The New Year's table may well be non-alcoholic, especially if many children and teenagers gather around it. Delicious and natural non-alcoholic cocktails will create a pleasant atmosphere and decorate the festive table.
To prepare such drinks, you will need a shaker or blender, and, of course, the necessary products. The success of the New Year's party is in your hands!
Yogurt cocktail
Compound:
mango – 2 pcs.
yogurt – 2 cups
sugar – 2 tablespoons
cardamom - a pinch
cinnamon - a pinch
Preparation: Peel the mango (it is better to take very ripe fruit). The pulp of the fruit must be beaten together with yogurt. Natural yogurt is preferable; in general, it’s good if you make it yourself. Add sugar to the cocktail, add a pinch of cardamom and cinnamon. If desired, you can put an ice cube in each glass.
Cocktail “Snow Maiden”
Compound:
ice cream – 200g
milk – 0.5 cups
yogurt – 0.5 cups
kiwi – 1 pc.
chopped nuts - for decoration
Preparation: Beat any ice cream with 0.5 cups of milk and 0.5 cups of yogurt. First throw sliced kiwi into each glass (as many as you like), pour in whipped yogurt and sprinkle chopped nuts on top.
Cocktail “Chocolate”
Compound:
vanilla ice cream – 100g
milk – 0.5 cups
orange juice – 5 tablespoons
chocolate syrup – 5 tablespoons
grated dark chocolate - for decoration
Preparation: Beat ice cream with 0.5 cups of milk, 5 tablespoons of orange juice and the same amount of chocolate syrup. Pour this cocktail into tall glasses and sprinkle grated dark chocolate on top.
Cocktail “Refreshing”
Compound:
ice cream – 200g
milk – 200 ml
mint syrup – 40 ml
whipped cream
mint sprig - for decoration
Preparation: Beat 200 ml of milk and any ice cream, 40 ml of mint syrup. Pour into glasses, garnish with a dollop of whipped cream and a small sprig of mint.
Non-alcoholic champagne
Compound:
lemon – 6 pcs.
sugar – 75g
mineral water (carbonated) – 1l
apple juice – 2l
apples (red) – 2 pcs.
Preparation: Dissolve 75 g of sugar in the heated juice of 6 lemons. Mix this syrup with 1 liter of sparkling mineral water and 2 liters of apple juice. Cut 2 ripe apples (preferably red) into small pieces, place in a large bowl and pour over the resulting drink. Cool, pour into glasses, garnish with mint sprigs and add ice cubes.
Creamy cherry drink
Compound:
ice cream – 200g
milk (cold) – 1 glass
cherry syrup – 3-4 tablespoons
Preparation: Mix 200 g of ice cream, 1 glass of cold milk and 3-4 tablespoons of cherry syrup. Whisk everything thoroughly to form a fluffy foam and pour into tall glasses.
Cocktail "Strawberry"
Compound:
strong sweet coffee (cooled) – 1 small cup
ice cream – 100g
strawberries – 100g
Preparation: Mix coffee (pre-brewed and cooled) with ice cream and strawberries; frozen strawberries will do if you don’t have fresh ones. Shake, pour into beautiful glasses, you can decorate each glass with a small strawberry.
Orange cocktail
Compound:
oranges – 4 pcs.
water – 1 glass
sugar – 2 tablespoons
cloves – 3 pcs.
cinnamon – 2 cm sticks
nutmeg - a pinch
Preparation: Mix the juice of 4 oranges, 1 glass of water and 2 tablespoons of sugar. Boil with 3 pcs. cloves and 2 cm cinnamon sticks. Strain, cool, pour into glasses and sprinkle grated nutmeg on top.
Cocktail "Mojito"
Compound:
mineral water (sparkling)
honey (liquid)
mint sprigs - for decoration
Preparation: Throw 2 pieces of ginger and a slice of lemon into the bottom of each glass, add a few sprigs of mint and pour in a little tarragon. Now pour 50 g of mineral water, stir, crush the lemon and ginger with a spoon. Put 0.5 tablespoon of liquid honey, pour in soda, garnish with mint sprigs and put a straw in each glass.
