Lovers of non-standard alcoholic flavor combinations definitely need to try cocktails with sambuca. This anise-based liquor has a recognizable aroma and has a very distinct sweetness. In undiluted form, it is not recommended to taste it. But the combinations with it turn out to be interesting, so now it’s worth listing a few recipes that are especially popular.
"Molichito"
Surely everyone knows the cocktail, the main components of which are fresh lime, mint and rum. So, “Molichito” is its analogue, also perfectly refreshing in the heat. To prepare this cocktail with sambuca you will need:
- cold drinking water - 100 ml;
- lime - 1/2 of one fruit;
- sambuca liquor - 0 ml;
- crushed ice - half a glass;
- fresh mint - 7 leaves;
- optionally sugar - 1-t tsp, but you can do without it.
Making a drink takes 2 minutes. Put sliced lime in a glass, pour sugar and add mint leaves. Mash thoroughly with a spoon. Pour the resulting mass with ice, add water, liquor and mix a little. Before serving, you can garnish with a sprig of mint.
"Hiroshima"
This can be said to be one of the most famous sambuca cocktails. At home, everyone can create this drink. True, you will need to be careful so that it turns out to be the same as in the photo below - beautiful and without mixing layers. The following ingredients are needed:
- pomegranate syrup - 1 tsp;
- Beilis liquor - 20 ml;
- absinthe - 20 ml;
- sambuca liquor - 20 ml.
Gently pour aniseed liquor into a tall shot glass. Then - Beilis. This should be done very slowly and pour liquor using a bar spoon. If it is not, then you can use a knife blade. In general, any convenient tool is suitable - if only Baileys lay down in a separate layer on top of the sambuca, and did not mix with it.
Then just as carefully add absinthe. Just before serving, from above, into the center, pour pomegranate syrup quickly, in a thin stream. It would seem to break through all three layers and create a “nuclear explosion” below. The cocktail is drunk immediately, in one gulp.
The clouds
The name of this cocktail with sambuca, as well as its appearance, is very deceptive. A person who sees him may think that in front of him is a light, refreshing drink. But this is not so. Clouds is a very strong shot. After drinking a couple of such glasses, you can get very drunk, because the cocktail has more than 40 revolutions.
To prepare it you will need:
- Beilis liquor - an incomplete dessert spoon;
- absinthe - 10 ml;
- blue curacao liquor - incomplete dessert spoon;
- tequila - 20 ml;
- sambuca - 20 ml.
The cooking is simple. Pour tequila and sambuca into a pile, add liquors. Gently place absinthe on top of the drink. It is better to use a bar spoon so that the layers do not mix. This is important, because before serving, the resulting drink is set on fire.
"Freddy Krueger"
This is a delicious sambuca cocktail with a very nice color that looks more like a milkshake. Its composition includes such ingredients:
- cherry syrup - 20 ml;
- fat milk - 70 ml;
- sambuca - 60 ml;
- vodka - 0 ml.
The drink is made instantly. All of these components must be placed in a shaker and beat well. Pour into a glass for vermouth, which still serves the Cosmopolitan cocktail, and you can drink it.
"Cocoon"
Perhaps the easiest cocktail with sambuca. The recipe involves the use of conventional ingredients:
- ice cubes - 6-7 pieces;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- sambuca - 50 ml;
- Sosa-Cola - 2/3 cups.
Actions also do not mean anything complicated. You need to pour ice into a glass, fill it with sambuca and juice, and then add cola. Mix lightly with a spoon and serve with a straw. It turns out not very strong and fresh drink with a pleasant, slightly sweet taste.
"Cheerful Frenchman"
The unusual name of this cocktail with sambuca, the recipe of which will be discussed now, is intriguing no less than the flavor combination of its ingredients. To do it, you must:
- ice - 3 cubes;
- grape berries - 6 pcs.;
- semisweet champagne - 100 ml;
- vodka - 10 ml;
- sambuca - 10 ml;
- lemon juice - 10 ml.
The first step is to carefully suppress the grapes and put them on the bottom of the glass together with ice. Then, in a shaker, mix all the liquid ingredients, with the exception of champagne, and pour there. A little interfere. Then pour champagne on top and serve.
A liquid nitrogen
It is easy to create such a sambuca cocktail at home, despite the fact that it has a rather formidable and specific name. It is made of three ingredients:
- creamy ice cream - 100 g;
- coconut milk - 60 ml;
- sambuca - 80 ml.
To make a drink, you need to melt the ice cream and beat it well in a shaker along with two other components. You should get a homogeneous mixture. It should be poured into a tall glass and sent to the freezer for about 15 minutes. After taking out, garnish with a cocktail cherry and pineapple. After that you can serve.
It turns out an unusual, very delicate dessert cocktail, in which the fortress given by sambuca is almost not noticeable.
"Come, bear"
A typical Russian cocktail with a funny name is drunk in one gulp on the exhale, but through a straw. This is a “nuclear” mix of strong alcohol, from which it is simply impossible not to get drunk. The composition includes such components:
- sambuca - 0 ml;
- cognac - 0 ml;
- dark rum - 0 ml;
- orange flavored liquor - 0 ml.
- absinthe - Z0 ml;
They must be poured in layers. It is necessary to observe the sequence in which they were listed above. By the way, this drink is set on fire. After a person drinks it, it remains incomprehensible, but the original aftertaste is sweet, but not sugary, citrus, but not sour.
Many people like this drink, but it is not recommended to get involved in it, since you can get intoxicated very quickly from just two or three glasses.
"Black Jack"
Last about this cocktail with sambuca. He is preparing in two counts. It turns out very strong, so you should be prepared for a “shock” dose of alcohol and a specific taste.
You only need two ingredients - Jack Daniels whiskey and sambuca, only 25 ml each. They must be poured into a stack and set on fire. Drink in one gulp after the fire goes out.
Well, as you can see, the creation of cocktails with such an original liquor does not require special bartending skills and the use of ingredients that are impossible to get. There are plenty of other recipes, but some of the above must be tried unequivocally, since these are the most popular and favorite drinks among the people.