Jellyfish cocktail: recipe

Cocktail "Medusa" refers to the popular alcoholic beverages. He is loved not only for his good taste, but also for his unusual, one might even say, alien appearance. This layered drink is a real decoration of any party or buffet. Therefore, you should learn how to cook it.

There are several recipes for the Medusa cocktail, and now consider a few of them. The components of the drink are added alternately, do not mix. Due to different densities, they lay down in layers. When heavier components seep to the bottom, an interesting visual effect is formed that resembles a jellyfish. Refers to shot drinks, is drunk in one sip.

Classical

Let's start with the classics. The composition of the Medusa cocktail includes the following ingredients:

• white rum - 20 ml;
• “Malibu” (coconut liquor) - 20 ml;
• “Blue Curacao” - a few drops;
• Cointreau (orange liquor) - 20 ml.

Preparation of the Medusa cocktail:

1. Drinks are poured in strict sequence into a chilled glass.
2. First - Malibu Coconut Liqueur, then Orange Cointreau. So that they do not mix, they are poured in a thin stream using a bar spoon.
3. Then in the center flows white rum without a bar spoon.
4. At the end add “Blue Curacao”, it will take only a few drops.

Rum and Blue Curacao gradually pass through the previous layers, creating an original picture.

With sambuca

Italian liquor makes the taste of the cocktail more enjoyable. This mix will be an excellent aperitif before eating.

This Medusa cocktail recipe includes the following ingredients:

• aniseed sambuca liquor - 35 ml;
• "Malibu" - 35 ml;
• white rum - 35 ml;
• “Blue Curacao” - a few drops;
• coconut flakes - a pair of pinch.

How to cook:

1. A cocktail is being prepared in high shot, which must be pre-cooled.
2. Moisten the edges of a cold glass with water and dip into coconut flakes to form a neat rim.
3. The first layer is sambuca, then coconut liquor in a thin stream with a bar spoon.
4. The third layer is white rum.
5. The last one is the Blue Curacao.

It remains only to wait until the blue drink puts the "tentacles" to the bottom of the glass.

You need to drink the drink in one gulp.

Cocktail "Medusa" with absinthe

Necessary drinks for making a cocktail:

• absinthe - 15 ml;
• coffee light liqueur - 20 ml;
• Irish cream - 5 ml;
• Triple-orange orange liquor - 20 ml.

How to mix:

1. Poured into chilled dishes.
2. The first layer is absinthe.
3. Then a light coffee drink is poured, followed by an orange “Triple-s”.
4. The last layer is creamy liquor.

Wait for the visual effect of the jellyfish and drink in one gulp.

With vodka

This recipe for the Medusa cocktail allows you to prepare a medium-strength drink with an original taste.

Prepare chilled dishes and the following ingredients:

• Irish cream - 20 ml;
• vodka - 50 ml;
• light sambuca - 50 ml;
• “Blue Curacao” - 50 ml;
• ice cubes.

Sequence:

1. Put ice cubes in a glass (pieces 6).
2. Pour in the vodka.
3. Slowly pour “Blue Curacao” onto the vodka using a bar spoon or knife blade.
4. the next layer is light sambuca.
5. the last is the creamy Irish Cream.

Slowly immerse a straw in the middle of the drink so that “tentacles” of jellyfish form in a glass. This must be done carefully so that the layers do not mix.

With grenadine

The Medusa cocktail prepared according to this recipe is especially colorful thanks to pomegranate syrup.

For him you need to take:

• Irish cream - 20 mm:
• chocolate liquor - 20 ml;
• Amaretto - 20 ml;
• grenadine - three drops.

How to cook:

1. Drinks, except for grenadine, it is advisable to pour not from bottles, but first to pour them into high glasses with a measuring cup. Prepare a bar spoon.
2. Pour Amaretto liquor into a glass with chocolate liquor gently with a thin stream. You should get two layers that should not mix together.
3. The third layer of the cocktail is a creamy Irish liquor that resembles a thick cream. It must be poured very carefully so as not to disturb the previous layers. The liquor should flow down the wall of the glass onto the Amaretto layer.
4. At the last stage, add three drops of grenadine syrup to the cocktail.

Grenadine is heavier than previous layers, it will gradually sink to the bottom, dragging other layers along and creating an interesting pattern in the form of jellyfish tentacles.