These non-alcoholic cocktails, bright and colorful, will definitely decorate your holiday table and not only on New Year's Eve!
Olga Moiseeva for Women's magazine "Prelest"
Some people can’t imagine New Year’s Eve without champagne, others prefer stronger drinks or a glass of good red wine. But what if, due to a number of circumstances or simply taste preferences, you do not drink alcohol?
You'll have to make sure there are delicious non-alcoholic cocktails on the holiday table! For example, like this.
1. Orange-chocolate cocktail. Beat 100 g of vanilla ice cream with 5 tbsp until fluffy foam. orange juice, 5 tbsp. chocolate syrup and half a glass of milk. Pour into tall glasses and sprinkle with grated chocolate.
2. Creamy cherry cocktail . Beat 1 glass of chilled milk with 200 g of ice cream and 3 tbsp. cherry syrup until very fluffy foam. Cool and pour into glasses.
3. Cocktail “Snow Queen” (milk, ice cream, kiwi, yogurt, walnut). Beat half a glass of milk with ice cream (200 g) and yogurt (half a glass). Place pieces of peeled kiwi (any amount) at the bottom of the glasses. Grind 50 g walnuts. Pour the cocktail into glasses and sprinkle with walnuts.
4. Snickers cocktail (with peanuts). Beat 200 g of ice cream with 5 tbsp. milk, 1 tbsp. caramel and 1 tbsp. chocolate syrups. Pour into glasses, garnish with roasted peanuts (any quantity).
5. Strawberry coffee cocktail. Prepare 1 cup of strong, sweet espresso in advance and cool to room temperature. Beat 100 g of frozen or fresh strawberries with 100 g of ice cream and coffee, pour into glasses and decorate the edges of the glasses with small strawberries.
6. Yogurt smoothie with mango, cinnamon and cardamom. Beat 2 cups of natural (preferably homemade) yogurt with the pulp of 2 ripe mangoes, 2 tbsp. sugar, a pinch of cinnamon and a pinch of cardamom. Pour into glasses, in which you can add ice cubes in advance if desired.
7. Ginger-peach cocktail. Open 1 can of canned peaches and remove the fruit from the syrup. Combine peaches and 2 cups of strong coffee in a blender. Whip 100 ml of liquid cream (20%) in a separate bowl. Combine 250 ml of cold water, 1 tbsp in a saucepan. brown sugar, a pinch of cinnamon and ginger, peach syrup. Bring to a boil over low heat and simmer for 1 minute. Add peach-coffee mixture. Beat well. Serve with whipped cream.
8. Ginger-pear yogurt smoothie. Blend 2 fresh or canned pears, cored and peeled, with 2 cups of natural yogurt in a blender. Add 1 cm of peeled ginger root, beat again, cool and pour into glasses.
9. Tropical cocktail. Whisk a glass of grapefruit, a glass of tangerine and a glass of pineapple juice. Add 5 tbsp. lemon juice and 2 tbsp. orange syrup. Dilute with a glass of sparkling water and pour into glasses.
10. Orange cocktail. Mix 100 ml of freshly squeezed carrot juice with a glass of tangerine juice and 2 tbsp. orange syrup. Cool and pour into glasses half filled with ice cubes. Garnish the rims of the glasses with orange slices.
11. Vegetable smoothie with celery and avocado. Whisk 3 cups of tomato juice with a half cup of celery stalk juice and 3 tbsp. lemon juice. Avocado (2 pcs.) Peel and cut into cubes, place in glasses, pour into cocktail, cool and garnish with mint leaves.
These wonderful non-alcoholic cocktails will brighten up any celebration. We wish you delicious holidays and a great mood!
But we must not forget about children. Here we will look at a few of the thousands of cocktails with different toppings.
In the comments of one of my articles, I read one wish: “There is nothing to tell you what to prepare for January 1st. I really want pickle in the morning.” I also fulfilled this wish and wrote several recipes under the title - “Cocktails for January 1st” - enjoy.
And of course there is a section for children, which is called that. There are refreshing and strengthening cocktails with eggs, and with ice cream. In general, read, do, try. I'm sure you will succeed. Here I have tried to give very simple drinks, mixed from simple ingredients.
