Best Green Cocktails

With St Patrick’s day just around the corner, green cocktails are a hot topic. These are a few that I will be trying this year:

 

 

The Green Iguana

15 ml tequila

30 ml melon liqueur

60 ml sweet and sour

Shake over ice, strain into rimmed martini glass.

Gimlet Cocktail 

4 parts gin

3 parts lime cordial

1 lime wedge

Fill rocks glass with ice, add all ingredients, stir.

Green Spree

2 parts absolut vodka

2 parts apple juice

1 part lemon juice

1 part simple syrup

1 slice kiwi

Shake over ice, pour into chilled cocktail glass, garnish with kiwi.

Vulcano Cocktail

1 part green chartreuse

1 dash blue curacao

1 part cherry brandy

1 dash triple sec

champagne

Add blue curacao, cherry brandy, green chartreuse and triple sec into chilled champagne glass. Top with champagne.

The Real Mojito

10 fresh mint leaves

1/2 lime, cut into 4 wedges

2 tbsp white sugar

1 cup ice

1 1/2 oz white rum

1/2 cup club soda

Muddle mint with one lime wedge in sturdy cocktail glass. Add 2 more lime wedges and sugar. Fill glass with ice, add rum and top with soda. garnish with last lime wedge.

Kiwi Kiss

1 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced

3/4 oz lemongrass-ginger syrup

1/2 oz soju

6 oz dry sparkling sake

lemon grass spear

1″ cube of kiwi for garnish

Muddle kiwi, lemongrass-ginger syrup & soju. Fill glass 3/4 full of ice. Top with sparkling sake. Thread kiwi cube onto lemon grass spear (use metal skewer to poke hole.)

Cucumber Mint Gimlet

4 1/2 cups cucumber gin

2 1/4 cups fresh lime juice

1 cup plus 2 tbsp mint simple syrup

cucumber peels

fresh mint sprigs

Click here for full instructions

Enjoy!

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-Leah