Defination :
Mocktails are non alcoholic beverages, flavoured, thickened or has a watery consistency consumed to quench thirst or just to relax and enjoy.
Those mixed drinks which are purely non alcoholic are called non alcoholic cocktails or mocktails. Here we shall restrict our study to that of mocktails.
Ingredients Used In Mocktails
A mocktail is a mixture of one or more liquids with other ingredients, prepared in a specific manner, presented attractively in different glassware with garnish to add to the eye appeal. Usually a major ingredient predominates and other items complement the colours and flavour.
Some of the ingredients used in making mocktails include:
(i) ice:
The key ingredient used to chill the glass, chill the drink, dilute the drink, fill up the glass and sometimes all of the above, different form of ice cubes, flakes, made from good source of water are used. Ice should never be reused. Never use wet ice for making or chilling the drink
(ii) Carbonated drinks:
This includes soda, cola, ginger ale, tonic, 7 up etc. They are usually freshly drawn, kept chilled and used to fizz up the drink.
(iii) fruit juices:
Fresh juices always give the best taste and flavour. However, care should be taken that they are stored well chilled and used within their limited shelf life. To ensure consistency some barmen prefer readymade mixes which are fresh juices packed in tetra packs to add shelf value.
(iv) Dairy Products:
Dairy products include milk, cream, ice creams, and eggs etc. All of these tend to get spoiled by bacteria. They are stored chilled.
(v) fruits and other garnishes:
Most good bars shall have a large selection of fruits cut and prepared in different shapes to be used as garnishes. Wheels, half wheels, wedges, curls mostly of citrus fruits are all kept ready. Other garnishes may be cherries, stuffed olives, pickled onions, pineapple chunks, celery sticks etc.
Garnishes:
These are the edible or non-edible products used to decorate a drink and the glass making it more appealing and presentable to the eye.
Edible Garnish:
These are items such as cut fruits, slices or spirals of lemon, sweet lime, pineapple, orange; cherry, etc. These can be consumed before, during or after the mocktail is consumed.
Non – Edible Garnish:
These are fancy items used to decorate the glass and are not to be consumed, made either of food grade plastic or glass which are disposable in nature. Example: Fancy umbrella.
Glasses used also varies according to the consistency and the volume of a drink like if the drink is thick in consistency then the glass used has less intake; and for thin or liquid consistency drinks glasses are long and straight.
(vi) sugar syrup:
Granulated sugar does not mix quickly with liquids hence a supply of sugar syrup refrigerated is always kept in handy.
(vii) other ingredients:
Condiments like tobacco sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt, spices like pepper nutmeg cinnamon bitters etc are also kept ready.
Methods of Making Mocktails
There are four basic methods of mixing mocktails.
(i) Builds:
In this method, drinks are added step by step in the glass in which the drink is to be served the ingredients are floated one on top of other taking advantage of difference in viscosity of the liquids
(ii) Stirred Drinks:
Here the ingredients are mixed by stirring them with ice in a mixing glass and straining the mixture into a chilled serving glass. Ingredients that blend easily are stirred.
(iii) Shaken Drinks:
In this method the ingredients are mixed by shaking them by hand in special shakers. Usually ingredients that do not readily mix like sugar, cream, egg and fruit juices are shaken before being strained into cocktail glasses.
(iv) Blended drinks:
This is made using electrical blenders. Most drinks that are shaken can also be blended. However, drinks incorporating solid foods like ice, ice cream, fruits need to be always blended.
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PUSSY FOOT
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1.
Ingredients
Orange juice: 250 ml
Lemon juice: 50 ml
Lime juice : 30 ml
Grenadine: 1 tsp
Egg yolk : 1
Soda: to top up
Type / method: Shaken
Glass: Old Fashioned
FRUIT CUP
2.
2.
Ingredients:
Orange juice : 60 ml
Grape fruit juice 60 ml
Apple juice 60 ml
Soda 60 ml
Type/ method: Stir
Glass: High Ball
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
3.
3.
Ingredients
Fresh lime soda 120 ml
Ginger ale 60 ml
Grenadine: 1tsp
Maraschino cherry: 1 nos
Orange slices: 1 nos
Type / method: Stir
Glass: High Ball
4. BANANA BRACER
Ingredients:
Ripe banana (diced) 1 nos
Milk: 90 ml
Pineapple juice: 30 ml
Coconut cream: 30 ml
Crushed ice ½ cups
Maraschino cherry: 1 nos
Type / method: Blend
Glass: Collins
5. CINDRELLA
Ingredients:
Pineapple juice 40 ml
Lemon juice 40 ml
Orange juice 40 ml
Soda water 80 ml
Raspberry syrup 2 tsp
Pineapple chunk 1 nos
Orange slice 1 no
Ice to fill
Type /method: Stir
Glass: Slim Jim
6 BATMAN
Ingredients
Orange juice 150 ml
Grenadine ½ tsp
Orange slice 1 nos
Type / method: fill glass almost ¾ with ice pour juice & grenadine on top, STIR
Glass: Collins
7 VIRGIN MARY
Ingredients:
Tomato juice 150 ml
Worcester sauce 15 ml
Tobasco 2- 3 dashes
Lemon juice ¼ tsb
Salt, pepper, a pinch
celery stick for garnish
Basil leaves 1 nos
Type/Method: Stir well & add into a salt rimmed glass
Glass: Old Fashioned glass or Rolly-Polly glass.
8 COCONAPPLE
Ingredients:
Pineapple juice 120 ml
Coconut cream 30ml
Crushed ice ½ cups
Type/Method: Blend
Glass: Collins
9. MINT COOLER
Ingredients:
Pineapple juice 60ml
Sweet lime juice 60ml
Lemon juice 20ml
Sugar syrup 20ml
Ice to fill
Non alcoholic Crème de menthe 15ml
Mint leaves 4 nos.
Type: Shaken
Glass: Collins
10. Honi – Honi:
Ingredients:
Orange Juice 120 ml.
Lemon Juice 40 ml.
Orgeat Syrup 60 ml
Sugar Syrup 20 ml.
Limca to top
Garnish: Orange Slice and Grenadine for lining of glass
11.Morning Glory:
Ingredients:
Mango Juice 60 ml.
Pineapple Juice 60 ml
Orange Juice 60 ml.
Strawberry Crush 30 ml
Ginger Syrup 20 ml
Garnish: Pineapple Slice
12.Blue Hawaiian
Ingredients:
Pineapple Juice 180 ml
Coconut cream 60 ml
Sugar Syrup 40 ml.
Blue Curaçao 40 ml
Garnish: Pineapple Slice
13. FRUIT PUNCH
Ingredients:
Mango Juice 90 ml.
Pineapple Juice 90 ml
Orange Juice 90 ml
Vanilla Ice Cream 1 scoop
Strawberry Ice Cream 1 scoop
Ginger Juice 5 ml.
Crushed Ice to top up
Garnish: Pine apple chunk and Strawberry slice
Glass: Collins
Rules for Making Good Mockta
>Ice should be clear, clean and fresh.
>Shakers should be cleaned well, before each use and filled only 3/4th.
>Ice should be clear, clean and fresh.
>Shakers should be cleaned well, before each use and filled only 3/4th.
>Fizz or carbonated drinks are not shaken or blended.
>Mocktails should always be served in clean pre chilled glasses.
>Always garnish after cocktail is made and added into the glass.
>Measure ingredients, inaccurate mixing spoils balance.
>Do not reuse ice, stirrer or garnish.
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