Green cocktails are different. Sometimes cardinally ...

People love cocktails for intricate taste, a combination of flavors and an exotic look. And green drinks generally seem unreal. Probably, therefore, absinthe acquired such popularity. Emerald, mysterious, bursting the brain with the heat of strong alcohol, this son of bitter wormwood will give a decadent note to any cocktail. Perhaps the most extreme of them is the "Green Angel". This cocktail equally contains vodka, gin, tequila, light rum, absinthe, syrup and coca-cola. It is prepared in a glass. Special spoon ingredients are carefully added in this order, but do not mix.

Green can also be a "clean water policy". Especially when it comes to Northern Ireland. At the height of the Orange , St. Patrick's Day acquired for Catholics living in this part of Britain a special subtext. The holiday is celebrated with an unprecedented scale. Trefoils and emerald color - the symbols of Ireland - can be seen at every step, like Christmas trees for the New Year. By the St. Patrick's Day special green cocktails are being prepared.

Most ordinary Irishmen on March 17 simply drink beer, colored with food coloring in the color of a young foliage. But more sophisticated alcohol lovers prepare a variety of drinks, honoring St. Patrick. How to make a green cocktail? Ingredients of this shade in the world there are many: this and mint liquor, and the already mentioned absinthe, and "Chartreuse." And the desired color can be achieved by mixing "Blue Curacao" with Orangeade. And, by the way, very fashionable now "Mojito" also has a light green color.

If you go to prepare green cocktails, then here are a few simple recipes. In the shaker shake 4 slices of lime and a few mint leaves. Add fifty milligrams of gin, and then 80 ml of melon from melon. Once again, we stir, pour into a glass. Dilute with tonic (150 ml). Or here is another recipe. In the shaker we throw crushed ice and add 25 ml of mint liquor, green "Chartreuse", Irish whiskey and Becherovka. Vigorously shake and pour the killer mixture into glasses. You can experiment to infinity.

Another thing - green cocktails for health! After drinking one such glass, you do not feel the explosive taste of alcohol, but the freshness of the spring morning, a charge of vivacity. And this vitamin bomb can also surprise with an extraordinary range of flavors and flavors. Nature abounds in useful herbs. Do not limit yourself to only those who have firmly won a place in cooking (dill, parsley, basil, marjoram, sorrel and others). Try also mint, nettle, leaves of plantain and dandelion, strawberries and currants, cucumbers and pumpkins, radish tops and carrots.

While you do not yet have your skills, here are some ideas for you how to prepare tasty and healthy green cocktails:

• A kitten of lettuce, a handful of raspberries, one pear;
• A stalk of celery, two kiwis, one banana, water (you can replace the first component with a bunch of spinach);
• The stalk of young nettles, mangoes, water;
• Beet tops, bunch of sorrel, melon pulp, water,
• Dill, parsley, two apples, an orange, a slice of lemon.