The sweetish and unobtrusive taste of watermelon made this berry popular for use not only in its pure form, but also as a basis for cocktails. Watermelon cocktails can be prepared with the addition in the form of alcohol, or in a non-alcoholic version - both variants of recipes we will consider in detail in the article.
Milkshake with watermelon
Watermelon smoothies have not surprised anyone for a long time, which can not be said about millshays with flesh of juicy berries. Vanilla ice cream can be replaced with coconut, or simple cream.
Ingredients:
- watermelon;
- milk - 1 item;
- ice cream - 100 g;
- sugar - to taste.
Preparation
Pulp the watermelon from the seeds and cut into cubes. About 3 glasses of watermelon cubes are frozen, and then placed in a blender. Pour milk into the blender and add ice cream. Sweetheads can supplement the sweet pot with sugar, honey, or syrup. Now it remains only to shake the cocktail mixture in a blender and pour over the glasses.
Watermelon chiller
A refreshing watermelon chiller with mint is suitable for a party on a hot summer day.
Ingredients:
- watermelon (chopped) - 3 items;
- lime - 1/2 pcs .;
- rum - 1/4 item;
- mint - 1 branch.
Preparation
In the blender, put sliced and peeled watermelon and add the juice of 1½ limes. Whisk the mixture to homogeneity, you can add sugar to taste and rum. If you want to make non-alcoholic watermelon cocktails, then instead of rum add sparkling water, or soda, to the drink.
A ready-made cocktail is served in a glass with ice and a sprig of mint.
Cocktail of watermelon and banana
Tropical taste of smoothies with watermelon and banana will complement coconut water, or milk. In a cocktail, according to this recipe, you can add any fresh, or canned fruit to taste.
Ingredients:
- watermelon flesh - 600 g;
- bananas - 2 pieces;
- coconut milk, or cream - 220 ml.
Preparation
Watermelon pulp is purified from seeds and put into a blender along with bananas and coconut milk. Whisk the cocktail mixture until smooth.
Add a touch of watermelon cocktail will help a couple of spoons of vanilla ice cream.
Watermelon sangria
Ingredients:
- watermelon (pulp) - 4 items;
- wine - 1/2 tbsp .;
- rum - 28 ml;
- Cointreau 56 ml;
- sugar syrup - 56 ml;
- lime - 2 pieces;
- mint - for decoration.
Preparation
In a blender we clean the purified pulp of watermelon and pour it into a jug. We also send wine, "Cointreau" liqueur and sugar syrup, add lime juice and mix. We pour watermelon sangria on glasses with ice cubes, decorate the drink with mint leaves.
How to make a cocktail "Margarita" from watermelon?
Watermelon "Margarita" - an ideal option for a bachelorette party, since this cocktail is a truly feminine drink.
Ingredients:
- watermelon - 1 piece;
- agave syrup - 8 ml;
- tequila - 40 ml;
- lime juice - 20 ml.
Preparation
A slice of watermelon is passed through the juicer, and the resulting juice is mixed in a shaker with agave syrup, or simple sugar syrup. In the shaker, add tequila and lime juice, once again carefully beat and poured into chilled glasses for Martini. We decorate the cocktail with a slice of watermelon and serve it.
Watermelon "Mojito"
There are a lot of variants of preparation "Mojito"
Ingredients:
- mint leaves - 1/2 st .;
- watermelon - 6 lobules;
- light rum - 250 ml;
- lime - 1 piece;
- sir - 1/2 st.
Preparation
Peppermint leaves grind in a mortar and transfer the resulting mass into a blender. Watermelon is cleaned from seeds, cut into cubes and sent to mashed mint along with rum, syrup and juice of one lime. Whisk the mass until smooth and dispense into glasses with ice. We serve by decorating with mint leaves. So our alcoholic cocktail with a watermelon is ready!