Recipes for non-alcoholic cocktails for the holiday table - for children and adults
All these are classic cocktails from Soviet times. You can drink these as much as you want, unlike the previous ones.
Lemonades:
An old recipe for Russian lemonade
Ingredients:
- Lemons - 10 pcs.
- Sugar - 600 g.
Use a piece of sugar to wipe the peel (zest) from the lemons, put the sugar in a bowl, squeeze the juice from the lemons onto it, leave until the sugar has melted, stirring it as often as possible. When the sugar melts and turns into syrup, strain, bottle and store sealed. When drinking, take 3 tsp per glass of water. syrup.
Lemonade (zest)
Ingredients:
- Lemons - 8 - 10 pcs.
- Water - 5 liters
- Sugar - 0.5 kg.
Pour some cold water over the peeled lemon zest, bring to a boil and strain. Boil the rest of the water with sugar, mix with juice squeezed from lemons, lemon decoction and cool. You can cut one lemon into pieces and put them in the drink. Serve chilled.
American style lemonade
Ingredients:
- Raspberry syrup - 30 ml.
- Pineapple compote - 50 ml.
- Lemon juice - 15-25 ml.
- Orange juice - 50-60 ml.
- Soda water - 150 ml.
- Lemon slices - 30 g.
- Ice - 60 g.
Place several pieces of ice in a tall glass, add raspberry syrup, add a pineapple ring, add orange and lemon juices, carefully add water so as not to mix with the colored part of the drink. Garnish the drink with three thin slices of lemon. Serve with crushed ice in a bowl on a tray with a lemonade spoon.
Lemonade in Czech style
Ingredients:
- Lemon - 1 slice
- Lemon juice - 30 ml.
- Lemon syrup - 30 ml.
- Sparkling water - 140 ml.
- Ice - 1 piece
Pour lemon juice, lemon syrup and sparkling water into a tall glass. Then add a slice of lemon and ice. Serve immediately with a straw.
Berry lemonade
Ingredients:
- Fresh or frozen berries - 1 kg.
- Sugar - 0.5 cups
- Lemon - 1/2 pcs.
- Ground cardamom - on the tip of a knife
- Sparkling water - 0.5 liters
Chop the washed berries with a sharp knife and mix with sugar, lemon juice and cardamom. Keep in a cold place for 1-2 hours, then add sparkling water, pour into glasses along with crushed berries, add pieces of ice.
Children's cocktails:
Little Red Riding Hood
Ingredients:
- Ice cream - 100 g.
- Cherry or red currant juice - 100 ml.
- Ice - 1-2 pieces
Mix ice cream and cherry juice or red currant juice in a mixer. Add ice to the finished cocktail, decorate the edges of the glass with “frost” (dip the wet edges of the glass in sugar in advance).
Peak - Pok
Ingredients:
- Ice cream - 10 g.
- Milk - 50 ml.
- Carrot juice - 2 tbsp.
- Apple juice - 1 tbsp
- Cream - 10 ml. (or a teaspoon of sour cream)
Pour carrot and apple juices into a mixer, add creamy ice cream and cold pasteurized milk, beat well. Before serving, top a glass with a drink with whipped cream or a teaspoon of sour cream or garnish with berries.
Gray wolf
Ingredients:
- Ice cream - 25 g.
- Ryazhenka 0.5 cups
- Chokeberry jam - 2 tbsp.
Place ice cream, chokeberry jam (or you can replace it with other dark jam), fermented baked milk or kefir into the mixer. Shake well and pour into glasses. The drink can be served with fruit.
F minor
Ingredients:
- Ice cream – 75 g.
- Milk 1/4 cup
- Strawberry syrup - 1 tbsp.
- Fruit or cream
Place milk or fruit ice cream in a mixer, pour in strawberry syrup, cold pasteurized milk and beat well. You can decorate the top with berries, fruit slices, nuts or whipped cream.
Cranberry
Ingredients:
- Ice cream – 75 g.
- Milk 1/4 cup
- Cranberry syrup - 1 tbsp.
