Cocktail "Lightning": recipe, composition

In our article we want to talk about how to make the Lightning cocktail. A cooking recipe can come in handy for organizing a celebration at home. It is always pleasant to surprise guests with something interesting. There are several completely different options for preparing this unusual drink, we will consider the most interesting.

Lightning Cocktail

A drink is simple enough to prepare, however, for inexperienced in this business housewives we offer a detailed recipe.

Ingredients for a drink:

1. Cognac - 20 ml.
2. Vodka - 15 ml.
3. Liquor - 15 ml.
4. Dessert wine - 15 ml.
5. Ice.
6. Lemon Syrup - 15 ml.

We need a shaker to make the Lightning cocktail. The composition of the drink, as you can see, is quite simple. There are no exotic and expensive components. So, everyone can treat themselves to an original cocktail.

So, wine, vodka, liquor and cognac are mixed in a shaker. Next, the resulting drink is poured into a glass with pieces of ice and lemon juice is added. The drink is ready, it can be served to guests.

Another recipe

The Lightning cocktail, as we have already mentioned, has not one, but several cooking options. Of course, in order to evaluate and understand which of the drinks you like best, you just need to try each of them, and then draw conclusions.

Ingredients:

1. Water - 40 ml.
2. Bitter Orange Tincture - 25 ml.
3. Vodka - 40 ml.
4. Lemon juice (preferably freshly squeezed) - 25 ml.
5. Juice from orange (fresh fresh can) - 25 ml.
6. Chopped ice.

To prepare, first put ice in the shaker. Then they pour juices, tincture and vodka there. The finished drink is filtered and poured into a glass with crushed ice, adding water. Here is the Lightning cocktail ready. It will not take you more than five minutes to cook it.

Fireball

Slightly changing the recipe and composition of the Lightning cocktail, you can make another interesting and wonderful drink. It is sometimes also called the beautiful name "Ball Lightning".

Ingredients:

1. Juice from orange (fresh) - 25 ml.
2. Lemon juice (fresh) - 25 ml.
3. Orange liquor - 25 ml.
4. Sugar Syrup - 25 ml.
5. Vodka - 40 ml.
6. Cognac - 25 ml.
7. Champagne (certainly dry) - 65 ml.
8. Ice.

In order to make the Lightning cocktail, you need ice, in this case ice balls are used. For their freezing, you can use special kulechki widely available on sale, because in home refrigerators, ice containers, as a rule, have the shape of cubes.

All ingredients are poured into a shaker, the finished drink is poured into a glass with ice balls. The cocktail is decorated with a slice of lemon on top. As you can see, in this recipe all the ingredients are quite sweet, it is for this reason that they use dry champagne so as not to overdo it and create a certain contrast.

Custom Cocktail Recipe

We want to offer you a completely different option for making a cocktail. You will get an incredibly spicy drink that combines notes of cinnamon, the sweetness of rum and the pungency of the unusual Tabasco sauce. To prepare the Lightning cocktail, we need the following ingredients:

1. Brown schnapps, but if you do not find such a drink, then you can try replacing it with cinnamon and vodka - 20 ml.
2. White rum, it is better to use "Bacardi" - 20 ml.
3. Ice.
4. Tabasco sauce.

This recipe has an unusual composition. The quality of the drink, of course, depends on the components. But if there are no such components, then they can be replaced. You must understand that the taste of the finished drink will also change. In principle, you can take a simpler rum, and instead of the exotic Tabasco sauce - ordinary red pepper (hot).

Sauce, rum and schnapps are poured into a shaker with ice, then they are thoroughly shaken several times and, having filtered, they are poured into a glass.

We want to warn that this drink is fully consistent with its name. Therefore, he was not called any “sweet bunny”. Having sipped a cocktail, you will feel a real lightning inside yourself. For those who are not sharp enough, you can always increase the amount of Tabasco sauce.

Experts say that in this type of preparation, the Lightning cocktail is something amazingly sharp. This drink does not go in any comparison with others.

According to reviews of people, we can conclude that not everyone will like such a cocktail. As they say, a drink for "spicy lovers." It is characterized in one word - "fiery". It is better to refrain from drinking such a drink for those people who suffer from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Recipe for powdered sugar cocktail

Currently, vodka has become the main component for the preparation of alcoholic cocktails. Depending on the recipe, it may be completely invisible in the drink, or it may dominate. Whatever it was, but in any case, vodka must certainly be of good quality. Then the cocktail will be pleasant to taste, and the head will not hurt the next day.

Cocktail "Lightning", ingredients:

1. Orange tincture - 20 ml.
2. Fresh lemon juice - 25 ml.
3. Icing sugar.
4. Water - 35 ml.
5. Vodka - 20 ml.
6. Ice.

To make a cocktail, you need to mix ice, juices, tinctures and vodka in a shaker. Next, the chilled drink is filtered and poured into a tall glass in the form of a wide cone, water is also added. The finished cocktail is sprinkled with powdered sugar on top. It is prepared right before serving and consumed immediately.

"Lightning of Zeus"

To make a cocktail you will need:

1. Cointreau - 25 ml.
2. Metaxa - 25 ml.
3. "Limnello" - 25 ml.

The drink is prepared in layers. First, pour limoncello into a glass, then cointreau, and then metaxa. Such a cocktail is drunk only in one gulp. According to people’s reviews, it is very soft and good. In addition, the drink has a multifaceted and unusual taste. But he often amazes alcohol lovers unexpectedly, like real lightning.

"White Lightning"

Since we are talking about the Lightning cocktail, I want to tell you about another recipe.

Ingredients:

1. Light rum - 25 ml.
2. Tequila - 25 ml.
3. Gin - 25 ml.

The drink is also prepared in layers. Tequila is poured into the shooter first, then rum, and finally gin.

Instead of an afterword

We hope you find our recipes useful. Who knows, maybe you will like some of the options for making an unusual drink that can become the highlight of the evening. You will certainly succeed in surprising guests with them.