar syrup
2 slices of oranges
Instructions
Fill each glass with crushed ice. Put the bourbon into a cocktail shaker with the lemon juice, orange juice and sugar syrup. Shake and strain into each glass, and serve with an orange slice and short straws.
This flavourful winter cocktail recipe draws on exotic spices and botanicals inherent within BOMBAY SAPPHIRE gin. This rich and savoury cocktail awakens the senses and can be spiced according to your personal taste.
Author:Bombay Sapphire
Prep Time:2minutes
Cook Time:3 minutes
Total Time:minutes
Category:drink,
Method:no cook
Cuisine:Mediterranean
Ingredients
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50ml BOMBAY SAPPHIRE gin
100ml Tomato juice
2 dashes hot sauce
1 Teaspoon Horseradish (to taste)
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce (to taste)
Pinch of salt
Pinch of Cayenne pepper
2 Fresh lemon wedges
1 Celery Stalk
1 Olive
1 cocktail onion
Instructions
In a long highball glass, add the gin and your tomato juice.
Squeeze in (and then discard) a fresh wedge of lemon and season with hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper according to your taste.
Fill your glass with cubed ice and stir slowly to integrate the ingredients and flavours.
Finish the drink by adding a wonderful garnish: a celery stalk, an olive, a cocktail onion, and a fresh wedge of lemon.