- Fruit or cream
Place milk or fruit ice cream in a mixer, add cranberry syrup and cold milk, beat well. You can decorate the top with berries, fruit slices, nuts or whipped cream.
Milky-orange
Recipe No. 2
Ingredients:
- Milk - 4-5 glasses
- Oranges - 2 pcs.
- Sugar or syrup (apple or currant juice)
Squeeze the juice from the oranges, grate the zest of one orange, beat the juice with milk and sugar using a whisk or mixer. Serve immediately. Pour into glasses, add a piece of ice to each glass. Add apple or currant juice to taste.
Recipe No. 3
Ingredients:
- Milk - 0.5 cups
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Juice from one orange
- Nutmeg - 1 pinch
Squeeze the juice from the orange, add sugar, cold milk, mix everything well. Pour into a glass and sprinkle nutmeg on top.
Recipe No. 4
Ingredients:
- Milk - 3/4 cup
- Orange juice - 1/4 cup
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
Mix milk, orange juice, add sugar. Whisk all this together to form a homogeneous mass. Serve chilled.
Recipe No. 5
Ingredients:
- Milk - 120 ml.
- Orange juice - 30 ml.
- Lemon juice - 5-10 ml.
- Vanilla syrup - 10 ml.
Pour lemon juice, orange juice, vanilla syrup into a glass and add hot milk. Serve with fruit.
Recipe No. 6
Ingredients:
- Milk - 100 ml.
- Orange syrup - 20 ml.
- Lemon syrup - 10 ml.
Pour orange and lemon syrups into a glass and add hot milk.
Raspberry cocktails with milk
Scarlet flower
Ingredients:
- Milk - 150 ml.
- Raspberry juice - 50 ml.
- Granulated sugar - to taste
Mix raspberry juice with cooled boiled milk. At the same time, the drink should retain the smell of raspberries. Add granulated sugar to taste. Serve the drink slightly chilled.
Alpha
Ingredients:
- Milk - 150 ml.
- Raspberry syrup - 30 ml.
- Lemon syrup - 10 ml.
Pour raspberry and lemon syrups into a glass. Add hot milk. This cocktail can be prepared with other syrups.
Queen
Ingredients:
- Milk - 0.5 cups
- Raspberry juice - 0.5 cups
- Ice - 1-2 pieces.
Pour raspberry juice, cold boiled milk into the mixer and beat well. Serve with ice.
Marlborough
Ingredients:
- Milk - 1/2 cup
- Raspberries (can be frozen) - 1/4 cup
- Powdered sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
Sort and rinse the raspberries (or defrost), mash the berries with a wooden spoon and transfer to a mixer. Add cold milk or cream and powdered sugar. Shake the mixture well and pour into a glass.
John bull
Ingredients:
- Milk - 110 ml.
- Raspberry syrup - 20 ml.
- Lemon syrup - 20 ml.
- Salt, pepper to taste
- Ice - 1-2 pieces
Mix milk, lemon and raspberry syrups, add salt and pepper to taste. Put ice. Serve the drink with a straw.
Cocktails on January 1
Recipe No. 1
Ingredients:
- Cauliflower juice - 50 ml.
- Tomato juice - 60 ml.
- Carrot juice - 60 ml.
Mix cooled tomato, cauliflower and carrot juices. Serve chilled.
Recipe No. 3
Ingredients:
- Red cabbage juice - 60 ml.
- Juice - 60 ml.
- Sour cabbage juice - 60 ml.
- crushed ice
Combine equal parts red cabbage, sauerkraut and celery juices in a shaker with ice. Pour into a glass.
Recipe No. 5
Ingredients:
- Sauerkraut brine - 0.8 cups
- Boiled water - 0.5 ml.
- Onions - 30-40 g.
- Tomato paste - 1/3 tbsp.
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Peel the onion and finely chop or grate it. Add chopped onion, chilled water, tomato paste to the brine and stir. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve very chilled.
Daria
Ingredients:
- Tomato juice - 140 ml.
- Grated horseradish - 10 g.
- Lemon juice - 2 tsp.
