Grenadine: what is it and how to use it?

Surely you repeatedly heard the name "grenadine". What it is? This name is used to refer to a tasty red syrup, which, as a rule, is prepared on the basis of pomegranate juice. Apply it when preparing a variety of cocktails (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic), to give the drink a characteristic pinkish hue, sweeten it and improve the aromatic qualities.

At home, you can also make a real grenadine. What is simple, it becomes clear at a glance, because the classic recipe requires the presence of only two ingredients: sugar and pomegranate juice.

To begin with, mix the ingredients in a saucepan in equal proportions. This mixture should be placed on medium heat and brought to a boil. In this case, the future syrup should be stirred regularly. After it boils, the fire should be reduced to a minimum and continue to boil for 5-10 minutes. Then the syrup can be removed from the plate, let it cool naturally, pour into a jar or bottle and use it at your own discretion!

Many shops sell ready-made grenadine syrup. The price of it, as a rule, is not too high - about 10-20 dollars per bottle.

It is important to note, speaking about the grenadine, that this is in its own unique syrup, which can change the taste of very many drinks and cocktails for the better. That is why there are so many recipes, among the ingredients of which it is mentioned.

To your attention we want to offer some popular cocktails with syrup grenadine, which you can prepare:

1. Mix with a shaker 50 ml of silver tequila and 100 ml of orange juice. After this, it is necessary to pour the drink into a glass and, without interfering, add 30 ml of grenadine. You can decorate a cocktail with a skewer with a piece of lime strung on it, a raspberry and a sprig of mint.

2. The following recipe is a little more complicated. From the inside of the glass, you need to draw a spider's cake of chocolate syrup, and then cool the dishes in the fridge. Meanwhile, 20 milliliters of vodka, 10 ml of lemon juice and 40 ml of melon from melon are mixed in the shaker. Next, take out the glass and pour the contents of the shaker into it. In the cocktail, add only a few drops of grenadine, and then dunk the chocolate syrup into the orange slice and decorate it with the glass wall.

3. And this is a popular "Hiroshima" cocktail, for the preparation of which you will also need a grenadine. What kind of drink and how to prepare it? Give "Hiroshima" in a glass, pouring into it 20 ml of light sambuki and 15 ml of liqueur "Baileys". The grenadine is dripping into the center of the drink. From above, a cocktail is poured into 15 milliliters of sambuki and set on fire, and it is taken through a tube to drink it.

4. And the last recipe, which we will consider today. Pour white vermouth into the glass (about 20 ml), then slowly add a layer of vodka (about 15 ml), and finally 10 ml of Bailey liqueur and 5 ml of grenadine are added dropwise.

Now you know what a grenadine is, and also you can cook with this delicious syrup a lot of interesting and tasty drinks. Good luck!