Homemade strawberry cocktails, but perfect, as a professional would do them? You can, thanks to the advice (and recipes) of two expert bartenders
Would you like to sip a cocktail made as a real would barman but on the sofa at home, given the impossibility of going out for a few more weeks? Maybe a strawberry cocktail, fresh, fragrant, featuring a seasonal ingredient, to sip relaxed on the balcony of your home, dreaming of the moment when you can do it by the pool or simply in your favorite place? Then we give you the recipe to prepare one, or rather two!
Strawberry cocktail
You can sip two strawberries cocktails made in a workmanlike manner, thanks to the advice that two give us bartender specialists who share the art of mixology: Mario Esposito, bar manager of the Quellenhof Luxury Resort Lazise on Lake Garda, which offers the Venetian Strawberry, is Andrea Ciavarro, chef de bar at the Post Hotel – Tradition & Lifestyle in San Candido, which presents Strawberry and Vanilla Mojito. Get fresh and fragrant strawberries and you're done!
Fruit .. you drink!
Perfumed, with a firm and full of taste consistency: fruit it is irresistible, ideal to eat as an after meal, together with a spoon dessert or as an ingredient in cocktails, alcohol or soft drinks, as you prefer. Strawberries, peaches, grapefruits, oranges, bananas, pears: they are all perfect fruits to mix with alcohol to give life to homemade cocktails delicate or with a strong touch, to sip with a few snacks before dinner.
The Venetian Strawberry recipe
Ingredients
50 ml Aperol strawberry infusion, 90 ml Prosecco, Top sparkling mineral water.
Method
Wash 200 g of ripe strawberries, infuse them in the Aperol for about 3 days, in a glass jar. After 3 days, filter everything. At this point, put 6 ice cubes, 50 ml of Aperol infused with strawberries, 90 ml of prosecco and a top of mineral water in a wine glass. Decorate with a strawberry and 2 basil leaves and serve!
The recipe for strawberry and vanilla Mojito
Ingredients
6 cl of Bacardi white paper rum, 3 fresh strawberries, 1 vanilla pod, 2-3 sprigs of mint, 2 teaspoons of white cane sugar, half a lime, soda water.
Method
open the vanilla pod and infuse it with the rum for 5 minutes directly in a long drink glass. Add the strawberries, sugar and lime into small pieces and pound with a pestle. Add 6 mint leaves and pound gently again. Fill the glass with crushed ice, add the soda water, mix, decorate with a sprig of mint and a fresh strawberry and serve.
In the tutorial some tips to prepare your cocktails
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