- Ice - 1-2 pieces
Mix tomato juice, grated horseradish and lemon juice. All these products must be pre-cooled. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve the drink over ice.
Brine
Ingredients:
- Tomato juice - 0.5 liters
- Cabbage brine - 100 ml.
- Juice of half a lemon
- Zest from 1/4 lemon
- Water - 0.5 cups
- Sugar and salt - to taste
Stir and cool tomato juice, sauerkraut brine, lemon juice, lemon zest, boiled water, sugar and salt to taste, pour everything into glasses and serve with ice.
Egg legs
Translated from English it means “egg pot”. The birthplace of the drink is Scotland. The characteristic and essential ingredients are raw fresh eggs and milk.
"Mocha"
Ingredients:
- Egg yolk - 1 pc.
- Milk - cup
- Coffee - 1 cup
- Granulated sugar or powdered sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Ice - 2-3 pieces
Take cold strong coffee, raw egg yolk, sugar, mix well, pour through a sieve into a glass, add cold milk and put ice.
"Swiss"
Ingredients:
- Egg yolk - 1 pc.
- Sour milk - 125 ml.
- Coffee - 0.5 g.
- Powdered sugar - 50 g.
- Water - 250 ml.
Brew regular Turkish coffee, sweeten and cool. Then add the egg yolk, beaten until foamy, and sour milk. Beat the resulting mixture well. Pour into a glass through a sieve.
"Citric"
Ingredients:
- Milk - 0.5 cups
- Fruit and berry ice cream - 1-2 tbsp.
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Juice of half a lemon
- Nutmeg or cinnamon - 1 pinch
- Egg yolk - 1 pc.
Squeeze lemon juice, pour into a mixer, add sugar, egg yolk, milk and ice cream. Whisk everything, pour into a champagne glass, sprinkle with juice squeezed from lemon zest, sprinkle with ground cinnamon or grated nutmeg.
"Crimson"
Ingredients:
- Egg or yolk - 1 pc.
- Milk - 30 ml.
- Cream - 10 ml.
- Raspberry syrup - 20 ml.
Mix the egg or yolk, milk, raspberry syrup, and whipped cream well in a mixer. Pour into a glass and sprinkle with grated nutmeg before serving.
"With your favorite syrup"
Ingredients:
- Egg or egg yolk - 1 pc.
- Milk - 3/4 cup
- Raspberry or other fruit syrup - 20 ml.
- Nutmeg - 1 pinch
- Ice - 1-2 pieces
Raspberry syrup, egg or egg yolk, milk, mix with ice until smooth. Strain through a strainer into a glass and serve. Add a pinch of grated nutmeg. Drink through a straw. You can replace raspberry syrup with any of your favorite syrup.
Sbitni
"St. John's wort"
Ingredients:
- Honey - 75 g.
- Water - 0.75 l.
- Sugar - 50 g.
- Dry herb St. John's wort - 1 tsp.
- Cloves - 1 bud
- Black pepper - 2-3 peas
- Ginger powder - 0.1 tsp.
- Cinnamon - 0.5 tsp.
- Mint - 1 tsp.
Boil honey in a saucepan, dilute with a glass of water, skim off the foam. Boil the sugar separately, diluting it with 1 glass of water. Combine both parts, boil together into a homogeneous mass so that more water evaporates (but over low heat, avoiding noticeable boiling). Boil the spices in the rest of the water for 15-20 minutes, in a closed vessel, let it brew for another 10 minutes, then strain, add the honey-sugar mixture and heat without bringing to a boil. Drink only hot.
"Russian hot sbiten"
Ingredients:
- Honey - 1 tbsp.
- Water - 1 glass
- Sugar - 1/8 cup
- Spices - 1 pinch
Pour water into a saucepan, add sugar to taste, ginger, cinnamon, mint, cloves, cardamom (it is not necessary to put all the spices, you can get by with two or three names). Boil water with honey and spices for 30 minutes, then strain. Sbiten is served hot in cups.
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New Year is a holiday for which only the best and most delicious things are prepared, the most exquisite delicacies are bought, noble alcohol is purchased... It is not for nothing that the belief has taken root among the people - how you celebrate the New Year is how you will spend it! Therefore, non-alcoholic New Year's drinks should not only be tasty, but also natural.
It’s very easy to prepare natural New Year’s drinks, because they can be all kinds of fruit drinks, compotes and homemade lemonade. Non-alcoholic New Year's drinks are prepared quickly and simply, from a minimum of ingredients.
Ice can be used to cool soft drinks. To keep the ice crystals completely transparent, freeze boiled water. You can put a berry in each ice mold or even make ice from natural juice. Both tasty and beautiful. Or you can simply put them on the balcony or outside if you live in a private house. The main thing is not to forget them there, in the cold.
It’s not enough to prepare delicious and beautiful New Year’s drinks, it’s also important how to serve them. Be sure to decorate the jugs and bottles that will stand on the New Year's table. There is nothing complicated about this; this task can be entrusted to children: you can glue glitter in the form of snowflakes to the walls of the vessel or apply an elegant design with gold or silver paint (they can then be washed off without any problems). You can tie tinsel or shiny ribbons around the neck of the bottle. Everything should shine on New Year's Eve!
Blackcurrant juice
Ingredients:
300 g black currants (frozen),
240 g sugar,
2 liters of water.
Preparation:
Thaw the berries, squeeze out the juice, pour it into a glass container, cover with a lid and place in the refrigerator. Pour boiled water over the pomace, add sugar, boil for 10 minutes, then strain. Cool the resulting broth, combine with cooled juice and place in the refrigerator.
Orange juice with cinnamon “The most New Year’s”
Ingredients:
4 oranges,
3 liters of water,
350 g sugar,
a little cinnamon.
Preparation:
Wash the oranges, wipe them dry and carefully remove the zest and squeeze out the juice. Grind the remaining pomace, add water, add sugar, zest, a little ground cinnamon and cook over low heat at a low boil for 10 minutes. Then leave the mixture for 30 minutes to infuse, strain and pour in the juice. Pour the finished fruit drink into a jug and put it in the refrigerator to wait for its finest hour.
Blackcurrant and tangerine juice
Ingredients:
500 g black currants,
4 tangerines,
6 tbsp. l. Sahara,
3 liters of water.
Preparation:
Thaw the blackcurrants, peel the tangerines (do not throw away the peels). Grind the currants and tangerines in a blender, strain the juice and set it aside. Pour water over the pomace along with tangerine peels, add sugar, bring to a boil, turn off the heat and let it brew for 15 minutes. Then strain and cool. Stir in juice and refrigerate until serving.
Drink "Malinka"
Ingredients:
1 liter of boiled water,
400 g frozen raspberries,
300 g sugar,
1 lemon.
Preparation:
Thaw the raspberries and grind them with sugar (you may already have grated raspberries with sugar in your bins). Squeeze the juice from the lemon and pour it into the raspberries with sugar. Dilute everything with boiled water, stir thoroughly until completely dissolved and strain. Cool. You can make a drink from blackberries in the same way.
Drink made from dried fruits and oranges
Ingredients:
1 tbsp. dried fruits,
4 oranges,
2 liters of water,
1 lime or lemon
sugar - to taste.
Preparation:
Wash dried fruits thoroughly, pour boiling water over them, remove seeds and chop. Mix dried fruits with sugar in a small saucepan, cover them with water, add orange slices and keep on low heat for about 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Then cool the drink and add lime or lemon juice.
Orange lemonade “New Year's Flavor”
Ingredients:
4 oranges,
6 liters of water,
juice of 1 lemon,
300 g honey,
2 tsp. cinnamon.
Preparation:
The night before, pour boiling water over the oranges and put them in the freezer overnight. In the morning, take the fruits out, let them thaw and grind them in a blender (there is no need to peel the fruits, freezing has already removed all the bitterness from the skin). Pour 3 liters of drinking water over the orange pulp and leave for 30 minutes, then strain through several layers of cheesecloth. To prevent the drink from being cloudy, you can put coffee filter paper (if you have a coffee maker) or a clean microfiber cloth between layers of gauze. Mix honey with cinnamon and add lemon juice to lemonade. Add the remaining water, stir and put the drink in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Serve garnished with an orange slice and a cinnamon stick.
Apple mint drink
Ingredients:
1 liter of apple juice,
2 apples,
4 tbsp. l. Sahara,
400 ml water,
10 g mint.
Preparation:
Peel the apples, remove the core and cut into medium-sized slices. Dissolve sugar in water, bring the liquid to a boil and, without cooling, pour it over the apple pieces. Pour apple juice into the cooled mixture. Wash and finely chop the mint leaves. After pouring into glasses, sprinkle the drink with chopped mint and refrigerate for 30-40 minutes.
Dried fruit compote with cinnamon
Ingredients:
500 g mixture of prunes, apples, pears and apricots,
zest of 1 lemon,
cinnamon - to taste,
sugar - to taste,
water.
Preparation:
Wash the dried fruits, place in a saucepan, sprinkle with cinnamon, cover with water and cook until soft. Then remove the cooked dried fruits with a slotted spoon and place in a separate container. Add lemon zest to the syrup, add sugar and simmer until one fifth of the total water has evaporated. Serve the finished compote chilled.
Homemade cherry-apple lemonade
Ingredients:
500 g frozen pitted cherries,
100 g sugar,
1 liter of highly carbonated water (not mineral, but drinking),
1 lemon,
1 apple,
1 tsp. cinnamon,
¼ tbsp. boiled water.
Preparation:
First remove the frozen cherries from the refrigerator and defrost them. Make a thick syrup from sugar and boiled water, add cinnamon to it. Remove the core from the apple and cut it into cubes. Grind half the total mass of chopped apples and cherries in a blender and add to the sugar syrup. Squeeze the juice out of the lemon and pour into the mixture. Pour the syrup into a jug, add sparkling water and stir. Pour the finished lemonade into glasses, add a few cherries and apple cubes to each. Cherries and apple cubes can be filled with water in an ice cube tray and frozen. Add these ice cubes just before serving.
Lemon drink with pineapples
Ingredients:
800 ml water,
5 tbsp. l. Sahara,
juice and zest of 2 lemons,
1 can of canned pineapple.
Preparation:
Wash the lemon, remove the zest, chop it finely, add water and cook for 5 minutes. Leave the broth to steep for 4 hours, then strain it, add sugar and cook for another 10 minutes. Squeeze the juice from the second lemon and the pulp of the first, add to the decoction of the zest and cool. Pouring the drink into glasses, add syrup and pineapple pieces to each.
Prepare two or three types of soft drinks, preferably colorful ones. Guests will love it!
Larisa Shuftaykina
Olga Nikitina
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There is very little time left before the New Year holidays. Time to think about the festive menu. Please your guests, relatives and little fidgets with original cocktails for the New Year.
Quite simple to prepare, but healthy and beautiful non-alcoholic cocktails:
New Year's cocktail “Source of Happiness”
Cooking time: 10-15 minutes.
- Blueberries – 1 cup (200g). Can be used both fresh and frozen;
- Banana – 1 piece, medium size, about 200 – 250 grams;
- Kefir – 1 glass (200g), can be replaced with natural yogurt;
- Kiwi – 1 piece;
- Lime or lemon - for decoration.
Preparation:
- Cut the kiwi and banana into pieces to make it easier to blend in a blender. If frozen blueberries are used, then they may not be completely defrosted, but only partially. Kefir is suitable with any fat content; you can also use low-fat kefir.
- Place all ingredients into a blender and beat until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Try the resulting composition. Adjust the cocktail at your discretion: if it is very sour, add sugar; on the contrary, add blueberries.
- Pour into a tumbler glass and decorate with sugar frost. To do this, grease the edge of the glass with lemon or lime juice, then dip it in powdered sugar. Cut the lime slice along the radius and place on the rim of the glass.
Vitamin New Year cocktail “Orange Paradise”
Cooking time: 30 minutes.
Ingredients for 2 servings:
- Mandarin -8-10 pcs;
- Carrots – 2 pcs;
- “Barberry” lollipops – 6-8 pcs;
- Orange - for decoration;
- Ice in cubes.